Evo 2025 kicked off on Friday, August 1st, with all eight main games playing out at least their first rounds of pools and some cutting all the way to Top 8. Here's a summary of Friday's action:

Top 8s are set for Mortal Kombat 1 and UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II Sys:Celes. Tournament favorite SonicFox remains in winners for Mortal Kombat 1 and will face off against the lowest remaining seed, 20th-seeded Hourglass_of_rain in Winners Semifinals. Kanimani and Nicolas will face off in the other Winners Semifinal. OnlineCale213 and Grr will face off in one side of Losers, with MichaelCeraFan and MKJavierMK rounding out the Top 8 which will begin at 10AM PT on Saturday.

In UNI2, top seed Senaru was upset by Revert, who will face off against Knotts in Winners Finals. On the other side of Winners, Defiant will take on BigBlack. Senaru managed to recover and advance to Top 8 through Losers, and he will take on suteneko in the first round of Top 8. On the other side, OmniDeag will face off against Mario. UNI2 Top 8 is scheduled for 1PM PT on Saturday.

MARVEL vs. CAPCOM 2 has cut to Top 96 and will play out the rest of its bracket on Saturday. All of the Top 12 seeds remain in the bracket, and only two have been upset. Combo Fiend advanced to Winners side of Round 2 over MVC2_Roundhouse with a 2-1 victory, and Magneto-X Chris.C upset general_THRILLAH 2-1 to stay on Winners side.

Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising has cut to Top 192, and will also play out the rest of its bracket on Saturday. All of the Top 24 seeds remain on Winners side of the bracket, but the upsets are sure to start raining down Saturday.

Guilty Gear -Strive- has cut to Top 384, and will cut down to Top 8 on Saturday. Aside from a pair of DQs, all Top 48 seeds remain on Winners Side.

FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves has also cut to Top 384 and will cut down to Top 8 on Saturday.

TEKKEN 8 has also cut to Top 384. The top 48 seeds all remain in Winners Side, and the top 128 seeds all remain in the bracket, with three more rounds of pools coming Saturday as the bracket cuts down to Top 8.

Street Fighter 6 has cut down to Top 768. Three Top 48 seeds have already been sent down to losers: 45th seed Problem-X fell to Hippo, 41st seed Tachikawa fell to Scythe, and 15th seed Tokido fell to Smoov_King. All three remain in the bracket and will try to climb as far as they can through Losers Side.

Friday also featured the Evo Showcase. For more on all the reveals and action from the Showcase, check out our summary article here.