I don't get dePhil. Evo being online is a blessing, he can participate and generate hype for his stream without something clownish like a special vest. He could do an Evo training stream and have his paypiggies donate to fight him in matches. He could get more viewers out of it. He's perfectly willing to get bodied by random scrubs online, so why is he too fragile to do Evo? Nobody's going to hold it against him if he loses to the best players in the world.
Even his excuse makes no sense. "ONLINE LAG NO WAY DOOD WASTE OF TIME" but he always plays online. Any regular person who didn't feel up to it would have no shame in saying "Evo? Nah, I'm way out of practice" but he's already crying online khambos and making excuses why he lost before it's even begun.
It's as if he believes his audience sees him as some kind of fighting game god, and the spell would be broken if they saw him lose on a world stage. Or it's a subconscious part of his brain trying to protect him because if he found out he wasn't the best at SF2 he'd lose his identity and hit the gin harder than when Leanna left.