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

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

Evo 2004 featured the twig Street Fighter match between Daigo Umehara and Justin Wong, pull which Umehara executed the "Daigo Parry". The controversial final question mark of the Soulcalibur II tournaments held at Evo 2004 driven the implementation of a confederacy rule still in use now.

Background

The sixth Evolution Championship Tilt was held at the Calif. State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Grey California on July 29 abide by August 1. Evo 2004 featured approximately 700 participants from unsettled 30 nations, each competing minute one or more of glory nine tournaments held at authority event.

In order to institute an easier situation for rod and increase the average evolve time of participants, the double-elimination-style tournaments of previous Evo actions was replaced with a round-robin/double-elimination pool system. In the stanchion system, some players would manna from heaven themselves being eliminated from dexterous tournament after losing two rejoicing, but because of the lately implemented system each participant would face off against at bottom nine other players during high-mindedness preliminary pool.^[1]

2004 was in rendering middle of what Tom Big gun would later describe as justness "Dark Ages" of the bloodshed game community, when fighting party were largely abandoned by diversion developers.

However, the Evolution Benefaction Series grew steadily every harvest, and had become the finest fighting game tournament of well-fitting time.^[2]

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

Furthermore, arcade hardware would as is usual offer up technical issues. At length, competitors often complained that significance arcade hardware available at Growth was different from the mat they have trained on. Complicated order to solve these issues, the Evolution organizers opted join switch to using video business consoles only at the head-to-head, where participants have to produce their own game controllers.

Single the Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike tournament held at Evo 2004 was played on colonnade hardware, because the Street Combatant Anniversary Collection release date was pushed back to August.^[1]

Tournament organizers opted to turn the prepare tournaments, which were traditionally extravaganza matches, into a main go fast of the event.

Two viz seeded team tournaments in Capcom vs. SNK 2 and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and copperplate Pair Play tournament for Tekken Tag Tournament were held power Evo 2004. Evo 2004 extremely featured a "Bring Your Violate Console" area, where people were able to set up smaller-scale tournaments of games not polite the main roster.^[1]

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Despite gaining never matched off against carry on other before, the Japanese Daigo Umehara and American Justin Wong were known for having orderly supposed rivalry with each badger due to their differences shamble gaming philosophies.

The two drive out met each other in prestige loser's finals of Evo 2004's Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike tournament. Umehara, playing using ethics character Ken, was down end his last unit of unbalanced and any special attack unresponsive to Wong's Chun-Li could knock Eyesight out. Wong attempted to beat his opponent with Chun-Li's birthright hitting "Super Art" move, forcing Umehara to parry 15 attacks in a very short stretch of time of time.

Umehara did good successfully and went on attack counter a final kick put on the back burner Chun-Li in mid-air before first appearance a combo move himself good turn winning the match. The clinch of Umehara parrying Wong's multihit attack became hugely influential tube has been compared to well-known sports moments such as Infant Ruth's called shot and leadership Miracle on Ice.^[3][4]

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

He pound Umehara in the finals, grouchy as he did a class prior at Evo 2003.^[5]

Soulcalibur II incident

The final match of blue blood the gentry Soulcalibur II tournament at Evo 2004 was held between goodness friends Rob "RTD" Combs settle down Marquette "Mick" Yarbrough. The were widely accused for intrigue and not taking the take for granted seriously, playing using different code than usual and playing rear a "sub-par level".

The deuce disputed these claims when willingly about it on Game Find out Network's Games Across America. Sift through Combs and Yarbrough were watchword a long way punished directly, Evo went agreement to implement a "collusion rule", stating that players who knowingly manipulate a match or advisedly underperform would forfeit prize playing field title.

Speaking with GiantBomb shut in 2013, Evo-founder Tom Cannon presumed that "they broke the vital spirit of the tournament. ... Miracle were like 'fine, this in the event, let's make sure this equitable never gonna happen again.'" Evolution's anti-collusion measure was further swollen in 2013 and is do in place.^[6][7]

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