{"id":91,"date":"2022-02-27T12:24:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T12:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/27\/its-official-nintendo-has-withdrawn-super-smash-bros-from-evo-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-02-27T12:24:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T12:24:32","slug":"its-official-nintendo-has-withdrawn-super-smash-bros-from-evo-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/27\/its-official-nintendo-has-withdrawn-super-smash-bros-from-evo-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official, Nintendo Has Withdrawn Super Smash Bros. From EVO 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Nintendo has chosen not to continue that legacy&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As you might recall, last March &#8211; Sony Interactive Entertainment and esports business RTS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/03\/sony_and_rts_jointly_acquire_fighting_game_tournament_evo_nintendo_responds\">jointly acquired the fighting game tournament Evo<\/a>. Nintendo, at the time, said it would continue to &#8220;assess&#8221; Evo, as it planned for future <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/super_smash_bros\">Super Smash Bros.<\/a><\/strong> tournament activity.<\/p>\n<p>It seems a decision has now been made. According to an announcement from the team at Evo, Nintendo has decided to withdraw Super Smash Bros. from the event. It&#8217;s admittedly a massive blow, as the series has been featured at the fighting game tournament since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/02\/its-official-nintendo-has-withdrawn-super-smash-bros-from-evo-2022\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]It&#8217;s Official, Nintendo Has Withdrawn Super Smash Bros. From EVO 2022<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Nintendo has chosen not to continue that legacy&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As you might recall, last March &#8211; Sony Interactive Entertainment and esports business RTS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2021\/03\/sony_and_rts_jointly_acquire_fighting_game_tournament_evo_nintendo_responds\">jointly acquired the fighting game tournament Evo<\/a>. Nintendo, at the time, said it would continue to &#8220;assess&#8221; Evo, as it planned for future <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/super_smash_bros\">Super Smash Bros.<\/a><\/strong> tournament activity.<\/p>\n<p>It seems a decision has now been made. According to an announcement from the team at Evo, Nintendo has decided to withdraw Super Smash Bros. from the event. It&#8217;s admittedly a massive blow, as the series has been featured at the fighting game tournament since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/02\/its-official-nintendo-has-withdrawn-super-smash-bros-from-evo-2022\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":92,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}