Most of those people who are happy Smash won't be at EVO are the type who don't consider SSB as a "Fighting Game" but a "Party Game", only their real "Fighting Games" (like SF, MK, Tekken etc.) any games that had came out in the Arcades since 1980s (Street Fighter & Yir Ar Kung-Fu) with Street Fighter II popularizing the fighter genre should be the only ones at EVO.
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Onryoki
It’s sad for them, but I don’t consider it a fighting game. But that’s my opinion.