The following is a blog post I originally wrote as a Giant Bomb community blog back in 2015. With the fate of the site being uncertain as of 2025, I decided to port the post back here so it’s available somewhere besides that site. I’ve adjusted some of the text, and added some more info where appropriate.
Yesterday, I decided to casually watch a tournament for the humans vs monster game Evolve. I’ve watched tournaments before, many Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournaments, an International or two, but this one was different.
This one was called “The CHAPPiE Challenge,” sponsored by the upcoming movie of the same name coming out in theaters this week. It’s a standard esports tournament for Evolve, where a team of four players will fight one chosen player from the other team as the monster, of which either the objective must be completed by the monster or the monster must be defeated by the humans. Winning team nets $15,000, which is not bad for a tournament of this level.
As for Evolve the game, I thought it seemed interesting until the whole fiasco involving the many editions and DLC packs the game has. That, it didn’t seem like it was worth the $60 price tag to me, and they didn’t even bother making a five-pack for the PC version for my friends.
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