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San Francisco, March 19 (Ians) Sony and Rts, a new venture from Endeavor's esports business, have acquired the prestigious Evo esports tournament through "a joint venture esports partnership."

Evo will be operated by the new joint venture between Sony and Rts, the new venture from Endeavor that offers talent representation, event management services, and other services for sports, entertainment and other industries.

According to The Verge, the terms of the acquisition were not disclosed "due to contractual commitments."

"Fighting games have been a vital part of PlayStation's legacy and our community since the very beginning, and we've been thrilled to partner with Evo over the years," said Steven Roberts, VP of global competitive gaming at Sony Interactive Entertainment.

The organizations also announced that Evo will be back this year as Evo Online, a virtual fighting game competition, the report said.

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The Evolution Championship Series was already set for an unprecedented year. Initially, they were going to do eight games, plus a special invitational tournament for Marvel vs. Capcom 2 to celebrate its 20-year anniversary. Pesky Covid-19 made it very apparent that a big get-together in Las Vegas at the end of the summer was absolutely not in the cards. Instead, they announced Evo Online. The announced games were dropped and replaced with four games that were at least celebrated for having good-to-great netcode.

The plan was to start Evo Online on July 4-5 with each weekend based on one of the different games. Then it would culminate on the weekend of July 31-August 2. Not only would we see the Top 8s for those games, but there would be big announcement trailers for other fighting games and the like. It wasn’t the classic Evo, but it would be enough of a...