However, by the end of the tournament battle, Fighting is Magic was removed from the contest so it could be highlighted in the Indie Games Showcase, while an exhibition tournament would be held if the game won the overall drive. A donation drive to raise money for the Breast Cancer Research Fund was established to determine the eighth tournament title was won by Super Smash Brothers: Melee, despite Fighting is Magic raising more than $5000. The staff also learned that the game was in the running to be part of one of the eight official tournaments at the event. In January 2013, it was announced that Fighting is Magic was to be showcased in an exhibition at the Evolution Championship Series (EVO), an annual fighting game tournament held in the United States, later that year. We won't answer any questions relative to it, we won't give technical support to it, we won't discuss mechanics or graphic details from it, given its status as a leaked, unfinished, internal testing build, which happened to be leaked just right before a major update was pushed to our now closed QA test program." Mane6 released an official statement on their website, removed as of February 19, 2013, saying, "The unfinished version of Fighting is Magic is, needless to say, unsupported. That day, footage of the leaked game was posted to YouTube, and on August 3 the torrented file was made available on the Pirate Bay. On August 2, 2012, Equestria Daily reported that a testing build of Fighting is Magic had been leaked after its use in a QA session.
Though all of their official videos have been since removed, there are more than 17,000 search results for “Fighting is Magic” on YouTube, featuring the music from the game as well as recorded livestreams of beta playthroughs. A wiki about the game launched in August 2012 and there is also a TV Tropes entry chronicling details about the game. In August 2011, an unofficial fan page for the game was established on Facebook, gaining more than 2,600 fans as of February 2013.
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