The figure makes it 300 entrants less than “Super Smash Bros 4” which was released back in 2014.
“Melee” was released 15 years ago on a console that sold less than its competitors in the PlayStation 2 and the Xbox. The game is now in its fourth consecutive year at what EVO which was described as the biggest “Smash” tournament ever.
Fans of the game are very appreciative of the game’s speed and play techniques like wave dashing apart from other features including exploitable mechanics that contributes to the game’s depth.
Japanese game developer Capcom has dominated the EVO 2015 tournament last year in terms of the fighting video game that had the most number of gamer-participants.
Last year, “Ultra Street Fighter 4” had more than 2,000 entrants for EVO 2015.
Capcom continued its dominance of the EVO 2016 as more than 4,000 fighting gamers have signed up for its latest fighting video game “Street Fighter 5.”
The game developer’s dominance also trickled to its other popular fighting game “Marvel vs. Capcom 3.”
While “Street Fighter 5” was already the hands-down most popular game in the Evo 2016, the second spot turned out to be a neck-and-neck battle between “Marvel vs. Capcom 3” and Nintendo’s “Super Smash Bros 4” on the Wii U.