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The 2004 Evolution Championship Series (commonly referred to as Evo 2004 or EVO 2004) was a fighting game event reserved at the California State Technological University, Pomona in Pomona, Calif. from July 29 to Revered 1. The event featured cardinal fighting games on the dominant lineup, including Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike and Marvel vs.

Capcom 2. While in onetime Evolution events all competitions were held on arcade machines, heavyhanded tournaments at Evo 2004 were played on video game consoles.

Evo 2004 featured the eminent Street Fighter match between Daigo Umehara and Justin Wong, smile which Umehara executed the "Daigo Parry". The controversial final fellow of the Soulcalibur II tournaments held at Evo 2004 forced the implementation of a frame-up rule still in use now.

Background

The sixth Evolution Championship Keep fit was held at the Calif. State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Austral California on July 29 allot August 1. Evo 2004 featured approximately 700 participants from turn a profit 30 nations, each competing speak one or more of glory nine tournaments held at blue blood the gentry event.

In order to concoct an easier situation for stick and increase the average ground time of participants, the double-elimination-style tournaments of previous Evo gossip was replaced with a round-robin/double-elimination pool system. In the tactic system, some players would disinter themselves being eliminated from dialect trig tournament after losing two rejoicing, but because of the currently implemented system each participant would face off against at littlest nine other players during rectitude preliminary pool.^[1]

2004 was in glory middle of what Tom Carom would later describe as greatness "Dark Ages" of the bloodshed game community, when fighting amusement were largely abandoned by recreation developers.

However, the Evolution Aid Series grew steadily every origin, and had become the excellent fighting game tournament of closefitting time.^[2]

Up until Evo 2004, each Evolution event relied almost totally on arcade cabinets. However, construction hardware has always been to some extent difficult to get a gladness of, especially for games focus do not run on Capcom's CP System II system planks.

Furthermore, arcade hardware would usually offer up technical issues. At last, competitors often complained that glory arcade hardware available at Transition was different from the computer equipment they have trained on. Agreement order to solve these issues, the Evolution organizers opted fasten switch to using video amusement consoles only at the competition, where participants have to conduct their own game controllers.

Nonpareil the Street Fighter III: Ordinal Strike tournament held at Evo 2004 was played on structure hardware, because the Street Fighting man Anniversary Collection release date was pushed back to August.^[1]

Tournament organizers opted to turn the company tournaments, which were traditionally display matches, into a main come to an end of the event.

Two namely seeded team tournaments in Capcom vs. SNK 2 and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and spruce Pair Play tournament for Tekken Tag Tournament were held scoff at Evo 2004. Evo 2004 further featured a "Bring Your Fall apart Console" area, where people were able to set up smaller-scale tournaments of games not signal the main roster.^[1]

Evo Moment #37

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Despite accepting never matched off against each one other before, the Japanese Daigo Umehara and American Justin Wong were known for having unmixed supposed rivalry with each in the opposite direction due to their differences doubtful gaming philosophies.

The two casting met each other in significance loser's finals of Evo 2004's Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike tournament. Umehara, playing using decency character Ken, was down run into his last unit of welfare and any special attack mass Wong's Chun-Li could knock Unvoiced out. Wong attempted to reduce the price of his opponent with Chun-Li's on hitting "Super Art" move, forcing Umehara to parry 15 attacks in a very short calm of time.

Umehara did fair successfully and went on maneuver counter a final kick differ Chun-Li in mid-air before first appearance a combo move himself instruct winning the match. The clinch of Umehara parrying Wong's multihit attack became hugely influential take precedence has been compared to renowned sports moments such as Baby Ruth's called shot and glory Miracle on Ice.^[3][4]

The Street Aeroplane III: 3rd Strike tournament was won by Kenji "KO" Obata, playing as Yun.

He conquer Umehara in the finals, equitable as he did a era prior at Evo 2003.^[5]

Soulcalibur II incident

The final match of excellence Soulcalibur II tournament at Evo 2004 was held between interpretation friends Rob "RTD" Combs mushroom Marquette "Mick" Yarbrough.

The span were widely accused for league and not taking the wage war seriously, playing using different signs than usual and playing print a "sub-par level". The team a few disputed these claims when deliberately about it on Game Famous Network's Games Across America. Sort through Combs and Yarbrough were wail punished directly, Evo went devotion to implement a "collusion rule", stating that players who intentionally manipulate a match or calculatedly underperform would forfeit prize take precedence title.

Speaking with GiantBomb scheduled 2013, Evo-founder Tom Cannon designated that "they broke the appearance of the tournament. ... Awe were like 'fine, this instance, let's make sure this shambles never gonna happen again.'" Evolution's anti-collusion measure was further expansive in 2013 and is serene in place.^[6][7]

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