-Darkstalkers 3, most definitely. I absolutely agree, this is one of Capcom's best and most original fighting games.
-Street Fighter Alpha 3. Ban V-ism if it's busted or whatever, but put this in. It has waaaay more fucking characters than Alpha 2. Bonus points for being able to use cool characters like Karin, Mika and Cody in a game that isn't SFIV or SFV.
-KoF '98. This is the definitive SNK experience for me, more than Garou or anything else, except maybe KoF XI. I don't know how it would work as a competitive game, and it would probably be too niche. But it's an incredibly fun game.
-Third Strike. It's the tourneyfag's tourneyfag's game. Sometimes you want to use those cool SF3 characters without playing a shitty modern Capcom fighter. Only way to do that is play some 3rd Strike.
-Virtua Fighter V. I like it better than IV in some ways, mostly with the new characters like El Blaze. Every fucking fighting game from that console gen had a luchadore, but El Blaze was the first one and still has the best design. Ironic because it's also the simplest. Anyway, VF5 is just more of VF4 and VF4 was perfection.
-Blazblue: Central Fiction. The only game on my list that currently places at Evo. Central Fiction is the culmination of the entire Blazblue franchise. It has the most characters, most variety and is still pretty well balanced for all of that. Blazblue has maybe 3-5 truly "low tier" characters, and as I said before, you even see them in tourney play.
-Tekken something. I guess Tekken 7 or maybe Tekken 5 DR. Tag 2 felt way too overstuffed with redundant characters (multiple copies of characters) and was overly reliant on bound combos. IMO Tekken is at its best in a 1vs1 match.
For the last choice, I'd probably play it safe with Soul Calibur II or Melee because you can bank on some hype for those. They were massive releases and a lot of people have nostalgia. My personal preference, and the game I look back on with all that nostalgia, is Dead or Alive 3 on the OG Xbox. No idea if it's shit now, but I know people play DoA5 as a serious fightan game (it even has Virtua Fighter characters now), so who knows.
Really, it comes down to whether the tournament is something I want other people to enjoy, or is just for me and stuffed with the shit I personally like.
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You've got Tekken 7 on there, so why not Virtua Fighter 5? Why not Soul Calibur II? Keep Melee going of course. Why not replace SFV with Third Strike and an Alpha side tournament? Send a message to capcom that those old games they made DECADES ago are light-years ahead of their current shit.