I'm sure this news doesn't surprise anyone, but I've been trying to get the game into Evo for the past 3-4 months. Everything Wizard asked me we tried to get done, but SNKP was being very distant. They were warming up to the idea at first, but for some strange reason they stopped around late Dec/early Jan. I've had backing from several players in the scene with this, but again, none of that mattered since SNKP didn't seem to want to do anything about this. So I'll say this again, since some people aren't all too bright: Don't bash, or hate the Evo staff for excluding SNK games, Wizard wanted it in, he tried to get something from SNKP, but obviously he didn't hear anything from them. All we can do now is support XIII by holding tourneys for it at majors, and keep trying to get new people to play so we can build some momentum before Evo.
Since we know this is over, I've been planning on a side tourney since last year, Noc The Answer and I pretty much decided one if not all of us would do it when we were on our way home from Evo. It will be on PS3, and it has a possibility of making it on the main stage for the finals, as long as it gets enough people to enter. So if you plan on attending Evo, be sure to keep an eye out for the tourney. I will be making a thread about it on multiple forums trying to get people to sign up. I would like to get people to sign up online somehow to make things run smoother, so we'll see how that goes.
*edit - all this rides on whether or not SNKP stills plans on releasing the game in the next few months. I don't want to lug taito boards to Evo :/