Evo Tournament

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Katie Lowery and Mecha Chamelia

The Evo Tournament was a tournament organized by Katie Lowery and her father Dr. Noah Lowery that appears exclusively in Bakugan: The Evo Tournament. The event was invitation only, though invitations were not tied to an individual person and could be won or lost through personal bets. While on the outside it appeared as a respectable tournament, it was actually designed by Dr. Lowery to secretly siphon Bakugans' power into a specialized evolution machine by means of G-Power antes, in order to evolve the synthetic Bakugan, Mecha Chamelia, he created for her after her original Bakugan, Chamelia, was sent to the Doom Dimension by Masquerade. However, after seeing Katie suffer bullying from other brawlers, Mecha Chamelia increased the effects of the machine as a means of getting back at those bullying her, and also causing Katie's father to lose his memories and become complacent.

Structure

The main structure of tournament features four themed preliminary tournaments: Forest, Cruise, and two unknown themes, and then the Master Evo Tournament, where the winners from each of the four preliminary rounds face off, and then the two winners from these brawls face each other in the finale. These brawls feature a unique mechanic, an ante of G-Power where each contestant bets a low number of G, one G for every round except for the finale, which bets three G. This ante works to steal power away from Bakugan, but also comes with the side effect of removing memories about Bakugan's sentience from humans as well as the sentience from Bakugan themselves, turning them into essentially toy figures.

History

The Evo Tournament was created by Dr. Lowery as method of gathering and obtaining power from brawling Bakugan and forcing Mecha Chamelia, a synthetic Bakugan, to evolve.

The first Evo Tournament started as a small stand with a few participants, as a way of testing the evolution machine. However, Katie was not accepted by the other participants, and after a brawler expressed that the machine made them and their Bakugan feel disorientated, it caused the rest of the brawlers to ridicule Katie. After seeing Katie distraught, Mecha Chamelia increased the effects of the machine, causing the brawlers and Bakugan that were bullying Katie to lose their memories, as well as Katie's father. Mecha Chamelia refined the machine in order to make its effects more gradual, and the Evo Tournament grew and became more popular.

By the time Dan Kuso and Runo Misaki became aware of the tournament, it had become a fancy affair, featuring exotic locations and cruise ships and being held on a private island in a large mansion. Dan and Runo brawled through the tournament, while their friends Marucho Marukura, Shun Kazami, and Julie Makimoto, snuck onto the island and encountered Mecha Chamelia and the machine. Their Bakugan were effected by the machine and lost their memory. Eventually the truth of the tournament was revealed to its contestants, and Dan and Runo stalled a brawl with Katie and Mecha Chamelia in order to allow Marucho time to reverse the machine's effects. With the machine reversed, the brawlers and Bakugan regained their memories, and Katie's father, having realized what had happened, shut down the tournament forever.