According to Major League Gaming, over 400 Super Smash Bros. Major League Gaming regularly sponsored Melee events from 2004 to 2007, before dropping it in favor for the 2008 sequel Super Smash Bros.

Ultimate are the most popular for high level competition as of 2018. While every title has been featured in high-profile tournaments, Super Smash Bros. series has a large competitive community. His early 1998 match against American player Alex Valle in Street Fighter Alpha 3 ranked sixth and his 2004 comeback against American player Justin Wong in Street Fighter III: Third Strike ranked first, while his 2009 grand finals match against Wong in Street Fighter IV at Evo 2009 was listed as having 'ust missed the cut.' Super Smash Bros. Professional Street Fighter players include Daigo Umehara, who had two of his matches included in a 2011 Kotaku list of 'The 10 Best Moments in Pro-Gaming History'. The Street Fighter has one of the earliest and longest running professional gaming scenes. Members of the fighting game community are generally especially cognizant of their cc to the old arcade-era competitions, wishing to prioritize the preservation the spirit of those competitions over simple monetization of fighting competitions. įighting game enthusiasts generally prefer the moniker 'competitive gaming', and often eschew the term 'esports', citing cultural differences between the predominantly PC-gaming esports communities and the older arcade-gaming community. Important tournaments for the genre include the Evolution Championship Series and Capcom Cup, Tougeki – Super Battle Opera was a major tournament for several years. series are amongst those fighting games played at a professional level. Capcom series, Tekken series, Killer Instinct series and Super Smash Bros.

The Street Fighter series, Mortal Kombat series, Marvel vs. The genre originally focused on arcade play, but has gradually moved to console play as arcades have declined. Ĭompetitions in the genre are generally individual competitions with both players providing input to the same machine. Fighting games were among the earliest games to be in tournaments, with the founding of what would become the Evolution Championship Series in 1999.

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