This is the first edition of First To Five — five rounds of FGC News giving you the heads up of what been going on in the fighting game community.

EVO 2020 Line Up Revealed

The EVO President Joey Cuellar aka Mr Wiz along with Veteran Street Fighter player Mike Ross, announced the lineup of games for EVO 2020 with a big surprise return for Marvel vs. Capcom 2.The eight main stage games are Smash Ultimate, Tekken 7, Street Fighter V, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Samurai Shodown, Granblue Fantasy Versus, Soul Calibur VI and Under Night In-Birth , with a special 8 man Invitational Marvel vs Capcom 2 Tournament to mark the games 20th Anniversary. Former EVO Champs, Justin Wong, Yipes and Sanford Kelly are set to make a return to the stage com July 31st.

Unfortunately it does mean we say goodbye to Blazblue Cross Tag and Mortal Kombat 11, with the NRS title bowing out after one year despite its impressive sales and Tournament numbers. Fighting game content maker Rooflemonger discussed the EVO lineup and MK11 missing out.

DBFZ World Tour Finals This Weekend

On Feb. 8th and 9th the Finals for the Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour will take place in Paris, France to crown the tour’s Grand Champion. A Last Chance Qualifier on Saturday will determine the final place in the 16 man Double Elimination Bracket and the weekend will feature top players such as SonicFox, Goichi (Go1), NYChrisG and ApologyMan.

Patch Notes and Updates

Last week Tekken 7 received the long awaited patch to Leroy, which has seen the character receive some nerfs but the general consensus seems to be the balance team haven’t gone far enough. Luckily Tekken Producer Michael Murray has already hinted at further changes and another patch is on its way before the end of February. Tekken Pro player Lil Majin ran through the details of the latest patch.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate also saw Byleth introduced and a lotof other changes as the game updated to version 7.0. Some characters have received significant changes with many of the smaller characters now having a bigger shield, meaning you’ll take shield damage more often in theory. Professional Smash player Dabuz has been breaking down the patch notes in-depth with a video series to help breakdown what the changes mean.

GBFV Staggered Release Date

Following its EVO 2020 line up announcement, upcoming anime-styled fighter Granblue Fantasy Versus releases in Japan this week, Feb. 6th whilst the game doesn’t see a US release until nearly a month later on Mar. 3rd, whilst UK fans will have to wait even later until Mar. 27th. The staggered release date does seem to be in line with theDLC policy too, with two waves of DLC already scheduled.

For those picking up the title content creator and tournament player LordKnight has some Day 1 Tips already after trying out the game early.

One to Watch

The EVO 2020 reveal stream was obviously a big talking point this week and UltraChenTV has already dropped a late Tuesday Show focusing on the stream reveal.

Check it out on their Youtube Channel.