Well, expectations are … you know.  It was a fun start but after five seconds, the mysterious pony tailed assailant was clearly identified as Vice and Mature.  It was a great idea to start with, with SNK stating it was a singular character, but Mature’s hair is unmistakable, with Vice’s cuffs.  We’ll talk more about this below the EVO schedule!

All times are in Central European

Friday 7PM CET

EVO 2024 Day 1:

KOF XV Tournament – Pools Round 1 & Round 2

https://www.twitch.tv/evo7

Friday 11PM

EVO 2024 –  TOP 24

Saturday 4AM

SNK developer panel

Come to the FATAL FURY: CotW and KOF XV dev panel discussion on July 19 to hear developer updates about City of the Wolves and an announcement about the special character DLC coming to THE KING OF FIGHTERS XV! All will be revealed at the Evo 2024 SNK Developer Panel (July 19 – 7 PM PDT), with your host HellPockets!

https://www.twitch.tv/evo

Saturday 5AM

COTW Exhibition Matches

https://www.twitch.tv/evo

Saturday 7pm

KOF XV Top 6

https://www.twitch.tv/evo

What to expect?

Xiaohai said in a video (below) that he didn’t see the strongest players coming to EVO so he didn’t train that much, preferring to focus on SF6.  But… ET is coming and surely he can’t forget the multi-time champion is a serious threat?  Well, good luck to all!

What about Season 3?

SNK is being very vague, and rightly so, to raise our expectations.  “Special” could mean anything now.  We talked about the possibilities in further detail in the stream below:

Possibilities:

• Vice and Mature are a boss
• Vice, Mature and Shen are season 3
• Free Krizalid boss
• Vice, Mature, Oswald and that’s all
• All the KOF14 characters return as season 3
• Vice, Mature and Luke from SF6
• Luke, Jin, Kairi collab team
• A full SF6 collab team
• Luke gets announced for COTW

I’ll probably do a little restream, but it won’t be professional…

Thx Gatoray for yt links!