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What's up, everyone?
2026, Evo France, of course, is coming back, an exciting first year.
We had this time to talk about Evo France 2026, and of course Evo is coming home to
France, so I could not do that without one of the biggest legends of the FGC, French
as well.
Kayane, how are you doing today?
Hello, I'm doing very fine, I'm so happy to be here and being able to present Evo France with you
I'm so happy because the first time I went to Evo actually was in 2009
It's been a long time almost 20 years. That's when I started to play serious fighting games
So that's how long you've been around
For this and now from 2009 all the way to now Evo coming to Nice
we had the first edition last year that was absolutely incredible plenty of moments and
Plenty of crazy moments. So before we even talk about anything. I want to ask you
You know like what were you fair with a couple moments obviously one
I have so many of them, but of course mr. Crimson with a comeback of course against blast and also in the yeah
The young little prodigy. I'm taking care of she has signed Vitality now
And it was her first evil at only 16 years old and she managed to beat tibetano and Skywalker
So it was a great moment for me
and I think for the hope of a young generation in Tekken 8.
Yeah, there is a big young generation coming right.
We've seen Blas on Street Fighter 6 as well.
Plenty of games are being run by the younger prodigies,
and that's what we expect to see.
Obviously, we will remember also Orslan Ash getting his seventh title,
the beautiful celebration.
It's crazy, yes.
This guy doesn't stop winning, maybe he'll win again.
Who knows, but an incredible first year at Evo happened.
And instead of talking about it, let's take a look at what happened at Evo last year.
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For all of the tournament organizers, who have been working extremely hard this weekend
to bring you the best experience, gonna have a massive MEWI!
MEWI!
May we, indeed, may we, that's what it's all about, I know it's a tournament, right,
but it's not just a tournament, you know it, it's a lifestyle, there's so much more
than just the games, the games they serve, they take a big part of what Evo is.
Yes, and you know, I think you were a guide for all the restaurants in Nice, and I hope
you eat a lot of money from that.
I'm trying to make it happen again because, you know, I need people to enjoy their stay
in Nice.
Of course, last year at Ivo, we had plenty of crazy moments, but I think one moment
was the highlight.
That's the moment that has been crowned.
Comeback of the year, the Mr. Crimson versus Blas.
Were you in the crowd?
I was in the crowd.
I was screaming a lot.
I was jumping everywhere.
I was, yeah, we've all been people here.
for him and I think it was beautiful because even if Mr. Crimson is French
and Blaz is from Chile a lot of people were cheering for both of them and when
Blaz finally won all the crowd was crazy and shouting and just celebrating the
victory doesn't matter if it's French or not they all celebrate for just
good games. Yeah that's what we like about fighting games right it's all
about enjoying the games of course we are for our local hero but we are
here to watch the game and Mr. Crimson himself was crowned with the comeback of the year award
and we were with him when he got the awards and he got a couple of awards for us.
Stay tuned to what Crimson has to say.
with the French audience.
So it's my award, but for me it's also the award of our community.
So thank you all.
Clearly, there were people who were wondering how it was going to happen.
Because we saw that, as the EES is huge, the Japanese are huge,
are we going to be able to hold the line?
And honestly, it clearly did, in any case,
the returns we have.
We spent our time congratulating ourselves on going to France.
Oh yeah, I didn't do anything!
Well, I just played.
But it's a rule to see that it was a good success,
a lot of players.
who have been seduced by the game of combat through this event.
And I know that the future is radio for the Evo France.
So what I expect from the Evo France of 2026
to keep this ambition as being not a French grand tour
or a European grand tour, but a world grand tour,
continue to expand, I know that it will be even bigger
and I thank the organizers because holding events of this size
it should not be easy.
So thank you all.
We love Mr. Crimson, of course, he said it is the world for the community, but he said
it's right, a lot of expectations last year.
We weren't quite sure what to get.
How did you like the whole event last year of all?
How did you get out of this event?
I really enjoyed it because it's been 25 years I'm participating to French tournaments
and I see it's huge and I see a lot of people are coming as a spectator, not
only player, but I see a lot of people that don't usually come to local, don't
I don't even know sometimes it exists, but because it's evil, they're like, oh, I have to go to Evo France.
So I think it attracted a lot of new players and spectators to just enjoy fighting games a whole weekend.
Yes, and that's the weekend, and that's what it is going to be this year as well.
It's time to talk about a couple of news, the new stuff that we are bringing to you for Evo France.
2026, of course, we got a couple of news to share before we share the game.
lineup first thing to talk about of course is the price pool and the price
pool is getting a hefty bump compared to last year. This year's price pool has a
full bonus of 225,000 euros and it is split just like last year between the
first game all the way to the last to the most entrance get the most money.
Yeah we have one more game so it's nice that we have a little more cash
price for the players too. And of course this is extra price that will go on top of the prizes that
come from games respective pro tours because a couple games will come from bonuses from their
editors. So this is the first of course buff to Evo France. Just again you've just seen it last
year we had seven games this year we are buffing it to eight games which means that this year
structure of the tournament will have two top eights on Friday then three top eights on
Saturday and then Sunday of course with three top eight so two games will
conclude on Friday as well usually it's one this time we get some more so more
games to enjoy of course at EVO always good news and last but not least I'm
talking about the signups of course as the signups are about to open for EVO
France and as you can see we'll have three types of registration the early
registration that will be available one month from today this is going to be
the lowest price you can get to sign up to EVO than the regular which is
for about an extra month and then the late registration please sign up. Before that there's no more sign-up.
No more sign-up and you really have to register because a lot of players and I know a lot of players
and well-known players who didn't register and then asked oh can I register can I again try to
participate even if it's closed and you're like no you have to register like everybody you know
So, I know it's quite early to end the sign-ups.
You know, the tournament is mid-October or something like that, L'Issir was like that.
And then players in September, they think that they still can register,
even at the end of the month of September.
But no, it's much sooner that it's closed.
So people have to be aware of that and think that it's not possible to have a late, late, late registration.
Yes, so please listen, you're watching right now.
There is a good chance that you know right now that you will be part of IvoFriends.
So just sign up now. That is the cheapest you can get anyway for evil friends
So make sure you join us this year in this but with the news done
It is time to talk about the full game reveal
We have eight games to announce for the main lineup at evil friends this year and this time
Usually we start with the games that we expect the games which which have been there forever the games
We know are gonna be part of that while we do already know that they're going to be in but yeah
Yeah, starting with Stormwind Pin Games.
Exactly! Instead of starting with the ones you know,
we're starting with the ones you don't necessarily know,
because this first game to announce is going to be a first appearance on Evo ever
for a brand new game.
So let's take a look at what the first game of Evo France 2026 is going to be.
One versus one, then two versus two.
But why stop there?
Tag games have helped define Evo champions,
especially when they feature familiar characters.
And we're better than Evil Friends to discover this new game's first-ever Evo Champion.
It's time to create a new legacy.
Nobody has mastered this game yet.
Nobody has built the meta.
But in October, we will fracture Team of Four
and come be part of the first-ever appearance of Marvel token fighting souls at Evil Friends 2026.
History always starts somewhere.
Will it start with you?
Sign up now.
There we go. Marvel token will be part of the main lineup just a couple months after the game released.
So very quick time to learn the game.
Yes. I don't know if I will be able to play that game.
You know, tag team usually is quite crazy for me, it's really hard to adapt, but now it's
4v4.
I don't know how people will manage you, be able to master 4 characters for the same team
and be able to manage the other teams like that.
Yep, and especially in such a short time it's going to be a good way to pretty much
showcase what you can do in a brand new game, a brand new direction as well.
You can expect the regular tag game experts to be part of it, we've seen some of them
playing the betas.
We know who the players are going to be.
Absolutely. All I want to see is white black in France
because I know he's ridiculous at all of the tag games
and that's what I want to see on Marvel token first game
for Evo France, Marvel token.
Let's move to the second game.
And this time, of course, I'm not going to make you wait any longer.
This is, of course, a well-expected game
and one we expect to see crazy moments happen.
Let's see game number two.
One stage. A roaring crowd. The French hero back to the corner. And a couple seconds later,
the evil comeback of the year sent an entire venue into madness.
Oh, I could chip out!
He doesn't want to go on fireball!
Oh, what was that?!
The DP keeps coming out!
Oh, he's going to land!
He takes the back of the person!
No one ever wants this!
One more game!
Oh, my god!
I can't believe it!
This is just so-so!
Whether it's Mr. Crimson's incredible run,
Lichard's first EVO win,
Tugras' exciting appearance on top 8s,
or a simple, what the hell?
Oh, what the hell is this?!
One game creating memories of evoFriends, it definitely is Street Fighter 6.
Last year, 1664 entries made evoFriends the biggest Street Fighter 6 event in Europe's history.
This year, evoJapan is already shattering the record for all-time biggest fighting game tournament.
Can we keep breaking records? Can we do it again in Nice?
Street Fighter 6 will be part of the lineup at evoFriends 2026, and only one question remains.
Are you going to be in the room when history unfolds? Sign up now!
Can we do it again in this listen I've got to say this is a high bar because last year's top a can we beat this?
I think we can yeah because you know
The comeback of crimson I think attracted a lot of players to come and especially you have some super stars like
Michael B. Jordan and Geems who shared the comeback and we had a tournament of
streamers with Mr. Envy, Joel, Saco playing Street Fighter 6 with well-known
famous French players like Crimson, Kilsou and Overs and I think a lot of
Calvul want to play Street Fighter 6 so I think we can meet the record and have
at least 2,000 people. I hope so.
Please join us of course, you know, we had the biggest one last year.
Ivo Japan is about, is being the biggest one as well in history.
So can we do it of course in France?
We can expect it to be just as exciting because this crowd has been ridiculous.
Of course, Street Fall 6 will be part of Ivo France 2026 and joining Ivo France as well.
The third game is going to be another game that you know another game that you expect.
Let's take a look.
7. For some players, it might be how many days they spend training each week.
But after Evil Friends last year, Arslan Ash has a better answer. That's how many
evil trophies are in his cabinet.
We all remember Giandini's exciting run, with an entire venue streaming his run.
Or King Regigno showing that he niece, it doesn't matter where you're from, if you're
on that stage, the crowd has your back.
And Fergus, with one of the best European performances ever seen at Evo and Tekken.
And the biggest Tekken tournament ever held on European soil,
Aslan Ash did what no one else could.
And this year, we're running it back.
Will history repeat itself?
Or will the most decorated Evo player in Tekken history meet his match?
Tekken 8 will be at Evo France 2026.
Will you be there to witness history?
Crazy history in running champions, but the new generation that you are kind of kind of training, are they taking it this year?
Yeah, I think this year we can have a lot of surprises, especially with the season three. It's changing the game for the better.
So I think a lot of players will be satisfied and come to Evo.
And I think the new generation can really surprise us like a King Ray Junior
I think he made a very good matches last year and we have a Neyar from Team Vitality now
He's training a lot to get better this year
Yeah, I think we have a lot of new players in Tekken 8 that made challenge Arslaner to not have an 8
Evil Cup
It keeps winning but you know what you've been working hard on this right?
I've seen you really nurturing the next generation with Neyya.
Yeah, I'm too old now.
I'm trying to coach and to manage some young players
and I think we got some very talented players.
You know, it's crazy, sometimes people think that they're too old for fighting games
or they're too new.
It's one of the other, they think it's too late to come to fighting games
but I want to prove them that they're wrong
And with the new generation already getting good at EVO, like Naya got 17 at her first
EVO at 16 years old, it's crazy.
So I'm like, you can do it.
You should register and try to see yourself how far you can go.
Yeah, it's all about how far you can go, exactly.
There is a start.
We all start somewhere, right?
You don't have to win your first tournament.
It's a journey and it just takes a moment.
We hope to see plenty of new faces this year joining us for Tekken 8 at Evo France 2026.
Three games announced and it's time to talk about our fourth game.
Another game that got a huge update and huge news.
And who knows, maybe another new champion this year.
Let's take a look at the fourth game for Evo France.
May we have a dream!
Flavos!
When supporters encourage their players in their own language, the crowd becomes something
European players told the show at Evo France, the noise was unlike anything else that weekend.
Last year, the biggest Gentiges Tri-Tournament in European history delivered iconic moments
from the wide bubbles from the Spanish crowd cheering for Andros, the least French fans cheering for Patatru,
Ending in an all-European Grand Final and the first ever European Champion Tiger Pop.
And now, Strike 2.0 is released.
New mechanics, new characters, new energy.
Does that mean a new champion or will someone be extending their legacy?
Join the next chapter of Guilty Gear Striker, Ego France, in October 2026.
Ginty Gilscribe comes back to the big stage at Evo France last year.
Tiger Pop was crowned for their very first Evo championship.
And this year, of course, we want more new champions.
We've seen Patatou being very close last year, right?
Yeah, it was really close.
And I was here in the crowd and I was cheering for him.
And I think his story is really, really good
because you know, Flash know organizer of fighting games in France too.
And he managed to have some players to travel to Kumball
worker for the first time and Pata Shu there made top 8. So I feel like it's nice to see him being so
confident to be in top 8 and most famous tournaments in the world, Evo. I think it
makes him have a lot of confidence and I think that now he may be able to win this.
Yep, it's something we can expect but of course after the Arc World Finals,
which also all of the regions are fighting for that top one spot.
Definitely looking forward to see this one and tell you what,
Strive was incredibly electric, I think.
The combination of France, Spain,
and pretty much the rest of Europe gathering behind Tiger Pop
was absolutely incredible.
I'm looking forward to see the same scenes for Strive this year.
With Strive 2, of course,
new version, the game has changed a lot for the best,
the same way taken in.
So looking forward to see the new stuff,
but we are at four games out of eight,
so half of the games have been revealed now and it's time to move with another game that will
make its very first appearance at Evo France this year. It was not at Evo France last year.
It's a very recent game and it's a game where friends could do well because we're a local guy.
It was quite good at this. Stay with us in the fifth game.
Fighting games are traditionally played in one versus one. One player, one character,
one shot. But what if we want more? This year, one game is living through its very first
competitive season and France did not wait for anyone. From the very first tournaments,
the French community was already in the lab, in the brackets, in the top games. But the world caught
up fast. At the first global event of the year, America made its statements. Sonic Fox and Inzem
made their case as the most dangerous duo in the game. All the way from Japan, the two
Two in twin players Haru and Toshi have been quietly dismantling every bracket they enter.
Yet at 2XKO's first official major event a new champion emerged.
The rivalries are set, the stakes are real, but before any of that, before the game you
had launched, there was a side tournament here in this very venue.
And the trophy stayed home as Wawa lifted the first 2XKO trophy ever handed out at
Evo France.
Home crowd, home glory.
And now, a big trophy is up for grabs.
Can you stay home one more time?
Enter the brackets, alone or with your friends, for the 2XKO tournament at Evil Friends 2026.
2XKO is our fifth game at Evil Friends,
and this one, I think, has a lot of expectations around
because the French community has been going really hard
and our best player leaves 10 minutes away from the venue.
Yeah, I think the French community in TXCO is way insane.
They are going to every local, every offline session.
They are really grinding all the time.
And I think that it's crazy.
We have Wawa, Yasha, and Wade, the three top players
in Dragon Ball Fighters, and going so well in TXCO now.
But I'm also what we share for the twins.
I think it's crazy to have a game that allows you to do
two versus two.
but it can be two players versus two players,
or one player versus one player.
But here, having the choice to have it
and being a way to be competitive at that, it's crazy.
So I think having the twins winning a fighting game
competition like that would be unique.
Anyway, I think I'm sharing from them too,
but also with French, of course.
Yeah, that would be incredible, right?
What are the odds that twins and them being
some of the very best in the game?
There's an amazing team that's mentioned as well,
Sonic Fox and Inzen, that have been destroying brackets
left, right, and center, and that's all we want to see.
Make sure you join us for 2XKR this year.
You can enter alone or with the friends
to the big tournament at Evil Friends.
We're looking forward to see the hike that
will be created at Evil Friends.
Five games announced.
Time to move for game number six.
And this time it is a returning game,
a game that stayed home last year as Europe.
Claim the title.
Will it happen again this year?
Let's take a look at game number six.
Japan, USA, Spain.
As the EVO trophy keeps traveling from region to region, the competition gets fiercer every year.
New names, new regions, constantly writing themselves into the history of this game.
The world is open now.
But when the players make history, the crowd makes even more noise.
From the Lorraine supporters showing up in full force
to players absolutely making the best of their momentum on stage
Evil France established itself as the best to be when it comes from electric propellants
and now it is time to bring it back
Grand Rue Fantasy Growth Describes is back at Evil France for the second year in a row
Where will the next chapter take us?
Sign up and be there to witness the next step.
Grand Blue Fantasy vs Rising is back.
Usagi took the trophy last year but it was so incredibly electric for a game that I personally don't watch that much
but you couldn't not watch it last year, it was so high.
It's crazy to see the people, their energy and I think in Europe it's very special.
I think it's the best community for Grand Blu Fantasy Verstrazim in terms of level 2,
but also in terms of craziness.
Yeah, you've seen that, but Rekid Mundo was going crazy on the stage, the Lohan army
was going absolutely crazy for the entire game.
Ah, you know the Lohan stance, even the producer, Pukwara-san, does that.
And he looks like a shy person, but he's doing that with the community.
So I think the community is like, okay, we have to do it too, because the producer
is doing it.
So I think it's very nice to see how close the community is to the producer and the inside
game team in general.
And I think this year is going to be better for the game because you know, going to fantasy
versus is fighting game, but there's also the RPG and it came on Steam this year.
And they have an extension to the RPG coming on consoles also this summer.
So I think you can attract more people to play the fighting game actually.
Now, hopefully all we want is more people to play with or against fighting games are here for the love and we would love to see you all at Evo France.
We want you to win!
Yes, he is still as well. Another guy from the south of France. He's not too far from Nice as well.
Yes, he's doing close. I must say, I think.
Yes, I must say, but two hours away from Nice, so we expect to see the stories doing well this year.
Six games announced and we still have two games. Two announced, two games. One will be returning, one is the new one.
Before we finish this, let's move on to the next game, making another appearance at EVO France.
It was there last year, it was an exciting top 8 with a lot of new and a lot of expected as well.
Let's take a look at game number 7.
Experiencing moments at EVO is always special.
From historical firsts to emotional moments, every year delivers unforgettable memories.
And when a new game gets its first time at EVO, it's all fireworks.
At the moment of the year, Goichi vs KOG in Las Vegas, at the home artist's tears when
and he secured his spot for World Finals at Evo France last year?
An entire country celebrating as Fraser raised the Morgan flag in an Evo Top 8 for the first time in history.
After an incredible watch last year, culminating in another title for Schauhei,
Fayer Fury's City of the Wolves is back on the Evo France lineup.
With the new season shaking everything up, new strategies will be witnessed.
New stories are waiting to be told, new firsts are waiting to be written.
Side up now, the next champion could be you.
Fatal Fury City of the Wolves joins us once again at Evo France last year's Top 8.
It was an exciting one with plenty of different contra representations.
representations. We've seen Morroco Fresno right going for the first time on Top 8. It
was really happy for me for all of the community around Xiao Hai winning. For a long time, Fatal
Finance has been about Xiao Hai winning, but lately, Xiao Hai did not win the World Championship.
Xiao Hai did not win a DreamHack either, so it's new season and everything to play
for. Yeah, they had an update really recently on Fatal Finance changing the balance
patch. They changed the menu design, they changed many things. You have a new character
or so, Krauser, and you're going to have Okutomoken in the game.
You're going to have Kenshiro.
It's crazy to have guest characters like that, so I really can't wait to see all the roster
that is going to be in the next season.
And yeah, I think that having 2D specialists like Shauhai, Goichi doing so well in the
game, I really can't wait to see how they're going to focus on Pater Fury again this
year.
Yeah, that's all I want to see in the game.
are going hard on this game and you know that Chauha is going to come back with a mission
trying to win this one. Again, join us for Fatal Fury City of the Worlds at Evo France 2026.
But last but not least, we've talked about seven games and we have one more game to reveal.
And that final game is a game that has never been at Evo. It's a game that I cannot play
yet anyway. It's a game that's coming pretty soon. And it's a game that's going
to get its first competitive appearance at Evo France this year.
Let's take a look at the final game closing the 8-game roster.
The beautiful Mediterranean Sea stretching to the horizon.
The Alps, standing tall in the distance.
The wide open blue sky of the Côte d'Azur.
The sun burning bright over the Port-Mnet des Anglées.
Nice is a beautiful city to visit, and while a lot of people come to admire the scenery,
others see elements to master.
And for these benders, Evil Friends will open its doors welcoming a brand new game to the
lineup.
History is waiting to be written by whoever has what it takes to bend the elements.
Avatar Legends The Fighting Game will be part of the lineup at Evil Friends in October
20-26.
Master of the elements and silent now to clash in the Palidys exposition.
And there we go our eighth game to close the eighth game. Main roster is going to be avatar
legends the fighting game new game and it's always like this right when a brand
you gave me especially this way to completely brand new game new IP that
we haven't seen fighting games before completely new system so everything is
up for grabs actually I didn't expect about that to be the last game it was
really a surprise for me and I think it's nice I started to watch it
recently because of fighting game I never watched the anime I was never
interested in that but you know there is a TV show there's the
I'm like, okay, I already have to know what the anime is about so that I can pick a character.
And now I'm fine with Azula.
Azula is so crazy. I love the character so much.
So I think it's going to be my character.
And I just can't wait to see people that will just show us the high level of the game.
Yeah, that's what I want to see. I know fighting games, but they come from a popular IP as well.
They get extra fun because you have that connection to the character, right?
character, Avatar Legends, looking forward to see a brand new game appearing at Evil Friends,
but that's it for the game. Line up eight games to showcase at Evil Friends, and these
are the eight games Marvel took on Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, Guilty Gear Strive, 2XK, or Grand
Blu Fantasy vs Rising, Fatal, Fury City of the Worlds, and last but not least, Avatar
Legends, The Fighting Game. An exciting roster, right? A lot of fighting games, a couple
of new stuff.
It's really nice to have so many games and to have new games this year.
A lot of new games, new community, new organizers, new locals.
When you have a new fighting game, there's always something exciting about it.
You have people gathering around the game and organizing things.
You see new champions, new people.
And I think it's really exciting to be able to show the new players' generation in a tournament like that.
Yeah, that's what I want to see, you know, plenty of players.
And tournaments coming to Evo France.
Remember that the signups are about to open right now for Evo France 2026.
You have one month to get the early bird fee,
and then it goes to the regular bird for about a month, and then to the late.
But of course, something to mention is last year, last year we filled the entire venue, right?
Yes, it was really full and really fast.
Actually it was quite sold out very fast and then I remember that it was really hard for
me to find some hotels.
So people better register and also reserve a hotel as soon as possible and for the food
we have you.
You know, I'm working on that.
I'm working on that for some ways.
I'm making sure you eat good when you're at Ivo France.
So last year we had the venue full.
This year we increased a bit the playing area to allow a couple extra hundred players
you know to join the events so do make sure that you sign up ASAP because when we hit the max
registration the registrations are closing once and for good so do make sure that you get your
registration sorted right now take a look at the hotels take a look at everything you want to do
in this it's a beautiful region there's plenty to do and of course Evo France will be there to
welcome you we will be there you know both of us looking forward to be part of the second
anything specific you are waiting to see at Evo France this year?
Actually I'm very happy to see the new games like Marvel Tocque-on and Avatar.
This is the first time in the competition.
And I can't wait to see more of the season 3 in Tekken 8.
And also my character Konimitsu is going to be announced and be able to play it.
So I can't wait to see that, you know, it's all a pool of new season coming in every fighting game
So I just can't wait to see the good action
All right, that's all we are expecting to see at evo friends
Thank you everyone for joining us today the eight games already pick your favorite games
You can play multiple games of course because this is the FTC if you're gonna play all eight
Half of the tears will hate you but you know, I will love you for playing more fighting games
Join us at Evo France 2026 on any game you want go on the sign-up right now and get ready to join for the biggest tournament
There is in Europe. We are looking forward to see you all in a nice for another exciting
Installment of Evo France. Thank you for joining us today and see you very soon at the politics position
I want to hear all the may we I come this year. Yes
Sleep then
Are you waiting
For that feeling
Trusted process
No need for resistance
I'm obsessed
Getting over the line
So who's in when I go the distance?
I don't need assistance, cause I'm future in this way
It's in my nature
I'm walking out for you
Trouble comes, why can't I do tonight?
My best behavior
What was in this set of stars?
God, I think I'm just a star
The lies and deaths that get me right
I'm a sign of fight
This is a prototype
For a second device
I don't need assistance
Cause I'm used to it this way
Are you still dreaming?
Dreaming
Suddenly it's in my nature
One more thing I want with you
Trouble your fucking attitude tonight
My best behavior
What I see is the saddest part
I'm not just a part
You're not the death of every part
I swear to God I know
It's time for you to return
It's in my nature
What would I have been?
Trouble comes, I can't ask you tonight
My first behavior
I've never seen this kind of stuff
MUSIC
Oh my God!
He got the mic!
Oh my God!
He got the mic!
Oh my God!
Look at this. He's in his head.
Good night!
This is it. Ladies and gentlemen.
We're gonna get some fire games, man.
Oh!
What did he do?
the world if you're in the menu at time.
What an evolution!
Good morning, Las Vegas, Nevada, and welcome to final day of EVO 2026!
Of course, we come here to see the highest level of play.
We come here to see who is gonna write their name in history.
And right now, we are about to start the first chapter for 2XKO.
Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready for top eight of 2XKO?
Let's get to it. We're gonna send things to our intro video presented by me
and show em all a real fight
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Watch me take a risk
I don't play your safe
I keep a trigger till we hit
If I gotta do the line
I'ma run it through the night
Fuckin' shit in all the moment
I already tell
I know I gotta switch
To the way he breaks
To the way he shakes
I might not be sure pushing into the back on stage
This is the game where you aim, this is the game where you stay
I'm coming straight in on the ground and I'm ready to change
Tell them how they want to know, we can run this fast
Come on, see me now, let me tell you how I'm coming
I'm still feeling better, but I'm telling you what I mean
I'm loving things, I'm telling you what they want
Real talk, good old fellow trouble, isn't real love
Double-dive everything and show up on the real side
I'm not the same as I could lie to you for years
I'ma risk it all tomorrow for a moment I can prove it
I'll be firing the fear with a blotting up blow
This is the day I'm on a first show and I tell him that he shouts
If you wanna fight, I'm gonna try to pass
With me and Robin and the drum set
And now it's time for the top eight player introduction presented by Bezo.
Sonic Fox and Bezo!
Toshi and Haru!
for you!
Please!
Make some noise for Noka!
Let me hear the energy for Polka!
Globo!
and the man himself, he call me!
Ladies and gentlemen, your energy is already insane
and y'all know we gotta show everybody at home how our community gets down.
Let these players hear it, FTC, FTC!
FTC, FTC, FTC, FTC!
Ladies and gentlemen, it is about that time to crown the first 2XK-owned champion.
Let's take things over to our legendary commentators, Ketchup and Mustard.
Oh my word!
It's been a quick three days. I can't believe we're already here for the finals.
Welcome everybody. It is an honor to be on this Top 8 commentary with my wonderful brother Mustard.
It's time. I cannot believe that it's already time for Evo Vegas and what a fantastic top eight we have ahead of us
I think not overly unpredictable, right? There's a lot of familiar faces here
We were thoroughly expecting to see but I gotta say
The fact that our first match is going to be Sonic Fox in Zem versus Toshihari
What a perfect story for the game itself, right? The duo's game, but you can play it solo if you want
We've seen a bit of everything, but there really is only ever and I really want to hammer this point home
There is only ever one first Evo Vegas that a game will have you know
We've been talking about the kind of allure that comes with it that that real that the weight that carries
You know this game may have multiple Evo champs over the year
But it's only ever gonna have one first Evo champ and we're a few hours away from finding out who that's gonna be
Well, it's funny you should mention it because when it comes to top eight predictions and who you think's gonna win
We have our top eight predictions presented by PlayStation Tournaments
You are able to vote in chat who you think is going to win this tournament
You have been a firm believer in bleed. Yes
I absolutely have all the way back to the pre-show a few days ago before we even started the weekend's festivities
We'll given our predictions on that show and I was saying I am I think this is bleeds time to shine
no day-viewing really into the spotlight at
that, uh, uh, Frosty Foustings earlier in the year, and now just has been on a bit of
a tear in the online tournament space, has been present, did well at Yugo Japan. But
hey, if you've got predictions at home, you can see it here. Okay, the results have already
come in, it's already finished. I know, it's in progress, it's in progress.
So, I mean, I'm not really surprised that the chat seems to be believing in that
as well. I mean, that is quite weighted. 40% for the duo of Fox and Inzerm, you
know, Sonic Fox. No stranger to Yugo, I mean, sorry, production. I did mention
just now. I mean there it is. Good to go. Wow, 17% for Toshi and Haru, 18% for Belize.
We do have some Belize fans. Supernoon, who is multi-time, uh, yeah, hang on, what are
we saying? Yeah, Supernoon, multi-time second place at the final. Sorry, I got lost by a
trade of thought, right? I'm not gonna throw you off me. I'm not gonna throw you off
me. Yeah, sorry, my bad. But yeah, Supernoon, multi-time second place already at multiple
evo, whether it was Evo, Nice, even though it wasn't in the official lineup, it was
still there, thanks to Riot
bringing it there for the booth.
Second place at Evo, Japan.
I mean, will Supernum be able to get that grand finals again,
or will this be finally the time to get that first place?
I thought that would be a pretty perfect story,
being able to finally conquer that second place curse.
If you're gonna have a second place curse,
it may as well be Evo,
but if you're able to get that number one,
it's there's nothing left to conquer,
and there's no bigger stage left
to take that first place with.
Well, our first match is, as I said before,
gonna be Fox and Inzen versus Toshin Hirose.
Let's check out their paths,
the victory path, presented by White Claw search, sorry, Sonic and Inzem, pretty much most of their games were on stream.
So if you've been following over the weekend, you would have seen most of these anyway.
But, I mean, look at this, 2-0's the whole way through.
Winner's side top 8 without dropping a single game along the way.
And that is the dominance we've come to expect from this pair.
You know, combo breaker champions, second place at Red Bull, knockout the duo's invitation,
and with the many more that will come with it, no doubt.
But, I mean, favorites going into this, I think it's safe to say.
They were not number one seed, but they are definitely still looking good.
Now it's the twins, the dynamic duo from Japan, Haru and Toshi, and again, another undefeated way.
So regardless, someone's about to lose their first matches in the entire tournament.
But what's been fantastic about the twins is not only their incredible synergy, it's their game sense.
They're bringing in a new team, it's going to be the Thresh and the Jinx with the two times assists,
so they really have had that real kind of sight for it, you know?
They know what they're looking for, and they've got that idea, and it's working out for them.
I think the Thresh has been a real kind of star performer.
That is a story going into this top eight, right?
Two new characters have entered the game in Thresh and Senna,
and we've definitely seen more Thresh than Senna.
But have we seen as much Thresh as we were perhaps expecting to?
I think we saw a fair amount during the pool play,
but as we got later and later into the bracket,
many players seemed to stick with their tried and true.
It's a weird conversation to have
when a new character launches
and they are immediately strong like Thresh is.
You, as a competitor, have to make a choice.
Do I essentially go in with this new character
and replace one of the characters I've been playing for months,
sometimes since launch?
Or do you stick with what you know?
In a game like this, that is not an easy decision,
but I think many players have stuck to their guns,
and quite rightly so.
The results have reflected that.
I think talking about Haru and Toshi,
one extra element that I've always loved
about watching them play
is that they're quite content
to just kind of do their own thing.
I know when we're talking about fuses in 2xKO,
for those that don't know, there are many different fuses
you can select that give you slightly different gameplay
areas that you can excel at.
Freestyle, the ability to do two handshake tags
has been for a very long time, the number one fuse
that are good, at least 95% of competitors are going with.
They tend to be a little bit more on the side
of two exorcists when they think the opportunity calls
for it, which is nowhere near as common.
I mean, they have run their freestyle as well,
but the important thing is they're not just going
to go with what everyone else says is good, right?
They're going to have that faith. They're going to have that belief that they're going to pick whatever is necessary, but one good thing I think that Thresh is going to be bringing to the dynamic of the top eight is that Thresh does very well against Teemo.
And if we look at who's in this top eight, right, Supernoon still playing Teemo, Globo obviously a real premier Teemo player.
Even this first match, Inzem, I feel like they are arguably some of the best Teemo's out there, you know.
I think the fact that Thresh has that option is kind of just mow the lawn, get rid of all those mushrooms,
completely dominate that neutral, and clear the board in a way means that that is something you have to factor in.
However, we've been saying about the lack of, potential lack of Thresh compared to how much we thought we'd see.
There's a chance you might see two Threshes in this match.
That thing, because it's not just Thresh, it's Thresh and Jinx.
I don't think Timo really likes fighting that team too much, but one thing about Fox and Inzem is that
When facing fresh they've kind of been talking the well, okay
Maybe it's not the best to pick Timo into that
But if we can play fresh better than the opponents can that's one way of defeating that character
But I do wonder how the matchup of confidence is going to work here because so I can in XM
They have been undefeated along this way I've had the twins
But so I can in XM no stranger to the Evo stage especially Sonic Fox the multi multi multi time Evo champ
But on the side of the twins they qualified for
Winners top 8 with 2-0 over both poker and Hikari who are also in this top 8 that 2-0 over Hikari, especially
That was that was a result
You know Hikari went into this top 8 as the number one the tournament I should say as the number one seed
Evo Japan champion really has kind of just been just just
Blazing the trail with that Ari Akali, but they came here prepared
They did their homework and the result is Winner's side top eight
But I've got to say it's hard to know who to root for in this in this match because my heart always wants the twins to go as far as possible
Right, you know that they're so emotional
You know they really do share those successes and the failures sometimes together, but Sonic and in them
You know just the the the Brainiacs
There's a reason my personal prediction for this tournament is Sonic Fox and in them and the fundamentally
This is not a chance as well
Well, let's not forget, but we have to remember all the time this is sonic fox at evo, but sonic fox ain't alone
You've got the absolute brain the execution the game sense of in ZEM
They just work perfectly together, but they're gonna be in theory
You know, we can't read players minds, but I would like to think they are going to be not as
Nervous I think when you look at Haru and Toshi
you can see the emotion just expressed in their faces.
When they get stressed, you see it.
When they get nervous, you see it.
When they celebrate, you see it even more.
This stage, it's very new to them.
But if they can take this win over Fox and NZM,
can they get comforts?
Yeah, imagine just the confidence
that is gonna solidify, you know?
In front of this live crowd we've got here in Las Vegas,
in front of the world watching at home, I mean,
and that'll guarantee you win as finalists right now.
What is the world watching at home, this beautiful crowd we have early morning?
I appreciate you all day long, that's how you're doing.
I know you're a bunch of gamers, but thanks for waking up on time.
Getting our button checked out of the way, and then our first matchup in this 2xKO Top 8 is about to begin.
I am so excited for this. How? Perfect! It's duo versus duo to start the show.
I'm so happy this is happening, right? I know it's the conversation that's happened over time.
The handshake's coming through the button check is done. Okay.
Are we ready for game one of 2xKO Las Vegas? Make some noise!
Good morning indeed. All right.
Ah, so is the prediction correct? Have we seen the double-threshold?
Okay, so we were talking to Sonic and NZM before the tournament yesterday.
today and in general yesterday and asking how the character choice is you'd be expecting to see
and even though Inzem is that kind of real premier Timo player we are saying like what are you going
to do in the face of this the thresh onslaught we could definitely see and they're like are we
just going to play thresh ourselves yep just mirror match simple not even a matter if you can't
beat them join them if you think you can beat them join them and do it better
a simple, but a cool character. Thresh is a unique addition to the game. He's definitely
doing some stuff we haven't seen before. He really dominates that range, and we will
no doubt be seeing all of this in the matches to come, but he's got that presence. He's
got the potential advantage. Just forward dash being a forward teleport. Instead, it's
unique to him. Definitely gives you a lot of opportunities, but what will we see as
we're going into this game, number one? So it's going to be Hara and Toshion, player
two side, that two assist. The jinx in the back as well. Sonic Inzem, player one
of the Arya front Sonic Fox as day one Arya specialist. However, the new blood, Thresh,
one of the characters that some say can fight Arya quite effectively. The rage, the verticality
of those buttons, the fact that he himself can intercept those air responses and then
have to get to the back end with one to assist. But they get two and the two X's have
come through and third blood, scored by the twins. So I've already seen the two
2x assist, making massive work here. That quick side-switch on the teleport, even though
they're stuck for ages, that pressure assist, it can lock down for so long, and now it needs
to be used, but I'll leave you to get too comfortable with it.
Oh wow! Wait, does that take the catch behind? I'm sure that was the... we've seen that
quite a few times, being able to catch the situation there. There's that tag launch
in the corner, limit strike into the knockdown. Ooh! Yeah, going for an instant, wake
to attack in that corner, that is good info to send that first round.
Wobbly to go for it, Wobbly has a great ready, so it's risky to have a thought to take out this,
the neutral presence, oh the pick up, what the fuck!
The neutral presence you just combined with the thrashing speed of the team that,
you can't go in and do some crazy stuff, but you are very content to sit there in the neutral,
oh, it's not yet a good fight to confirm, a bit of a funny angle going on there,
tried to pick up from that jinx assist as well, but ever so slugging too far away.
There are so many small interactions you can see with these two teams,
question is, when it's time to mix, who's gonna get opened up first?
That is confirmed with R.E. in the corner, that's one,
and that's the tag launch, you are absolutely dead, and that will be
Tari down, and Hitoshi remains.
Best case ever as well, great for limit strikes, you're gonna build those resources with a massive heavy...
Ooh, okay.
One thing to point out here is that Thresh has an unawakened stash,
he has the ability to go through opponents, and even force a bit of invincibility.
I don't like it!
They're going to come up and you've got all the meat in the wild, right?
Yeah, bring it in, Thresh.
Yeah, keep it nice and simple. Just go with the cage. Just stuck it there with me!
And that's the first round.
Okay, going the way of Fox and Inzem.
I like how this match of just, okay, just match the Thresh with the Thresh.
Really working out.
Oh, massive parry, though. It's going to give you equal access to the tools at hand, right?
Oh, Q!
Okay!
No, but this is the final. That is unfortunate. So much damage left on the table, not only that, an opportunity to take the break away from the team of Fox and Inzem.
Oh wow, is that counter health on the projectile? Instant break though, and here comes Jinx.
So she now, the active man.
This is Jinx though. We're getting combos from those air throws all day, every day, and more damage than you might expect.
That was quite a jump. Yes it was. Fireworks there. Aswerys don't scale.
That's probably going to end up with the corner at the very least, where Ari really wants to put you.
There's kind of a knock-down situation. Okay, bring Thresh in.
Really favouring that tag, launch into the Limit Strike of Thresh.
Ooh, what an Ari!
Ooh, okay, thank you.
Go in.
Alright, that's dead for sure. Charge to H.
Yes, please, air hook.
Doesn't need the second one, and now Thresh versus the Army of Thresh and Ari.
Oh, no, that's not what you want to see though.
So I'm going to get there here, still stuck in this corner.
Are we set up or are we bringing Thresh back in?
Okay, let's strike this time.
Ooh, wake up, Parry!
Oh, Sonic, you need an outside switch!
You want to parry me?
You're still going to have to hold
whether I'm in front or behind!
And just like that, game number one, Sonic Pox and In-Zed.
Remember folks, this is a best of three.
So, for the Americans half that work is done.
Will there be a turnaround?
I mean, it was a confident game, right?
It was a very dominant game, one from Pox and In-Zed.
They were basically in control the entire time.
I agree with this. Take a little bit of time, even if I don't change anything at all,
just take a little bit of a moment and have that communication time.
That's the benefit of duo, right? You kind of have that built-in coaching.
You're allowed to talk to your duo partner, and we can see both teams doing it, right?
This is genuinely, we see the discussion all the time online around the game in general,
is that how viable is duo play, and we see examples of its viability with the highest level pairings,
such as this, but it's hard. It's really hard to play at this level.
It does come with those benefits. Kind of having that on-demand coaching,
coaching between each other.
It's fantastic, especially on this kind of stage, right?
There's potentially a lot of pressure here,
a lot of prize money up for grabs as well.
You can say that again, shots to right,
and overall, but you won that time.
Take that moment, here we go.
Game number two, is there a refresh?
You know, Fox Dinsen, they're locked in,
looking for that winner's final.
If they want it, will they get it?
Let's go, game two.
All right, starting off rather strong.
A little bit of that screen presence.
Asserted by the Twins and that minion refuses to leave and it's fresh for Drone the Corner.
This guy hits like a truck if he throws you.
Even with that assist, but why not?
Let's just add a little bit more.
It's off, but that's a lot of damage Drone's throwing that does give a commanding lead.
But just to get you to sound the way, it's fresh for it!
That's a hurt bit! The break is forced out!
More important to keep the characters alive.
The air throw from Toshi choosing to set up.
What's it gonna be?
Mini-gun, meaty jump into plus frames.
This pressure refuses to end, but...
Inzem, refusing to get opened up.
Hey, Inzem's defense was on point.
From the lobby in front of them, managed to stay alive.
Ari comes back in as instantly KOed, though okay.
Advantage, twins.
Here comes Inzem.
Ooh, okay, tricky movement.
Oh no, not too much.
And the air throw.
This is something we've seen so much from twins yesterday.
Lots of parrys on air ball options.
There's lots of instant air throws so confident in these choices and that's going to be a level 3!
Oh, eternity begins!
But it's just game 1 here.
Very good damage though, and we'll be happy to take that one.
A convincing round for Haru and Toti.
A complete 180 on the dynamic from match number 1 in this first set of the day.
That's what we want, right? Take that time in between.
Who knows what they'll be communicating though.
We're definitely seeing a lot more air throws.
Okay, best case scenario again, look at the stride,
the pressure's on the screen, oh, wake up attack!
But it didn't matter, the pressure's still there, awesome!
Wake up attack was no good there, unfortunately,
and Ari already bleeding pretty severely.
Alright, it's an opportunity, lovely parry there.
Creating some real estate.
The tag, creates that pressure,
I mean, the lantern's still in place,
should you bring the crash back out in there?
That is going to be, oh, the tag into the lantern,
trying to be a little bit more cheap, a little bit more unpredictable, that's too bad, however.
That's a max rage catch.
Oh, no, no, close enough for the combo extension.
Side clock specific puny's opportunities, yes, a massive heavy, but couldn't commit.
Double commit too.
If you over commit, trying to hit the character that isn't in play, you're risking.
Opened up by that point and getting blown up this game.
These teams, their damage output is absolutely ridiculous.
Right.
Yep, I love the retreating guard.
Take that!
Ah, the retreating guard to avoid the minigun, but fresh was just on the frow.
One, two, three!
Okay, fantastic.
What a chase down from Haru. He just smelled blood and was going for it.
Ooh, okay.
This is a lot of work for Sonic Fox.
You don't even have Fury available.
You might have time to buy it and build it up for the reaction!
The beam! It's not gonna kill yet, but my lord, are you tensed?
Oh!
And jump back! Air to air! Social media reactions!
All right, and we're saying before, very emotional players, the twins.
Have you looked at some of the intermix games, they're normally quite calm,
they're normally kind of having what seems to be quite chill conversations,
very analytical, whereas the twins, I mean, we see it in their play, right?
You see the disappointment when they lose and the excitement when they win.
And that's what you need feed off of that, especially on this stage,
and especially in this kind of environment.
But we are going to a game three, one more match,
we'll decide who's going to go to that first winners final slot.
I tell you what, if you're a possible new viewer, maybe you haven't seen much 2xKO,
these two matches are a perfect demonstration of how back and forth this game can be.
It's fast, it's aggressive, but also very, very momentum focused.
I mean, just look at the matches over the weekend, how many 2-0s that we see in pools,
and we were just running through matches,
whereas as soon as it gets a bit close, as soon as things get a bit more to the wall,
we'll start going the distance, but for good reason.
It's a pivotal moment. The difference between getting sent to losers now or after winners
finals, if that even happens, is huge. That's all like this. But we're jumping in now. It's
going to be actually in-depth in front. That's an easy confirm there. Question is, what are
we going to get from it? You know, it's going to be damage. One thing about fresh,
He does it like a truck, but that does result in quite a lot of meter being built, and so much extra little damage being dealt with and cleaned there from coming back!
I will say that was quite a late break from Haru there, it's not like most of the damage has been done, I mean a lot of those massive extended combos,
they've been quite focused, maybe Haru's going to have a way to situation them together, but what matters, the Thresh is gone, but now Toshi left.
I'm saying before, but Jax, he's not a terrible combat character, right?
Being able to get a lot of like solo stuff off of full grabs and everything,
like, like, wow, he's a mutual presence, but won't matter anyway right now.
Oh, this is terrible, Mustard. This is a horrible, horrible situation.
There goes the super. This is important change, so I'm going to get that second match.
Oh, mate, what's this?
Wait, it's almost, we're going for damage? We're going for damage here?
Get low. We still have a... Hang on a minute!
Hang on a minute! Is this going to do enough?
No way! Say it, it's so...
Oh! There's no...
...mix-up required!
I think I'll just kill you instead.
Oh, that's the benefit of the crash damage.
It'll be a built-in loads of break, but that's a situation just because you can't break.
Doesn't mean you're going to, right?
Well, break doesn't do that much of a life deficit.
Poor happy birthday forced the instant break down from the twins.
It's gonna be scary from this point on.
You do not want to get opened up.
The sandwich makes it really difficult.
Oh, the defense no-to-shi gets out.
OH! I SAID HIT!
Yo, I got you, bro! You want to come out on the Thresh?
It comes to Jinx, but that massive air dash from Sonic, Fox, okay, we're going back to the left corner!
I mean, probably...
Wait, no, there's Thresh.
The Thresh is out. I can't use him yet.
There's no system anymore, so we're going to have to do this one here.
Yeah, look, here he comes. Even though it is...
Oh, wait, I can't spot him enough.
There's both of them, though.
Wait, is this going to be a repeat?
Have we seen this one already?
Oh, it is.
That is enough.
Good bite, Jinx!
So much damage from the table.
Okay, the benefit is that it built a lot of breaks, so at least Thresh is going to have access to this fury,
but what a lot of work to do with a massive jumping edge, that's one way of starting it.
At least he was able to pop the fury.
The much safer avenue! Bates out the ante!
Yeah, the air back dash!
And then we've punished!
This is fury and Thresh!
My word! This damage is going to be insane!
It won't hurt, it hurts!
Alright, set up, we'll do for a second.
Oh my goodness!
No way it go in!
I'm glad I'm Thresh!
Level three!
I feel like I'm getting hit by that junk heavy, actually, I don't think it's going to be a blessing,
in the sky, no way!
Pops the Fury, no!
Didn't get the combo from it!
That's slow in my stamina, even though it wasn't a combo, it gave a massive lead to Haru.
I'm draining some chip here, but that's the last beat I used for Jinx.
Nothing left except the assist.
Oh yes, left!
No! Pops the Fury, okay! So it functions as a believer!
That very light visit in the comeback, we have to be so careful.
You get to fight anything here, and this RE is gone.
Well, I'm going to reach out, right? A good amount of health.
Twice, maybe.
Maybe Katarina has the late fury, wants a risk, and it turns out it was a risk not worth making!
But at that point from the time, they are feeling the hype there, just buzzing out of their seats right now.
That huge opportunity with that fury being effectively wasted on the side of Interlincen!
Okay, this is how you start it.
What's it gonna be?
I've seen some pretty crazy setups.
Yeah, okay.
Oh, we've seen this stuff a lot.
Oh, where you going?
Chases down the back roll put you straight back in that position. No limit strike here. We're just taking a combo
teleport
Hang on. What's this? How much damage is this gonna do?
That's so much damage. We've got so much health now. Back off. We're winning in the neutral at the moment.
Oh, the air throw again? Toshi does not miss those!
Diggins, if you get combo rewards like this, that air throw is always going to be on your mind.
And they've lived out in the air.
Hides the screen. Consumers hide. What fresh is going to put out there?
I get it. These are two characters who want to spend a lot of time in the air.
Whether it's the air dash, the fiery fresh, whatever.
There's an opportunity now. It is still in the ease for the twins, but...
Wait, how is that?
Yeah, okay. We're getting more sauce.
We're getting more sauce.
more source, the lantern, the late break, they know we can't risk this killing a character.
We need the access to this.
Oh no, I was in quite a bit of a book of verve.
Oh no, the point blank!
S1, I don't know what hurry was trying to add.
But it does give you an opportunity to stress.
You took so much damage right from the start of the round.
It's now in the driver's seat firmly.
Spending the level 3.
Okay, here it is.
I mean, surely there is the world that this kills.
And the level that you've got in your life, it's always hard to tell.
It's the rush.
Yeah, you're like barely though.
I mean, yeah, so even if you're going to avoid what that was, all right, it's all going to be down to Toshi, that Fury is almost available.
There is, Thresh may be dead, but you still have access to Super Assist for one far apart.
One of them just got caught, however, the Whiff 2H means you still don't have to send Fury.
Alright, another land to pass, that'll be following.
Oh wait, you can't break this! You can't, Fury! You can't break this, it's a Super!
Okay, you want your least match to actually get a bit of an easy-in-the-clip,
And the Son of Cossack ends up clutch the finish!
And they deny the comeback.
I mean, the comeback, it couldn't have happened.
It was definitely possible, but a tool of order to ask indeed.
I mean, we've been saying it just how emotional the twins are.
It means when they win, the excitement is there.
You know, they're buzzing out of their seats,
popping up at the losses.
You can almost feel it yourself.
Just a heart-breaking nature of it.
But hey, that was women's bracket.
They are still in this tournament.
It's the emotional side of playing in duos, especially with those close to you.
Everything is shared.
The victory is shared, but unfortunately that naturally means the defeat has to be too.
However, there is that silver lining.
This is Winner's Bracket.
Haru and Toshi are still alive here.
They've just lost that comfort of Winner's side.
But hey, we've got to say as well, you know, these are two duos who are out.
Basically, if you're talking, who are the best duos in the world for this game?
It's these two duos.
And you know that title of Best Duo is something that they're both going to want.
They are going to strive for it.
And hey, whoever wins this tournament, I think it's pretty hard to deny
that they're going to be the best duos in the game.
Let's take a look at these replays presented by PlayStation 1.
Some of the key moments I think right here.
Yeah, this is that just gigantic damage combo bar.
And that's the scary thing about Ari's direction.
On top of everything else, the damage they have access to.
Here we go.
Just talking about any possible mixups you'd be seeing afterwards.
So you forget, wait, the Thresh could be tagged, didn't you?
They're probably just dead.
But that's, that's, again, it's one of the things that makes Thresh so scary.
This is that non-stop access to that damage.
This was that attempted fury from Sonic Fox.
This was, I mean, it was a very fox-brake to go for.
Come on, you know, you can just win this round.
I see it's over, but it's been worked out with the Dreadful Touching.
But, I mean, again, you can see the excitement in there.
This would have been the end of it, where, yeah,
going to the Super to deny the access to the fury,
put them in an absolutely miserable situation.
You do manage to get the fury activated there.
Again, it's so hard to find that comeback in the face of players with this caliber.
It's hard to finally come back when you know the breaker is available,
and your opponent is constantly looking for those quick confirms into Super, just to shut it down.
And, I mean, just perfectly executed.
With that in mind, Sonic Fox and Inzem will now be moving on into winners' finals.
We'll be seeing them later. Minimum top three finish.
Our next match, however.
Supernoon versus Bleed. This one's gonna be great. And that does mean on the back of that loss Toshin
Hiro will be waiting for the winner of Globo and Hikari. So we actually could potentially see the run-back of the twins versus Hikari
Which is definitely one of the more
Electrifying matches from yesterday kind of getting towards the top 8 or top 24 in general even. Oh, that we will see
Yeah, Noka versus Poker, Globo versus Hikari. Man, we've got some good matches ahead of us.
And just in case those may not know, Noka versus Poker is actually a run-back from yesterday
Okay, Foka was able to defeat Moka.
That was done on the French portion of the stream.
There were so many different streams happening this weekend.
Shout out to the different territories of Friar.
It's actually, there were multiple streams deep within the trenches of the pool play
where you could watch in different languages, support different players.
If there were major matches you wanted to see, pretty much everything was done to
ensure that those matches could be watched.
Even down to top 24, we had two stages.
Okay, so let's take a look at the victory path for our next match as it's going
to beat Supernoon versus Bleed and again, yeah, another undefeated run. 2-0 over Globo
who's also in this top 8. 2-0 over Wade over the EU duo. We're talking top level duos.
The best duo in Europe, Udu and True Devon, shiny Espeon and the matches in balls as well.
But this is Supernoon kind of continuing that dominance. Just run into XK. Especially
when it comes to EVO tournaments. Another what it is about EVOs in general that Supernoon
is just switched on for. You know, already a multi-time second place where there was Evo
Nis, you know, Fortunis KO, I tell you why.
Japan.
Possible nostalgia in growing up in that environment. You know, Riot put out some pre-Evo content
and Supernoon referred to, oh yeah, I used to go to Evo when I was a kid. Yeah. So here
we are now. Fully grown as now someone who isn't quite fully grown yet, Bleed. The
young man himself. Hey, but already so much experience. You know, if you told me
Bleed was already competing for years. I don't believe you.
You know, undefeated in pools 2-0 over players like Zayn over to kill stage 2-1
versus fellow teammate Jakey the Snaggy who is another player definitely want to
watch if you talk about upcoming 2x carry players absolutely but it's gonna
be Bleed who took the win in that one and has earned that spot in this
winners top 8 and what I mean what a match we have looking ahead of us
right here whether it's Bleed. I mean this is the run back to Frosty
to the grand finals, right? This is, uh, from grand finals there to top eight winners at
Evo, but unfortunately only one of them can advance through. But I would argue, and this
may be a silly thing to say, no one is hungrier for this, I think, than SuperMune. I think
just wanting to get that grand finals, you know, we have these, uh, Evo fantasy brackets
and predictions presented by A, T and C, but here we go.
The lead is the favourite according to the people.
Okay, yes, I mean it's relatively close, 42% for Supernoon, 57% for the lead.
Obviously, you know, these predictions presented by AT&T, it is going to be...
I mean, I would consider that somewhat even.
It's definitely not enough of like...
I wouldn't call it a landslide, either way.
That's half from the lead.
Yeah, for sure.
But it also is a representative for, I mean, just how this match could go, right?
It's not to kind of be that middle man,
but I could see this match going either way.
You know, I feel like I've just, personally, I've had that confidence in Bleed.
You know, Bleed has been doing so well, especially since the official release of this game,
you know, winning Frosty Foustain, being so consistent in general in the online space.
It's always grinding, it's always playing.
It's for the Ivo Japan, right?
Like, this player, whilst already being quite young, is no stranger to this high-level competition.
Alright, so, here we go.
We're going to find out who's going to be joining the duo of Fox and Inzan,
and winners finals only one can do it.
And we're going straight in there.
Bleed securing first plus.
This team, this tried tested team of allowing Echo.
Oh my word, the pressure, the damage.
The second you get put in that corner,
waits for the break first before popping the technical.
But it's also just true mastery of the team as well.
There's a lot of the competitive players,
the high level players,
that kind of tried out a bunch of different characters
and teams over the time.
Whereas one of the last time we saw Bleed
playing Avenin, it wasn't Echo alone.
And every time we see desert, I'll be just optimization after optimization, touch the grassy player.
See, dude, a beautiful change down on that roll as well. I'll hang them in there.
Alright, we've got some Teemo in there. Now if you've seen Teemo corner combos, you know they both hit really hard, and it ain't over just because the combo is.
It's either going to be combo from the Mushroom, or it's going to be test play from the Mushroom.
Even there, Teemo. Yeah, you read the flow, you go for the pro tech, the Mushroom makes it plus for the Teemo player.
It's kind of like that if you do endow the situation, but still...
...it's not here.
Oh, chase down of the roll.
You try to make some of these options on wake up, but again, this is just that.
Teemo cornerflame, through and through, super noon, and brings an echo.
Nothing echo.
When that mushroom is on screen, the wake up roll is so risky,
maybe players feel like it's unlikely to be threatened.
Because the wake up roll punishes by ground,
puts you into the mushroom, it's like,
Really, they won't do that!
I think it's a lot more simple.
I think it's a case of...
You are going to get put in a messed up situation, and no matter what option you choose,
I mean, there's so many layers to it, right?
If you block, it's massive advantage.
If you even...
Yeah, if you get thrown, it's going to combo.
If you take the throw, it's going to be a plus for Teemo.
Low Q, maybe you would not low Q, but one of the scariest situations to be put in the game in general,
is that the two people from Mushrooms in front start bouncing off,
or switch on, control those funky angles, already does have the badge ready to go,
so there's poison mushrooms down here, all the scarier...
Oh, that's still it!
Wow! I can't believe it!
We're fitting something, everything in!
Bravano vs. Timewinder, who wins?
He's pretty ahead of the grass for a little while.
Shut down by Timewinder.
Ooh, okay.
Let's go for it.
Okay, go for W.
Ooh, we're so grabbed!
Alright, allow me.
It's your time to shine.
Or maybe try and hit Ember.
There it is.
I think it was likely to jump, and then the second you see the break doesn't come out,
you meet to the actual bottom pressure to continue the pressure.
It's not uncommon that, you know, teams that kind of establish this strong zoning style, they will look to break early.
They're gonna have the advantage in the neutral, they're setting up projectiles, they're kinda covering that screen in the kind of no-go zone.
As soon as you get hit on them, they're gonna want to push you away and reset to it, so perhaps that's what pleases them to play anyway, but regardless, Superdome...
Yeah, they're just covering the tracks right here, here comes the mushroom, or the tree in this case, where does every skin change it?
Keep it mushrooms, and beehive sometimes, mate!
That's cool.
Ah, he's back.
All of the monsters in play, however, at the risk of getting punished herself.
Now, so she's full with Super Noob.
Oh, the damage, take that character, but also bonus damage on the Alawi.
Now, way less healthy, and then one character remains, with that anti-air attack.
I was about to say, at least the plus side Echo doesn't have much health at all,
so you're going to quite easily finish that off if you can find it here.
Now it's a strep Alawi T-Mode.
I mean, allowing us to have that damage output in T-Mode does not have a lot of health, so please can't find it.
Hello? Look, characters in this game have different damage values or health values.
T-Mode, as annoying as he is, he's made of wet paper.
If you hit him with anything significant, he's probably dead.
But what?
He's farther over here to avoid the mushroom.
Beautiful throw tech.
That throw tech's saving the skin of Superdome straight back into the action.
Not great on the resource department, but...
The same stuff I know. You took all the blood side leeches on that movie, and hit it, and Steemo is gone, but again you need to mind it.
That's a poison taking down. What a choice.
You can tell the leeches just trying to have some control on the tree, but there's the invited Supernoon in this little mushroom!
Oh, the Super of Supers!
Just that first game of the war.
I mean, this is the Supernoon we thoroughly expect to see at Evo.
But no, Supernoon is a hungry for that first place. No more second. This is the time. Get that first!
You know, we saw that kind of pre-Evo video, you know, that right about 2xKL,
and they followed a number of those top NA players, and what Evo means to them,
how they want to, upon this tour, and how they want to, these are two players featured in that video, two who said it, you know.
Evo is the one, it just feels different, just feels special.
The characters in this game, some of them do have to just blow up overheads,
but technically, yeah, you can't react to them.
This game is so fast-paced, and there's often, especially in the like, the team,
there's so much stuff on the screen, but those overheads, there's one of many things you have to grow up to.
Reactive to it alongside giving track of everything else that's going on, it's definitely easier said than done.
Another way that Superman has actually used a lot of those suits is to kind of just create space.
Oh god, oh wow.
Last dead character, very similar to the last round we saw.
Echo gone, Alawi taking that bonus damage, so much more work to perform.
One bar in the tank, leave.
I mean, that's the difference right.
Alawi can end those combos, spending the super on those tentacles, but you need the right situation for it.
for it. This is really rough now and Supernoon is just on the whole part with these mushrooms.
Limit stripe, activate mushroom, what's it gonna be? What on this? And that next is successful!
He didn't finish up. What could you do about it? That seems like even though
even though he didn't finish up, what would you do to stop the poison sticking down to
Magic Pixel, you're dealing with the Supernoon. Man, that's a freaking match point.
This is looking so much more dominant than I think those people were expecting to see.
Hey, the set up Frosty Palsing's a response to go short, but that worked in a distance, right?
That was a long grand final, though.
Man, I tell you what, but the motivation's one hell of a thing.
What could I believe this hasn't, especially with the allowee, just hasn't really been able to get anything significant.
Starship's stupid and it's just controlled this lose from start to finish.
There's a break again. Okay, and I just find the hit on the way down.
No break on the side of the lead, so finally we can start to come into him.
Yeah, bring it on now, E.
I mean, only the one beat to spend, but you will spend it.
What's it gonna be?
The beauty of some of those Echo combos as well.
The ability to side switch on a whim, putting them back into the corner.
Wow, interruption.
Found the answer.
The first significant time we've seen those tenders put down into some kind of pressure.
Superdome immediately weasels out of it.
And not only that, reverse!
Now it's your turn to get it.
Wow, but it was such a prolonged sequence of defense as well then.
Right, so the tension super was out, managed to block quickly, found the perfect time to challenge, cleared the board and now Echo is gone.
Now this Allawi again will lead half what it takes to bring the set back.
The superlun is just possessed right now, once that win is finalised.
I think Allawi's had enough of those, uh, enough blowdowns to be honest with you.
Fights in the air.
Right, activation.
Oh, the projectiles, the projectiles, just to keep that pressure going, it's the fact that the slingshot is always like, there's a slight delay when I connect as well, so that just keeps you locked up.
The activation beats out the anti-air as this is going to be miserable for please.
The resources are available poison as well.
Oh, double super just to fight whilst the opportunity to break super new with a clean play.
And a well deserved pull-off.
I love that because throughout the entire set, Super Noon was just stone-faced.
The entire set regardless of what was going on.
But the moment the set is over, you know that emotion is coming out.
Because that is how important this tournament is to Super League.
Again, Lee, very much so in this tournament, dropping down to the losers' bracket,
but it will be Super League moving on to winners' finals.
Third place minimum guaranteed.
One match away from matching his place in Japan,
but you know second is not enough.
Noon wants that first and doing it in Vegas, that's the plan.
Being able to at least make it into winners' finals
and having that level of a pop-off, that level of just exploded emotion.
It says it all about how much this means.
However, on the opposite end of that bleed,
gotta say, you know, I hate to state the obvious as a commentator,
that was a lot more one-sided than a lot of people expected.
Now you're... Hey, I mean, nice old bracket.
Turn it around, you know, that's all you can do.
I think for now, I mean, let's be real,
that match of Sonic Indem versus Supernoon is gonna be exclusive.
I mean, it's, again, it's a place where no stringing for that environment, sure,
Again, this is 2x, and this is 2x heroes, first-ever vagus, no. These are players who want to be on this boat.
The gameplay is definitely showing you have to take a look at these three players on the high-play stage and tournament.
To me, it was just dominance from start to finish for Superhero. You know, just had a game plan in mind.
A big part that I think was the neutral control again.
Yes.
Using Zero for more than just throwing mushrooms around, it was, you know, a good use of Super in the neutral.
It was an overall denial. Fantastic use of patience on the breaker.
And what's keeping it on to the pop-off?
Amazing defense, too.
Allow a very assertive, aggressive character,
especially when the tentacles are in play
and somehow managed to find his way out of it
pretty much every single time.
Right, we're gonna go for a quick break
because we want these matches to continue
when we come back to XKO at EVO 2026.
Returns with it, see in a bit.
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Hi, everyone.
But a brilliant start.
As we've already done a few matches in the winner's side,
but now it is time for us to take a look at the bracket
as we start our losers' bracket matches.
So we are in elimination territory, my friend.
Glad to say.
Yeah, it's gonna be Noka versus Poker,
which is a run back as they did play earlier
on in the tournament and it was Poker who sent Noka
to the losers' bracket.
I'm going to quiz this here five times faster.
The most exciting thing about this next matchup is the Territories.
It's going to be France versus Japan.
I know for sure we have French players in attendance.
They came out in full force for this tournament,
not just that, the Riot French team as well.
The passion that France has for this game is absolutely wonderful to see.
And Japan, the game also embraced by Japan.
They do themselves like to compete together.
So, I mean, depending on which one you're a fan of,
of it. It's country versus country, community versus community. The wonderful thing is, we
just get to sit here and enjoy it. Yeah, we're going to take a look at the victory path and
see what Noka's journey was like going through this tournament so far. As you just said before,
representing France, quite a back and forth time as we moved through. So it's going to
be two zeros here and there, losing to poker, and then all the way up right until that
final match with Blazzie. Oh my word. I know a lot of us remember that. It came down to
the final moment. Noka hit that final level three and the hands together like please let
this do enough and it did, which did get Noka into the final.
Shout out to Noka with the UFA t-shirt as well.
Oh, how?
Red Crossed.
No, it's got to be done, but yeah. A fantastic player overall. Really aggressive. Day one
by Enthusiast. I'll be seeing by here. No doubts as well. As you can see in the
The journey, though, fell in round two pools to Poker, so there was a significant amount
of matches to get through to actually make it into top eight.
The scary thing about the tournament of this size is, if you get knocked in to losers earlier,
oh my god, you have so many matches to get through.
However, as you can see here from Poker, the journey being of the takeout of the
likes of Ventus, Noka, Leppen 2-1, and then fell to Toshi and Haru, and then
was able to beat Zayn to get that top eight, and that was a comfortable victory.
But it was wholesome to see the match of poker versus the Twins, because they grind together, they play together, and even though the Twins normally very likely to just immediately pop off, whenever they feel that there was a lot of respect being shown, very reserved, wouldn't it?
Yeah, exactly, absolutely. I want to say as well, from a personal note, anyone who's been following this game will have known that there are overall dominant regions to be seen.
You've got North America. You've got Japan has a number of high level players and Europe is also very powerful
But within Europe France, you know, if we're talking individual communities
I feel like Japan France and North America are the three premiere
Scenes that we see top level players kind of emerging from in this game. That's not to say that's you know
The only good place there are definitely a large number of players everywhere else as well
But if we're talking concentrated players versus region, you know Japan France North America
And those are the regions that are represented in this Top 8, and I think that is perfectly fitting.
It's hard to argue the fact, because when even you look at the first major event this year for Europe,
it was Vianality 2026, that Top 8 was literally all-franked. So it's kind of hard to question that.
I feel like the fifth ones have come out. This is Loser's bracket, folks. Unfortunately,
one of these players is going home, but the other continues the rampage. Let's go.
I want to say as well, every single win you get at this point gets you one step
closest to lion share of that one hundred and thirty five thousand dollar prize
balls so you're playing for a bit more than just a Evo wins here my friends
dollar dollar
immediately significant ending in the corner there with Ari if you follow this
game you've seen this one's was twice limits track it's up the frame kill the
tag they rolled as you could react to every other shit the interruption
I only managed to hit the tag character though, but come on grab up Ari, damage to start.
Okay, I'll have this choice, just trying to provide the space, but I'm about too much.
No, could be quite reserved already, but I managed to get a good hit here.
Ooh, the high upgrade.
Oh, Ari, sorry, sorry, I said so much damage, it's moving!
So tempting to hit them on the way down, but they can't use jump attacks,
you could have fooled them for that trap and then done.
Lovely patience there from Loka, the tag comes into Echo, limits strike, activate.
Here comes the mix.
It's not the parry and the jump scene!
The perfect answer to escape!
All by the assist however, the aggressive...
Why?
She just sprints towards you, does that function?
That worked!
Okay, that is such a perfect analogy for the way that poker likes to play in this game.
You know, like when it was on defense, very animated, you know,
we see all those situations where poker's fine and might hold that thought.
Oh no, couldn't get the pick up!
That is the hard bit of the reaction to the break.
Unfortunately, missed the combo, don't believe that that is because we pick up.
regardless, I can't quite find it.
Too unfortunate.
Poker is trying to just force buttons on Defendant Smoker.
These point blanks just running down with Akali,
trying to get those close range ends.
He's going to take a round for it.
It's not fair enough. It hasn't won in quite a while.
I can barely see the health bar.
SA5 is technically alive, but I mean, this...
Okay, it's not impossible, but ooh!
Alright, well that's the way of sliding off.
That's one.
Yeah, you were at Chipkill territory here, but...
Very much, Lokas still alive. It was like speaking too soon.
Oh, unfortunately not. I spoke if you were able to take the round.
I kind of respect the press there because anything into a special move was likely to give you a lot of health.
You had to try something to fight back.
Interesting trade there. Okay, health break is straight into super activation.
So now I'm going to get the corner on this.
It helps damage break too.
Break bonus has happened because you've already got a break, so who cares about that?
Limit strike, what is it?
It takes us down the roll a little bit, below.
I feel like poker, very likely to do anything but block.
We still have some pressure, but you play to a limit strike.
The whole set-ups in general.
A lot of back-back-on-waker, a lot of rolls.
You sit there and block.
Quite different games, good luck.
Ooh, avoided the whole thing with the handshake to keep safe.
You know, with how much pressure has been on both ends,
it's been quite a long time before someone finally gets open up.
What was that, like, 15 seconds or something?
Oh no, the break!
Now get close, they don't know, just on the off-chart, there are some new viewers here.
If you want that break, you punish it.
They bounce, you kill them, and they lose the meter. A huge part of the game.
That's why it'd be quite a double-edged sword, right?
The break exists to save you in desperate situations, but if you're opponent retains it,
it's almost as if you were better off not doing it to begin with.
The nature of freestyle and two-times assist, anything that leaves your tag character on the screen for long
it gives you more time to react to it and bait that break.
Oh wow, that great catch.
Akali, okay, yeah, they're chased down, they're very easy.
Ooh, I love that movement from Koko, just to get underneath this.
You see that Noca's jumping forward? It's not always about anti-airing.
Making her so where they land is just no good for them, especially when you've got the movement speed of Akali.
I mean, she's running at the speed of light.
Push block, interrupt, but again, cannot over-commit.
I've got much of faith to try and catch back that character when the point is right there.
But I love what Noca did. Noca- oh, hang on, hold that thought again.
Easy as you were to drop.
Oh, that does so much damage by itself.
Poker taking game number one.
And even at the end there, you know,
he looked like he was kind of fully committing
when hitting the assist,
but right as you would go to with punish,
went for like a fake forward, but Poker...
Poker has had this fantastic dynamic
of looking like he is just...
All by itself, just strapped inpatient,
but then suddenly out of nowhere,
a hard call out, you know, the bait on the break.
Poker was sitting there for quite a long time,
just waiting for it, you know, just straight up.
and was still confident it was going to work out, but was accurate.
Stressful times for these two players.
Just to remind them, Loser's Bracket.
Whoever wins this moves on into the joint fifth territory,
but sadly whoever loses this is out of the tournament.
It has been a hell of a run.
I can't stress enough, even getting top eight in this tournament is ridiculous.
I guess we'll leave it at that.
Hey, to be honest, when you add the riot contributions to the prize pool,
Evo's as well, for seven plays, it's $3,650.
That's not bad for a weekend of work in Las Vegas, but you want to go further off.
It's not about the money to the players. I'm sure it helps. Don't get me wrong.
But if you're in top 8, you want to win.
But she feels like she'll come and tell you there's the newcomers.
Here we go. Game number 2.
Oh wait, I'm alive.
Oh, the...
Unfortunately, because Akali was there, she was the target
and took the hit so you get punished anyway.
Yeah, Noka went for that super, but the projectile invincibility on it, but, like Hedgip just said, Akali just took it.
Point blank!
Ooh, the whiff wrap! I love that hatch!
Yeah, Ekko was not close enough to get that punish in time, so the hatch taken by was still point blank, that was clean.
Oh, huge poker going for the commitment!
And that has been a result of the character gone by no longer here.
That said, should you want to spend it, Yuri is available for Noka.
Alright, clear. At the moment, we're holding onto those resources. We're gonna hold this user later.
Okay, more freedom to escape. Oh, misses the anti-air is now!
It gets punished! Now, Fury. Oh, never mind. I was gonna talk about taking less damage.
Who gets the total? I've never turned one. Couldn't get picked up, though.
I'm seeing if you hit something. Oh, there's two precious stuff before the rock is thrown!
Okay, I mean, you probably survived this with a remnants of Fury, but it is gone.
Actually, wait, is it? Wait, actually, you might still be gone.
Here it is. Super.
Oh, the TG? Okay, no, you actually lived. You lived.
Still getting the guarantee, though. TG's damage.
I don't think K. Alright, there we go. Finds the hit.
Oka. No!
The existence of G-
Yeah! That's so scary!
Do you push? Do you hesitate?
Unfortunately, Voloka...
No choice was able to be made there, as Kogor is now on match point.
Voloka needs to make something happen.
Okay, there are any French fans in the crowd, it'll be now to time!
Love our identity!
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Okay, wow, I actually didn't get there in range!
I'm shooting for Loka, I'm going to hit 5.
Wow, punished hard with that assist calling.
Oh no, and it results in Echo!
That's like the worst case scenario, you resist it!
Results in nothing, takes months of damage,
and then right as your assist is stopped getting hit,
the point character takes it!
And now Noka in a bad position here, the Shroud, here's the Shroud.
Ooh, ooh, hello! Wait, hang on, what's the pick up?
No, there isn't.
Oh, we're going for the command brah! Because the Shroud is on screen!
Poker going into the bag of tricks, we're digging quite deep.
It's a move that we rarely see a weekend to be true to.
Okay, okay.
Wait, oh, this hurts. Akali is a low health character,
so this actually might be enough just to get rid of her outright.
Yeah, that is enough.
Oh, when you take Fury damage, plus a low health, all of the carnage, that's what you get.
Wasn't a particularly long combo either, so there's plenty of this Fury left.
Maybe one of that spankles if you want it, just take the extra damage, gets caught,
but never mind, no combo if we had it here.
The side-square!
Okay!
Right, right!
Poker!
Opened up as Poker has the opportunity!
What are we gonna get from this?
Limit strike!
The low!
No, did not get it!
Yeah, but expecting the break perhaps.
But the thing is there's no guarantee that both will want to pop it in this.
No, the bait!
Okay, you don't have a super assist available.
Ah, what is the part here?
Guess the game scenario, I would say.
Okay, what's the setup if you guess wrong, it's over.
Ah, no tech!
Ah, we found it!
But no fury! Still no fury!
Oh my God, the tech!
I'm gonna die! I can't believe it!
Poker managed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat!
Poker, holding onto that break for dear life, had Poker desperately tried to play around it!
I am absolutely shocked that in those scenarios, Poker was just refusing to go for it.
He was stopping Nogat's entire offense.
Thankfully, that Super Assistant can't break that one.
Lippie's got to face the wake-up.
There's the break! Finally, that beat against Spen!
I know if we've gone to the next round, but my brain is so struggling to process what we just saw there.
The air tech's the reversal!
Okay, talked about swift change in the length of it.
We are missing quite a few instances here,
but at least Funoka is resulting in damage dealt.
As long as you're not taking any damage,
you care just doing the league,
and that's gonna be the Akali dead.
This was looking so bad Funoka,
and this turnaround is legendary.
Now, it was gonna be a 2-0.
It was looking like the cleanest 2-0, but no.
Funoka bringing it back, but let's not count
how Funoka, who goes for a risky wake up attack,
And I feel like that really was the main difference here.
I think when Noka can get those knocked out,
get those setups on deck and is ready to punish
the defensive choice that Poker makes,
puts you in so much of a better spot
because Poker does not want to just sit there and block.
Poker wants to be in the driver's seat,
wants to be controlling the pace of the match,
but was able to put a stop to it there was no doubt.
We're going to a game three.
Wow, and again, on the cusp of it
looking like a dominant 2-0, not meant to be.
And match three, here we go.
Someone's getting eliminated
someone's moving on right first blood
scored by the lone survivor of the French community in this tournament
huge hit that assist climbing on the Ari has been pivotal for Pogger
you can see that the synergy between this team and how the assists work
especially for Akali for the Ari's assists are so good for Akali
oh but a full catch the second we saw that handshake you know there's gonna
be some kind of advanced the counter assist essentially that charge there from Ari.
All right pressure there from Ekko. A lot of jump back attempts, the interruption no mix up for
you my friend. Actually if I leave that should be a dead Ekko. I would expect you to go in for
Vi's solo here. There will be some super hits available. You are the very easy to have that
Ekko projectile which is so good on the back end. Kept it meaningless too so you're keeping
plenty of summa to take it to this Vi, but I mean I definitely get saved the Vi is
kind of the star character for Nogum, but Nogum has got those, the crispy execution of these difficult Vi parts, definitely not a character for the fake height when it comes to the execution, but Nogum has a thing or two, a full pick up though, and we're actually going coast to coast, the port of Kari on Kali, quite disgusting.
This is right, set up, and pressure, all level three it connects, okay, Koko.
I mean, you can't take the super meter, wiggle into the next round, if you find an opportunity
to use it, go for it, this is gonna choke.
Oh, that didn't knock Pete out, just didn't knock out, wait a minute, surviving that
way, Yuri.
No, talk about Yuri, we're not gonna matter, that level three is gonna shut down any
chance.
He poked out the meter available.
Come on!
Moka saying you want to hit me with level 3, fair enough but I've got one too buddy!
Alright here we go, match point again but let's not count out Moka.
Tommy is being powered up, second place, anything is possible to make.
The last minute, the hesitation there, the delay, argh!
Yeah, okay just taking the Akali, making sure the freestyle option is going to be gone.
Right, right, right, yes indeed, the reversal.
Oh, the puncher there, a bit of a weird side twitch there.
Remersal comes out, but you're still not safe.
More to use the break on play now with Poker.
Ow, wait a minute, this is a...
I've a lot of damage.
Yeah, I'm going for a little bit of striking to setup.
And again, Poker!
I think every time Poker has been on the receiving end of that setup,
has done anything but block.
But again, even blocking yourself isn't exactly a safe option.
It's a character with, you know, standing overhead,
that quite potential.
So when the clone is ready, but it's not always the same options.
Either way, you're not going to work out for Poker in that instance, ok there's the super assist at the very least.
We'll connect with Poker, give her an opportunity now, get the side to it as well.
Here we go, the classic re-set-up.
Yeah, punish is in this time, correct timing.
But it's one of those situations where if you get the roll punished there really is no time to make it a full combo.
Sometimes you'll be content to take that damage just to escape the corner.
Oh, huge dash punch.
Oh, the Hellbreaker! It's a handshake!
Okay!
Ok, they're still here.
Wait, that was such a false choice for Poker.
Who is now approaching the theory, but the question is, will Poker look tact-fated?
Ok.
Do you want to save?
Ok, no!
The delay on deciding whether to break or not, Poker just immediately goes to the level 3.
Which means that Poker now on the back foot again, but...
Do you have access to theory?
But the same can be said for both players.
It's getting scary now.
But Ari with no meter on the back of that level 3,
has very few ways to deny the breaker should have hit Connect.
next. Especially now the Super Assistant. Oh, the Fury! And the Counter Fury! We're still alive! But for how long?
You can't be chipped out of Fury, you have to be hit! And you will be hit on the punished retreating guard!
Poker finding the magic moment in the final instances to take that set. GG's.
Yeah, that was one hell of a match.
And the poke of that tournament life continues.
You have the fury activation to combo off of that, though.
Can we talk about that?
That was insane, Ayla.
The knowledge.
It's one of the many uses of fury that you don't see in every single match.
You can pop fury, not just offensively,
but as a means to extend a combo when there is literally no other option.
option. Got to give our shout outs though for Noka being able to make it into top 8. I'm sure
did the entire French and EU community proud by making it this far. That will be a sizable amount
of money for 7th and we'll be seeing you at the next tournament. Hey, maybe a little bit of bias
talking but you know we're obviously happy to see Europe make top 8 at Evo. It's always great
and I think it really it's healthy for the game for there to be multiple competitive regions.
You know we're saying before the match whether it's Japan, North America, Europe, just all
and it'll happen to see it work out, you know, big, big fans of NOKA on the desk here, no doubt this is
far from the last we'll be seeing. Check it out, these readways there presented by PlayStation
tournaments, that second game, that's only the one that we all want to really look at,
Catholic replays, because you look at it and think, what the hell just happened?
So many instances, I think, yeah, it was here. It's just over and over, you're trying to
Yeah, this was it.
Still trying to bait even there, they get the pro-tank.
And finally, at one last, it's when that super assist comes out.
Look at the relief in Naked's way from that.
I got a little bit of a safe-sync.
That was the turning point of the set as well, though.
You know, that was absolutely where it all came down to.
And there, right, the final Wemmer's Fury burst
and Humble for the throw
forces the responding Fury defensively from low gaming.
That was just a masterclass of Fury activity.
And then punishing the retreating guard.
That was such a good option.
Such a beautiful fallout.
And it's a picture itself.
The rest is history.
I'll say it in the victory.
I don't know who in production is doing the replays, but well done.
You're getting the moments we need to see.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, fantastic.
That's only three matches down.
We have so many more left to go here.
EVO 2026.
And again, just how, how...
I won't just reiterate how fortunate I feel to be able to call these games.
This is a massive form for the game.
I'm having a great time.
I'm really happy to enjoy it.
How about this crowd here?
you enjoy yourselves final round one match ready to go global versus Akari
global which is North America's sweetheart you know love it yeah beloved
global fantastic player all in all had some just phenomenal showings overall
across various tournaments of the year you know Frosty Faustings again was
another one to really see this player is made up and it's just gone from
strength to strength ever since there to here and the opponent is Makari who is
quite the name and competitive 2xKO reigning EVO Japan champion all-time
just just EVO champion general right for video games and is no stranger to this
level competition so as we take a look at the victory path presented by white
Claw Serds the journey is for you the latest victory Glovo had to get into
this top 8, defeating Wawa 2-0.
So you know, we'll be feeling really good about that one.
And I feel like we'll be forever confident,
no matter the opponent.
I mean, 2-0 versus Turtle, 2-0 versus Equine,
dropping two games down to super noon,
but again, we're still in this bracket.
So we are still looking to potentially see
some runbacks here in this bracket.
Facing off is gonna be Perkari, who again had a...
I mean, not the genu-ed of expected to see you,
Going in as the number one seed in this tournament,
Paulineau has just been, from strength to strength,
losing to the Twins in the top 48,
but then 2-0 for K-7 Choff, 2-1 versus Leffen,
2-1 versus Jake and Snakey, 2-1 versus Jiller in France.
I mean, man, I mean, the list goes on.
Fantastic job.
I cannot wait to see this match.
Yes, it's a deal.
There are so many people out there.
Let's remind everyone,
Hikari went into this tournament as number one seed.
If you want to look at your own fantasy bracket,
you can see at the bottom,
it looks like the people definitely favor Hikari.
That's a fat 90%.
You can follow along yourself.
Just go to upsets.ggford.com slash evo 2026.
This will be going on throughout these tournaments,
not just 2X.
Thank you AT&T.
The evo fantasy pick, of course presented by AT&T,
but pretty one-sided predictions.
The people definitely believe that Hikari has this, but I mean we're hearing it.
Globo does have some supporters here.
Yeah, I mean the people online vote Hikari.
Crowd, what do you think?
What about Globo?
Yeah, that sounds a lot more than 9% to me.
I'll tell you what.
We just picked the live crowd and tried to kiss each other.
I think that's a good idea.
Ah, live crowd.
We love them.
OK, but unfortunately, not to be a broken record,
But Loser's bracket, one of these superstar players must go home.
I have to say, if Hikari does not make it into that top four,
I would consider that quite the upset here at EVO 2026.
However, Globo, starting off from the limit strike,
the flush room, and the potential for even more in the low watcher toes.
One thing that's cool about Globo though is just the team choice.
Still rocking the Yasuo, Yasuo team up.
A lot of this new words change of uses here and there over time the game
But really has just believed in the absolute team. That's a good reason
You're a very successful player top level player by every metric to x the summer. It is funky little compact
It's ever I go get their mail
Okay, just just after the flow vote
We saw a tremendous amount of like mid-screen mushroom
Superhuman, Superhuman, Superhuman.
Girl, a defense, and again, but we see the same big clip.
Not a huge amount of hits done on that initial hit,
so I was able to get the retreating guard, even though he got clipped anyway.
Watching out for those airborne buttons!
A bit of bonus damage from that store knockdown.
That's more important than all Akali taking a lot of damage to the back end.
Oh wow, that's why we're seeing the tag.
You're forced to block while your tag partner is just eating dirt.
Oh wow!
Nice catch.
That should be a dead character for sure.
Hard tag, break it up, let's copy it now, right?
I mean, I'm still getting the right strike in, so you spend the meter and then build a little bit more.
Best case scenario for Globo.
Oh, but, okay.
Oh, Globo, did you go for the break?
No, I respect it.
One of the main things about most kind of breaks, the lovely lefty ground, by the way,
instant breaks in situations like that, the number one thing it does besides keeping you alive,
it prices, but the opponent only takes away any momentum in the game.
I don't quite know if I was in a huge risk of losing a character there, that's maybe,
yeah, have just been done to preserve them in.
The downside is, you go into the next round, and the presidents are on fire, if they are.
Up and so mad, barred all the back.
It's a present, you haven't bought a present, you're giving it.
Who's giving the present idiot? Me, on fire.
I don't think so.
Alright.
Oh!
flash in the air. I mean, this neutral, no one really wants to have the over-commit,
but I mean, there's 80 seconds on the clock, what's the rush? Oh, okay, there it is, behind you!
I love the way that Globo is able to slow things down here, though.
Whoa, okay, dash is through. I mean, that's the kind of technique this character
for quite a long time. It just looks like Globo's in the zone.
I mean, Hikari, Hikari wants to get the ball rolling.
Right, this is a team that really wants to get in there and do some craziness,
but logo it's just a bit of a neutral brick or something.
Well, it's very clear that Hikari does want to get in there and start making things,
but it's not forcing the situation, it's not getting impatient.
I feel like getting impatient versus Yasuo and Timo,
that's how you're walking into Yasuo and Normal's,
Timo's can start building up the mushrooms and every time you get hit,
it's going to be putting those badges for him too.
So, number one thing you've got to do, though,
is ensure that when you finally land that hit,
your combos and your pressure and your mix-ups are tight.
You work so hard to get in on this team,
You have to make it count, and it looks like Hikari does just that.
I like how Hikari doesn't get impatient all the way in.
It has clearly passed the fight as a neutral present for Hikari.
Time is on this side, a lot of life, only 30 seconds left to go in the round, but no reason to go in as Hikari.
Yeah, I like that. Put the shroud down neutral, getting access to those enhanced specials.
Yeah, that sounds Hikari. Oh, the parry as well.
Harry as well, yeah, as soon as you get guaranteed advantage, running straight in from full screen and it results in a hit.
There's no way on this earth that Globo's gonna pop Giri here.
You've only got like 13 seconds left to go.
You're physically not gonna have time to make your comeback, so hold on to the break.
Hold the back that looked this round very likely not gonna go my way.
Using the drop confirms it, but at least now, in round three, our resources are looking much better.
Yeah, it was smart to hold on to the break there.
Again, if you have to do the cut in games, you know, if one thing went differently, have you not seen that early break through Globo round one, with the Yasuo in the reserve, perhaps?
But hey, you've got to move on. At least going into round three, both players have a break ready to go from the start.
Ooh, stress the parry though, to Sakari. Instant Granger, we're not playing games. The air to air throw, there's that super.
Another break, and that's just, I don't want to be in the corner. I know what that final hit's going to do, I don't want to deal with it.
Ooh, okay. That must have been like the last active frame of the dart there.
A bit of a cheaty poison as well. Oh hello, Hakari here.
Something that Hakari loves to do. That airborne control with the airborne projectiles, whether
it's Ari, whether it's Kunai, and then always be ready to confirm when they hit.
Oh, massive weight to attack!
No, punish. Ah, the O.T. characters that got hit there was the character on the
back line and that's not going to stop you from getting punished. Timo now left on his own.
There is some super assist available and the cooldown is finished.
But this is going to be a scary situation because now Timo
stuck by himself. You realistically have no reason to push forward. There's a lot of
mobility on the side of Akali and Ari so Timo's going to have to work really hard to get in.
So I'll find a hit however and see what we get from this.
All the badges are ready now. We've got the mushroom badge, we've got the tar badge.
I mean that's probably enough!
I tell you what, of all the level 3's in this game, we see so much about level 1 the big mushroom.
You'll be forgiven for forgetting what that level 3 looks like sometimes.
I'll build more than worry.
It's Teemo!
Taking out that character was a really big deal because now it's level 11.
So more of a 1v1.
I know that you can cool in assists and stuff like that, but you're losing the hatching tag,
and that's such a big deal.
I mean Teemo is well equipped to make the solo.
I mean, Teemo is well equipped to make the solo comeback. The problem is he doesn't have the health to make many mistakes.
And that's the issue. Two meters from the side of the car, Fury to go as well.
We're definitely quite evenly matched, even though GloMo is down on Feetah. It's not just about landing one hit though for GloMo at least.
It's going to jam you. There's one Fury first, and there it goes.
Now that Fury's activated, you have to fight in a galley that is much faster, much higher damage.
And you're Teemo! Don't get hit, mate! Okay, the Super Sister completely mow the lawn and clear the field.
Okay, Globo, man, just to find it!
Okay, even if this combo doesn't kill, it's taking time!
Six seconds left to record!
I think Globo takes it.
Three, two, is it going to be helped?
Or the timeout?
It's the timeout!
What a first game on our hands between Globo and Akari!
That was hard earned.
And only one left!
You don't even see that the fury
pops the combo timer long enough to just go into the timeout.
That would have extended a little bit.
I actually think there was a path that Globo was going for.
that could have got the KO too. Just if the time led it finished, but Globo played that so well.
Again, it comes down to that 1v1, right? It's that ultimate, you know,
immovable object meets unstoppable force dynamic, right? Akali just wants to use that lightning fast
movement speed. The crazy mix of potential to get into crazy things. Teemo built so well at
just building the space. And when it comes down to that 1v1, it really is anyone's game,
but in that case, it went to Globo, now 1-0 in the lead. Start up with a really comfortable
a really well played game, round number one I should say, game number one.
Now, try and Globo, keep it going.
It's the two different dynamics of 2xKO, ultimately.
You can have these quite fast matches, but if it's a game that goes down to the last moment in every round,
the reason it's getting spent, it takes a while.
You've got to be focused all the way through.
Wonderful start here for Globo and Carly.
Ooh, ready, almost KO.
But, that'll be picked up, takes damage while we have that situation,
situation and that pressure begins. What's it going to be? Delay's running. In and overhead.
Catches the assist but there will be the grab ultimately here but with no tag available
if there was a combo you still can't use it. Oh wow! Wow! Okay, Hikari just sent away.
He's gone. Oh but the grab reset. Okay, Hikari taking out the Yasuo. There comes
the team. I honestly I feel like the character that Skoglar looks supremely top-to-one even in this kind of solo situation.
I think I've got a good position to bring it back anyway. Wello. Yeah, I love that dynamic.
He's the projectile super, kind of moving upwards to make it with
you do parry the assist and you're the full list of full screen depending on character. Even
finding a punish is difficult. I guess the opponent says that you've forced them on that
four second cooldown but you don't get punished who cares jump back again oh no
the cari swing it there a globo finds the hit
get him what you doing the corner wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute
hang on a minute oh no I can't I'll beat that doesn't it keep looking at these
situations are going okay what's the setup gonna be the setup is just
your demise you are in my oh my word with the round the team who come back is
real if we see a 2-0 in this matchup oh my goodness gracious I mean that will be
mr. momentum is lobo you gotta be feeling pretty good it I mean look I'm
gonna be far ahead of Kari and after let's out in the space for a good
reason but match point down you gotta make something happen here there's not
much time left
fantastic being there for blobo has a growth for error should you mention
uncomfortable neutral being established by bobo perfectly playing around how a
curry's gonna try to pass the space a curry isn't being patient I'm a mid with
every individual projectiles one less fit of damage you can take
Leave it in, now we have the Badge on deck, the Mushrooms as well.
Like Lovre isn't even playing at full power right now with his Teemo.
Oh, huge, yeah. You have to break him into his Akari.
And if you post break, you put them in the corner.
This really is where you kind of want to keep Teemo.
More screen space for this annoying Karik that has to work with the benefit of him.
But even on his Akari, Akari is trying to swing these airborne headings,
trying to look for some kind of air to air.
But just Lovre is being so patient.
And careful, that's the big thing.
A lot of care coming out from Blobo, not to overcommit in a 3-7 bad situation.
Keep that team going for time.
I mean, we're quite even here, but in a sec, Blobo has the room to work with.
Alright, there was a push to support the jump back.
This is a wonderful opportunity for Heikari.
We're going to set up the beat to roll,
and as it was turned into a full combo thanks to the tag being available, there's the super.
That is really nice damage, and actually,
And the car leaves, we have a possible to do the drop with our hands.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Optimized parts, the carry manages to get a serious, serious advantage here,
taking up the Asteroid, but I mean, I say that as if this Teemo hasn't been
doing work by himself.
This Teemo has been the MVP of this match without question.
You know, actually, dare I say that I felt maybe even the time
is against Globo here, but it's been in Globo's advantage for so long,
but how does Teemo take out two practically full health characters
in less than 20 seconds?
I don't think it's possible with every second that counts down, your chance is going to count even more
I feel like we actually saw an exact repeat of this position in round 2 of Game 1
So I feel like we're kind of watching a bit of a rerun here
Because Hakari can comfortably take that final sequence
Okay, the match point continues but Hakari, this is that chance to stabilize
Alright, now we're getting the logo, the logo chance to come in through.
But, the Hikari is taking very little damage at the moment.
There's no rush to force your way in.
Well, this is a minefield of just stuff everywhere.
But if we're not getting hit by it, then do it.
Hey, I mean, it ended up working out as the Hikari's favourite in the last room, right?
As we've got calls that kind of 30-second mark with them.
Again, your Teemo's combos there, they're quite long.
He does actually need some time on the clock to work with.
That was the Hikari special, by the way. Can't you notice that?
OOOH! But you weren't able to turn it into a top lane because R.E. had been hit and not that one play, or would throw it from Yasuo.
Oh, wow!
That's an easy...
As you know that cut, that mag dash got punished.
The jump, Yasuo...
It kinda looked like Globo tried to confirm into that side, to where the three breaks just immediately break and you still have the corner.
Maybe I'm looking too far into that.
I mean, overall, it's looked really difficult for everyone to get this kill.
So there's so many ways to hit, it's not really a position to always do something with that.
And it's Teemo, so I'm going to guess you're dead there.
Okay, goodbye, going for a ride.
The last ride.
Goodbye Teemo and Amakaria, life bar away from tying things up.
Now it's going to be on the Yasuo.
Ooh, that is a whip though, hang on!
You nailed this combo.
I'd say what must have been seeing absolute magic happen to the Teemo.
The Yasuo's kind of just been along for the ride,
been more like an assist machine than anything else.
This is your opportunity to shine.
Prove your worth, Yappolo!
Globo, can you do it?
Hey, with six meters to spend, that's pretty super assist.
Oh my god, you're looking at the cards!
Yeah.
And there's no break for the side of Akari,
so this is all gonna be guaranteed.
What do we get next?
Limit strike, the Sesa, useful throw tech
that keeps you in the fight.
Locked off that throw tech as well.
You cannot get hit by anything else.
You know that's gonna be a level three.
Some kind of confirmed...
Oh, you got me, Sam!
Hikari got to the other side from that, that's crazy!
That again! Back to back!
Oh no!
Lobo!
I mean, 10 seconds on the clock, you don't die to this combo, but you need that time!
The jury starts you alive!
It keeps you alive and still with the life lead!
And then even if Hikari gets it, I mean, who's in the lead here?
Oh, now it's definitely Hikari! Now it's definitely Hikari!
Oh my word! What is with Hikari and late stage matches,
where the time is becoming important?
Do you even remember, Hikari's match to get into Top 8 against JT the Snakey was tied out by Magic Pixel?
Look, you could barely see the difference.
And Hikari just using the time as a weapon in this series.
I'll tell you why, because Hikari, maybe an explosive player, may have unbelievable offense when the occasion comes for it.
Not always, if you are against these defensive teams and they are putting stuff all over the screen and they're trying to just cause trouble.
You don't have to go in, just because you don't have the range advantage.
You can just sit pretty, you can let these things happen,
you can get rid of the obstacles as and when you can, but you find your moment.
If that moment takes 20 seconds to land, so be it.
If you're healthy all the way and you finally land a hit and it's time out territory,
all of a sudden, you're in the advantage.
This is going to be our final match of round one losers here in this top eight.
Only one game left to go.
Kari starts up great this time.
Okay, immediately playing as Teemo in the corner.
The earlier you kill Teemo, the better at the end of the day.
Hakari doing half of that work, the immediate tag out there now,
and the cross-up forces the break for the reactions to punish,
and unfortunately, Teemo gets brought in afterwards,
so that is a dead main character right there.
Nope, never mind. What was I talking about?
I feel like there was a path there to get it, but...
Me again, Hakari had a massive lead.
Your go limit strike built up more resources, regardless.
I ain't gonna lie, when I see a lesson half-wived Teemo, I just assume you're dead.
I think it's safe to assume the end.
He would go there, but there's no problem with H-Page.
It's a way that could be crumbled as Teemo's still like regenerating that grey light because it's important, however, Hikari very much still...
Oh! Doing what he wants here in this match.
This has been a perfect way for that first round of games for each of you in Hikari's shoes.
You've spent all of the other matches just having to play so reserved, so patient,
Kind of scoring first blood immediately in this game and just making it endless!
Oh, without that full screen handshake tag!
To whip on his Timo there, that was just total screen control and now Hakari goes to match point.
Globo started to set so well, but Hakari really has found his groove.
Now it's on Globo to adjust, but will we see it?
Yeah, okay, just using the super, just clear out the Teemo neutral.
Anything you can do to pass this, the clubs of the screen give you so much more to work on.
I mean, it's like R is in the struggle to build the meter again either, right? Exactly.
Ooh, hello!
I like how Keikari has been doing that as usual.
When you can tell you've got the space to do it, just setting up the shroud in the neutral.
Just setting the shroud like that, there's quite a lot of recovery,
but if you're very confident that the opponent is not going to be going in right as you go for it,
at least an advantage. Oh, hello, there's the load. You'll notice how often Hakari is spending,
like, in that neutral space, absolute full screen, or maybe just shy of it, because you're not just
looking at Timo, you're looking at assist Yasuo. You've always got that distance in your head.
Try and stay just on the outside of it. Whiffs get punished. Okay, okay, this is it. What you
want for Globo. Staying in place. Ooh, tries to hop back. Good block on the multi-hitting,
jump in oh and yeah get out of my airspace there's Yasuo and still Atari
these pushboxes are crucial but the parry globo still in this match still in
it the mental state is that we might not have a decent lead here
We follow Popo's, Popo's.
And then we pan back in. Wait, hang on a minute.
Oh, God, that was so bad.
Wait, oh, give us another one mate!
Jumping the meters for good reason, goodbye Ari.
What a wonderful path that was.
And the catch as well, Akari taking big damage.
The much like the positions that Globo was in those previous two games,
So low down on life. It's unlikely we're gonna see a fury. No doubt that will be saved the next round.
Oh, huge! Okay, we're going the distance for another time! Evo, game three final round!
We can obviously hear a lot of Globo fans in the crowd. I'm sure they'd love nothing more than to see
the magic story happen for Hakari. So let's go Globo, chance to hit, but you're fighting against
an EVO champion, the pedigree of Ikari. If anyone can do it in this situation, surely it's
going to be him. Hey Akali Ari, we see it everywhere and it's for good reason because
a certain player put it on the map, and you're looking at him. But even this first round,
I mean, no one is, no one is, is fresh to go in. Okay, yeah, trying to match the
screen clear with the guards. That's the benefit of team I've been there was kind
of like maneuver while shooting them. Your face off gets just projected on super,
it's a good position. It's been a long time in this round and I feel like we're
on the verge of almost seeing the first game to never end.
There has been no significant hits just yet.
That is the first time, and even then, too far away to capitalise.
And that was on the back of like a program rolling attack for Teemo as well.
That block was absurd!
This round is looking straight zero damage so far,
and there's only something that can play this round.
It's all neutral, and both players have it in space.
Oh! As a hand shake to see the opposite of the idea with,
this is masterful hatching right now.
My word, the game that you need to have to stop yourself
than just getting blown up in some of these exchanges.
Yeah, we're halfway through the round,
and characters are basically for health.
Not exactly, but you know what I mean.
There's not even a combo's worth of health on either side.
Practically dead to save on Vita as well.
We are truly evenly matched here, Evo.
Is this gonna be the healthiest time out, though, to man?
Oh my God!
Keep from coming!
And there's the break!
30 seconds on the clock,
and we're barely taking any damage!
The Lobo and Hikari straight up freestyling in this game.
It is all neutral and all freestyle, but Hikari finds a significant hit here.
The deep-wrenching Lobo, okay, can't see anything more from it.
My word, okay, Ken.
Lobo managed to, I just too obeyed, but, oh my, we're bibbied!
They haven't felt the help from the green box, but big for Hikari!
The break is still available!
Is this going to be the healthiest time out we've ever seen in this game?
Oh, no, I'm going for a big, big, big, big!
Oh!
Oh, wow, that is the confidence to know how much health you have left.
I cannot believe how little that was done in that round, because that was just two players
showcasing insane patience, aware of what risks they were up against, not wanting to
over-commit, one round left to go, what a set! The combination of how many
timeouts we saw in that series combined with how many rounds went up until
about 10 seconds on the clock. That might be one of, if not the longest match
of 2xKO at a tournament like this. That was unreal levels of patience from both
ends and a testament to the clutch factor of Hikari, the contentness to
sit there and just let you do your thing because when I find my moment that round is mine.
Incredible stuff. I mean what other words is there for it? Truly what you want to be seeing here in
Evo Topping, in particular for more of these three players, presented by PlayStation Tournament,
given them the big combo payout, not the first time we saw it, not the only time I should say,
and we saw that in that set. Bobo did have those massive damage confirms on deck.
The freestyle combos go wow. Yeah that was a true display of patience I think,
You really cannot ask for more of that.
Globo continues to be the player inside the hearts of American followers of this game everywhere.
I know fell short here, but overall can be very, very proud of this performance.
The frustration will be shown, no doubt, that that was just an unbelievable final round.
Look at how much help!
I said in my format, I can't believe it!
10 seconds on the clock and all the health bars would breathe.
When was the last time we saw anything like that?
That's why you know, when you've got a full three or four seconds and you can afford to do that, because you go,
there is such an almost non-existent chance to bring that life back.
And even the Kario, even with the bags at the end, still the handshake, the nod of approval, GGs is a Kario move.
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the next match is going to be
Bleed vs. Poker.
A winners finals awaits later on
for Sonic Fox and Inzem vs. Supernoo.
So it's a game to see who will
be able to get to the top of the
league.
So we're going to have a
game to see who will be able to
get to the top of the league
So it's a game to see will super new be able to get at least minimum second place or psych box and in Japan say something about that
We've got bleed versus poker and we've got the twins versus Akari in the run back. I tell you what these matches are
Juicy juicy. It's gonna be Fox in Zen versus super noon. You already know that's gonna be good
The losers matches were about to have both of them USA versus Japan
Damn
That she is is pretty cool
Pretty fitting as well though.
The bleed versus poker still too.
Relatively young players. I think they are our youngest players in the top 8 overall.
Correct. Already very experienced.
With how little you would have assumed they would have in the FGC, that time has been spent wisely.
Just grinding, playing, competing and especially in 2xKO.
These aren't regular faces in both regions, whether it's in Japan, whether it's in USA.
Okay, are we ready to go in? This is it. Okay. Wow. Okay. I love already the start
The leader is the kind of player who I've seen over and over again
We'll just go for a round start running straight at you in this in this match leads moving back and it's poker
That's just running them down. So we've got two players definitely wanted to get aggressive
But lead being a little bit more patient to getting rewarded for it
Oh, no
Wow, the counter hit on the wake up to caught pressing button trying to fight back with something
Besides where to keep you back into the corner, a character dead already, Ari, left to come
in, but you are having to fight Barry's healthy Echo Alli, and a lot of meat to play with
my title.
I'll miss it again, unfortunately.
You know, that was trying to bait a break or something, I'm not sure why you left
it serving.
From that distance, I would be surprised by, hey, they are the pros after all.
I'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt, I suppose.
Alright, that's a limit strike, there's the setup.
Ooh, just a raw wake-up! We are not playing any games, and then again, I guess, with the break available, you can play those kind of risks.
Okay, yeah, telling this guy to intercept it to a block string anyway, please, again, be careful, but, ah!
It gets clicked!
And now, Hoku's playing right back in the same situation again.
You know, meet her this time.
Wow! There we go!
Straight up, dive bomb!
Right, activate, but the tactical was there to continue the combo.
Why not go for a second? Oh, I find this! But it doesn't matter!
The final hit is landed regardless. Poker one round down, bleed.
In the driver's seat going into round two.
Oh, I love that round start too. Round one was just Poker running in.
Round two going for the S1 with the car.
Just that dive in covered by the ariasis.
Poker definitely wants to get the advantage as early as possible. Wow, that's it!
That's often as possible.
Very rare at this level, that technical will just connect clean like that at range, but it does cover like half the screen if you can't get it set up, and this is when you find the activation time.
Side-switch! So cheeky! But no! The over-commitment! Unleashed for it now as a Kali! Back in the game!
Gonna get a big... Yep, we'll hardly get from it.
Shroud, the roll, the fearlessness bleeds, just not afraid to pick these bold options
away.
Unfortunately for Poker as well, I feel like that path we do commonly see the shuriken
super into the Azuna drop, but was like a shred of super away from having that second
meter.
Still, this is going to matter too much, does take out the Echo now, allowee.
Definitely a character who seemed bleeder, a lot of confidence in overtime, but don't
make it work now.
Oh, nice parry.
Pushed one as well, on the double jump to make the overhead whiff insane!
Oh no, didn't get egged poker with quite a few combo drops, what execution error is this?
I mean, it staggers on these, it's landing right into another parry!
It's a lot worse than that though, Mustard, because look at where you are, you're back to the corner,
the level one is bent, the tannoy goes, and here we go!
Where we get extra damage, the pressure, for a letter...
OH GOD! The happy birthday! That was looking so bad my goodness!
Bleed even went for an air tech chase, but the throw tank was ready for it.
The fact that the Anya whiffed as well, it went for that assist called, Lee would have
acted in punishment.
Oh, speaking of which, the Fury Dashcancel to be able to punish the break, that was disgusting.
That was what he referred to as a try hard for the loophole.
Yes.
The Dashcancel out of Fury, just to fake that break, are you kidding me?
Hey man, that night is the type of sweaty plate you would expect.
Young man reactions, bro. Young man reactions.
If Fury is so scary for a number of reasons, being able to dash-catch him just about anything
has just a laundry list of applications. Being able to make breaks like that, it's really one of them.
Oh, wow. What a start. Leave game one on the board now against Poker.
Poker. Looking pretty good here in this first round. Turn around now.
That's right. This round will be low.
However, you go with the lane of guards from that way. Just becky, press a button, and you do.
The entire sequence resulting in Echo Garden 2 that was just all control from focus start to finish in here is allowing it.
Well, I was like such a long-distance crouching medium.
I mean, I know allowee's is probably our longest range, like post-traditional grounded button,
but I caught poker on the way in.
When kind of a prediction was believed it did work out.
I think I'm a technical, but at least a little bit of damage.
any little chunk of damage you can do here is going to be good against a colleague of that
helpful this fight is lacking i'm not going to matter too much
just tend to let this drop at the moment there's a lot of possible happy birthday that we saw moments
before that but just couldn't quite fight this oh i like that set up you see the frame kill
those intentional whipping of the normals to make that meaty tiny consistent
it's all in a pretty disgusting set up wow okay just slapping echo on one side and allow
How are we the other? Now, I guess we take those.
Take those and we push up, but punished all the same.
Really, really good round there from Popo.
Just a certain from start to finish.
Trained, but oh dear, turns out update.
If the happy birthday's for us, I can't be particularly punishing.
If not, I can't make all of the Popo's just completely captured
both opponents for the entire time.
Important time to break there, please.
oooohhh
Do that jump in everyday for a couple of times
I mean it
It's not uncommon to see it from our age
if that was a weird angle for it to connect
Alright, oh no wait
This is a Carly man
You know what's coming
Yes, that's so much damage
Oh ho ho ho ho
Oh Mr. Zunatrop
You just have to think it's probably gonna do it
Right, there was one time in this property
I guess, yeah, that's about 1% left off.
Oh, it gets off.
But this is totally trolling for folks right now.
This is much more of a turnaround than that first game.
A setup.
Okay, but the second time we've seen League go for that option.
A risky option indeed, but if it works.
The first time we saw it, at least at the breaks of the game,
in other cases, I think it's telling that League is so willing
They just made those decisions, but Poked is still ready to punish the break as well.
We are just traded play for play.
I mean, that's damned if you do damned if you know the situation.
You either allow yourself to get killed, or you just say screw it, I'm gonna risk it.
That's it.
I feel like a big adjustment here now, man, is that the round, or game one, is a round start situation.
It was constantly just round start running, round start, and get to something a lot more reserved, especially that final round.
Okay, maybe just slowing down a little bit maybe looking quite a few moments a little bit more
They're not afraid to be sold on late numbers, but that's not the first time we've seen a significant
violation or a counter in that situation. However, stun!
You need to break out the only thing that's too age no, and that's gonna be bad news.
The case of those crouching heavies, they might be fantastic anti-air as well, all the time they have a lot of recovery to them.
If you're against characters like Arya and Carly, they have that amazing kind of sweetness and coverage with a great your butt, but you need to get him to punish.
You can't be getting away with it, and that is not going to be the case. Poker taking out Echo here.
Poker did have to turn that into a two-touch Stario, though. We were about half a second away from the Carly being backed.
Oh! That would have turned into a combo off the grab, but look at this turn.
Oh, wow, that's it.
Yeah, we're gonna go into the Trident Crew, the Clash, the Tag Lord.
It's Akali, so please finish the job.
Thank you very much.
Just like that poker.
On the verge of eliminating Bleed, the four top four?
Roll in.
Side-twitch down, pressure from the lousy, that overhead as well.
We will turn that into a combo.
Yes, we will.
Now it's just going to use the tag more and there we go, the setup. It's time for the tentacles.
Just clicked by it and now the dirty stuff, the hard tag allowing Echo to continue to party.
That really is the crux of the setup though, right?
It's going to tentacles out, switch to Echo, setup and blowing and this is going to be mad.
Very hard.
Now Ari has been used here as a job done, but it's going to be Ari on her own.
around so we're not to be able to see no tag launch into Akali however much
Pichillion because damage she finishes the job with. I mean I already told about that just
an active straight into super as well. Yeah, yeah, let's try to make it as far as we can play around here as much as possible and now we just have those
sizeable buttons and the damage cancel off the anti-air because you know they're probably going to
get all the enemy jump staggering off the light but the light connected.
Alright, possible last chance here for me. I guess that's the down side.
Oh, wow, what a hurry. That's the downside!
Oh, the cat! So we never mind what that thought!
Yeah, just committing here. If you want a break, so be it.
Wow, the captain here! And waited so long to try to catch up!
Oh, no! Smart! Waited as long as possible.
You don't need to extend the combo, leaving with a super to get the KO.
But if Poker even hesitates it, just flinch them off the break.
He's ready for it. But was able to cover both options.
We're going to a... Wow! Game 3 final round again!
Only at Evo Vegas, baby. That's what it's all about. You get the best of the best. You know these games. You're gonna go the distance.
You know, when Allami has the screen locked in place, like that full screen, you just don't feel like Echo can get behind you, but here we are.
The line poker. You get the best of the game.
Alright, there's that little bit of striking to hold.
Wake up, Blackbot. So wake up, Blackbot.
The situation! Oh, that's ethical!
The full screen summons!
You know, Elami is doing so much work in this whole entire set.
That's a huge amount of damage for a Carly to take on the back end.
Oh, a bit of a dangerous advance there because that's a happy birthday.
Not only is it going to result in likely, uh-oh, a dead Echo, but look at how much damage
Elami took.
The comeback has to happen, but it's so much harder now.
Oh, massive answer, yeah!
Oh, wait a minute, you tried something optimal with the delay, jump in!
Wasn't quite able to find it.
Whoa! Okay, the fact that Connect is left behind, it's gone away!
Oh my goodness, we've been able to stay on the spot!
Dammit, for it anyway.
That is one hell of a turnaround, and how I look like an even-stable situation.
Not just me to... but Fury as well!
But, Harry!
Oh, the poor loaf!
Dear Fury, no!
This line is not to Fury! I've been the first I've had to again!
This is insanity!
Pocha with the patience of a saint, and his bleed!
Who has to pop the fury with the grab against the throw tick as well? This is crazy!
What is going on here in grab after grab? I fear that might be the end. There is a level 3 and it will be sent by all accounts and it should be a victory.
Four poker.
Thanks for thinking about it, but I'd be like, that's the end.
Yeah, we had it at that level which no doubt they sat there and just watched in case.
But right at the end, who grabs?
No, I've got to say, the absolute discipline that Poker showed there,
and that's what it's all about right there.
That is what it's all about, the sportsmanship, the respect being showed.
W Blee, let's hear it for Blee, forever and always,
but a bright future ahead, I'm not sure.
It was like I was saying, the discipline from Poker,
to be getting hit by what could have been the final combo of the game
with fury available and deciding not only to not pop it but also ready with the
pro-tech on the kind of reset situation that was I mean that not every player
would have been able to control themselves but I was able to do so. I tell you what
we check these replays presented by PlayStation Tournament we're gonna get
quite the miniature history lesson because I can't wait to see the
I'm just going to wait and wait for it to happen. I'm sure we're going to capture it.
Crowd was going nuts. I feel like I've dreaded things with the heart rate.
That moment was just so much fun.
But then we were all waiting for the final moment.
Where it was just insanity.
But if I'm there hitting the anti-air and being able to like jump cut it to stay safe and with punishments you can have a character.
Look at how evened it, here we go.
Oh, yeah it was parry, I've hardly got clicked.
Right, Pia, the fact that Poker held the fury and was ready for the anti-air attack and a follow up,
I mean it wasn't the overall Pia made up on the set, but it definitely started momentum.
That grab, I mean, oh that, I mean it got spicy man, it got spicy.
I feel like at the very end, you can only think to put yourself in that position.
What would you do?
You know, do you go for the grab, do you do that bit?
Do you try and do something else?
Who knows?
Either way, Poker's gonna take it.
GG.
I just cannot believe that Poker held on to the breaker there in the corner.
That was boldness of legendary status.
It was.
But that's why Poker is here in this top eight.
That's why Poker is still in this tournament.
Let's have a look at the bracket.
see how these matches are going and we have our next loser's round two match to go.
Oh my god it's good.
It is run back over a lot of my friends.
Tell the people.
Right, Hikari and the twins, they played earlier in the tournament in the top 24.
It was Hikari.
Yeah, Hikari going into this overall tournament as number one seed, you know, one Evo Japan
overall favourite of the game in general, you know, really pioneering
at that kind of Akali R-Routine, which we now see so many players using.
I think we really got that kind of first win of that scale with it.
But for good reason, you know, I went into this with a lot of respect, a lot of
high-seating twins, one in the original matchup. It was a fantastic set.
Akari just had a rather inspirational time at Evo Japan because I know that,
like, let's be real, Akali wasn't, like, only out for a few days before the event.
But with how technical she was when she first came out, her combos were very, very fiddly.
There was a lot of execution required, not just that, but the layers to the offense that you have.
Dedicated to that character immediately, isn't it?
Right. And I feel like, hang on, wait a second, we're getting the handshakes.
I was going to do some sort of analysis, but that was just a badass shot.
I'm going to wait for the match now.
Yo, thanks, airhead to aircam for these angles there.
We always wouldn't be able to see, let's go.
Now, this is overall a top 8 full of players who are no strangers to EVO Top 8s in general, as we've been saying.
Even the last batch, right? Bleed and Poker.
Bleed got 4th to EVO Japan. Poker was 7th to EVO Japan.
So in this kind of instance, it's going to be Poker who advances forward, but it just goes to show a lot for the level of consistency.
Yes, but this is, again, you know, like I said right at the start of the show, a game only ever has its...
You only ever get one first EVO Vegas. You know, this is where EVO began.
I know there's other events popping up here and there, but you know,
Evo Vegas really is where it started and is still considered to be that kind of like main event in the grassroot scene
To X you know to X care. I think the overall competition really reflects that
All right, well the stage select is coming through I have a feeling this is going to be the start of quite the set
Not just two legendary players, but a run back of this very tournament. You know Hikari's looking for revenge
And already, scores a bit of damage, but you don't want to over-commit with a Thresh right in front of you.
That man's going to absolutely pump damage.
Alright, fantastic start by Karari, set up the shroud, get Haru blocking here on this Thresh.
Wow, okay.
Oh, the Punish!
The Punish was going in, Jinx coming into the point as well.
You have to remember, Thresh has taken so much damage.
Both players now are going to be unbelievably tense, and actually, right, it's going to be.
Yeah, double super. There's the one. There's the number two.
Oh, it whiffs! It whiffs! Uh-oh!
That was for sure! A jinx no more, but...
Not gonna happen. I mean, the very least, the least of the car is still...
How's it going? Yeah, jinx is gonna get taken out here.
It's the handshake timing.
I mean, ultimately the goal there was to get rid of the jinx,
and even though the combo didn't do it,
she basically got knocked out straight after.
But this is, dare I say, an impossible situation for Haru.
This is like your floor-overway chip. You put an access to break yet.
That wasn't gonna happen.
But it is barely one round so there's plenty of time.
They just got like Akari there, lands that first significant hit and just didn't even
stop that supplication for offense.
The combo dropped but, well that like already got Karli.
Karli's trying to have a throw as well, you know, Gresh knows what to do about it.
Gresh is one of the hardest hitting characters in the game and Akari who
herself is not the healthiest character in the game. Mark really gets hit too much
You are going to have to be careful though, if you're playing Thresh and you're going to use like air dash, airborne heavies, things like that.
Akali's jump heavy is the ultimate to the air to air, efficiently counter hits but that is what's going to happen in Thresh, it's not careful however.
Now Toshi is the one getting the combo to the corner, Akari.
Slight patience, just in case there was a wake attack, maybe in case there was a carry attempt.
attempt that two exercises though creating the obstacles in front finding the hit is fresh
and haru what do you get from this limit strike lantern oh try to punish the roll and the parry
this is oh no yeah that could not have been what you want that overhead normal you have to be
distanced otherwise it will whip completely in this case it might cost night with a life bar
Yeah, this is a full combo coming out. Yeah, Izuna drop!
Goodbye!
Yeah, what a unfortunate mistake. On the back of a clutch, Kari too.
And that's an element to the twins that have been so good all weekend long, whether it's airflow, Kari!
These defensive choices have been good, but, you know, you make the preach, you've got to follow up with the execution.
Okay, so she managed to find a standing like that.
If you're up, you can't, he says no, Fury's popped. Okay, Jigs has a lot of meter.
The Stunk gun is ready as well, but Kari has no reasons to overextend here.
I don't know how Akali avoids that honestly.
Super assist, that absolute verticality that it covers, just can lose ever closer.
Oh, wait a minute!
One, two, three, and that's it.
Ritoshi was on the verge of making it happen, you know, was playing clean, but...
That's the downside of those comebacks from at one hell of a deficit is...
Even if the whole comeback is starting to go well, you're only gonna be like one or two mistakes at best away from losing the game anyway.
Unfortunately that is what's gonna happen there for the twins.
It's still in 2 out of 3 territory. One more loss and it will be eliminated.
Bakari going on.
We'll see. I mean, again, Bakari went into this tournament as the favourite.
Losers' bracket be damned.
Still very much as one to watch.
Oh, wow. All caps on the standing lights.
But will that change the combo path?
Ooh, okay. Maybe getting wires crossed a little bit there.
Yeah, a bit of a losing situation there.
Never mind, Vector.
Massively messing with the combo timing.
Ah, these are taking so much damage already.
That was such a thrash interaction as well.
two kind of... let's be honest, that drops off a lot of situations and it's like...
OH NO IT TRACKS! IT TRACKS ALL THE WAY! UP until the very end!
And this has been a bit of a crambley round!
Ahru is definitely getting some opportunities here, before she letting most of them slip through his fingers.
Here comes Toshi. Alright, these are the two I know you very much thought would be paying attention to,
but at least he's giving you a break. Ahru's making a lot of uncharacteristic errors in this round.
Like I say, you can't look into the mind of a player that's fair to assume there is quite a lot of stress taking place.
We are late into this QFTO EVO bracket!
This is where emotions run high.
Hikari will absolutely take out the remaining life there of Jinx.
There will be now Haru on the own.
I would assume that these parries will be a better option versus Arina's version of the game.
Some advantage taken. Adjustments made for these jumpwalkers, they carry, they're easy to find, but even then, carries never guaranteed.
If you're going to reach them, you're wide open and you waste that meter, it troubles.
Instant jump to match in the arrow. We love that airborne block speed.
Oh, ow! I actually cannot believe that jump helped negate from there.
Pressure on the long links. Oh, that's the airborne kunai.
Bayers won't call that one the Hikari Special. How much success it gets from that?
On reaction, all of the Aria's have fell into a cool combo, and so much from just airball projectiles.
The damage from that time.
Okay, no hesitation on that.
Instant Fury Pop and Aru.
It's brave, but hey, with this life...
It doesn't take much to finish this off.
Okay, that's approved. Recover some time.
Oh no! All the projectiles that would have hit Aru, would have destroyed by Aru's projectiles with the air throw!
Yeah, and didn't want to go for the OTG fall-off because they were respected in the theory, but it didn't happen!
We've seen how many times Haru has got that back throw in the air and picked up on the ground, but Hikari had to break!
That was such a crazy interaction of Super Assist being shut down by the level 1, all of the important rockets, bits of dust, and just like that, Hikari is on match point!
This would be sweet revenge, but we're not quite finished!
Here comes Bresh. Must nail every combo, every setup. They have no room for error when your match point down.
Set up, jinx as well. Chases it down in the air. Parts able to find your way out, not just that, but put your opponent in the corner as well.
Defense is always going to be tested.
Not yet. I mean, I feel like the chances are quite high you will build. Only basically get it for you as a character.
Oh, the dash up light!
You have to wonder what this next art is going to be.
It's pretty much every defensive tall hangar of the Linus.
Set up.
No, we're just taking damage.
We are killing.
And yes, they respect it.
We don't break with it!
It also goes to show they've been having two characters up over having access to fury.
And now, Oshii, okay, and the important thing I guess is that Hiroshi was able to survive, but Akari still has them right where he wants them.
It's not looking good, Mustard.
A bit late on the challenge, but wait! They both whipped the grab!
A bit of a weird encounter, but what the better bit's Hikari!
I thought that Hikari was trying to punish the roll, I thought she was trying to throw tech just in case the punish was late.
But they both whipped, and because Hikari whipped first, he recovered first and was able to punish it.
The Kari now in such a fantastic position it is all up to Haru. The Superacist comes out, gets behind, but no the coverage!
If you hit this combo, that is it! A Kari eliminates the Twins here at EVO 2026. GG, he will advance.
That is going to be sweet revenge for a Kari. I know there was always a personal goal at this level of play.
to play, people that take you out. In this case yet, the players, not just the player,
you get the chance to run it back, top eight on the biggest stage of them all. That's where
you want to get your revenge. But sadly folks, we have to say goodbye to Toshi and Haru,
legends in the maging, you know, that the pioneers of the duo mode, a brain that
is linked, you know, from one set of twins to another, you know, we're significantly
very proud. I gotta say it I'm gonna be unapologetically biased. Can we give it up
for Toshi and Haru keeping the duo's dream alive at the highest level of play?
Two masters who I hope we seek for many years to come. They share the
victories and unfortunately sometimes they must share in the losses but at
least they've got each other they can go back to the drawing board and they
can come up with some new stuff. Hey they brought that Thresh, Jinx, they
brought that the two exorcists right you know they they have the confidence in
their abilities were not able to make it work today but hey they got damn far
can I just say by the way every single time we've seen Hakari on camera I
don't think I've seen a single emotion but like stone face there is a mission
and we're getting one step up so.
That bait in the back row.
One of the best things about their adjustment rise is the amount of hit right there.
I'm going to interrupt myself to talk about that throw situation right here.
I'm willing to be wrong but I feel like that was the dynamic.
Akari tries to punish the roll. Toshi tries to throw tech in case the punish on the roll was late.
They both whiffed, because Akari whiffed first, he was able to recover first.
And I feel like that really was the beginning of the end in the rest of this round,
as you watch these replays for the next station tournaments.
And you see the respect shown, of course, this is the FGC,
regardless of what happens in the match at this level of play,
there's going to be that respect we all know.
Well, I do not want to keep you waiting too much longer.
We are going to go for a break, but when we return,
it's going to be winners' finals between Sonic and Inzem and Superdue.
You don't want to miss it, we'll be right back.
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3 at this point and now we're going to find out who's going to be grand finals on the winner's side, but it's not just the Evo championship
There's at stake. There is also a certain matter of total Evo wins. Yeah, so here's a fun little fact for you
Currently if we're talking overall Evo titles
Psychfox and Justin Wong are tied for eight Evo titles each
Sonic Fox did win EVO for Mortal Kombat 1 last year which brought them up to kind of being dead even,
which means we're in a position now for Sonic Fox to take over and end up potentially winning 9 EVOs.
And that's what whenever we talk about Sonic Fox and kind of previous EVO experience and this, that, and the other,
we're not just saying we have seen Sonic on this exact stage over and over and over again.
He's tried in true time, but I can't believe this. We've only got 4 matches left to go.
winners finals which is going to be best of five so it's going to be a little bit
longer season to get that grand final but you win this that is winners side
top eight guarantee that is a large chunk of the prize money and I love the
fact that when we talk about box in this game in particular it ain't just a box
them is so just pivotal to this duo's success the knowledge the
experience the dedication and if you look at who's mostly playing the
more sort of single player teams. A lot of the time it's actually in ZEM, the one doing
the solo grinding, relaying the information back. And we're going to look at the people
at home. That is a significant advantage to Sonic Fox and in ZEM. Only 20% of the people
online back in Supernoon, but I mean, if you've been watching competitive 2X, you know
that Supernoon second place, that's pretty much like his lowest placing when it comes
to an Evo. That's bloody impressive. Make sure you are at home as well. The Evo fantasy
pick presented by TNT. You can get involved in these predictions yourself. Just keep an
eye on the graphics and the socials as we go through. Make your opinion known as well
whether it's predictions or this, that or the other. Ooh, good stuff. But winners
finals moments away from taking place. I tell you what, while we get this match
it wouldn't be EVO without this crowd.
If you're back in Supernoon, let them know right now!
CHEERING
There's a lot of people who want to see Supernoon get grand finals again,
but do we have anyone who wants to see Sonic and Inzhem take it?
CHEERING
And a lot of fans of the duo out there, I'll tell you what,
we're kicking things off nice and consistent.
A bit of a T-Mode, mirror match, different characters on the back end,
though, the Jigs from Sonic Fox.
This is one of their tried and tested teams that is so hard for others to navigate
Hey, but we've got to say it in a super noon second place at two nice KO
Over at Evo France last year second place Evo Japan
It's tired of second place if you win this match super new app worst will tie second place the last time
But I mean could this be super news dawn that we're gonna find out
as it is going to be back to the Teemo and Jinx. Oh, Teemo and Jinx as well on the side of Sonic Manus. Am I like this approach?
I like this because I think Jinx is quite decent at fighting Teemo in the neutral.
And this is just a team that just screams neutral and projectiles. That is what Teemo and Jinx are supposed to do here.
They dominate that neutral, they fill the space, they build that momentum,
and they win the game using that team without getting huge combos right about just little bits here and there,
with a little bit of real estate, one projectile at a time.
Now tell you what, we're having conversations with Sonic and Inzem separately, I believe it was Friday,
you know, we were talking about the characters and the teams they're bringing forward.
The answer was, we're bringing forward all of our teams and we're either going to count the pick and it'll just pick
who players don't like to fight, right? There's so much experience at hand,
but that's the benefit you get when you're a player at this level and you're used to fighting the same opponents at a high level.
It's not just about, oh, this character, oh wow, it's not crazy to pick up that much of a box,
But it's not just a case of, oh, this character's one of these, this character's A versus character B,
it's one of these players. Who does that player look like in my team?
What player tendencies do they have with these quite certain team compositions?
Right now Sonic and Zephyr, they have no reason to rush this.
They have a massive need of a super nuisance.
Okay, who is able to find the head at the very least?
The problem is we have just about 20 seconds left on the clock.
Timo can do damage, but his combos take quite a while.
So, we're getting the throw, but there's no way to capitalize.
Oh wow, level 3, that's huge!
If it doesn't connect, it's still gonna waste time!
And do chip damage!
Oh wow, it covers you up as well, so it's hard to even see what's going on behind it.
That's like you cut a chip.
Anything that covers the screen, see, you can't see what's happening, that's a chip.
Oh no, stupidly tried to try to projectile, but even though it's not a heavy punish, it does waste a meter.
An echo with zero meter is nowhere near as scary.
So if you go for like a team launch, you can't do it.
It took a while to go to Arcade, especially because of the active character, but this is what it's all about right here. This is just team neutral. That's what we want.
Patience at hand. There's really no requirement to go in. If you are Teemo and Jinx, you have those options.
Okay, both of the characters are in favor, but there's the opening. Sit for noon. Let's have a think.
This Echo has just been the main love the whole way through this game.
I remember that team possibly playing up in those days. So much damage!
What is that? I'm a newbie, so I like to play at a close range the most.
The Bootsies, to know how to comfort, to just do what works.
Wait, what? I'll wake up the tag. Hey, when you've got access to the Brave, you two prisoners, wake up!
Put the parries into the defensive button! Sonic's Box does not want to let Super Noob build any momentum here whatsoever.
Here, whatsoever.
Load up some of the come out though,
in-term take damage forced on the defense.
This will be a cool combo from that board, right?
A chance to make something happen.
Disaster off, right?
Okay, yep, the super's good.
Yep, team launch, here comes Echo.
And there we can finish.
So finally, super noon.
Some serious momentum game build here.
The kind of comeback character playing on boats inside do it before yeah, even that the Timo super assist
You live on that real estate you build not quite the breeze across the super
But it just lets you breathe like everybody just walk out of the corner, but not because the matter is
That this is sorry, man. Oh, right. That's the right back in there
Shit damage and pressure is it working out?
Even if you are fighting back on the box, we're gonna confirm that's gonna do big damage actually
We have to remember 20 seconds of the clock.
Oh, it connected!
That was so smart! Sonic Fox knows because it looks like Sonic was just
all committing on the Echoes.
And right as you want to go in and do something about it, the level 3 is popped.
That was an ultimate call out!
8 seconds!
Sonic Fox...
Okay, it opened up and now we one round at base.
Both players now.
Starting this round, but a breaker is ready.
Who's going to be the bold one?
And now, that was a great crucial break, cos that was a happy birthday, you could not
want to be able to see him again though.
At the whole point, the whole strategy of the team is to just win you to the dominated
chip damage and projectiles doing so with a life deficit not great especially during superdome
himself is playing Timo there's the beam pick up yeah and that's how you know like willing to spend
the only bar of secreta on that just again let's stop at any form of damage you can because in
the zoning battle even a slight life lead is important okay grab a coming in instead just
to get set up on bit which immediately is jumped out of the defense of point.
Oh, ender! Overhead! Absolutely filthy, it's an overhead but
with the breaker coming out it has returned this to neutral once again.
Once we're being spent for the only remaining bar of super meter,
we've got force in the mushroom to push forwards to create that mystery.
He goes into the business and simply repeals on block.
Let's just go into the possibly, you can see a lot more in this series.
Neither play needs to overextend as if you do heavy damage incoming.
You have to be careful, find your moment.
That's the war projectile and it airs to air from super noon. Hold on.
Now the poison taking on two.
Even if you're getting 10, that poison makes a huge difference.
Poison plus kit damage? Don't feel good.
Are there any second chances?
Time might be coming back to here folks. 25 seconds on the wallbark.
That's a really hard hit super dude.
Okay, it's gonna take something significant on hit!
Oh no, happy birthday!
Yeah, many happy birthday and then finishing off with Echo.
Off with 10 seconds of the clock here's the thing.
Yeah, there wasn't a lot of damage done with Teemo, but that was enough.
I mean, but it's not going to take Supernoon much damage to get a bit of a light beat here.
It really is up to Inzem. Do you play safe? Would you try and hit on the way here?
Oh, wait a minute!
Rest! The Super is not going to do it enough?
No, they fell out a bit! Who has to light these? Who's got to light these?
Oh, it's not like an XO!
When you add it together, it results in more health.
I think if Inzem didn't flip out of that in the air, if that didn't drop,
that would have been the win for Supernoon.
And that had to have been why Supernoon went for it.
That would have been enough.
Tell you what folks, 3 out of 5 in this one is finals, so much happened there and that was just one match, we've only just begun.
Especially between these players, like it's been nothing less.
I started off with much of the same, he put the mushrooms down, lots of pools out there, makes that slingshot just a little bit more annoying, I think I've been generous by saying that.
But they're both T-Rows so, you're as good as you can.
Good thing about those projectiles, they don't give you a huge position, but what they do is they shorten the recovery.
Trying to get the grab, but covered by the rolling attack when you get the grab again, but two whiffs back to back.
Hey, two whiffs, and then immediately block T-minus.
So if you really want to see that they haven't got his wave, they're recovering immediately regardless.
And Lockett's gonna result in a lovely pick-up like Sonic Fox, though,
because T-Voh is so weak, he is dead!
Allowing now Echo having to take this fight solo.
And, yeah, that is bad news.
Team Tag, Team 70 Living Strikes Up.
Ooh, no punish!
Anything into trap! And the trap just hits it's bar on it!
Boom! No set-up, but why is this?
And that's a beautiful conversion.
Gaze is a dead Echo. Round one.
Now that's the most dominant round we've seen so far!
Seen this duo with Jax and Timo between Chops on the Zest.
Quite a little bit in the past, we see all this quite often combo break at top 8.
An answer for Timo.
That's a dangerous character up high level again, that's the benefit of even as a duo playing a number of different teams, right?
Depending on the playstyle you have to face up against, you can always be with.
But, uh, I'm going to have to be honest with you, I'm trying to be nice and simple.
Also a fun little twist bit is that Jinx sometimes really comes alive and acts like you won't play due to steering certain projectiles that are otherwise quite hard to do playing on your own.
Which is super important, this is the kind of team you're trying to go with right now.
You see what the twins play at Jinx, and we see this character do it as a general.
Being able to just hang on an email at a weird time is what you find character or something else, and then you face the reactions of the overhead!
head another one actually the team on the back end took a hit that's not a
box thing to block the entire thing well Chalmery defense right there
that's still alive that's one match right there
yeah I don't think that's gonna be enough yeah
oh no baby that's a good charge that's fully connected on the Jigs
that's you can see that explosion in your head is great health damage but hey
After Jax, Jiggs can't take up four of them, and Harry gets two of them.
Alright, here we go once more.
Don't worry about the sideswitch too much.
Those of you who may not know, when the character that's not currently in play is doing stuff,
the attack comes out, you only have to pay attention to the point when it comes to hit direction.
It's worth keeping in mind that you are defending Jax freestyle, right?
The active character is the only one you can do like attack, attack, attack, right?
Still, it's less about fixing up that little bit, I think this is more about, hey, when am I going to catch it? When am I going to tag?
OOOH! That late extended was done.
Definitely expected that. There's no wonder why Inzema's pretentious in there and wait out the inevitable Super Zeno once again.
Oh my goodness. I was about to talk about the clock. I don't think this is going to make it matter at all, actually.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
That's from a bug!
Said Sonic Boss!
2-0!
One more!
Grand Finals winnors side!
And there you become so hard to beat!
Yo, who's shooting that at a party boat there?
It was down in a good time, and then suddenly...
A typical G-Speak!
Oh dear.
Okay, the boat's crying.
And the other party's still going, and then they're getting down.
Game 3, we're starting.
Wow, but would this be a 3-0 though?
though are we speaking too soon I think and by now that is Jiggs the fourth throw in the corner so
that's going to be combos forcing out the breaker significant life leap now that the air to air throw
and once again this damage such a simple combo but man does it hurt. I mean again especially if
you're going for this zoning war it's not about getting cubed chunks all the time but if you
can't find a good opening I mean man it's going to make your job all the easier because
The thing is, if you're dealing with this team with Jigs and Teemo, it's chip damage.
I mean, it's unavoidable, right?
You can't just not get hit by certain projectiles.
And Echo's already gone.
Poor Teemo on the side of Superdome has a large hill to climb here.
It's then just being an absolute backbone of this team, the tag into Sonic Fox.
This is just shy of a perfect, by the way.
The only one that's taken a tiny bit of damage is Teemo.
But who cares?
Oh no, it's Teemo getting hit, he's dead!
Sorry mate!
Sorry match point!
Sonic Fox and Inter.
We have just, they're on a mission right here, the two.
We're seeing just Immaculate Z-Flex total neutral control.
Oh, they knew a million years ago
that projectile was going to hit.
What a lovely tag reaction.
Oh, Harry Graves!
Oh no, you've lost a meter,
now you're losing the health.
I just continued. Alright, limit strike in the corner. Mushroom pokey, what's the option?
The throw tech is going to get you out somewhat, but you're taking too much damage, but you're
still minus. I mean, you haven't taken it yet!
Oh, the big, big, stupid, open up mode! The multi-hane Teemo!
The freestyle nature, man. An only block for so long.
You've been working on a perfect right now, catch up. This is looking bleak for Super
Has it anything to stop this 3.0 you have to do it right now no damage dealt a full
Braker team on his lonesome and the poison just to add insult to injury. This is looking
How do you avoid the chip you can't okay, there's a super again try to fight. Okay. We saw you try that before
No, I'm working this time, but this time it isn't be good. They're free damage on box
I'm just gonna jump in. Yo, do you bring this one back me?
I mean, you've got 60 seconds to do it.
Oh, level three.
Okay, wait.
You'll land a recovery time, I assume.
How much of the ground were you?
That's the question.
Oh, no.
Oh, once again.
No!
Brux!
But not far enough!
Poor Timo,
trying it out of the way in the level three,
but could not do it.
And there we go.
A three-zero win for the duo of SonicBox
and in the grand finals,
Winner Side guarantee.
That is a minimum second place.
Tens of thousands of dollars in prize money as well, I might add.
Four old team-o-mans, little legs can only run so far.
That level three, almost inevitable.
Wow. But that, that was the exact pace of matchup.
I wasn't quite expecting, you know, 3-0, super new.
Let's not speak too soon. Super new.
Very much capable of bringing it back.
We could end up seeing that exact match
again in Grand Finals, but new is gonna have to work for it
because that was a dominant 3-0 showing from the duo.
Wow!
It was a strange flow, wasn't it?
Because when you look at the way that series began,
it was super close, super patient, little hits at a time.
And then as each game progressed,
the snowball effect just started to get more and more extreme.
Look how evenly matched they are, even in these replays.
These were the pivotal moments.
The game then sequenced on Litty, even.
Yeah, I mean, there was 10 seconds on the clock there.
the health was relatively split and then as each hatch went on Sonic and Inzend they just started to
whatever it was the next layer the final move better hits the bigger damage consistently
all of it their synergies inspiration but there's only one more match for them to win the whole thing
we're not quite there yet coach we're now moving into our loser side we are in our top four
Crazy to think how we start this one, looking at a thousand players, only four remain.
Here it is at the end, yeah, there's eleven three.
So, look at it, he tried, look at him run, look at him go, Teemo, get out of there, get out of there.
Oh no, Teemo didn't face him.
That was like the one step away from Teemo, he just put his fingers in his ears like a cartoon,
just being like waiting for it to blow up.
Profound, profound sadness.
Well, but that is it there. Winner's side Grand Finals locked in, we now have a grand finalist ready to go
and only one player who can fight against them.
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Yeah, but let's shout out to this lovely crowd though,
once again, how's it going, Evo?
Give yourselves a round of applause, folks.
You've been in for the hot pool,
and it is only the beginning.
We have many games left to go.
We are nearing the later portions of 2X, but we have other games left to follow up as well,
but let's not speak too soon, because we have some fantastic players still in this tournament.
Sorry, Fox and Inzem, of course, locked into Grand Finals, winner side.
Our next match is going to be Poker versus Hikari, so it's going to be a mirror match,
and the winner of that will face off in Supernoon to get into that potential Grand Finals as well.
So only four remain, close to a thousand entrance in the tournament, and only four left.
That is just the way things go here at EVO.
Usually it's going to end up being one of the largest,
if not largest open bracket tournaments of the year
for any game that's in the EVO, maybe it's like,
and this year for 2XK, definitely seeming like that
is the case.
Poker, the last remaining Japanese player in this bracket,
the remaining are all USA,
but I feel like when you're talking about players
like predictions for, not just top eights, but victory,
we have quite the little selection left here.
Many people would, if you were to put someone on the spot and say,
watching previous tournaments, who do you think is taking this all the way?
Sonic and N'Zem are always going to be there.
Hikari is going to be there through consistency in Evo Japan
and Supernude through the consistency of those grand finals appearances.
And the fact that grind just seems to never end.
So I think it's a rather fitting three remaining American players, but...
But it's a good success.
Yeah, it's also a number of players who have good success at Evo Japan as well.
You know, Poco was in top eight at Evo Japan.
Hakari, winner of Evo Japan, Super Noon second place, and I think, yeah, it's fitting.
I'm quite pleased that this is the way it's boiled down to, you know, it's hard when you've got players that you're rooting for, right?
Whether it's the Twins, whether it's Globo, for the crowd here who've been supporting, like, it sucks to see the players get eliminated,
but we need to narrow it down to that.
There's only one true world champion for the game, right? We're about to find out who that is.
Is that the crushing truth of there can be only one?
Well, two, technically, if you're the duo.
That's what I love about 2x, actually.
I really do love the fact that duo has become way more popular than you expected.
If you've been watching Evo this weekend, you would have seen on-stream and off-stream
if you're looking at StarGeeGee or anything else.
There are so many duos that have been in the tournament,
and some of them have got quite far.
Yeah, it's fantastic.
And also what a amazing story it would be
should a duo be able to win Evo here in Vegas
as we take a look at this airhead's aircam.
Look at these angles, though.
That's a lot of wristbands.
Oh yeah, raise your wristbands if you've got them folks.
It's like a bright sky, but it's only like the morning.
It's like a concert, you know, the phones going up.
Yo, there are some serious wristbands.
Shout out to AirHeads AirCamp, giving us these angles.
It's been AirHeads being given away for three weeks,
and they're getting their candy dicks.
OK, we're getting ready folks.
Thanks very much for your patience.
We appreciate you sitting here with us.
We are entering the late stage.
We're just getting a little bit of setup now between Mocha and Yikari.
Ultimately at this time...
Is that your poli card? Is that your poli card?
Yo, you're a certified gamer, dude. Let's do it.
Okay, man, free chip probably. Why not? Who doesn't love free food?
I love free food.
That's why I'm bigger than you.
All right, go on, ketchup.
The four we got left, well, five, I guess.
But out of the four teams we've got, out of the four entrants we've got,
who are you thinking is going to take it?
My prediction, even during the pre-show that we did on Wednesday with Sonic and In-Zen,
and I'm sticking to it, I feel like it's not just the fact that you have two absolutely
world-class players playing on the same duo, it is the fact that it's Evo, it's the Sonic
Fox factor.
There is something about this tournament, whether it's something in the air that just
seems to create back-to-back moments that you can't forget about, whether they
named the game that Fox has played in, whether it was the many Mortal Kombat
injustice, whether it was Dragon Ball Fighters, every single one of those top
eights has something that you take away from it being like that was a godlike
moment. It's always got Sonic Fox involved and most of the time, if not all
the time, that tournament Fox wins as well. It's why it's no huge surprise that
this day and age over the many years, same before Cycfox is currently tied in
overall EVO wins with just among eight major wins. Eight EVO titles. If Cycfox
wins this year, wins that one more set they've got left to play alongside
IMZEM, that's gonna be nine title victories and that's staggering now.
Who the fuck we can get to that point one day across different games as
But that's just the nature of it and when you get to this level of play is kind of you know, I suppose
Status you're playing in front of a crowd of this size with those of you watching at home. It's fantastic
But it does take so much grit to be able to keep it together
I actually bring it when the chips are down and that's what we saw the three zero before three zero over super new
Like who saw that coming? Oh, definitely not me
Especially with how that first game was going where it was just like super super close very very back and forth again
Just to remind you folks thank you very much for your patience what we get whatever is happening sorted out at the end of
The day there's got to be a level of understanding right we are in the late stage of the biggest 2x ko tournament in the world
You have to make sure everything is right. Yeah, I think there's already they can't go right see devices with buttons being pressed
So I assume it's all going in the right direction, but hey there's a lot of money
You know a hundred and thirty five thousand dollars of total prize money in this tournament, right?
Some of that is EVO contributions, some of that is Riot contributions, you know,
that means Shats to Riot. There has been a lot of ongoing support amongst different regions, whether it's in-game rewards, incentives, you know,
where you look, the crowd muster.
You wouldn't believe this was the first game of the day. I see so many of you.
You know, how many of you in the crowd intend on being here all day for all the finals?
I mean, I know you are front. You want to keep the best seats in the house.
They'll be losing those front rows and then there's the red ball their seats as well. I wish I could sit
Yeah, true it could be worse as my point stuff complain yeah, I'm too. I'm too Hollywood you see bring me a deluxe game chair, please
Only a fear from my agent if I had one I can't believe
We are three days in already, you know, if it was like just yesterday we just started the tournament
I saw a thousand players going and now only four left. It really is quite crazy how that happens every year
And I thought we had the same discussion every year too regardless of the game before you know the tournament's over
Also, I've got a I've got a question for this crowd so many people out there
Yeah friends people you know that are like I'd go to a tournament like that
but you know I just I feel like they're too nervous to play in and take part
because they're worried maybe even show up or show up or whatever else people in
this crowd give us a yell if you entered at least one tournament this weekend
get those wristbands raised make yourselves known who's been to EVO
before. Alright, okay, quiet lock, quiet lock. Who's here at their first Evo? I mean
that's what you want to know. It is never too late to get involved. You know, if
you're here, whether it's to play, whether it's to spectate, whether it's to
get involved in the convention stuff, whatever it is, there's a lot to do and
a lot to enjoy. And then, you can witness some of the best fighting
game action in the world. So you could do worse weekends, it's not just
the stage that we're having this weekend. The convention space is open for the rest of the day as well.
There's so much activity, so that's what I'm doing when we're done.
Yeah, we're going to get lunch and then we're going to do some pop-up tournaments.
We're going to lose the pop-up tournaments. I think our artist Alley spends some money.
I think our duo of Warwick and Blitz is going to find the meta as we know it.
I think people are going to assume too much and then they'll see how we play and they'll go,
really? The twins, they're not really on the same wavelength, are they?
Now it's good that Haru and Toshi are flying the flag of twins being strong in this game.
Oh yeah, because we're in the gutter. Yes. Yeah, we are in the trenches of not very good unfortunately.
I'm a Warwick main. I'm no better than the beasts. That Warwick main has nothing to do with that.
I can't believe yesterday you made a remark about, when we talk about Chipotle,
you made a remark about bees. And I'm like, pro, we're not beating the British allegations.
Hey man, here's what it is. Could have come to a spot like that.
Well, I tell you what, folks, we are, I believe, about to conclude what's happening here.
They're doing a button check just to make sure things are a thousand percent ready.
And when they are, it's going to be Poker versus Akari.
According to the schedule, it says this will be a best of five as well.
So top four, best of five, we're getting the big matches to close out the show.
So, I'm pretty sure, is it normally best of five for top four?
Oh, it is best of five, it's top confirmation.
That's what I'm talking about. More games.
Alright, handshakes through. Thanks for your patience, everybody.
We're about to get into more 2xKO to the final frontier of Evo 2026.
Akari is looking to get that second Evo title overall, being our Evo Japan winner.
And the game has varied as 2xK0, it's rare that you see a complete and utter mirror match
for whether it's used in character and even order you're looking at it.
Fidgetly scored there, Hikari finds significant hit on the whip on the break.
Oh no, break into Happy Birthday, that is the worst!
It's Mario, that's much good.
If you can both suck in as Hikari, can they get taken out by this?
Yeah, Hikari's gone and you're continuing the combo with Hikari!
Oh my word, and it's straight!
The shroud is out here, it's just...
Okay, hang on to the defensive throw, it leaves back to back.
Okay, oh, can't quite find it!
Get clipped again!
Damn, is it just me or was that an instant turnaround on the Aryan?
I feel like Aryan was strapped his head twice, and that's it, gone.
Oh, wow!
Actually managed to move back, does Polka, and keep Hakari on the same side.
It's always not like Hakari mixed and so on.
What the fuck?
It's an easy fight!
Instant parry, and the two-h for the clean punish.
That was a pro gamer maneuver, if I've ever seen one, right, Mikari? One round up.
We're seeing a lot of shrouding things, right? I think having Ari help stuff, it does kind of dis-giv you the horrors of the garbage you need to establish the time.
I don't know, very dangerous. And one idea, instant break coming out from Mikari, and that's just so common, you'll see it, I can't even see that.
Break into just running them down. You have any sort of space to work, but she's gonna close that distance so quickly with that new machine.
I'm not that parried by the way, parried.
It's the latest League of Fire at our high level.
Oh, I love that.
Oh, but still!
That setup was disgusting.
Small little details there, like the 2HP block,
knowing that it's going to get special canceled.
Ready for the parry there, the bait!
The side twitch as well, Hikari.
It's going to turn this into a perfect position.
Right, limit strike, set up,
and we meet you with a fist.
What a play.
Oh my!
Good lord!
That one hurt.
Sometimes, let's extend.
Yes indeed, oh we got those three bars
and we're going to end them.
Game one goes to Akari.
Akari looking like four places, not enough.
Our sightseller now loses finals in Supernoon.
The one back from EVO Japan awaits, but there's just one game.
It's the best of five, a little extra game.
Even though it's a 3-0 in winners finals,
it does give you that extra time to make those adjustments.
makes all the difference in the world. Straight up, running it back. Close the
Carly in the fourth front as well but it will be Hakari securing that first hit.
Just right set up. Shroud and we meet him. Oh wow, really next. The tag just to be a little bit
safer. Fantastic reactions are getting away from the command grab at least.
There's only too much at least. Oh gets hit by the super on the return!
Uh-oh. Not sure what Moko was looking for there. I mean everyone knows it will come back
I'm sure posted as well. Maybe you just assumed you could get around it somehow, but you're dead. There's no time to reflect now
What's on the perfect again is Akari on life bar gone another just straight up anti air poker
Why an impatient way of trying to get out back on it?
Just put the instant air dash and Akari says no you don't this entire round has just been thorough and
Absolute denial as Akari pushes this advantage further. Yo catch up. This is perfect so far
We're actually going to see the perfect, we're going to see the letters.
I mean, the tag launch is super with Akali, I'm going to assume we will!
Ah, it is!
Perfect!
And a fantastic way of continuously going, I'll tell you that.
And we talked about this, the game of momentum, if you get a perfect, that is the number one way to achieve it.
Akali taking a lot of damage in the back end.
Not much to be done, if the block strings continue, what can you do to save them?
Ooh, I like the challenge though.
Ooh, what a big whipped parry from Hakari.
It's a very Hakari thing to attempt, so if you've got the testament it looks like
maybe your zone has a place going to swing it back, immediate parry to stop it, but
and then the wake-up attack, Hakari does not want to slow down and let Hoga get the ball rolling.
Bit of a delay button press there.
Bit of a read possibly or something, grab or something, but either way,
we're going to press, we're going to challenge.
And we are more important than anything going to side switch.
Right, corner time. Time to play.
You've seen these guys before. One-ish, one-ish.
But there is anything here from it? No assistance, so...
Uh-oh! That hurts!
That hurts so good.
Now the only thing seemingly keeping Akali alive in the back is the Ahri.
He's knocked out first.
Now, the guy's coming in, not much help at all yet.
He's trying to jump out.
Hang on, immediately, once the happy birthday to Sakari.
We've seen big comeback start from much less.
A lot of damage being done.
Yeah, it's straight.
So much more...
Oh, expensive crab!
That was definitely the perfect way for Hikari to potentially start.
I come back, because if you're doing the same damage to both characters, this is...
Really helping yourself out with Hoka.
Ooh, hello!
Star from Hoka!
These round starts are usually quite committal for Hoka,
but when they work out, they work out in a big way.
Oh, that was a cheat, he immediately jumped over.
Oh, shoot!
The dash up Harry into instant recovery.
Okay, not letting this escape deficit fall down.
Right, we set up the reusable Harry and the run-in throw as well.
That's gonna be a full combo. The assist is ready to rock.
We'll be talking about Cove to Cove, so we're gonna see that again.
Alright, hard knock down. I mean, at that point may as well be an A.
Almost.
Oh, there we go.
Back round for Akari now, he can have the corner, spending the super, that's fine, do as much damage as you can.
Okay, here's Akari on the set-up.
Ooh, okay, was that just low? Low is the charge gauge from the REC's perspective.
Okay, that's gonna do big, big damage.
Uh-oh, REC, you're late to make.
Akari left, quite the remaining, but...
It's gonna scare me out of here.
Hello, Earthrow.
You said later on that, Earthrow, actually.
And the super-resistance, and it's fast, not that it really matters.
Okay.
This is a pivotal moment, though, for Poker,
because if you lose this life bar, you're down two to zero,
versus being, wow, tied up, one, a piece, none of mine are gonna happen.
It was so important for Poker to win that round.
I know it sounds like obvious analysis,
but the difference between down two, zero,
and tied one, one, and a best of five is staggering, mentally,
because it's the difference between one game away from elimination and knowing you've got three games in a row now to get
versus that little bit of extra kind of safety there that you are granted if you're one game at least.
But it's not going to happen now. Mkhari looking to work on potentially our second 3-0 of the top eight.
But will Poker have anything to say about it?
They want mustard. Everyone knows at this point the mental side of things is the most important aspect of staying on the top of.
Just keep your focus 2-0 down. If you take it one game at a time, keep your composure.
All you have to do is constantly see that next win, that next win.
If you keep doing that, it doesn't matter how far down you are.
You've got to keep your head in the game.
At this level of competition, that is easier said than done.
Oh, come on!
The Interception!
And I feel like that's going to be, yeah, big ol' damage!
And the drill to kill.
left on her own, but there's a break. It's hard to say what's in there. It is going to be spent.
Our hearts go out and see if it works out. Unfortunately, we've immediately been there to
head. You know, we've got to set off into God knows what. I think it was a miss on here into a
counter hit. Crap, she liked it. Boko was just trying to swing there.
Connish on the roll. Look, Ari. Yeah, there's the freestyle. Fender scores
go into a combo. This might even be less about the damage. You're more about just wasting
that fury time. Fury damage must be going to keep you alive. However, fury's out!
Like, you've just been level 3 basically!
Oh, oh!
Wow, that did bow!
That also, not only did it stall all the fury timer,
you built just enough to be level 3!
Hakari! Hang on a minute!
That combo would have been way more damage to the looked at world
as to how much fury was regenerating mid combo.
In fact, there's more to think about.
I think there was just a part you get to KO anyway, regardless.
But Hakari finds it all the same.
And a catch on Poker.
Oh! And another counter hit!
Every time we end up in this close-range kind of, uh, dynamic situation, it's just counting it.
Poker. Poker is pressing all the time.
Garry, no doubt has been aware of that cut-up game, one.
There's a saying a bit that a throat don't fix it, but if you just keep pressing,
just keep pushing that advantage,
it gives more and more stressful time to go on immediate break.
Once again, two pikes.
Any kind of defensive poker could have taken.
You finally find a hit. Guess what? Great. Now I'm back in the driver's seat.
The bully that Mikari is being in this sense and a clean hit with so much fear to play with.
And this is looking rough for Poker right now at least approaching the theory for the comeback
potential with the shroud. Woke up with buttons against Poker. We are so animated.
Yeah, Poker is so animated on defense.
Okay, what's that? Super assist coming through. Uh-oh, okay, something. Alright, gonna open
up Ari. It's difficult, we see Poker. Stayed in this tournament by going, oh, never mind!
Oh dear! It's gonna hurt so much against Akali. Such a low health character to make up for
Just how crazy she is.
Can we get hit by Rollin' with three?
Look at that!
Oh!
And a dash up light does the job for Hakari with a 3-0 clean sweep over Poker.
Yeah, Poker looked very disappointed with that one, but, I mean, yeah.
You can't blame him.
That was a set.
You had to win to stay in, but Hakari is just on a momentum spree right now.
The Miramaric Lodge of Respect putting it on.
Give it up for Pocophone.
Water Journey.
A quarter performance.
Get things going as far as possible.
The Japanese 2XKO.
They're a very competitive region for good reason.
Yeah, crowd, let them know.
The Japanese community here
is beloved in the world of 2XKO
and I cannot wait to see what they can cook up.
Now, let's see. I don't know how much you picked up on these microphones
but we did get the poker chance coming through.
That's what we want.
GG's, GG's poker, but and then there were three as we take a look at these replays
presented by PlayStation tournaments as it was just from strength to strength
the young Hikari who still awaits on the stage and Super Dunes to become a group
these replays will be showing nothing but dominance I think what's more
important just to talk about is that focus that remains from Hikari this
job is not finished if you want to be a repeat EVO champion in this game you
You have to defeat Super Noon.
Then you have to defeat Sonic and Inzem.
It is an insane challenge,
but the focus that Hikari has brought for us
and feel like it's possible, it could happen.
Anyone left in this tournament
has a good chance of taking it all away.
Yeah, it's hard to bet against the duo right now,
but Hikari with the dominance we saw there,
that war level, but even there,
the dash up standing like interrupt, you know?
That was kind of the story of that entire final match.
It was just, I thought, near enough everything Hikari pressed in the situations was a count on him.
Because Poker on defense just was, again, very animated.
You know, always wanted to get something going, but just Hikari one step ahead.
Ho, ho, ho. I've just been given the go ahead.
We are taking you to our final break of this block, because when we return,
losers finals between Hikari and Supernoon, and afterwards,
are grand finals to determine our Evo Vegas champion.
Stay tuned. You don't want to miss this.
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All week and long, the Burrito bus will be going the same,
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Go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go!
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airheads as we have our airheads air cam. You have been a wonderful crowd so far and this is our
first game of the day. We are in the closing moments of 2XK0 here for Evo 2026 and if you're
a 2XK0 fan this is a good place to be. We have an announcement to be made later as has been
promoted on social media and we'll be seeing that a little bit later. Can not wait to find
out what it's gonna be but we need to crown a champion. We got two matches left to go, we got losers
finals and then we're going straight through to grand finals and then from top eight it's concluded
it's time for the announcement. So don't go anywhere there's still plenty of stuff left to go
enjoy but we are catch up and mustard hello. We've been calling the action here this morning
here in beautiful Las Vegas in summer and it's been a nice time you know it's always it's
always a great time here it's always a great event it's always plenty to do but we have
have one job left to do, and that's to crown an Evo Jam.
Racket of the Racket!
What's going on?
What has this journey been so far?
We just saw Hikari take it 3-0 over Poker,
and I mean, both Vestor Vives have been 3-0 so far.
Both Loser's finals and Grand Finals
will continue to be Vestor Vives.
We'll see if that continues, but these are definitely
players who are hungry for that win.
Sonic Fox and Inzem waiting patiently.
Grand Finals win aside for the winner of our next match,
which is going to be Super Nude versus Hikari.
a run back of Grand Finals of Evo Japan and a pivotal moment for both players because Hakari,
the story here is Hakari is looking to win two Evo's back to back as already one Evo
Japan wants to win Evo Vegas and is mere a few matches away from doing exactly that.
Supernoon, one of the best players in the game, hands down, but seems to be the forever
second place.
You know, second place, Frosty Foustings, second place, Tunees KO, second place, Evo Japan.
It just seems to be never ending.
And you know Super Noon is the kind of player who is more than capable of getting that first.
But you have to be more than capable, you have to do it, you have to make it happen.
So, only one of them can advance, but dreams will be crushed.
There's the handshake.
All right.
We're about to jump in. An absolutely iconic moment. You said it earlier, and we'll say it again.
There can only ever be one first-ever Evo Vegas champion for a new game, and this tournament has had every world-class player for the most part, in attendance.
Yeah, it has been as competitive as we've won.
Bro, you're looking to be a champion amongst champions in this top three.
Okay, losers' finals here we go. Only a few matches left before we are complete.
Unfortunately, only one can go on, it makes me so sad to say, but that really is the truth.
The storyline to the ever-ending crowd, if you're out there, let's make some noise for our top three,
Supernoon in the car now engaged.
But in a patient's start, some good defense on both sides.
It's all about landing that first critical hit that you can convert from.
In this case, we immediately go for our throw.
And the driver's seat belongs to Supernoon.
Limit strike, set up, the chase down.
And the challenge immediately forces the break out of the raining Evo Japan champion.
Oh huge jumping mode! Practically full screen.
Just gonna get a carry, getting this coast to coast effect.
So much point carry in that setup. I like the fact that, before I was showing you that, oh again,
if you stay point blank in that setup, it's never not that easy. If you distance it a little bit,
you kind of miss up the timing.
Alright, tag launch. See what we get from this.
Can you finish your colleagues as Akali? Yeah, just enough.
So you put in with the calculations doing just enough damage.
Oh man, it's doing mathematics.
Sorry to be very patient here, it is very possible to still take this.
Let's not forget, okay, that being a dead Teemo,
you have a good range, good damage, good parting there with Akari,
you've got at least two super assistants of Akali should you want to do the trigger on it.
So that's the change round, okay?
There's the pick opportunity here.
For Hikari, you have access to two Super Assist for Hikari, but two bars on the point for Super Noon, so...
Keep an image over the barnish, and the Super, yeah.
Super Assist to pick up from that, you spend your meter.
Alright, fortune here.
Yeah, take the end, steal the setup.
Ooh, okay!
I like how Hikari is kind of mixing up the placement of that set at the other corner.
I think you can kind of get into a pattern as Ahri by just going for the exact same set
up, the same time, every single wave, like, there's a bit of a mix up here and there.
I feel like that's such a good comeback character, can happily play solo, is that having the
existence of that super assist, ooooh, throw the bounce forward, there's no one that's
gonna be there.
Yeah.
I'm waffling on the goal, round to go, because now here comes the counter of the
break.
Oh well, tried something there but Akari just up back gets completely out and Banshee has
to pick that up so low to the ground.
And as soon as Nuu tries to establish any mushrooms- wait hang on!
Bully came out of the Echo and that's a dead assist already and Akari picked it anyway!
What a good move!
That was absolutely ridiculous!
The staggered game there, the intercepts a challenge at last, the same, had enough of these lights!
Get in that corner mate.
Cuny for a comeback.
Been a work to do, but one more significant hit on the RE, there was some chip damage from the mushroom as you always expect, but no!
The counter throw is out!
And the mix, you have to hold it.
Oh wow!
This time, it's last for the overhead, it's empty loads, it's grabs, it's whatever you want!
Ah, but it's the progression, that multi-hitting jump normal, right?
You have to block the overheads every time, but Hakari faking it out, going for the ground, the teleport into a light, like...
It's just the layers upon it, right?
You're so used to people just jumping at you, assists you to be blocking, it's going to be an overhead on the way down, they're going to do an empty low, whatever.
Then, you're just an elaborate anyway.
That's going to be game number one for Hakari.
As that throws the start things off, the safe jump from the empty low this time.
GG couple of parries but the empty low is just proving to be such an effective tool to the moment.
And I am. Look at that, my skies.
It's interesting because these defensive parries particularly, they've not really been to catch, like, huge parries into, like, massive fighting situations.
It's just a show that you are aware of how to defend here.
But the carry is not hanging, it's slowing down at all.
Oh wow! Okay yeah, backed off!
Reservation there!
Oh, massive heavy air! That's not what you want to see!
Has just been a surgeon with these buttons throughout the course of this round.
Versus the world at the moment.
Yeah, the MD is finally blocked, but the instant overhead!
Directions upon directions, and it's now going to be about the worst 4-0 Superdude.
It's a large edge Teemo, he's dead. See you later mate.
Nice hat you know, good job.
Don't drop your spashies. I like it that. That's what I said, nice hat bro.
I thought you were being sarcastic. Never mind, doesn't matter.
Hikari. They just find the round again.
Hikari has just played in that first game.
Absolutely insane.
I mean you were saying right that Hikari is looking absolutely locked in to the max
and it's continued to be so.
Kari's not gonna be happy until it's grand finals.
And even then,
Happy birthday to you!
Oh no, they're both poor.
I'm not gonna sing the rest of the song.
Alright, set up.
And again, that kind of distance set up.
Kari's getting such used out of it.
Side-switch, and I cross up there.
Now Nuu has been on the back foot for almost the entirety of this set.
Activation is a chance to unwind, and again the challenge is to drop goodbye Echo!
Akari just refuses to be contained.
Anytime that there is a set up on Deck, whether it's a knockdown or whatever, like,
Akari's just finding a way out every single time, and it's there in the double jump
to be able to bend and block the fury activation.
The side switch too, disgustingly optimal.
Okay, that was so crucial for Supernoons to cancel that WCF dash, as you can tell Akari was covering it with that setup.
It saved your skin and gets you out of the corner, but now, aside from level 3, you've got a lot of options and now, not bad.
That should very well be another game on the floor.
Wow, yes it will and Hapari has been tearing up the student bracket.
One more game to bring us into Grand Finals.
This is a plan on a mission.
Well, it's very nearly mission complete, but it isn't yet 2-0.
This is not the result we expected to see, but it's also not the result finalized either.
Supernoon is no strange, the situation has been 2-0 down past.
Yeah, crowd, and now we've got some Supernoon fans out there.
You need to lend some strength.
Okay, Ikari.
Unfortunately, this is not the best way the round can start if you are in super-dome fast.
Here comes that super once more.
We knocked out, we mixed the break.
Keep that character alive at all costs.
That's the time you need to save, please.
Really try to squeeze out that extra damage on Teemo.
Can you see that?
Yeah.
Honestly, it's the use of handshakes, I think.
Really, I just kept Atari one step ahead of this entire hobby.
I'm always ready to keep something safe,
get like a weird situation, punish,
and do an extension.
Oh, there's a catch!
Oh, yeah!
A catch!
Quite a set, not once more.
Well, it's unfortunate that I clean opening
and a big ol' jump into a boot.
And if I could just wrap him up with Akari as well, this absolute rampage that he has been on is just looking to continue to pick up.
Ah, the other side! Close! That goes, not going to be a thing.
It also goes to show that with the constant pressure, the snowball that has been rolling from start to finish for Akari.
We still haven't even come close to seeing everything he's got up his sleeve.
We're going into a match point already. I cannot believe it!
Potential 3-0 here in less than noon.
Can't work something out here, though.
I don't know if it's possible. Hakari is just so far ahead right now.
Okay, that's a good start. At least you've forced the break.
Okay, and a challenge! An interruption too.
You know Hakari was looking depressed and keep that going.
This is a wonderful possible turnaround for Superloom.
We were talking about the mental stack that gets built in this tournament.
The more games that go down, the higher the task seems to be.
But dude, the grind, I mean the amount of games this guy's played, the amount of tournaments he's done well in.
This is your chance to really bring it back, make magic happen.
I think we're starting off with the dead characters, everyone. That's what you want, okay? Superdude.
Signs of life here.
Hari is gone, and Harley left.
Now he can actually establish this neutral.
The win for Superdude is not this one.
Look, 2pnm going to win this top 8 without dropping a single match, but it's now, you'll see we get a 3-0 win this finals, potential 3-0 here.
But, that's how you know the sign of a player who just... not finished.
That's that machine that just... oh wow, they've jumped, that's there to be... other than safe.
Uh-oh, yeah, it's gonna make it all the more difficult. I think the Spectre is in the demo, didn't require any meter either.
Mabari has Fury and three bars to maybe deal with this Echo.
The Echo, we really haven't had a chance to dethrive in this set.
Oh, the late overhead!
I couldn't pick up, but these throws, they're going to jump, here comes the Shroud.
Wait, the Super Assist! It's a full combo hang on a minute!
Yeah, tries to bait the Fury, that was the opportunity.
Oh, my God, is that it?!
Oh, my goodness, it isn't!
Timo, the air strike, S-Bomb, B-Bomb, and the full hang on Super Noon!
Super Noon is alive, and Super Noon takes the battle frame to the lord!
And no one will come from not believe that happened.
That was looking like oh, she wrote!
Super Noon, so focused, and it would be the echo in the most...
I love the most desperate of times.
Superdome can just dig deep and fight the ultimate clutch.
That is one hell of a way to get yourself back into the set.
We are not finished.
I may not result in a game win, however, that was really one round.
You still have to get through this and then some butts.
What's on your mind?
You're rolling at the risk of an entire happy birthday there.
He used the break to shut it down.
Both of them are on T-Mobile.
Echo, the one eating the punishment.
We have to ask what is the play gonna be.
There are so many layers to this mix,
especially as Akali to the mix.
All the advance, what a challenge.
Supernoon, the clutch, little dash under,
the side switch, the execution.
The block on the overhead, the reaction's here.
Again, the bait on that two-eight,
jump in the air, log in the meeting of friends at a two-night time!
Yeah, goodbye. We've seen this once or twice.
And Super Nuke again forced into a desperate situation here,
where she could be about Hikari immediately moving in.
The scary position had that forward throw.
Creating what could be the beginning of the end of Super Nuke,
Hikari is absolutely...
Oh no! It is the job! And we'll do the same to conclude this set.
And now we are down to one more set.
Well, losers' finals, and that's how it's going to go.
Vakari staying alive, Supernoon.
Unfortunately, unable to get that grand finals, but, I mean, we're talking consistency.
Very few players are as in that top three conversation as Supernoon.
We've got to say give it up for Supernoon folks.
Made it into this top eight.
Un-defeated, this was one hell of a challenge.
And like I said, this is the first year Evo Vegas 2xKO.
We already know that this game is going to be at Evo France.
I'm sure we're going to be seeing the journey of these players continue in noon.
I mean, surely he's going to have to be in the next round.
Absolutely.
This is going to be a Super Nudes tournament.
I'm just doing a talk about consistency.
Third place being a uncharacteristically low placement.
Yeah, I mean, it's impressive.
It still is.
There's no other word for it, but Akari.
As soon as Akari got knocked into Loser's Bracket,
it has just been so locked in,
but you have to be, because who is awaiting
the one-side other than Saltcloth?
And we end our replays here presented by PlayStation Tournaments.
I'd like to point out Sonic Fox and Inza are taking their seats.
We are moments away from this grand finals.
There are so many thanks and challenges to begin with.
I'd like to let everybody know, let's remind you, there will be an announcement after grand finals.
finals so we're gonna get to crown a champion or champions and we're gonna
get an announcement at the end this is just a gift that keeps on giving thank
you to riot the evo staff everyone watching at home the lovely crowd we
have here right now before we go into this grand finals as well you know it
is evil and there's a lot of viewers out there who just make sure to watch
Maybe it's your first time watching a tournament. Let us very quickly break this down. Grand finals.
Sonic Fox and Inzem are in the winners bracket as they have not lost a set yet.
So they have to win one best of five. Ikari is coming into the grand finals from the losers bracket.
We'll have to win a best of five in grand finals, effectively sending Sonic Fox and Inzem to the losers bracket,
resetting things and we'll then have to play another best of five.
So the short of it is Sonic Fox and Inzem, they've got to win one best of five. Ikari's got to do it twice.
but the stone faced the commitment, the focus,
Ikari has been locked into that path of Grand Finals.
I don't think Ikari gives a damn that he's gonna have to win twice
because if it has to be done to win, so be it.
Yeah, these players, they're grinding hundreds of matches a day.
What's next to three? You know what I'm saying? Or six?
Either way, it's gonna be done.
But what a fitting grand final, you know, the pinnacle of competitive 2XKO in arguably,
well I say arguably at this point, it's hard to deny, the best duo in the game, Sonic Fox and Inzem,
and maybe the best solo player in Hikari, does it get any better than this to showcase what a high level 2XKO is all about?
While we get set up and they're getting their buttons checked and we prepare for the last time of this 2XKO top 8,
You lovely people in the crowd.
If you like, Hikari, let them know right now!
And the stand-out, who's got Sonic Box and Insan?
Intensity stage.
It all comes down to this.
Grand Finals, one more match to decide
Who is the best 2xKO competitor on planet Earth?
The best duo and the best sub duo.
A perfect story.
Look at this crowd.
They have three wonderful best seats in the house.
They really do look like some nice seats.
I can't lie to you.
What a morning.
You're making this jet lagged British fan very happy.
But obviously, as I was saying before,
the intensity shown on stage, these competitors,
It means so much to them and they are both so close they can taste it one mere set away from being crowned
World champion and is this it?
Okay, I'm assuming so here we go looks like we're gonna be jumping in I'm sure
Finals make some noise
to the beat in them on the Teemo!
Hakari with the Teemo Bakali and Ari!
That's a tongue twister.
Let's get this show on the road.
I love, again, we're talking almost like a before-speeds,
a moveable object.
This is that dynamic.
Ari and Akali, especially Akali,
you wanna get in there,
you wanna be doing some craziness,
get that corner.
And just, you know,
the worst kind of things for your opponent,
the Teemo Jigs,
they wanna establish that neutral,
fill the screen as much as possible,
to take as much of the chip damage here and there,
build the resources over the computer as little as possible.
It's going to be dynamic. The benefit of playing as a duo is having that kind of...
Two pairs of eyes just analysing the game where there is assists and everything that comes with it.
You may have noticed Akari is a very aggressive player, not afraid to wait and pick his moments, however.
He's going to have to do that against this team. Timo and Jinx control so much of the screen combined,
but they're having a birthday.
We're going to punish this Teemo hard, get ourselves a corner.
Wait a minute, a little bit of unfortunate business there and the damage is good on the back end.
Here comes Sonic Fox, making this one.
Okay, we're playing no game, we're taking damage and we're killing the character.
Wow, Akali has gone.
Karly has gone. I was surprised, I suppose.
They're doing so much damage and now it's Soho, Ari.
We've seen her Karly do it before, but make sure she's in control.
Ooh, okay, good jumpy damage on these jinx.
And there we go, Teemo, getting hit by the dive bomb.
And Karly not slowing down, and suddenly is in the lead.
Oh, well, it takes us one good hit.
Now, because that level 3 was spent on it,
The barb isn't going to have anything to convert with besides traditional meal and salad.
But you are going to have a super assist of Teemo.
There's a lot of comm-mogramming though, the hits done the case.
Oh, there it is again.
Oh wow, okay, I love that choice.
Just sniping Teemo out of the air, putting the stops there, super assist.
Oh, comes out!
I'm sorry because I'm blocking a big barb.
There we go, Hakari.
What a choice.
Okay, no me fit to parry that either.
So that projectile was so sweet.
Okay, there's a catch in. I'm quite able to get full pickups against establishing the
screen, control of the space. Build those back into a T-Mode. It's going to get so scary
with those back into the builds. Of course, looks for a cheat to grab there.
Kari with the jump back though, but the method is clear. It's not afraid to enforce
it. But on the other side, here comes Akari. He's setting this up super.
Oh defensive assist is good though. Oh no he's doing it!
Oh Timo taking my damage here. Wait Timo, how weak.
One down low for Kari getting a shroud on screen which means the secret department is so difficult to defend their game.
And it's not going to work out Timo. Getting eliminated in the back cheeks taking all this damage.
You get put straight back in the situation again. Limit strength, that's the shroud.
There's the assist. You're not going anywhere, my friend.
There is the hit.
And if Akari can finish this off, taking game number one here,
that is a message to send.
That is not only game one in Grand Finals,
but a dominant one to boot.
You may have been looking real good up until Grand Finals,
but you haven't fought me.
Akari, you said it was just laser focused.
Mr. Ford.
Doing the best but the seemingly long buttons of a Carly so good at catching you with your
least bit.
Well, especially that 5-H in the air, right?
It's so active, it has such a great hitbox on it, it's fantastic to convert with those
air to air.
And air to airs will be important against characters like Jigs and Teemo, they're hard
to pin down.
Because they're used to kind of doing what they want, they're really nice, because
they have stuff on the screen, you have to respect, watch out!
Yeah, speak out of respect, how about that, an immediate break, you want to hold
no damage.
Look at that.
Turning it around, just wanna carry.
Uh-oh.
Whoopsie.
That was thanks for giving me a carry.
A lot more work in speaking with you.
Yeah, you wanna get three motions on the screen.
Listen to clear the board.
I guess execution was really nice on the parry.
The dash unfortunately could not turn the anti-air into a substantial combo.
But wait, Jinx.
Find the hit.
We keep seeing that though.
Jinx goes in with those long range of hatches.
And Tino just does not have the lead to pick up from them.
These leads could come from them.
And again, it's not about getting forward.
It's about getting something that you can believe
during the bit is steady.
But the old shoe ball, out, blocked on the hip was bad.
It's a good step for him.
He's got the end act to have.
And he's getting super neutralized
at any projectiles on the floor.
Greatest in our real estate, never Hikari.
He was now using that Akali to enforce the advantage.
Good block on the low attack.
and Karli taking heavy down and trippling the champ and now the Timo to punish!
It felt like Karli just body lost that entire sequence as Timo found a hit on Ari anyway.
Finish this combo as you can, yeah, does not spin bar.
In fact, builds more each with a little bit of strike end.
There's much more waiting to see that in there.
Alright, that was a really patient game.
Just avoid as much damage as possible.
We have 20 seconds on the clock!
Ah, beer. This combo is going to take a good chunk of time, and Teemo is going to take
these adaptions as well. We're going to have that set up now. Ten seconds to go.
Oh, I'm not running. I'm running. I'm running. I'm running.
We're chasing. Open up, ask and jump. We couldn't get anything from it.
Wait a minute. Wait. Teemo getting hit in the back. Even if this goes to timeout,
Teemo getting hit means the timeout's going to be good for Hikari.
Wait a minute. No! No, no, no, no, no. I don't think we have time.
I don't think we have time!
Yeah, it's alright, it's alright.
Oh my goodness!
Oh no, it won't function like your standard suit.
Your standard level 3.
It comes out, but then it does not interrupt the game in any way.
But the fact that, again with that activated,
the car was just going for as much a chip as possible.
All because Timo got hit in the back.
How quickly the pendulum could shift to 2xKO.
I think that's why Hikari was just dedicated to level 3 on block. He must have absolutely known there's nothing you can do that is actually going to take enough damage from each level.
But what a decision to make, right? In the heat of the moment, it could backfire, but that's the knowledge that will grow level knowledge.
And look at this, a Ken in the Mentum just does not stop Okari, fearless, fearless monsters, that's the word to do here, but opting to keep the break, so that they're saving him for a potential sun and fox comeback, the theory is going to be ready, jinx, I know I've said this before, but is a fantastic comeback character?
It does have the tools, but has to pop that theory immediately, however, and the car will be able to play as well, be full, light characters, which is really depressed, the tag will be mixed.
Push the clock as well, good awareness there from Inzem, just because you are down now, does not mean you cannot interact and save your duo partner.
The thing is, those nightrocks are okay there, there's the air strike hole, it falls out of it.
Okay, it was able to stay alive, but basically got nothing off of that eerie activation.
Now this could be much more of an honest comeback.
Back to me, still possible.
There's the air strike once again.
Oh wow, cut.
Oh man!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just like that, Ari is gone.
We're now one character, Beastman.
Ari is sitting on lots of meter and access to fury.
That's not right, it's been fury.
Seven, three, four, the fury's been popped.
We have dashcats available.
The first ones to get executed.
Twist the team out into the throat.
It was viewed.
Oh!
That's like Ari.
Sonic Bob does manage to find the hit however.
What are we gonna do now?
We're going to set up and create that distance, we're going to try and waste that fury time.
The next hit, by all means, should win the game. Two level 3s.
Sonic Fox, the patient's just holding down back.
There comes Teemo! Wait a minute, is this going to pick up?
Wait, no way! It might not!
No way! It might not!
It does!
What a confirm!
It's a win with the Claude Super Assistant, Sonic Fox, with the instant pickup on the level 3.
That looks like a crane one hit confirmed.
You barely had time to even see the Teemo was there!
Yeah, that was duo play right there. That's what that was.
Oh, that is absolute synergy.
And then some look at what they're working with now.
Off the back of that, it's Hakari on the back,
so again, mix and corner, all of this chip damage.
Oh my goodness.
It doesn't even matter that you're not getting hit!
Oh, that was a devious fan of chip damage,
but Hakari does manage to fight a hit.
I partly took a beating, but at least has loads of great life to get back.
A bit of a frame kill in the setup, he rocks that now, the team on the back end is taking
some pretty heavy damage down to about third life remaining.
Absolutely rocks though, there's events, it's just absolutely rock solid, cannot be opened
up, he trained these overheads, he trained these empty loads, nothing's going to work
all he can do is throw.
But by the time the throw comes out, there's no assistance to make it mean anything.
Hey, but this is the important thing, you can defend all that till the cows come home.
If you still go over to the bench, they're still achieving the same thing.
And now Hukari very much still in the driver's seat.
Can't extend from this though, unfortunately.
Now it's Inzem.
But Yusse has fantastic event for Jinx.
Ooh, takes a lot of damage here.
Inzem getting opened up, and uh-oh!
Sonic Fox now has to do another Jinx comeback scenario with a lot less to work with.
He's got the meter, sure, but not the hell!
Which is the most important meter of all!
Let's carry two zero wait a minute one game away from a bracket reset
You know a crowd you reckon we're getting a reset here
Hey to zero deficit it's still advantage, you know, sorry folks then it's a bit the grand scheme of things
They are still ahead in the set right they can afford to be sent to losers
All that will happen is, I reset at 0-0, so the car still has a lot to do, but what's the way of doing it?
The momentum shifts.
And especially with the back of that Cyclox, I'm at 2.
Alright, I'm shatable. I was a lovely little pick up there. I can't lie, I'm the fearless wake-up for the car.
Just in time, I really wasn't sure if I'd actually see going at the deep there, but either way,
Turn around here. You may be almost dead, but as long as you're able to press those buttons and tags, you can still make magic things happen, especially if you put them in the corner.
But we are reacting.
Level 1.
And try to avoid all the small mushrooms, obviously the big one's going to go through, but...
Well, it comes to Karling.
On the back end of the heavy load has been the magic choice for the Garry.
Stop it long. It's so hard to see.
Yeah, pick up the car. Do you see this usual block? Yeah, keep it as simple as possible spend the meter get rid of the jinx and now Timo
stuck solo
The man this this is what we're expecting to see. Sorry got sent into losers
We're breaking our top 24 territory and there's just been
possessed ever since
The mission is there Timo just sitting in the shroud like shaking the water mission. It's so sad
I mean oh
Ooh, we're taking a lot of damage too, the Super Assist!
Oh no! Absolutely SHUT down!
And that's it, Pat. Lord, wow, God!
And thank you very much. Bring me into a RESET point, says Ikari.
One round to go. Do we see the reset?
Or are the two gonna bring it back?
He says for Ikari, no stranger to this situation in general, at high level.
The absolute comfort, Hakari, they've been so set in his place. The defense has been impeccable.
There's the patience in neutral, just looking for that one moment and my word just running away with it.
That neutral coverage, this is against this. The team is still just new.
I feel like Hakari is doing such a good job navigating. I feel like Aria is actually spending most of the time in front because of this right here.
Aari is much better, I think, as the point character,
at getting through this kind of projectile, which is light field.
And then when you actually do get in, it's time to bring in Akali,
and then you know, get the knockdowns and the travel out.
I mean, that offends his layers upon layers though, isn't it?
There's so much to worry about.
You block the mix up, and then even then,
you got to worry about strike throws,
possibly the assist to come out from the back end.
Akari, so patient.
For the light fleet, there's no need to really overextend at the moment.
The 60 seconds on the clock, what's the rush?
Oh wow, Enzo actually choosing to go completely in?
Practically running down from full screen.
Trying to chase down, okay, Enzo maybe getting a bit more aggressive now.
Oh what a air two air!
Enzo confirmed two, goodbye, Akali.
Yeah, Enzo really kind of changing gears there.
However, this is still going to be Ari with the access to that Akari Super Assist, where
that strike throw game becomes a little bit more devastating.
Alright, that was quite quite a place to support it with.
Before they get skipped from there.
Oh wow!
Straight up rolls away!
The break wall was that mushroom, putting up that barrier to shy it down, however.
Oh what a 3-empty punch!
And there will not be a pure activation here.
Akari knows.
still have another round to work with. We can save that break and that break could come
in real handy in the starless next round. However, it remains reset point for the Kari
at the moment. The difference is night and day though. As soon as they are able to pull
up this neutral, that's a huge, it looks so bad. The big thing about this loading
number is that it really doesn't result in a huge amount of chip unless you can
start to chain those together. The gordic hurray can stay on the absolute furthest away on the screen.
Allow the trapper to miss, jump over those missiles. He's taking such little damage,
but there's the break. Wightly saved from the last round. On the back of this challenge,
do some box. Found a gap for a standing light and took it.
Mate, that air creamer is such a cheeky challenge. There are so many options from it!
All right, set up.
The patient put no.
We're opened up.
We'll be caught when the breaker has been forced.
It's going to be last minute water block, not enough to retreat and guard from Fox.
The reactions.
But I'll just back to level one.
Yeah, another time!
We clear the board.
I find it!
It's what we do now!
Okay, no, Mr. Ken!
Strange connections.
He's really need to maximize it.
Look at what's happening on the back of it! Oh, there's so much damage being done to this Akari now.
Not only is Teemo going to move, but he's going to rebound.
Was that intentional with Brad? To make him want to press something to the trap? It's doing that weird.
Dirty!
Now, the final character is Akari in this match.
Teemo, by all means, should be dead, but is healing all the way, and it's now cheap!
You have to worry about it as much as you can.
Oh, the two-
Wow!
She can come out of anywhere!
That even things up somewhat, though.
Well, the Kari reset the bracket right now.
Attack, okay.
Oh, but not this time.
There's so much bar on the side of Chicks too.
Super says,
Yep, and there it is!
We've seen this one before, Ketchup!
The confirmed!
Let's see if we get in two times in a row.
We live, we have fury, but are we going to have to chance another great one?
Oh!
Oh my!
A push for a freeing guard and we get to steal!
Turn it into a complex question!
Do we have a point to kill with them?
We make and we put it!
And then Kari resetting the brackets on a pullout on the break.
That is exactly the kind of decision that you would want to see reset the bracket
because that sends a message.
That is, I don't care that you're winning side ground in finals.
finals. I don't care that you've basically not dropped the game the entire time with the exception of what?
Maybe against the Twins was one game, but does not care.
Hikari was and still is Evo Japan champion.
Hikari is hungry for that Evo Vegas title and one set left to go. On the flip side,
SideBox and Inzem, they can afford to lose that set, but it's not something you would choose to do because this is,
we're talking momentum, we're talking mental fortitude, we're talking
information granted in those matches all of the above and it is now time for what
will be our final best of five. One more set out there folks you think you've got
one more India?
That's what I'm talking about. I can't wait to start getting up and just holding up forward.
Hungry for this. Now that has been a character change on the side of Sonic
And in their base, T-Mote R-Ree now, there is no more Jinx.
And that's the benefit you get, right? You kind of jump into what you need to.
They played once evenly in the last set, this is a new set, they can change.
Let's end this one round.
You can't always have a believer if you believe the player character is better than the opponent.
Not afraid to do a kind of mirror position.
And already, looking like this R-Ree is a pretty good choice.
The Synergies are working out with Wonders, there's that BT mushroom and the Polish in the role.
That's a cool combo and no doubt with that character.
Okay, that's a better start.
Now that's going to be the real question is how much of a difference is this team adjustment going to make?
So I bet we saw a decent amount of Jigs plays there in the set before,
but I think with the Jigs are down, Ari really is the character that Slyfox has spent the most time on.
There's that team wars. Barely there. Touched is that side. If you are going to go for a
character change, you better hope that it comes out like this, where, well, you get
the proofs and the pudding.
There's that turnaround from Ikari. We shoot. We push the boards. We create this situation
and we figure out what's going to come next.
Not the defensive choice, punish!
There is no Akali, so it's not going to send in too much,
and he'll leave me, he would be Kali and Waker.
Oh, that's so true!
I don't think I've ever seen that spell get lost, by the way.
But just what do you do? Like, Akali ends up behind,
you're with a teleport, suddenly you still have Ari in front.
Kari scores a hit on the, uh, Inzem as well.
Teemo taking heavy damage.
And there is no means to get a big extension,
First we're going to leave Tag in and go for a new Sabra Guard, and by all means,
Timo is going to take the big punishment.
I love the charge kind of moment though, because in order to defend my survival,
you obviously have to follow the active character, but as Ari is charging that,
well, perfect as well, as Ari is charging the H, Akari is jumping over you,
so you kind of have to see what, you know, basically where is Akari,
where is Akari next, and it looks like it's right across the...
You can see that Hakari is really, again, going deep into that bag of tricks now.
If you're never gonna do it in the grand final reset, when are you gonna do it?
I mean, Hakari currently 6-0 on this duo.
6-0? 3-0?
Not quite. Not there yet, maybe.
I mentioned I was just... You see, it's a future.
Oh, look at the air block string, but didn't quite get it.
I think I've got one hit in the calendar.
Way more shades than previous games, so we just let it...
Is it there? Let it happen?
Yeah, but we've seen Hakari do this in general against Akabla Teemo.
Especially with the Akali out, so you don't want to be impatient.
The worst thing you can do against these kind of projectile characters is just rush your way in.
Stake it along, every now and then you might be able to find a gap and try to close that distance.
By and large, if you are too impatient, that's what they want you to do.
You're almost daring you. Come on. Make a mistake.
I mean, I think you can clearly see too those good eyes who have wanted some job of just covering the mushrooms and getting you into the fun.
And then you've got the Ari at the same time. This team's so good at fighting T-Vote.
Let's get the big one. Let me try to face an instant air dash.
Pat some football forward as far as I'm too far away.
They're a whole different side. Not a huge amount of ground left to go.
Ari will be taking damage in the back.
At least Carly is able to punish should there be an overextension.
Man, Hakari blocking everything though, the defense has been immaculate.
Yep, still Hakari will not get opened up! Another block!
Oh, but an edge! Instant break, it's only a matter of time!
That was a lot of blockstring though, because now 20 seconds on the clock.
And with this combo, it's going to get very simple for Hakari to win this game.
They just build the Super though, going to spend it straight away.
Let's bring it to you now. But look at how long these combos are taking, Mustard. Does
Ikari even have time to win this? No, that's not the end. This is going to take out Ari.
There is just not enough time in the game. This will be a timeout victory to the duo.
Yeah, just get the watch out, make sure. Oh, run straight through it with the Throws.
I mean, even if that could actually do, what can you do? There is nothing, and
the timeout win goes to Sonic and Inzem. The character change makes quite a difference
here. A game on the board it was a very convincing 3-0. I guess Daryne lies the problem right?
If you are willing to play a very slow-paced game of the musical, when you finally do start
getting the ball rolling a little bit, you can have less time to play with it, which
might work out in your favour, as we saw earlier in the top 8, or it might not, and
you'll lose the game of the last one. In this top 8 it's historically proven
to be in the favour of Akari. Now at the first time it kind of worked against
Klaas. Risking that happening means being overzealous and just getting caught
the neutral, they're dying anyway.
Ah, there's patients on the flight.
Many people out there say they believe in the EV number one team out there,
and then you've got Fox for the capitalization reaction.
Perfectly, what a f***, what does he want to scary do?
That's why they've gone up in this right, they're going,
WAH!
Three straight forwards, one-sided set, three resets,
I think we got the case down.
Nice change.
So considering how many times we see that role play, we do still see a lot of players' options going forward.
You have to not be afraid to make these decisions.
Oh, I've recognized it was too far away.
Like that, Karry.
I guess defense is really good in the game of the game here, but no, open down.
Oh, they couldn't get more often.
I mean, Karry.
Immediately canceling recovery and then she puts in you blocking.
shut down the bus lanes, shut down the air defense, so the blocking is so good, but you have to wonder how long can you block
I mean, pretty darn long, we're putting that to test at the moment, because in them still refuses to get hit
the defense still fights at the pushbox, it always comes down to a grab, but when there is no assist, so who cares?
Now, unfortunately, you don't care.
I've got to say though, who knows for the blocking there.
It's a really willing to kind of take the throne in the instance,
but we know he's the character who's directing constant air dashes,
or just quick overhead options in the air.
Empty loads, assists, and dynamic hiding.
That's the thing, you're not just looking for the throne,
you're looking for the kingdom.
If there is no assist available,
then the throne is kind of the lesser of two evils,
or a million evils.
They pick up there. Another...
The Cypher as in, for instance, have been the most bloodstained.
No, they have all been so good. There it is again!
Oh, that's a catch!
It's not over, the Inzep is always ready with the perfect timing.
Is that Sonic's always ready for it to connect?
Oh, wow, a one-round up again.
Potentially threatening a 2-0 here.
The Inzep has just been master when it comes to defense.
Even if Inzep's not alive, the perfect timing for him to go for those assists
It's just inspirational.
Alright, let's start things off with the ground.
And then we play a good situation.
Ho ho ho, that was delicious!
And we still have four combos to go.
Alright, besides where do we play?
We freeze, silence!
There's the handshake!
Akali, must stay alive.
Okay, limit strike.
That's the server pressure.
It's hard to defend the game. It's going to depend on where she is as well.
Oh!
one by the canceling it's just the biggest plan you know okay it comes in
with the same outside switch which is big but you've got ari on the end set up
yeah on small simple but just a low on it no no need to over complicate things
He's there with Sonic Fox.
Yep, yeah, we killed the character. See you later.
Wow, and the adjustment has been so significant as Akari comes in with a very low Akari.
Lots of resources, lots of fury, but whatever.
Kill! Oh no! Kill! Oh no!
The happy birthday!
But the Teemo dying first does save the Ari. This match is not over.
Oh my goodness, the Thore-Tek! And there it is! The Super Sister get inside from above!
The chip damage, can you avoid it? The Thore-Tek again!
His Zephyr another time! The airstrike! He's coming back!
It's crazy how quickly this turned around. It's only so bad for him.
There's one more meter and it's been spent. But at the end...
Oh my god!
Curry!
That is unreal!
That was looking impossible for Curry!
Right up until that happy birthday!
And suddenly
it's the turnaround!
Alright, so the first bit of momentum
and the punish
the risk was taken
I'm sure thanks to that break
being available but sadly
having to use it already
You are in for a wall to her.
Oh, wow. Oh, pick up.
Oh, and the poison darts are just adding.
Ooh.
In one corner. Ooh.
Went through all of it. Hit the team mode.
Alright.
Situation.
All the way in the screen. I think I was just going out in the back roads, to be honest.
not hold back from that run. Nice, okay, okay. That was a really cute idea, but we'll
just figure it out.
I think the duo that saved the brakes was going to keep characters alive compared to earlier
sets, which may be used for the theory situations.
One minute. Shrouding.
Hey, Shroud up. Should help give me some extra tools to deal with the projectiles there.
Oh wow! Big Jack's in there!
Yep! Huge connection there!
And now Akari taking out the Arias. They'll be up to the team home.
Inzeph.
Inzeph has been so switched on this set.
Oh, but the push block!
Why do I get the feeling this close reset is going to go the distance muster?
I would hope so!
There it is, yep, Akari.
One game apiece.
No sweep in the final, but it's staying very competitive.
But it's interesting to see the development.
No, absolutely, you wouldn't want anything nice from the final.
That's what you want. The fit of massive character adjustment here, going back to Timo Ari.
This is the team we've seen the most on overall, to be honest.
But even in this top 8, we've seen Timo change, we've seen that the rash come out at the start.
And now, going back, that kind of drill tried true.
And we are going back to what we've seen throughout the course of this top 8, which is Akari understanding, so I don't need to rush this, I need to look for my moment, and there it is!
I'm telling you, if you just play careful, just make sure you avoid chip damage, your time will come.
Ooh, no, this is not yet, but it shouldn't have happened anywhere, Timo wouldn't have accepted this shot.
Oh, the parry!
N'Kari's getting some big connections, but not necessarily with the point character.
Ooh, hello!
Ooh, screen that projectile, it's gonna keep up.
All packs range!
That's huge!
Damn, this is just so much more than you would expect.
Right, we missed right there.
We shroud, and it's below this time, N'Kari!
taking out the other one.
Well you see the shroud go up and sometimes you think,
okay well there's a lot more to be worried on now.
With its claw grab, extructions, extensions of the two knives,
sometimes it's got to do a damage up low.
Alright, NZM mate, you've shown us this iron defense in the past,
you have to do it again.
No assist ready, so that does create some real estate,
really placed emo.
Nothing to go over the invisibility.
It gets shut down, however,
and changes down to retreating guards.
Beautiful parry to answer the tricepitch!
Go in there, mate, you're a god!
Alright, you're not gonna be dead?
Mushroom? Okay!
Best cake scenario two, limits try to get some of that pizza back.
Okay, parry to super-est, let's throw!
Oh my, well, in the back, come on!
Yes, the super-est, well, so you can't fury it!
Oh, wait, what's that thing about that? Come on!
Do you have time? That's five seconds! I don't think you can.
No, you can't. Another time that happens every time
Hikari is using the timer to his advantage. It's such a significant tool that his opponent
will just play patient. Eventually, when the timer becomes a threat, most of the
time he's in the lead!
Well, it's like you've been saying it's interesting because the Timo Ari, this is the Timo that wants to slow things down, but Makari's been in no rush.
The Timo is presumably falling to a crash like a father.
Oh, oh, no, that theory made massive heavy damage incoming.
Heavy duty, happy birthday.
Oh, fuck! Red! Timo! Timo is barely there!
We were basically one hit shy of a 2x KO at that point.
Yeah, we went for the break.
This is going to be a very, very difficult comeback to make you up both.
At death's door, yes Teemo's got most of Grey life,
but Ahri doesn't really have the health to stay alive.
The fact that Hikari got that damage,
then again got hit and immediately popped that rake of response
It's just, again, it's a game of momentum.
Hakari was just really on it there to finish off the game.
If I can somehow pull this off, I will be amazed, but let's see.
It's gonna be damaged.
Much more OK in the low.
All of a sudden, with that gray light remaining, the meter and that fury,
this comeback just became so much more possible.
It's usually there, like, when do you want to pop the fury?
Will you try?
Oh, it's connected. You've got court-paston.
But the bonus damage there.
Crouch block.
Shots it down entirely.
Watch out!
Spated out the fury!
But there was no fury to be had!
Holds onto it and still bites!
Not gonna confirm.
It's then.
Can you do it?
Unbelievable, the clutch from it's end.
To stay alive in such dire circumstances.
I can't believe it. Yo, we're dead even again.
What is going on?
I cannot believe Inzem found that.
It's almost like we're watching the best players in the world.
I know, right? Crazy.
Who would have thought?
The unbelievable, unbelievable level of composure.
Pressure forward.
Catch me in the air again.
Defense on both ends, looking pretty strong so far.
All the delay.
Gonna hit his mark, Akari.
So much safe as the lead right here.
By the set, they completely split down the middle, but...
After that last round's comeback, they expect the unexpected forever.
The delay into the grass, and now empty loads.
It breaks way more important to keep the character alive.
But no! We're gonna take it out anyway!
And now Ari! Go on net!
Ho-ho!
Ah, let's go from bad to worse this round.
Kari on the verge of being up 2-told-1.
He's playing on the verge, I say, inevitable.
Yep, Azuna dropped!
Thank you very much.
And one step closer, we creep slowly but surely
to the end of this tournament with Kari.
But I mean by no means are we done. It is not over until it's over.
I know it's the same that's been said many times, but it really is true here.
These games are unpredictable. Whether it's these crazy comebacks,
it's these these hard quads holding on to break inferior desperate times in a way that just works out.
Last ditch effort, like timeouts. But who knows where we're going to go now.
This could potentially be the final match, maybe.
Banking on this team, Ikari needs one more to be your champion of the EVO 2026 2x KO, but,
if Sonic Godson isn't have something to say about it, they will see it not so right.
Ari set that, oh dear, that break, no doubt had to come out otherwise that is dead T-Mode
especially of that star. Sonic Godson fighting back, remember folks, most recently James T,
the R-Enter the Kings, of which has been so much more useful.
Oh, it's been a game-changer.
Absolutely, this is the team that's spent most of their time on right.
It's got a surprise.
Oh, but a catch.
The long-range standing like the counter hit too.
That reactive light was just so in Hakari's head, saying,
I know exactly what you're gonna do here.
In 10.
10 up.
Oh, wow.
So, come pick up the mitts and covers with the assist for Kari!
So ready to keep the Akari alive there for what looked like a massive win, but ended up being a huge advantage!
There's gonna be just Sonic Fox left to come back demanded, Inzem in the previous game,
there's the unthinkable with the comeback.
Inzem, the positioning of these Super Assist has just been so good.
Yeah, Harry, I mean, you're saying you're on tons of life, sure, but a lot of resources.
Oh, wow, huge opening, do you, Fury? You can't really, right? Yeah, had to wait for the character to disappear.
You have to be so careful with your break timing when an assist has been used in the combo
because that handshake reaction to block is ever threatening. Oh, no!
Jump cleans completely over! Are you kidding me? Now, do you have a way of getting past this
this and doing enough damage past the fury. There's level three. Okay, that's gonna be enough!
Akari now is gonna be on tournament point! Being able to find that last hit right at the final moment,
the focus has been laser pointed throughout this top eight, and now only one round stands in your way.
They look so unbelievable to me. This is their final challenge.
If you want to see them two are bringing to a final game, you've got to let them know!
Let's not speak too soon about Hakari in the massive lead. The setup is good again.
This is the scariest thing about Hakari. When you get those full situations,
situations and we start seeing the weird set-ups and that's the layer right now
and is Ari already gone? There's no way! There's no way! The Izuna drop takes our
Sonic Fox and now it is all up to Intem! Hikari, the world championship is right
in front of you! All you have to do is reach out and take it! It's yours!
We are on the verge of a perfect year and that would be a ridiculous way to
end things Intem mate! You did the impossible, come back for more and we'll see you have to try it again!
But without theory, we're moments away from building it!
This is looking all Hikari!
Hikari's working on the perfect!
A massive jump back from Inzep, that'd just to find the hit!
Will this be enough? The Super Assist cannot pick up though!
Hikari has a lot to work with yet all the advantage in the world,
but can you afford to push the advantage?
The stroud is up, just getting slow again, even though I'm comfortable.
There's still time on the clock, there's no need to rush.
The defense remains as you know, you cannot take a single significant hit.
Here comes the super assist, and the mix is real!
We live, but for how long?
Okay, the ins and the theories there.
It's gonna be hard to find the same way of activating it.
Wait for attack. Okay, it's blocked.
We're gonna pick up on this.
No break from Hikari, by the way.
We're keeping things bold.
Okay, you wanna keep going?
Want to save that safety net?
Absolutely do.
They're playing such a neutral job. Okay, M7, what read our time?
Do you keep the duo alive? They're playing as a duo, but right now it's all up to M7.
Oh! It's a good point! They're going to do this! And it goes!
It carries! It goes! Not only to EVO Japan, but to EVO Las Vegas!
What a ridiculous display. Unstoppable laser focus
And the championship will earn undisputed 2xKO world champion.
Hekari, crowd, make some noise for your new world champion!
The respect coming out of the fight box and in there, the second place finish,
you know they were coming for that number one, but man, the level of play in this game is so
close yet when it counts the most it's Akari consistency your greatest player
on the planet I can't believe it I cannot believe it running it all the way
back from losers bracket the duo Sonic Fox and MZ looking unstoppable in that
win-or-side but until they met Akari what champion in every sense of the
Evo Japan champion, Evo Vegas champion, wow!
That one deniable, the best player in the world.
Honestly, for me, as we go through these three plays here, Grand Finals,
presented here by PlayStation Tournaments, this was a perfect time.
Even starting off, I said before, the sheer intensity before this match.
These are training classes they have met in tournaments before they will meet in
tournaments again. But meeting in tournament on Evo, Top 8 States, Grand Finals, I am not
surprised we saw them give what they gave. What a fantastic game. Man of the hour,
man of the tournament. I mean just an inspiration to what this is about.
The same TV you've really come around before, you've both sat locked in to the Akali in Aari,
you've been walking in ever since, to a card limitless effect.
That's no wonder this crowd got so into it.
That one. Go crowd!
Gesson, you enjoyed that one!
You've all been fantastic, we love you so much.
And, well, then, that's all about Vagenio.
It's way the same.
I guess about a few of the different players in that Top 8
is when you see him playing minimal emotion, like ice cold.
Ice cold, but as soon as the match is over,
it's either crushing disappointment or explosive positivity.
And that's why these players are so serious.
They love it, man. They live for this.
And it's all about that, that Evo Grand Finals.
Congratulations to her, Mario. My word.
Well, I hope everyone at home enjoyed that as well.
It's been a whole weekend full of crazy activities here.
And 2xKO, you know, it's here to stay that much,
is sure, right, has put so much support in
to this offline scene, the online space.
Say, well, I'm going to stop yapping,
be happen because we've got an award ceremony and some well deserving top
players to give their prizes take it away Robby. Ladies and gentlemen that was
absolute insanity make some noise for 2XKO Top!
It is time for our award ceremony if we can please get our medals for all of
to our amazing players starting off with in seventh place,
Noka.
Also in seventh place, Globo.
In fifth place, the duo, the twins, Toshi and Haru.
And fifth place, the young phenom, BLEEEE!
And fourth place, the definition of clutch, POOLGAR!
And third place, the legend himself, Super Noon.
And second place, legendary duo, Sonic Fox and Hizoo.
And in first place, your EVO Vegas champion in 80s, Hiccoli!
And absolutely phenomenal top eight.
For our top three competitors, we definitely
have something special from Vermillo.
Gold, silver, and bronze sticks.
And look, they actually make sure to have two of them
for our duo.
Ladies and gentlemen, our top eight, absolutely phenomenal.
One more time, put your hands together for the 2XKO.
Top eight!
Now, if someone could please with great care take Hikari stick, we have to have a conversation
my brother meet me up here center stage for the winners interview connected by AT&T Hikari.
We seen the documentary you and your mother talking about how much her and your father
and all of your friends back home support you and they're all watching right now.
Do you have any message for them and how does it feel to get this victory for them?
I want to say thank you for supporting my friends and my family.
And this was an incredible win.
One Evo Japan, now one Vegas from Losers.
So it was a very, very good win.
There's a certain level of intensity when you play
that's not common throughout any fighting game in history with any player.
You've even said that you believe confidently that your work ethic is stronger than everyone else's
and it looks like it. What fuels that? My friends winning a lot of Evo, my fourth Evo,
motivates me to win this, win every event. Okay and last thing you went to the loser side
early on before top 24 if I'm not mistaken you fight all the way back how
did it feel to drop down the losers as the top C and how do you keep your
composure to win it all it felt really really sad I thought I was gonna have a
straight path but my friends supported me so I can do it in my rivals so I
had to finish the job ladies and gentlemen your champion the man himself
Can we please bring the champion his trophy that he fought so hard for from
the loser side legendary back-to-back evil Japan it's an evil Vegas champion
Make some noise for Ikoru!
Alright ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna go ahead and send these back over to our commentators
We'll call it fast.
Thank you so much, Rob TV.
Well, we have a few minutes to go
as we get the stage ready for the post-top eight announcement
that Riot have been teasing going into this.
There's still something left to see, so don't get me there,
but I just want to say as well, on a personal note,
I'm very surprised that we were up here today.
You ain't kidding.
Very grateful to be here,
so thank you so much for having us be your commentators.
I hope you have enjoyed the show,
We love you all so much. Thank you for being so great. Thank you everybody. Thank you to Evo. Thank you to Riot. Thank you to those of you watching at home. I hope we haven't been too unnerved.
But thank you all so much. But this has been a splendid topic. We could not have had an easier time, you know, because when the matches are this good, I mean, we're just enjoying the show.
You know what I'm saying? But Hakari in the best seats in the house. I mean, that's what I'm saying. Second best seats in the house.
But on that note, I'm going to stop talking.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
We're going to send you back to the stage
because we've got some information to answer.
OK, so we just send it back to the stage
for some information.
You guys are all looking up here as if you want something,
as if you're trying to see a certain type of video.
Ladies and gentlemen, do you want an announcement
from Ryan for 2XKO?
It's time.
Oh, no, we got all these people in here.
This is the FGC, that top eight was absolutely fire.
I need even more energy.
Are we ready for an announcement for 2XK-O?
Oh!
Yeah!
Okay, there it is, right there.
Let's get to it.
Hey, what's up everybody?
It's me, Justin Wall, and I'm here to reveal
the next 2XKX.
No challenger was just one combo.
What is this?
It is a fight stick.
The last twins we love playing this game together.
Every time we're on it, we're just constantly on it.
I'm sorry.
What 2XKL needs more?
More arcane champs.
Harder combo try.
Can we use Team Fight?
The best thing to happen to 2XKL.
Team Fight is the worst thing to happen to 2XKL.
and now somebody at Evo or double it give it to the next person.
Together, we'll light up the dark.
I
Yeah
fire and lots of announcement out of the park.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's how we do it right here at EVO.
This is finals day and of course,
we do have to take a short break,
but do not go anywhere because we'll be right back
with Talkight for Tekken 8.
See you guys soon.
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It's much more than just playing, just being a part of this community.
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I'm from Paris.
It's a very large and very family-like community,
and we find ourselves well in this French community.
The first fighting game I played,
I think, I would say Smash Bros.
And I also discovered Geeky Gears Drive.
Frankly, it was a great discovery.
That's when I joined the FJC community
and I was able to make serious competitions.
What attracted me about Geeky Gears is its design.
It's a design that is very good.
We are the main artists of the world.
It's mechanical, it's gameplay.
It's a video game.
It's a way of playing, it's very aggressive.
It's a rhythm, it's a mix-up.
It's very, very, very varied.
It's a game that I like a lot.
And I can think a little bit of Captain Falcon in SNF.
Thank you, excuse me. You're all right now.
I think we have a game where we have a plan and I think there is nothing better than how I predict the game to come out.
One, these six.
Yeah!
Jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump.
Thank you guys, thank you very much.
Before we get into some more top-hates we have an announcement to go through.
So let's be real.
Earlier this month at Summer Games Best, Sega wasn't playing around.
They kicked the door clean off the hinges with the reveal of Virtua Fighter Crossroads.
It hit different and the whole scene felt that.
It wasn't a comeback, but a bold new direction and complete evolution.
Blending cinematic action and adventure storytelling in the city of Villasparra with the hard
hitting brutal martial arts combat that only Virtua Fighter can deliver.
We saw familiar faces, got a glimpse of a new challenger, but trust me, that was only
the beginning.
Because right now at EVO, Sega cooked up something special just for all of you.
first look at an all-new playable character coming to Virtua Fighter Crossroads in 2027.
Let's meet our next fighter.
Who is that guy? Why are you chasing him the other day?
How is this possible?
I don't know what's going on.
Virtua Fighter Crossroads dropped next year.
in 2027. You can join the discussion at VF Crossroads on all platforms right now. One more
time, make some noise for SEGA and the legendary series, Virtue Fighter!
Alright, I know everyone is very excited to get into our next top eight, but before we
do that, we're going to have a little fun. You guys down for a little fun, maybe some
giveaway is equal with that out there. Alright I want to welcome everyone to the
EVO prize launcher presented by AT&T but I'm gonna need a little help first from
someone that's backstage please help me with the warmest welcome to one of the
pillars of the FGC for years and years and years please everyone give it up
for Justin Wah.
Surprise, Launcher! This year we see the return of some familiar faces!
DomTV, Yikes, and Justin Walker.
Hey guys, your MTC favorites are about to take to the stage and fire prizes into the crowd!
Who will be our lucky winners?
You're gonna learn today!
All right, all right everybody hold on hold on hold on before it even gets excited
We're gonna have to go through a couple of the rules
So please everybody pay attention
We're going to be throwing out some shirts as well as Justin shooting
So I would recommend ducking if you have a hard hat put it on maybe run to the back
I've seen Justin drive
I've seen Justin drive, but listen hold on guys real quick
Anyone, please listen, anybody that gets a shirt from Justin, do not open it.
You guys familiar with the concept of Santa Claus in Christmas morning?
I am Santa Claus.
We do not open our presents until the morning, alright?
Nobody open anything until I say so.
Are we cool?
Are we good?
Do we understand the assignment?
Justin?
Go get him, brother.
Maybe over here, yeah.
Woo!
Don't open that!
I'm getting out of the way.
I don't want to be near Justin.
I don't want to be near him.
Woo!
All right.
Don't open that back there.
All right, we got it again, Justin.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's get to the right.
Good shot, Justin. I'm getting the line of death for this one.
Let's go, Jay. Let's go, Justin.
Boom!
All right.
Oh, we added shirts. We're officially out of shirts, right?
Hold on. Wait a minute. Look at that.
Okay, hold on a second, this one that Justin is shooting, you can open this one, okay?
The other four do not open.
You can open this one.
This way, this way, come over here, Jake.
Let's get some love over here.
There we go.
Yeah, Justin, yeah!
This way!
Yeah, they deserve it.
Alright, you can open that one. You guys can open that one.
Alright, we're officially out of shirts now, okay?
Justin, come to the center with me so we can do this together like a team, right?
Okay, can everybody please...
Everybody take a seat if you don't mind.
everybody take a seat besides the first four shirts that got shot if you got a
shirt okay we got one right there who else I mean you don't have to come up
here if you want that's all right right now you guys can open up those shirts
Everyone open? Okay. What do you got? You guys, you guys just want a free smart phone given
to us by our friends at AT&T. That is a free smart watch from our friends over there.
So good stuff, guys. You can go visit the booth that is on the showroom floor, but
make sure you get there before it closes. So again, if you want to take a break
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I want to thank AT&T out there for always keeping us locked in and connected.
you very much. Round of applause for AT&T. Thank you guys very much. Justin, you're gonna learn today.
All right now one more time before we get into some tech and top eight. Y'all ready for tech and
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Well, I guess that's all for this video.
When I played the game in the game called Soulfighter 4,
I really remembered that I had something to take with me.
I don't see myself quitting for at least maybe 20 more years.
I was really nervous.
It's much more than just playing, it's being a part of this community.
Welcome back everybody to EVO 2026.
And we are at our finals day and you all might know the game that we're about to play who's familiar with some Tekken 8, baby
I know we're hype I know we got some amazing matches up there
I'm sure you guys saw everything leading up to the top eight, but
Can I get a good-ass Tekken chant real quick because we might have a reveal in the back
So the latter you get maybe the reveal would be more so let me get a good-ass Tekken
Good as packet!
All right, now do you want a Tekken 8 reveal or what?
Let's see what we got.
Not here, as a run.
Ah!
Sh!
Oh, my God!
Sh!
Shoot shots! Just don't work on my perfect body!
You know what I love being the only game?
No, no, no.
This is not a game.
It also means the Slate Devils.
Huh?
Stop moving!
Get your fucking things out of here!
Burn my back!
Burn my business!
You'll need to spend the rest of your life cutting for all your sins.
We got Bobby and Roger coming back.
How about that for some Tekken?
All right, now finally, are we ready for Evo 2026?
Tekken 8, top eight.
Let's get the Tekken 8 intro video presented by Visa Rollman.
Let's keep the energy high and now it's time for the top 8 player introduction presented
by FISA.
And first we've got Kossi B.
player we got is Raiju and the legendary Arslanas!
The infamous Low-High!
Make some noise for Nobby!
Here we go for Mel!
And the mad John D!
And finally, and finally, Ninja Killer 2-1-2.
everybody one more time please give it up for this year's top eight second-aid
players presented by AT&T that's makes a boys never commentators I'm gonna take
you through the game we got tasty Steven and why gay
Welcome everybody. This is Evolution 2026 for some tagging a top 8 action here. Are you guys ready for it Steve?
You got to handle with it man. Bro y'all know what time it is. Y'all know what time it is. All I ask when I'm in evil
I only ask one thing. You need to get loud. Evil are you ready? You guys get loud. I said evil are you ready?
We're ready for some good ass packing here and man the competition has been fierce all the way up here man that no
B match against Autif to even make it in here. It's been crazy man the competition is never as high as that
Bro, we came into this not knowing who's gonna make you right we have our son Ash
We got lo hi who's returning our tip was right there on the tip right there. Oh my gosh
Yeah, who do we know that could actually take it people access this question all the time
Who's gonna take it? We say we don't know they say they don't believe us. It's actually crazy
Let's take a look at the predictions though. Yeah, absolutely big shout outs to PlayStation
Tournaments and you guys can predict the player who you want to win for this tournament along with us as well
Steve, do you have a favorite for one of these players?
Dude, I don't know.
I just like good games, man.
But look, I gotta say, this dude, Ninja Killer, is looking way too strong, has been too long
since we had a U.S. player up here representing us, though.
But of course, it's too easy to say that, because you got people like Arslan Ash up
there.
You got people like Rangchu up there, Tasty Rangchu up there.
And you can see the numbers right now, rising, glowing, they're actually showing.
But N.A.'s favorite, the rising star, Ninja Killa.
He's been around since the tag two days.
And you know what?
I think your man would say,
Arslan Ash, at the final format, evil, unstoppable.
But I'm pressing X and I'm believing in my heart.
I'm going with Ninja Killa.
Ninja Killa taking the 42% of the people say
that it will be Ninja Killa.
And hopefully it's not bias, right?
Hopefully it's not bias, right?
But I'm just saying, I know what my heart wants.
my heart wants a USA champion,
bro, it's a lot of haters out there USA Tekken, bro.
So I got to make sure it's been a while.
They represent properly, you know.
The last time we had USA representation here was 2023
and the biggest hockey for Tekken 8.
Gang is gone, first evil ever, fourth place
in Anakin with the tide for fifth right after that.
So this has been a long time coming.
It's the first time for Tekken 8.
We're getting an NA player up there,
but let's go ahead and take a look at the bracket.
Let's see how we got here.
Who the players are up here today?
Kosti Meir is branding in from Pakistan going up against
Rang Joong Winnerside and then of course the 7th time EVO champion.
Arson Ash looking to make it an 8th today going up against the TWE,
defending champion, Rohan.
That's true in the same year he can get a TWT final and he can get a EVO championship.
But of course on that losing side, a long standing traditional team in Tekken.
Timia Massa's Nobilo legend going up against Korea's Mal Eil going to be that first match
And of course the second match on the lower bracket meaning they will be eliminated will be John Dering by Tali Dronding
Versus since Ninja killer 2 1 2 that's career versus USA and that's going to be crazy
Yeah, absolutely. And that's the wild part is that was already a dump. That's the double jeopardy match
They already played yesterday. So Ninja kills run was wild because he up until the low hat matchup
He was going to all to all against the majority of the killers out there. I mean look if we talking about somebody being strong
I mean we got to talk about you know the path to victory and the victory win path presented by white cloth search
Casimir is gonna be first up in this guy's actually ridiculous
I mean a lot of people kind of like written them off, but look at his path chaotic October October member
It's a crazy name line zero clock Jimmy J
train. That's crazy. He just heard me right there. And Olsang, a two-time EWC champion.
More gold. He's been almost unstoppable this year. And as well as Autif, that
match was crazy. It is a crazy path to get there. Wow. Cost is near same on the
winter side. What a journey to make it up to the top eight. And of course, we
have Varell's ranch. You coming up here as well. What up against Tritcars,
NCP 0-39 in the pools round one. Then we have killers like Shin Paolo.
Dapper Edge in round 2, Ikari, the evil Japan champion in the top 48 and more yields making it to top 8.
Well look, you already know I'm a big fan of Ranchew, so I'm trying to lead my bias aside, but I feel like once again you see some of these names.
I feel Ranchew, even though he is a multi-time TWT champion that's been on the stage multiple times, you might forget about him.
But I hope you don't, because he's in the winner's side, and he has an opportunity to go to their finals and grandfights.
Absolutely. I'll never count him out. The only two-time TWT champion still.
Yep to this day. Yep. It ain't easy, bro. One of the hardest tournaments in the world to win. He's won it twice in two different games
Yeah, seven to eight, but this is gonna be the first matchup. We're gonna be having bro. I'm super excited
It's the Pakistan versus Korea rivalry going at it to start off the setting today
people
Talk about the rivalries in Tekken
Pakistan versus Korea is the most important story in saying now. Yeah, bro
This I told you it's the sands coming to the Tekken world
It's nothing but Pakistan players the John a tip. I mean farzine all of them come in and just kind of like claim in their spot
But Korea's fighting back now
Champion was Korean and the fights that happened to even get to this point tell a story about how that it could be any one
Of these regions coming out in front. So this match is integral to that story
Oh interesting because the last two evils here in Vegas were won by Arsenal Pakistan, right a tip right there
right behind them. But you know, Korea ranked you when it's the first seed of the T-fines.
And then Low High wins the last one. So it's like Korea to Pakistan, Korea to Pakistan, back and forth, back and forth.
Well look, when it comes to these kind of matchups, I feel like people don't understand this last
an entire lifetime. Yo, shout out to the crowd here at Evo hanging out. They gave you guys Glowsnakes
to help you make noise. And that's what I like to say. The best seeds, the best seeds in the house.
Cash the view here. I said coffee in front of everybody. Let's go
JD and the boys out there, but it's really interesting to see how
Yo, Anakin over there chilling of course, he's in the red bull section kicking it JD. Don't ever cut your hair, bro
It looks too cool. Don't do it. I said it on camera because I want you to know I meant it
Yeah, I see what's going on with this point.
I'm telling you, I want my homies to all have a long air.
I want all my homies to have a long air.
But it's been a long path for a lot of these players getting here, I gotta say myself.
And it's not been easy because literally the best players in the world showed up.
I mean, you got Arsenal trying to get eight of these things, bro.
He's on quite the run.
Rangchu just actually getting a big title like this.
I mean, of course, after being a TWT champion,
can see me if this would be something amazing.
It's just be a big, uh, for Cosimo Nero as well.
You know, like a lot of these players, they want a big victory, like an Evo or EWC or a TWT final,
but it's so hard to get there.
But this is the only style where it's like open bracket tournament.
People always ask me what is Evo like.
And I'm like, guess what it's like to enter a basketball tournament and fight Michael Jordan, LeBron James.
And then you're still going.
You know, like that tells a very different story about your path
when it comes to being like a professional player, especially at the level these guys are playing in.
in a brand new game that has definitely changed quite a bit from then to now.
Yeah, it's going to change season three now, a lot of quality of life changes,
a lot of parallels going to be reduced with a lot of the heat adjustments.
But a lot of these players have been keeping up to date with the patches
studying, and that's what makes them a world class competitor, right?
You've got to do the homework to be up here.
Well, look, man, I'm glad I got you up here with me, bro.
Speaking of homework and all the homework, aficionado.
And it's always a pleasure to be on the mic with you, man.
You've been killing it as always, but also one of the highly
players that I respect.
And it's one of the reasons I like being up here talking about these games to you.
But let's talk about the TWT build up to this point.
We already saw what happened at Evo Japan.
We just came from the mix up where Nobby, another one of our players was on a tear.
It looks like it continued over to Evo Japan.
Not done yet.
Dude, that last set yesterday for him to qualify into the top eight against
Ahtib when Ahtib was like it's low time.
It's low and go time.
And then Nobby with the sickest low parry to make that clutch comeback was phenomenal.
I mean, that's a highlight of evil by itself probably one of the craziest man
One of my highlights of evil is that match between a tiff and no be like no questions
X so the fact that we're about to get a potential run where he can go even further in the bracket like this is
Gonna tell you quite the story
We saw a lot of emotions to from a lot of the players to like John the ding and then of course that we've got a
Moille as well when they qualified into top eight and also learning their spot and to EW speed as well
So it's like double whammy for that and you can tell how much passion they were showing
I mean John Dean is one of the players we've been talking about then these last like five to six years from Tekken 7 on to 8
Has been making these big strides and I mean the big sign of vitality is only like kind of increased that push
Yes
Now he's got like cheerleaders in the crowd
But he's playing to get to that level and now he's got an opportunity to get a evil title under his belt
Do it last year evil friends run her up against Arslan when he got to number seven, right?
Yeah, but it was really looking like John Dean until the Arslan buff kicked in so there's a lot of stories a lot of
International I mean my will just the same man one of the strongest players in Korea
He's traveled so much been a long-standing place or an anchor and now has an opportunity
To get into not only being this topic
We'll make it to grand finals and find it out obviously coming from that little bracket not gonna be easy
But still an opportunity nonetheless
I'm always really impressed with my old because it's like in the previous game. He played
Marduk and Geese. Yeah, it's like he never played Jack in the older game
So it's just like the way that he adapted to techniques Jack in this playstyle
Especially with the heat system and the gamma how armor and when to use it. He's been so on point
But here we go. We got the players up on stage
Hey, tossing me or going up against Ron to for the first match of pop 8
Yeah, man, we're about to get into it and this is about to be electric. Yo, Evo
You got still with me makes some noise for me one time
But also I will be asking you you guys want to win this is all part of the question years, you know I'm saying
like he was taking the test.
He's ready to ask, wait your turn, okay?
He's just the lucky post.
He's letting his hair down, I'm gonna lie down.
That's the serious camera pose right there.
You understood the assignment.
You look a beautiful Vegas.
Love you guys.
You guys are great.
Here we go, top eight, Tekken 8.
Game one of top eight Tekken 8 finals here at EVO 2026.
Las Vegas, get ready, make some noise!
If I dance now, we will have an Evo Champion, we might have a returning Evo Champion event.
The biggest stories here is this top A, arts and dash, on winter side.
But here we go, Hassid Mir, walking into Hassid's center.
You just find a lot of support on this one.
Big size 24.
Big damage.
Oh, gotta go for counter.
Okay, wait a minute, you said wall plant?
Whoa!
I step from a city near but lost my heart to convert from
Oh in page
The operator to go in to the smash balcony break is a factor
Defense on the wall not good enough gets the wall flat
Near looking strong
I like the small folks nice running through to over the low
Oh, nice challenge with the 1-1.
Oh, chase the batswing down with the down four.
Big counter hit, too, gets the knockdown.
And look at this offense.
Ranch, you know him for not being able to move.
But when he's got a character with the limbs that
can reach you while you move, then he takes full advantage.
Oh, yeah, he's used to the big win fair player for years.
Good one.
Nice splash though, with the down four 1-4.
That's a lot for the splash.
3, now 4 again.
Big counter hit.
Man, him sprinkling in these long range
Lowell really does keep, no matter who he's fighting like on their toes.
A lot of players will say that Lowell's launch launch was too dangerous to use that off the putt.
But Rangchu showing him just how effective that Lowell is.
Okay, gets the backswing blow, running 3-2 again, both of them still happy.
Gaining 1, round 3.
This car wheel will cause a stand-up to how 4-3 plus 4 is going to be the lockdown.
Oh, I want one.
I don't know where.
It's been screwed up.
No!
The passive Rangchu sidekicks right there.
How do the air gets a floater? Can we convert?
Nice carry too!
Ooh, wallp the wall! Big damage out of the way!
Oh no!
Many wall hits!
Ugh!
Stratasize step met with the down 4-1, goals for the low.
And then it has a power up though, so it's not gonna be a natural call of sweet.
You know, betting it though, either way!
Wow!
The little shimmy on the wake of a tag.
Just dashed up, back dashed, stayed out of range to get a 3 and with 100.
I like the way he played that. Great patience on the side of the rank, True.
But also, like I said, staying calm, right?
Nose of the has these long range wins.
He can definitely reach out and tag you while you're trying to get away.
But I love he always checks those attempts with like the big lows, the crunchy lows.
He's sprinkling them in. They're talking about 4-4-3.
It only does 20 damage, but it feels like it mentally does 35, like a throw damage.
Going back to the stage select.
But it gets its mental damage.
Oh, but here it is.
And no more playing that last character we switched back to the main main, Sabina.
I mean, speaking about Lowe, she's got some tricky Lowe's herself,
but she also has a whole stance to facilitate it to, right?
Makes you guys just a little bit more, but I'm sure Ringchu has ran into this matchup before.
Okay, I'll deal with the locking hand and back one to stop sign.
No way for that.
Come on, chip away.
That's Sabina's specialty, chip away, we'll rank you, answer him back, counter down four.
Stand 3-1 screen, trying to force to that wall, I'd like to check.
Sabina is using her low jammerers.
Ah, hit the wall splat.
Hey Dan, the game's coming.
We're even gonna find the CX screen now.
I know we got that one gone, but we wanna see you in one game.
I've been asking for this whole time, the smash.
Aren't you not even gonna get a chance to use his heater there?
Wow, strong round to Kostya here.
You're talking about how you feel like you should not
slow down around the thing and feel like it's a tool.
We gotta use it.
Gotta use that meter.
Now three goals in the stands has range two on the wall.
Good power crush out of trouble though.
Trying to get off this wall.
Kostya's here doing a great job of being there, running me out though.
Side step to the right, finally gets out of it.
Oh, the stinky leg.
The faint, the ghostly heat.
Or is it the wall, the route, a walk up on him?
Not that out of it. He just wanted to look.
Window shopping, window shopping for some punish.
There's one on one.
Big dust next time.
Oh, nice punish. Maybe there was an accident on the back one.
Unfortunate there for Cassie.
Lot of peace.
Mid check before the low.
Wow.
He hit her because she canceled the stand.
He hit her standing.
There goes now 4-1.
Big launch.
I swear those are not normal head, but he's getting them all on counter hit ranked you have a considerable amount of prey you can heal it
Oh my gosh, he dashed out of here. He could have got more. He thought I was grounded doesn't matter answers right back
You gotta be careful right she loves doing it gets the big counter. He's gonna be big damage here to the wall
my goodness
I want play though. What's the combo routing? He tried to break it
Oh this time feel no power up though. Oh, what a down jab. He drops the heat smash good armor
Speaking of heat burst still has time to block
Oh
Wow, it's a way
Get up out of here
Oh my gosh, the body into the casket, creepy bug lady, the lady hates Rachel, and I hate spiders.
That's what you should say, I hate spiders.
I rack the bogus kicking it.
Cosy Amir is sticking it out with us, Amina.
Does he have something different for us? No hatchers here on this stage?
Well, but Rang, she wants to get us going, man.
I can stop him. He's out of pen double against the wall,
but it hasn't really been able to like really close out the round there.
I'm coming here to get some way for you.
Especially, besides that you're staying away from the wall.
Nice big counter hit here.
Especially if you run into a move like a jet kick like that.
Lucky break for Cassie.
Didn't eat the wall combo.
I am very careful about wall.
Oh, a third hit.
I didn't want two.
Put that down for a game of big counter hit.
I swear, that's a normal hit. They're all countered it every time. He does it
He's just like a timing read on the downpour
Out of the air really hard to step that down for a lot of block mom
If the keel out of the air with the counter down below oh
definitely needed that man stop that momentum only 12 seconds left until the
clock before you got that call.
That was a grippy.
Big grippers.
Put the other mid on.
Put the mids on.
Start to move.
Start to move a little bit more.
Especially with the house game.
The ranch you've got one piece in and the timing has been so good.
Ending up forward through over the low.
Another triple sidekick.
What's he doing with that?
He went for the throw.
Not close enough.
Oh my God.
and it's still good and the off-floor through over the low.
Another triple sidekick.
What's he doing with it?
He went for the throw.
Not close enough.
Oh my god.
He's going for a deal.
Help!
All of them.
Rage who instantly answers back with a dominant ramp.
The branch shooter is looking ridiculous.
This pomp-a-pomp is a problem right now.
And this floor is lava.
Oh, and chest as he said it.
There it goes.
Into the wall.
Oh
Side step doesn't get him out of danger of the heat burst still hits checking with the loans range you cut you off to every corner
Oh
They're all adding up. Oh my god
And then low crushes the down jab with the running three
Three old games with the ranch you once again not an easy match
Yeah, he had a sick Julio.
Yeah, and especially on a big party character like this with excessive range like that,
you know, excellent range on a lot of his tools like standing 3, the jet kick from downtown,
the 3 plus 4, and the 4-4-3, huge chunky low.
It's just like, he knows how to use all these tools perfectly.
And we've seen him do a lot of things like, you know, he's got a lot of stuff,
3 plus 4, and the 4-4-3 huge chunky low, it's just like, he knows how to use all these tools perfectly.
And we've seen him use it like quite a bit, especially like that standing 3,
and then just getting close enough and mixing up after down 4-1, either going for the fank mid,
going for the low as well, and even though he didn't have the power up,
still putting that low in there after the Garoto power up.
Yeah, of course, and then he's also playing around with the Garoto power up,
into the Rama stance with the counters and stuff like that.
And the triple side kick, he's just been putting in work, man, putting you in the blender.
Down 4-1 is a blender. Standing 3 is a blender.
Mm-hmm.
Hey, just like you said before, his willingness to use that one with this character in close range,
he found so many times, he even crushed him in the big low right there with the 4-1.
That was crazy.
I've never seen a Fakuron user like that. That was sick though.
And the down 4-3 plus 4 has the 13 frame punish and cash is out with the um...
Dude, did you see him with the smirk dude?
Bro.
That's an evil smirk, right?
That was definitely an evil smirk from Reng.
He's like, I'm getting away with it.
He started to become affected on the evil side of things.
Ranchu cracks me up man, especially the way he tweets too.
Ranchu solidified his plot into that winners final, so he's guaranteed no less than that top three.
First and foremost, you still got matches to play right, especially if you want to get the grand finals.
And staying on the winners side is super important because obviously it makes your path a little bit easier.
And if you can make it there, you get a little extra life, you know what I'm saying?
You know what I'm saying, you get an extra life, especially if the player that's coming down from the lower side might be able to play like, you know,
Mile Hill or Ninja Killers.
Yeah, look at this bracket again.
Once again, Kosti Mir, now looking to face the winner of John Ding or Ninja Killer in the loser side.
Coming up next though, is the story.
Arslan Ash, is he going to get the eight-time EVO championship here today,
or will he be denied by the current TWT champion, Loha?
And look, and we know how Loha feels.
He's a super competitive player.
Where is his pride on his chest?
And he plays with all of his heart.
He is one of those guys.
But also just the fact that he is a TWT champion at this point.
And this season, from the end of the season last year,
up until now, we've seen confident strides in his gameplay,
as well as just a strengthening of that.
Brian, and even more so than Shihun.
Yeah, but let's go ahead and take a look at these players.
Victory pass to get here, presented by White Fawcett.
Yeah, and of course, Arson Ash,
Who can say anything less about him at evil final for arson and round one pulls
He goes through yo cheeseburger that 329 and D man, but then in round two
They have pina Jonah Paul Z and then we saw no big of my odds it
So he was on fire say
Look at this record perfect straight a student who all all the way up and then taking out shadow in the top
24 to get that top eight spot
So let's take a look at Lo-Hai, the last cancel, I don't know how to say that, just Walfus,
Settie, we actually saw that mention, Sige, Nomar, Hadoo around too, and then taking out
Hopfist and Veer, 2-1, you know that was a nail-biter, and even Ninja Killow, who
I think had almost a perfect return to it, that potentially ran into Lo-Hai, and Lo-Hai
took that 2-0.
Absolutely incredible run for both of these players here, but only one can stay on
the winner side and securing that winner side finals winner side winners finals
grand finals you want that extra life like Steve was saying well look first
quiz of the day you know I got a question if you guys would like Arslan
asked to take the set make some noise you guys want a timer huh you want the
But if you guys want the defending TWT champion,
Loheida take it, make some noise!
Oh, I don't think I, he got some help out there.
He's got some help out there.
How might be favorite one?
He might be favorite, but you can't stop destiny, bro.
Arsenal Nash might be destined for this number eight, bro.
Arsenal Nash super locked in for this as well.
Here we go, they dap it up.
That's the last, these are the last time
your friends in fighting games. When you dab after this, I don't care what happens to you.
We're enemies now. I hope the worst for you. No luck.
I hope you stub your toe in this match somehow. I hope you don't even have kids,
but you step on the Lego on the Lego. Wow! But here we go. We're asking the worst out of us.
But here we go, Evo. The Koonie Mitsu on display for Arslan Ash.
And of course, the Bryant on the side of Lohai. Let's go. This is it.
it while starting it off with a gabbling down for one speaking of that up close game for
Koonie missing definitely a problem always have to add a supporter didn't get to a power
wall accelerator try to get a kick catch it to keep it on the wall while we could have
to punish something big out of that.
Let's wait for the throw.
Get down four.
Nice block.
It's the first one he even did too.
Armor through, but you gotta do a fast armor move.
17 or faster.
Nice counters to get through so far.
I like to pull across down back three.
He don't get through.
Oh, the blow's through it again.
It's gonna work this time.
What the shitting into cannonball?
He's looking for a timing.
Arson with the patience on the Gatling, unleashes the Fourth It.
Set into the crouch mix.
Whoa!
The challenge with the Hoppies.
It's the wall, high wall splat.
He's got 8 damage.
Down through the wall hit, there it is.
Boom!
Second round, looking a lot better.
A lot better for Arson.
He gets the Heat Smash.
One round of Peace Game 1.
That's it.
I hope they don't want to give an inch and they want to take a mile.
Give me it all.
Oh, look out for one, Offermation Station.
Dude, the brave defense to fight this dude with Cody Minzl...
Look at this, Dad!
...to his face!
No way!
...and Waffle-Suthro.
Take the 10.
She has a third part, though.
He's looking for it, though.
If he commits to it and does not encounter it,
he can just get a...
Oh, oh, oh.
Oh, you see a tool caught him trying to step to the left.
Minzl.
We've been seeing wall, I'm trying to get around a lot of our neutral with like step left up here.
Again, step left gets clipped by the control 1-2.
Oh, the kunai clipped some!
Stuck on the wall, what are you gonna do? Get the machine gun balls.
Have an opportunity. Side step jab!
Step first though.
Into A-D's mash, get it!
He low-crushed the full-crush wall.
Mash out of trouble, get me off this wall.
See, trying to get back for it, get the lost flat.
Back turn mix up.
He's coming in, coming in.
Coming in with the cannonballs.
Can't do the, can't do the four if he wants to get counter and launch enough.
That could have been a jet up, but it's minus 14 now.
Nice block.
It's easy.
Cannonball straight, then push away from the wall.
Not a counter hit.
Attack on the back turn.
Oh, that was a jab.
It's so dense.
Five seconds.
Seconds, just let the ball and clock it!
People are just at their 5 second mark, 6 it is.
Low-high fighting back two rounds of peace in his first game.
Engage with the 4-1 plus 2.
Such a good move, tracks to our left.
What the neutral orbital?
From outer space.
Drop it on him.
He's a telescope to see that bad boy.
To the wall.
Hey, hey, hey!
Born for that damage!
Nobody's smoking!
We call it the fight!
Oh my god!
He's not dead yet though.
Down drop out of trouble.
He flashes good as well.
A lot of great Arson flashes side.
Arson's got an opportunity now.
He's got the wall in his face.
Oh man.
The mix.
Out the wall.
Get off of him later.
Oh!
Moon, you're dead.
Big damn is that down two straight.
Now he's got a bullet today.
He's plus three.
He's plus one at left.
And it's a down four.
Arson has cheese.
That couldn't have gotten any closer for a game number one.
What the?
Oh, these boys wanted.
What the?
These guys wanted.
What the?
Dude, you know what's crazy?
Back there before this top eight started,
I saw Arson Ash praying.
Yeah, bro.
He was praying.
Washington wants this.
He was praying in the back.
I really want this.
That's how you know you want something.
And Lohai was back there on the steam deck
the whole time.
He was grinding it out with investment.
Both these guys wanted.
Using technology to get some advantage.
That's what I like to see.
Game two.
We understand my plan was going down right now.
Arsenal Ash coming back from the breach to take that bad boy.
Ooh, nice.
That was a jazz, and then we started opening up.
Big stab, but she recovered.
Crouching?
Last jump, huh?
Wow.
Didn't duck it, and then the hopper wants to get explosive in the background.
The eagle arena where the bad guys hang.
Uh-oh.
Down two, gonna miss again.
Not getting proper angle to get the four hits.
Well, let it up to the fourth hit, Rock.
Nice stab.
step and that's gonna be the wall. Boom! Stay attached baby full combo.
And I got the bottom wall. This is the hard one. Oh yeah the ender didn't hit.
Smash is good. Cannonball into mid check. Counter it. Roll! No break. Hard to break.
Even for the top players. Nice block and punish. So that's why he's stepping left on
Okay, to cover down those two as well.
Nice, the knees.
Ah, to the wall.
Pressure under, no, he wants the damage.
Somebody cook it in there.
Oh my god.
Somebody cook it in there.
Oh, wait a minute, if you want.
I was like, good ass tech.
I don't know.
I'm gonna get on the ground.
Engage.
Up almost two.
Such good move.
You do it three times.
Off and engage.
This block didn't take no one.
I finished.
Activate.
Now back three tries to sneak one in with a heat smash.
Oh, no, one to one.
Oh, a step!
No spike down, Jeff!
Down that heat smash.
Dash for pressure.
Nice throw break for Marslyn.
What the?
You're looking for the orbital?
Will this get out even orbital?
That would have been crazy.
That would have been ridiculous.
Oh my God, five seconds left.
Oh, interruption!
Oh my God!
Wow.
The standing three midcheck at the end to close it out low high pulling away this game
Oh counter. Jay convergent really hard to do off the wall standing three
Whoa, you should threaten me with move me straight the straight stand up you could have got a control
He's got to go for one kill.
Nice.
Deccanin minds his mark, and the afford two has the perfect spacing at the wall!
The converging on the wall?
Oh, it's a touch!
Man!
Wow.
One of peace.
Wait, let me check with the people out there.
Guys, are you enjoying this good ass Deccanin way?
I told you what to expect.
I only asked for one thing.
And I want the Tekken to be a plenty. That's it.
Good ass Tekken.
We're right there now. One of these arson-ass be known in for the Nina.
The Nina is the main main.
You said this yesterday. You said like, yo, when things get down, the chips are out.
Typically always goes for the Nina.
But is it time? It's the first of three. They have a little bit more room. It's only one of these right now.
And also, I don't think the Nina would be the best choice.
Really because
Your ex-boyce. Oh, yeah, he's got an inside. You got an inside nose. Yep
That also the way infested. Yeah, one of the greatest coaches for the DRX team. Yes. Yes
I'm doing a big for that man. I was talking to him about this not competing anymore because I'm a big fan
He's like nah, bro
I'm a hundred percent a coach now but imagine him only being a coach in talking to low-high with the knowledge and the
Experience and the eye for tech that he has y'all
Here we go
Yo, evil one more time. No, give me some noise real quick, bro. You guys are killing. That's what I'm talking about
This is what I'm talking about
Here we go game three tied up at one game of these years this time
They don't win this time round for round but gets the back turn throw mix up
Didn't go for the one plus two this time. That's your to throw generically
also breakboard
On the power crush
Getting maximum return on that
See how he does it even. You gotta approach that dual cross pressure now.
Finally disaster sunk over the boss man.
OOOH! Back 4! Heating danger with the Mach Breaker, okay?
Spent it immediately on the Requiem Dash.
Oh, Smash is out of play.
Oh, what a challenge.
Side step 4 out of nowhere.
First time we've seen him use it.
Wow, the second hit just tracked him up.
Because he does down 4-1.
The first hit of so many times by himself,
it's like, I forget about the twosome.
I see you.
I am on top of that arson, delaying him perfectly because he knows he can get you with that second
counter and if the last one is free it is gone.
Absolutely, and that could be a wall slam.
Oh, wow.
Decide step.
Does that slide?
So scary.
Over low, over low.
Nice challenge on the 1-1-1.
That was ridiculous.
Back line.
And for the heat, back tube.
That's huge.
to the wall.
Mm, full damage is time on that down two straight.
Okay, jab into burr, safe way to activate.
Spends the smash to get off the wall a little more,
but doesn't get a chance to get more pressure going.
Arson takes it two rounds.
Smash to close it out.
Talk it on the down four once.
Get to getting a lot more active at their range.
Yeah, a lot of down four once.
He's just kind of sticky to him right now.
Well, you want to stick to me, check out this game.
Big counter hit to the wall.
Hey, hey.
Going for damage every time.
Nice side step, he first.
Almost gets a lot of damage and they're fighting along this wall.
A lot of range, he did dump for that back four as well.
What a block on the go out of back four.
Almost got a way out of it.
A lot of orbital out of trouble.
Not a huge damage, especially with his back against the wall.
That was actually a smart choice for...
Wow.
Football 4-2.
Wow.
Out of nowhere there?
Side sweep to get off the throw position.
Oh, trying to lock her down at the wall, but the down one counter hit.
And an answer back.
Three ground straight from Arslan Ash.
It's a way to do it.
Two to one for Arslan now, taking the lead.
Lo-I, do we have any answers?
Going to character select, maybe taking a breather.
Yeah, taking a breather, reading some strategies.
Changing the outfit, man.
Okay. Okay. That's what we're doing. He's chatteling me. Mm-hmm. What's up with D-Fit?
Dang, the D-Outfit? Okay. Because he usually rocks the Priestess. It's true. It's true.
Get Margie Temple. Yo, this stage goes crazy. This is it.
No hazards on this stage. Good ol' Flash Attack. Mm-hmm. Pretty close wall though.
It's actually not even that small of a stage. Just gotta have combo to get there.
Here we go
Starting it off with the mid
And then the low-tech back to the soil and the arson right back in with the set
To the wall
Big damage nice damage. Yeah now it's all about wall pressure look at this
The win condition is right here come tone one two for the wall flat nasty work
gets the launch, gets the wall position, suffocates him as he gets around.
OOS!
The numbers game, man. 4-3-0 on block.
And then you get another 4-3, back to a 17 though.
Wow, nasty, is that kind of cheap?
I'm not even sure.
Oh no, hits a heat up 1 plus 2 at the wall,
this is good damage.
Not good damage, but there it is,
the downforce won an arse rash.
Now one round away.
He wants that eight times, D.
Oh, what an answer.
In the low steel, he now low highs option.
It's so hard beating arse in here at evil, man.
How do you do it?
This is his house, bro. This is basically his house.
Shoes off, praying in the back.
Lohai coming in here, keeping the shoes on, he said.
Hold back, will you just keep your shoes on?
Couching.
Oh, God, Steph, jet offer.
He got big damage on the table.
Good access adjustment, too.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah,
damage, 102.
Oh, one check.
And the down four, Lohai not out of it yet.
Yeah, Arson was not going to duck us yet there, but he made it so scary to go for it for a low
Down one counter again engage
Oh my god, up one plus two for Pete
No block on the set
This could be the set if you don't get away from his wall. The lockdown no counter hit
Stained it all
Oh, that's what he was looking for!
Arson and Edge gonna take it over Loa.
He did it in the middle of the game last time.
Yeah.
I was like, what was he looking for?
He was probably looking for Orbital.
He scouted that a step ahead right there.
Look at him smiley.
He knows.
He's like, I was looking for that.
I got what I wanted.
Nice stuff to Arson though.
Prime position, once again, maybe take another evil here.
Winner's final side, but look.
We already know who he has to fight.
Rang Choo is the person that he will be facing
in Winner's Finals of EVO 2026.
Rang Choo, man, Rang Choo.
But let's go ahead and take a look at the replay,
powered by PlayStation Tournament.
And it started off where this dude, Lo-Hot,
looked like he was unstoppable, bro.
Let's say unstoppable,
but definitely in contention to take this set.
Yeah, he started off with a set really strong.
He really was trying to set the pace,
But this, when you have such a close around,
nail-biting finish like that in game number one.
Kind of sets the tone.
Yeah, but he was able to close it up
and then he locked in, get game number two,
but then after that, this was a hell of a good up-or-two
at the perfect spacing on the wall flat.
And get the taunt smash, three-round straight,
and then Arson answers that
with another three-round straight.
Old Mentum just flip-walking back and forth,
and I was thinking he was gonna switch.
We were thinking he's just gonna go to the Nina at this point.
Yeah, right.
But he just con-
All committed.
Kudimitsu.
And then the close off the set with the snipe off the line.
The lock game was crazy.
Arslan go on to win his finals.
Lohei going down to that lower bracket this time around,
where he will have an opportunity to fight it out.
But it's blood in those waters.
It sharks down here, bro.
Man, it's gonna be crazy.
The loser side is a bloodbath.
But man, don't go anywhere, Chad.
I hope you guys are having a blast here at EVO 2026.
Tekken 8 top 8, a little break.
But don't go anywhere.
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Feel that Burrito meter, bro.
Fill it up.
Get that super.
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plush and EVO Burrito.
Well, look, guys, hopefully you're enjoying.
But we got to take a quick break.
That way you can fill up this Burrito meter.
But when we come back, more top 8 action here
from Evil 2026.
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The show must go on we gotta get to our next match is gonna be no be versus now ill coming
up in their past both ways is actually amazing.
Both these guys, if you guys don't know,
Moyle with the killer jack.
We have a lot of really strong jacks out here,
but Moyle able to edge it out,
being the highest placing jack up here.
And of course, we're gonna talk about Nobisama.
Bruh, my guy has definitely pulled out multiple characters
on his path to get here.
Is it the Dragunov?
Is it the Lars?
Is it the Steve?
Who knows?
And he has a play style for all of them kind of setup.
But if you can see now,
Lohai, Kasimir, now on that loses round two,
Today we'll be waiting on the winner of Nobby Mowell, John Dean Ninja Killer.
Crazy, absolutely crazy here.
Nobby with the killer performance yesterday against Autib, Moille Ile just having that
emotional outburst after qualifying into the top eight and for EWC yesterday.
You love to see that pass.
Mowell has been on such a path to try to get one of these big, big wins under his
bill.
I mean we've seen how EWC has kind of like changed and made these guys want to
get real hungry about it as well as just on the TWT side of things.
Maohill is definitely one of the players that has been consistently fighting
for those spots the entire time.
But Nobby, I feel like that's a generational player at this point.
And he's kind of like a spirit head.
Right, he's like one of the spirit head leaders of Japanese Tekken.
But speaking of Nobby, let's go ahead and take a look at the victory path
for Nobby presented by why call Surge.
Oh man, you can see down there in round one,
Chicken and I throw 3-1-6, but of course round two
is where things get sweaty.
Nagi tibetano
CBM and then in top 48 goes down to arslan ash o2 then of course staying alive top 24
The woods candor takes about two over then the octave set that we talked about a set of legends
That was a great he said and nobby's favorite
Picture always cracks me up and they'll be the legend
You know, he's always inspired a lot of players especially with the goofy asics and also the customizations
You guys haven't seen nobody's technical customizations?
Take a look at him.
It's a work of art.
Yeah, it's the worst, it's actually the worst.
But of course, his opponent, Malil,
is going to be on the other side.
And of course, he had quite the path himself.
Yeah, he went through round one, fish 2-0, JT 2-0,
and then fortress 2-0, Avery Rib also 2-0.
And then 2-1 against AK.
The Taki was on a run yesterday too,
but Moyo was able to cane the beast a little bit
and take it over Taki.
And then top 24 takes it over the young blood from Korea rising star Crescent and also rang
shoe the two time TWT champion is the one that actually sent me down here into the loser side.
Well, like you said before, I mean, one of the players that actually stuck with this
Jack 8, right?
And really kind of turned this character and now has his own kind of play style.
So I'm kind of like go off and venture a little bit with I think the Nina as well
as the Victor for a little while.
Yeah, he started the game off with Victor for a minute.
Yeah.
like switch back over, but now kind of forming this Jack 8
to something that he controls a lot better, you know?
Yeah, and Jack is so different, like, in a way
from, like, the previous iteration,
because you really have to find ways
to get use out of your gamma house stand.
Yeah, yeah.
Armoring through some situations,
especially some heavy blockstone stuff,
like a dragon on party 2, and they can actually
get a big benefit.
It's almost like a parry in the other games
to, like, blow through, like, a dragon on party 2
and get a launch out of it.
I feel like, at the first time,
we've really seen somebody truly take advantage of it,
Like at this level is my little and we got a lot of Jack players out there. I mean we got the Saints
I mean you got the Joe crush. We got a lot of kids. Yeah, we got all the Jack players out there
But I feel like he's definitely kind of shifted the dial of Jack eight to fit his form a lot more and it's got him a top-8 appearance
So dude a couple of matches. I've seen where more oil has to like Jack's a big body care
Yeah, yeah, he's not really gonna be moving around like the subpoenas or the Alisa's or anything like that
So he kind of has to make those uncomfortable decisions a lot more on defense just raw blocking it right
Yeah, and that means he's playing like I feel like the slower character means you have to play so much more outside your comfort zone
But I feel like now he's ran into these situations so much
He's starting to get like a full control over it
So yo shout out to white cloth will hold us down with that path the victory path presented by white cloth surge
It's actually really cool. Yeah, big shout out to them big shout out to all our sponsors here making evil possible
But of course, no be man. We were talking about the three characters
he has and it's so hard to call out which one he's gonna bust out at certain times, right?
It seems like he's kind of been going back to the dragon off a lot more as of late
Which has been great to see because season two it felt like his heart was a little broken ever since they got rid of the backswing blow
Yeah, yeah, of course and on top of that you can see can't use it's like I've seen him try to use it in Manchester
It's like this ain't the same. It's just like man. This is not pusive relations. I gotta stop using this
But here we go we got both the legends up on stream
Nobby generational player ever since like the tech in six days and he is the original dragon off running to style pioneer
Yeah, and now look at all these other players in the world who kind of modeled exactly their entire game plan about what no
Be presented with with this drag it off. What's up with you, baby? She looking beautiful out there waiting for this next master start
We're getting excited now lose her side
This is where elimination starts to happen now.
Some of our favorite heroes will no longer be able to continue on after this.
Yeah, I mean, you have to try their look at the next big tournament.
And of course, they still got a lot of other games to play.
However, right now, Evo does a lot for the TWT.
Yes.
He's a master's plus event as well as it kind of gives you some crazy
momentum throughout the season, kind of lessens up to travel,
especially when you get so many more points, you know?
Yeah, absolutely.
And of course, TWT standings.
If you are in the top four, you get to skip the group stages.
So there is heavy incentive to keep yourself top heavy in this point.
Got the hand covering so you can't see the inputs.
I like how you got the your muscle form on top of it, right?
Yeah, super cute.
It kind of reminds me of like the Ketope from back in the day.
Yep. Yep. Ketope. Ketope.
Here we go. I think the players are locking it.
It's Steve.
Yo, the Steve blocks.
Yo, those boxes out the play.
Let's go. Jack A versus Steve Fox is gonna be the matchup. Boy ill versus Novi. Losers side action.
I hate to be so harsh but somebody's gotta go home. Oh man. We hate to see it.
But it's the way to turn the crumble sometimes. This is it. Yo the throwback Steve Fox out there too.
I love this outfit by the way. I've been wanting the boxing role for years so I love this
Oh, I like this already sprinkling in the lows. He doesn't want you to come big me
That's gonna
And also just the history
Original where I'm here before the back of that art. Oh my gosh up to under the
it didn't click at the wall.
Staying ducked.
My man's is crazy.
The flicker jazz gets the duck on the flicker
to one down one, and the tray converging.
He was ready.
So prepared for that trade in the corner.
Traits again, and just back off.
We're starting it off fast.
Playing really fast.
Yo, the play!
Wow, the up-up was through there?
Did he get the one?
Oh, oh, I didn't get the first.
The hug again.
Jump away, jump into this.
Jump into the snooze along buddy
Let me get this wall. Let me get the ball big body combo
No, look for the lighter. Let's get better. Oh, and he he'd deny boy. Oh, he
He's answering a game right now. I will bother tracking on that bullcrap down back one. Nice one. It's from the nobie
Oh, break on the floor. Oh
Nice try to get under there
Finish my street. Well, I'm standing too much. It's a bit
Throw the down for one take!
Throw the down, champ!
Not enough!
Oh fuck!
Oh!
Oh, that was sick!
The Outer Wall took in to the right wing to make the moves win!
That was so sick!
That was so tight!
Back 4-4, just a mid-check.
Trying to hit him out of the duct stuff.
Standing 2-chap in the legs, you're the most.
Oh, right wing!
Where's he going?
Pop the bubble on him.
Oh, dirty bubble.
Wow, he got through.
Oh, nice, he's in the blue uppercut.
Walls in the corner.
Oh, the guard break.
Five.
On the dash.
Just threatening.
Just standing there, countering throw.
He gets a guaranteed hit.
Ow!
Get up, get up, you can't do that.
Oh, what a dunk!
Reckon that, you're on the high armor move.
You recovered in time, smart play.
He's trying to get tricky.
4-2-1 action.
Planned a brave game, fighting up close with Steve like this.
He's already hit him with a back one or two, you need to chill.
Oh, keeping it much more compact in his base, but the counter hit one throws up his money.
He's staying off crouch.
Man, the fact that he's crouching, he's trying to put an OB space, it's close to
the wall.
The quicker cancel on the back one from Dobie was really impressive too, the block
I lost any two.
Oh!
You talked about that exactly.
Oh my goodness, the Gamma House Wars, you can't get them.
Drop it on him.
Oh, real good.
Why is he so ridiculous?
Well, it's ridiculous.
Like it's so hard to pinpoint for me,
like what exactly is his specialty that makes him stand out.
But he's just damn good.
His whole, oh, his all around technique
is just so strong.
And I feel like he's one of those players
actually moved on to play a tech and hate style of his gameplay.
It's not easy to come across because you've got to kind of cheat your style to get there.
Okay, so as Steve didn't work out, we've seen this before,
switching over to the Lars-Alexander set now.
He can punish down 4-2 pretty hard. He has an orbital charge jump over lows.
He's got some stuff, but he's got to be able to work around the
oil to jab and stuff like that as well.
You know, the thing is, I feel like Lars has an easy time scoring these random hits
And especially big chunky mids like this back four hit the counter hit yo duck. Nice
Just pepper into the power brush. Oh, no
Little tiny jack legs. Oh
I'm a through
I have to go for the low strength. He was ready with the block. Follow it with a
Break yeah, oh the high-splat conversion. Oh got more. He's not done. Oh
Oh my god, geez that jack's wall combo is
Preppy from the bulldozer on the wall
That was wild. He's definitely watching these construction colors right now. Okay. Okay. He's gonna have a confident back three
four months on that next time if there is a next time on that
Oh, what a side step after that
The low way have a landstorm
throw the first wow success rate on these throws he is playing Tekken 8 he is
throwing you out of your armor stuff out of your heat first call out the
exact thing you're supposed to do. Armoring through your armor, using the heat boosts into heat.
Where are you going? Talk about evolving this jack-8 style.
He's playing ridiculous right now.
He didn't live though.
Nobby makes a pay.
He's getting arcblast.
He's getting this.
Big body combo.
Set it up.
Oh, I'm at the entry stop.
I like to call that the cool-ass stop.
Hit the foe.
Ah!
Oof, engage.
Oh my god.
This is going pretty well for Nobby.
Nice break this time.
Oh, the drill.
I'm not gonna get it.
The first guy to make it through.
But the shoe the map was to the plant seeds
Alright, oh my god, he won't die
So close nail biting matches, bro, even though he's like, okay, I see
but he also has another character that was ridiculous but he also has another
character he dashed on him at the wall and he's like I'm gonna pass the seeds
like that was like bro he was like two step three steps ahead playing out of his
mind right now back to Steve okay at least the right
we can get out of some stuff the sonic banks can't be a reliable punch on a
lot of things but can we get some momentum that has been the hard part
here. Boy, it was just looking like a wall. A robot wall. Yeah, time to dumpster robot
wall. I love the sound it is. Do you mind better with your speed? Don't press it to
the wall. Oh my god! At the top, folks! Make some noise. Oh, oh! I'm gonna take the wall.
With a pressure burst out of trouble, please save me.
Recover supply 2, but the heat smash and the wall hit is over!
Oh my gosh!
Dude!
Big damage on the stage hazard is well-yoned!
Holy hell!
He's looking ridiculous right now.
He's up like soon!
This is not looking good for Adobe at all.
Nice carry, holy...
Oh...
But it's not my final.
I won't mess it up. You try to adjust for it.
Throw four and two to stop the approach.
Nobby staying on the ground has definitely helped him out a couple times.
Yeah, sometimes you choose one to get up in this game.
You don't have to get up the seed at least.
You can switch it up.
Diehawk's Fury.
Into the smash.
Can we deny his e-timer?
No, he just kept it off. Stop did to it.
Gotta get the kill.
Gotta get the kill here.
Okay, Nobby.
Get some bubbles.
We need to go...
Good interupt on the downfall of one to one stream.
He's just like, no, what are you gonna do?
I'll make some right up on a risk, too!
Into the garbage!
Low carry!
Okay, wait a minute.
Oh, this is how magic happens. We saw this.
What yesterday was, Obi-Wan.
The low carry and a dream.
Obi-Wan, okay, don't step on his foot.
Oh, the clinch! He got the one follow-up! Nice!
Okay. Okay. Nope.
Oh, you got the mini opera cuz I'm kind of sorry.
She's not done yet. Oh my god. Not done yet.
Ow. Oh, help me. Help me, please.
Oh, wait a minute.
Okay, one more chance. Don't be this loud.
Keep your legs, sleep it again!
Yo, spread up.
Fight him.
Haha!
Fight.
Those are the two.
And we get more games to guard for a gap to the absorption.
Man, he's got to get out, there's no beatings.
But there he goes, wall, man.
Wow, counter-confirmation?
Okay, break the door, you guys.
Wow, damn it, howl into Heeper!
Yo!
What a hit through up.
We're waiting for the opportunity.
What a block!
Yo! The sway!
Da, da, da.
What are we doing with this?
This too scary to bet.
Bull.
Side steps to realign with the wall.
He's going to wait it out. Nice roll break with side switch.
The wall's standing 2-1.
Oh my god!
Nice flicker cancel in the block!
Oh, yes it is.
Dancing on him.
It's so close.
10 seconds he's they come here come to me
And that's gonna do it my will stay alive in this time a well deserve their well deserve pop-up
Yo Vegas do me a favor before he leaves that stage that is a tech in legend make some noise for
Man, take it for a long time.
Inspiring generations.
How does whole arcade museum at Arcade Sugamo back in the day
as well, rest in case Arcade is not at Sugamo.
But man, so good to see him out here in the top eight.
Big shout out to Novy.
Well, of course, man.
Look, these games aren't going to get any easier.
But like we said, man, this is the time
we start sending people home.
Such to say, but it has to happen.
There could only be one winner.
And this is a Masters Plus event
and the best players in the world.
I'd like to remind you guys are at this event, bro.
There is no easy path to victory here.
Absolutely.
Let's go ahead and take a look at the replay of that last match.
presented by PlayStation Perfect's Moio with his Jack just like puts up this wall at times.
And then it's like, as soon as you start feeling like you go on offense, Gamma Howl.
Yeah.
And look, I'm so happy that you pointed this out to the point like, yo, he's one of the
players that uses Gamma Howl successfully.
He used multiple ways to get to it.
And even to use some of the former options like Endless Street Youth, Beast, Expect,
Finally forcing nobody to make moves like hey now you have to you have to duck this follow-up after Gamma
How for all the wall all the backboard and the slo-mo on that too like
This combo was crazy all the way to the other wall mad damage by the way
Ridiculous, and he has so many of those big combo moments from our oil as well
This look like this series look at this and then boom back dash
Can't stop with punish on the jazz to close it out
Oh, man, my will popping off will deserve will deserve and staying alive
Oh, I'm not mistaken. Am I tripping?
We might have to take another look back at it, but still alive in this tournament. That's all that matters
But we still have one more match on the lower bracket, right?
dude, I know and this is a double Jeopardy match and
and it has the only NA representation
we've ever had for Vegas Tekken 8.
Let's hear the chance chat.
Let's hear it.
It's been a long time since we've been able to do that
some Tekken.
That's what I'm talking about.
That's what I'm saying.
That's what I'm talking about.
It's just a kill of representing the US of A
going up against Korea's very own Johnny Dutton.
John Dutton, don't answer the door.
He's a great dancing guy.
He's gonna kick you in the face.
Ha ha ha.
Hit you with the force for our role.
you with the polls but Ninja killer bro coming from other games and look I got to tell you guys man
and this is a real story I remember that I saw Ninja killer I think it was that combo breaker
or something he was like your Steve bro tell me right now I'm going in on tech and I'm like no way
he was already nice but he was like Steve I'm going in on tech next event I think he was like a
Matt shy of top 16 yeah right after that I think he got I think he did that was combo breaker
right there too. He was right there too. And now at EVO 2026, he is in the top eight. So he
delivered on his promise to get to this top eight and show you exactly what he worth. But
look, Vegas, are you ready to see Ninja killer versus John DeRing? Make some noise for me one time.
But of course, we need to see that victory path presented by White Claw Surge. Let's
Let's take a look at John Dutty.
There it is, the report card.
Round two, we had Ninja Kill-Up.
So he's the one that sent him here into the loser's side.
Like I said, this is a double Japanese match.
Wait, so it takes it over JJ Freeze,
on gel, and in top 96, a kill nine.
And JDCR to make it here.
And then look at the top 24.
Shadow 20Z, knee and double.
Oh, that's crazy.
Look, you can't say anybody that has a run like that
doesn't deserve to be here.
But of course, Ninja killer, the path.
Our hero.
The new Vegas baby.
Positive vibes in that first round.
But then he got to the second round.
You can see, come on, what is what these names?
Chaotic perfectionism, Aston Martin, come on, bro.
And then of course, the girls out.
And then John Ding, who he is fighting again
to stay alive, took out another one of the best players
in the United States in KotoCore.
And of course, Loha and CBM.
Do you not understand how crazy that is?
What?
Oh, Ron.
Here we go big shout out to evil fantasy presented by AT&T and this is the pig race right now
We got Johnny D with a 47.9, but we see who the favorite is ninja killer with a 52.1 pick rate
Those numbers could be wrong. All right, I can prove it who here would like John
Did he need to take the set make some noise?
All right, I need to kill a club. What a professional what a professional sportsmanship right there
But if you guys want Anna's very own Ninja Killer to take it, make some noise!
Except a lot of that number don't sound like that number we just saw on the screen.
Those numbers don't match bro.
I know right?
Those numbers are not the same.
I'm not the best at the best.
But those numbers don't make sense.
Okay man, we only need to count up to 60 in five days.
But we got the sick...
Oh my god, the USA chat in full effect.
our hero ninja killer dang bro this is actually crazy the fact of my man is in
top eight this is the long US road so legendary all right here we go I'm gonna
pick this stage and I'm a AX Vegas another favorite yo you guys ready for
this match make some noise to stay alive in this tummy double jeopardy match
let's get it double jeopardy bad man
rocking the classic it's shades of Tekken 7 we never left and look both of them
playing Tekken 7 comes that's actually right a lot of people don't know Ninja
The killer was definitely on that plant, so check this out.
He's been around for a while, but he's dead.
The plant's in a long time.
It's a jaunt game, bringing the mix up quick already.
Good pressure.
23.
He's in with it.
Handstand low.
So scary.
Nice.
Mujiga has two stocks on that bad boy.
1, 2, 3, you're trying to fight back.
First.
First for Bird.
Wow!
He's 3 plus 4.
It pulls out the first round.
First blood first round John Dean
All right getting a new jab with the down one
Back three three big counter hit on the answer of John Dean
No here. What are we taking the flip over route?
That's
Raging cannon the nunchucks nice big damage on the nunchucks
He's late for work I got time for the lunch
Oh, that splattered from so far, nice conversion!
Enter killer, fight back, one round of beats, game one.
Old beats, side step three, and a low tap.
Counter hit, oh, he's delayed the last part.
Side step, almost got him out of there,
but still had enough time to block.
Side step two, just play that neutral game,
in and out, both sides, high pressure, the handset three.
Big, hold out!
Side 12 standing two, gonna fight back to this wall,
it's not broken yet, he can definitely do it,
the crowd behind him.
Oh, oh, oh, oh!
Not that combo.
Yo!
He's lost more!
That's the burst!
Come on, kid!
Pick it, please!
Combo's kind of funky the wall.
We got it!
He's a combo master!
Now for more.
Overload counter confirmation did not get the tornado.
It's the micro dash tornado in time.
It's a trade, John D. Position on the wall, looking good.
Time to keep him locked down. Don't go nowhere. I'm stepping with you.
There's the heat burst once again. Not yet, but he's still fighting these posts. Handstand.
Oh, he bested it with the breakable wall so he could get a combo.
Wow.
Time lost even. Life!
Another block wall standing two. Beat damage on the board. He's got heat. He's got the time. He's got the execution.
and bringing it back from the other side down around, but not out.
First game to Ninja Kill and the crowd is erupting.
What we wanted to see, man.
This wall is something serious like that.
The mountain, he squeezes out of everything, like the system awareness,
just the combo awareness, the situation awareness.
This guy plays a mean technique.
Alright, here we go.
Game two.
John Dick needs to do something to momentum on the side of Nick the Killer.
Fishin' with that down 4-2.
Wow, second it's agent.
4-3 plus 4, engage.
Oh, side step 4.
It's a lot of the air.
Oh, big hot. Can we reach the wall?
One, one, one, one, oh!
Oh
Nice down Javits are up
Cancel the lay on the street
Hold the dash we can smash
He burst of my own get off of me
Before that's gonna does not enough
John ain't finding a way
Wow!
Any one of the few characters that can launch that?
To the wall, big damn march!
Wall pressure.
Ninja killer trying to switch the positioning with the step block
and he gets a big punish!
Oh no!
Into the poison arrow. Back steal to the wall.
You know John Dane's looking for a split.
Wow, the upboard 1-4 at the wall!
That 4-1-4 big in it should be the round John did he
Strong two rounds for Johnny D here
Will low-tap on both sides
What a side you duck in the watch
This shows the wall a little bit. Oh, oh, oh
Mike might be taking one or two and break this belly
He had to first he miscarried the angle didn't work out for him
Oh, wow.
Whoa.
Chap.
First find this mark.
Dig home.
Wow.
This does a lot.
You have the handstand back floor with the meningocis.
That is so much damage.
Game two going to John.
I told you not to answer the door.
It's tough, man.
Tough.
One a piece.
Alright
Alright, so we've got a more blast potentially on the final round on the potential final round, but here we go
Well just full sense of it don't punish
Well, we're getting crazy with the offense down to kill him using a lot more dnss and going through some more options to
Good challenge this stop sign for back one
What a perfect dodge at a homie move.
Rodeo!
Whoa! Mergent! Nice! He got it!
He's feeling off the wall though.
Good adjustment, good adjustment.
Oh, counter hit!
Uh-oh, uh-oh.
Nice, love it all town.
Starting to get the lead.
We need to miss it now on John Bingside.
I cross on the 4-4-3, luckily it wasn't countered.
Look at this, all of the dragon hitters.
It's crazy.
Down 4-2!
With the down 4-2 on the side, the 3-4-4-0 is nice.
Big 92!
Go 10, nice dog!
Down 4-3.
guys interrupt and again we are tied in this set just can't get any closer to
this game for game round for round
what a call to the wall
to the wall
trying to keep that pressure going
TSS look at this pressure
You're over it puts it back against the wall though get off of me, bro
Legendary
Wow
Opportunity here I welcome to play question mark. Don't go for anything crazy
Oh, nice!
Spent it on the mid-beat.
That shit went for the low so often it was about time.
Uh-oh.
Because the floor is lava!
Oh man, he's gonna get it.
They're not getting too greedy for it.
This is both a poke right now.
A lot of times, easy players go for their core break throws instantly.
John did with the first launch.
He used that stage as it.
He's taking it away.
I can't actually delay that.
He's burst.
Woo!
Wow, but a smash!
Oh, big pokey whip!
What the?
Oh, he's sharp!
Uh-oh, but the counter at 4-4-3,
the Scramble from John Ding, incredible move.
Well, that Scramble was crazy down the way.
The scramble was getting a dozen jobs,
Dan was like, I got to put this low in there right now.
Tense.
Yo, Vegas, he needs your help right now.
If you want him to take this set,
you better make some noise for Ninja Killer.
Turn him in life, on the line.
Turn him in life.
Give it up for her, boy.
Ninja Killer.
We engaged.
So we're event to yesterday.
You're the reason I'm in the losing practice.
Right.
Got a little extra onto it.
So scary.
Look at the prey.
Oh, a splash.
Big damage too.
Single hit explosion.
And then activation.
You're going to get a long combo.
Oh, there's a wall.
Nice.
Great conversion.
Great conversion, and loads up after...
Oh!
The patented bat wanted to up two.
Loads you into wanting to float him on a handstand, and then he's been so good at countering your float on pop shit.
He has that three to high cross, power cross to deal with the mids.
That was a missed slide, but he's a heat-smash board, but now that he's got it out of the way.
Pitch for the ager.
He's using a lot of stats. Like, well, I can't size step 34, you gotta drum it.
Into the wall.
And that's that.
John Ding on set point now.
Set point.
Ninja pillow.
This is your last chance, man.
Wow, he needs your energy now.
It's the flow!
To the wall!
Jump, you're high-flat!
He's getting crazy on the offense.
He's got to get the wall to win conditions.
Wall's parallel now, though.
Uh-oh, uh-oh!
Talked about there's a lady.
He makes you think you want to interrupt it.
Loved out of the combo.
Oh, it's so scary!
He's...
He can't get up this wall!
Nice!
Spread the needle!
Engage on the wall,
And he's fighting alongside the wall.
You got a combo there.
Something nice.
What a cancel.
He danced to keep it going.
DS is low, he gets the hit.
Yo!
What a guy!
So crazy!
He's still alive!
That was crazy.
So scary.
I'm just pushing to the wall, off-blocking,
and catching the second hit.
You're the Blue Legend Kid combo!
Oh, the double boob!
No!
Oh, nice flash drive!
Oh, perfect!
The boob!
He's still alive!
Who to watch?
He's still breathing.
He's still fighting.
He's not giving up.
Nice spot!
He's awake!
All the walls!
The pressure!
Off the wall!
Here's the little reason why he's still on the left side to stick to the wall.
Out of trouble with the up two.
There's the heat.
Wall position he is bad for Nindica, but he gets the challenge over here.
Wall's fake as he's still in there. He's still in there. He's still in there.
Another game to play.
Wow. Wow.
The USA champ going crazy right now.
He was out of it by Kyle's house.
He brought that back.
Final game, somebody's going home.
Las Vegas, are you enjoying this good ass
taking a one-mix of noise?
I told you, I told you.
This is it, man.
One final game.
Who's going to take it?
Oh, big launch.
She's been so good.
You can't put your hand in the cooking jar, yes, Eddie?
Drops it, though.
2B, 4-4-3 for the floor.
Seems to have that pressure.
4-4-1-4!
Oh, there's a smash. Didn't get it though. He's got a chance.
Oh, scary. So scary!
Ah! Can't guess right all the time.
Well, it's the John and D show that round.
It's the end.
He needs to put it down 4-1. The counter-hit could have been trouble.
Now, 4-1 exchange is on both sides. Finish the jab-tree, catch it up.
Guys, you can finish up in the 30's on the air board.
Gosh, what a move. What a step like John Dick.
He's gonna hit the wall and make it there too.
So scary. So scary.
Nice punish. Look at 4-0.
Both sides.
John Dick's pass to toe.
Up two.
And go.
Reach and kill him.
He was in this position last game.
He needs your energy.
One more time, champ.
This is it!
And drive it ever!
Come on!
Big counter hit to the wall! It ain't broke!
Don't fix it, this is it!
No! Mr. Walsh, that's free!
It's a nunchak, hold up!
Slide the air on him, throw air on him!
Scale damage, but this is good for John Davies.
Gonna get some light back, invite him to the cookout though.
And reverses the momentum.
Cancel?
What are we doing?
Oh, oh, so scary!
These weathering us!
Oh y'all, the hats have that for the people low?
Is this nothing, Stats?
No!
And John Deane is gonna take you,
offending the loss and eliminating Ninja killer,
but what a set, what a play.
John Deane gonna stay alive on the lower side of the bracket,
But damn what a display yo Vegas look I know I ask out a lot, but Ninja killer held up his word
He told me he was gonna be here USA Las Vegas FGC makes some noise
He said he was gonna do it
That was crazy, crazy, crazy, dude that second to the last game, it was already out and he
brings it back, all those bubbles but let's go and take a look at a replay presented by
PlayStation Tournament.
Dapper up to get it to this match and this was looking so strong for Ninja Killer starting
up, had an answer for every turn when it came to this offense coming from John Dane.
John Dane known to be able to throw anybody in the casino with any goal.
and not afraid to run in too, but Inja Killer was making some callouts.
Nice step on the first, big callouts on the low too.
But John Vane, the pressure was relentless when he had momentum.
And the thing is John Vane has obviously been in this position many times before.
But the thing is, is that he has that experience.
Inja Killer's been on the stage like this before too,
but also going down to some of these small situations where you've got to keep blocking,
where you have no choice.
All offense is definitely the name of the game.
But defense was on display here as well, because you saw a lot of quick dubs, a lot of punish with the Waspen, two-ones as well.
A lot of layers to that too, yeah, like, John Ding was gonna be Waspening 4-4 up to the second hit, but he would leave himself much, much well in that situation.
He goes up to the third hit, because it's an airborne, there was so many like little mind games going on with a lot of stuff, especially with the handstands up too.
The ninja killer with a strong comeback.
Bro, that comeback was crazy.
That was insane.
But of course the last game, turn white and tail, goes into relax.
He gets the lock and full financial decide and John Ding avenging himself.
He avenges the loss.
I was really curious to see if that rage art was going to hit or not.
If he actually canceled or committed to an option at that moment,
John Ding had it scouted though.
Well, look, of course we've got more tech in for you guys coming up.
But look, we're going to throw it to a roll to evil,
featuring Ilias coming up.
But we're going to come back after this break with more top eight action
before Tekken 8, right after this.
Hello everyone, my name is Ilias.
I'm a 19-year-old Tekken player, born and raised in the Netherlands.
I think the first evil I saw was when I was 13 years old,
seeing them on a massive stage,
It felt so crazy to me, you know, being just a small kid in the Netherlands,
and now I have the honour to be able to attend this tournament myself.
I was in 2024 that I saw another competitor from Europe who was able to travel to Evo and
attend the tournament. I didn't know this was possible, and as soon as I saw that,
I just signed up for Road to Evo and immediately tried my best to win.
I started doing mixed martial arts from a very young age,
so having Tekken, the game that's most similar to real-life fighting,
it was an immediate hook for me.
The first time I played Tekken was in 2011,
and my first tournament was in 2019.
My main character in Tekken 8 is Eddie.
I started playing him since his release,
and now, since season 3, I've started playing Lily,
because I feel like Eddie is definitely a strong character,
but he's also a very risky character.
I've been practicing very hard at home
during six to eight hours every day together with my coach.
So I'm feeling very confident that all I could
and now it's just time to play my game.
Thankfully, I have a very loving and supporting family.
When I started in 2024,
they didn't really understand anything about eSports.
As soon as I won the Arab eSports League,
they watched every tournament of mine
and I'm very grateful to have them support me everywhere I go.
Last year, I qualified for EWC, so I'm expecting from myself to be able to do that this year
again.
I know my route is very tough, but it's no one I'm not capable of beating, so I'll
just concentrate, focus, give it my all, and I believe I'm capable of doing that.
I don't think that me lifting the trophy, the feeling could be explained in words,
I think the only words for that would be amazing.
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Chipotle, always looking out for the FGC.
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Mm.
I
Would have wake was breaking Joe in the loose look at him go
How is he being this guy's a school
There's no way
D-Brat, how are you doing?
You guys look sick. This is awesome by the way yo, that's sick dude. All right, yo shout out to Eric
Yo, yeah Eric is for real with the wrist straps. That's sick
But no man, we got more matches for you guys ninja killer out of the running John
Dink staying alive as we saw in that last exchange
But thank you guys for returning with us
We still got more tech into play more fighting games to play so I appreciate you guys actually hanging out
But hold on wait a minute everybody. It's hungry, bro
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Punch them in right now for you guys at home get in there
Yo shout out to Chipotle for looking at us up with more free food as a gamer
I appreciate the energy you guys got free Chipotle
compliments of your polly man so shout out to them for holding us down and I'm
sure we're gonna have some more especially throughout the day yeah let's
get those burritos I'm a burrito guy are you a bull guy I'm a burrito I'm a
burrito I mean because look I move around a lot that bowl I gotta I gotta
carry it that's too much work with them is it let's check out the bracket
the tail of the tape so far winners finals is already set it's gonna be
ranked you versus arson as seen how they've got their low high going down
down to Arson Ash. Now gonna be on that losers round one side going up against
Mowell who took out Nobby to make it into this round two.
And that's gonna be the next match coming up. This is it.
Low high versus Mowell. Jack versus Brian.
Really interesting to see what Mowell has under his jacket sleeves for this one
because in that last match he just seemed so prepared for everything that came in from Nobby.
I don't understand how he does that, right?
But then can he do that type of like I just know everything you're gonna do after like half a round play style against low-high
I don't think so. I mean we're gonna see we know low-high is definitely one of those guys
That's always in the lab always in the lab panel top of it
He's got like mad god character right he plays so much
He has knowledge of a large part of the cast so I feel like no matter what somebody's gonna have the work cut out for
Here we go
And especially get you away from the Bryan Taunt Zone.
Yeah, you got a lot more space to kind of breathe and get around.
But of course, here we go.
Game one, round one.
Losers quarters finals.
It's Korea versus Korea.
Lohan versus L.A.
Elbow to start it off.
Big counter hit.
Oh, we're going for the burst.
No, we're going for the Taunt Okie in the open.
Already showing the tech of how we understand this matchup
versus Jackie.
Boost.
What a 2, Jack-o-man, finally engaged, so he can get the heal.
He first tried to take that turn back, nice!
But the side step 2-1, still a heat dash launcher, can he close it out?
Not quite.
He still got...
Oh!
Especially if he drops the ender.
Wait a minute.
Oh, the armor!
He keeps it light so he can recover in time.
Be careful, he's getting a little close.
Man!
Nice!
I like how Lo-Hai doesn't give up on the targets.
I still got too big of a lifeline.
I feel like it's pivotal.
You're like, it's one of those things now.
Another bad one.
Just how we saw that first game start.
I think that's what you have to do.
And it's so pivotal to my kind of ecosystem
of what some of the options are I'm taking.
You've got to have it there.
Yeah, definitely.
You've got to present the options.
Nice punish on the forward two.
Pull it up, jab for jabs.
Fish for it.
Oh, he's got it.
Hookline and Saker.
And he's got the heat.
Won't even need it.
Hey, he's trying to use the gamma-hound defensively, but Lohai just waiting it out and the counter-hitting the button after.
He'll cannonball straight to us from downtown.
Make some noise for some pressure.
Oh, back and forth, Lohai really slowing it down now.
Oh, he's getting you up with the 2-1.
Oil with the lead.
Now come to me and then he does it immediately gets the left knee counter.
I think he's going for it.
Well, that's a good one for the old guy working out.
Where?
It's a big counter hit with the cannonball straight.
What's he gonna do?
He's made this huge.
Keepers.
Not quite enough to kill him with the dash.
We go for a reset.
That was a big march.
Okay, okay, okay.
March choice.
Brian getting it first W.
Once again, the fact is,
LoJ has so much experience versus the entire cast.
Definitely one of the strongest players
I feel like out there.
On the planet one and just a career do I remember watching his dreams from back in the day
They're like taking seven days. This guy just gets on and starts crying. Yeah
Rebel hangar is the stage not gonna break explosive walls downstairs. Let's get it
Okay, starting to duck it man. They duck it back time. Oh, there's two kids in a face
Watch the ankles
Oh, the classic sidewall stage, who I never mind all the forward threes or counter hit.
Oh my gosh.
Let me get the wall.
Nice combo from low-high.
It's been all low-high.
Jab check.
Will it confirm?
Let it hang a little bit. That was tight.
On the blow? Of course not. Crazy.
Reckwheel for the taunt. Okay!
Oh my god. Okay, Lo-Hai, I get it.
Uh-huh, breakable balcony two.
Casual dodge at upper in that situation then.
That's why you don't peck after back two on
Requiem wall combo.
Oh man, trying to go off the backboard.
Lo-Hai was ready.
Whoa, the patience from Lo-Hai.
Oh, he hasn't got anything started.
Every time he tries to do something,
there's a counter hit waiting for him.
He hasn't been able to play the game yet!
Another taunt! That could have been a lot worse!
Yo!
He's not letting us play!
Throw break!
Just in time for him to get in!
Yo! Out of the air?
No fear! That's awkward! One per game!
Low-high! Putting on a clinic right now!
He hasn't been able to do anything, bro!
I mean, he is not letting the player go.
What do you do here?
The character switch?
He's hovering the character select.
Well, just an alpha change. Wow.
Changing the outfits, bro. We're going high tech.
Last chance.
I haven't really seen a bus out of the Victor like that, so it makes sense.
Just take a little breather.
Take the blue jack, the fast jack.
Okay, okay. I'll agree with that.
Here's that Brian again.
again low high two games up right now oh well something if you want to have a
chance to stay alive and turn it's like a life punish on the hug
it's shimmy though pushing closer and closer to this wall okay a little whip
on a jackhammer
blow it down man they are slowing it down oil is so scared of these
Counter hits bro. You can get hit by all of them.
Nice little back dash right there to stay out of range.
Oh, but one quick hit came for it.
To the wall we go.
Oh, buddy combo. Are we going for over? What are you doing?
Going for damage.
That machine can't move, bro.
It can't move. He's a big body.
Big hips, bro. It's the big hips.
It's an actual dump truck.
Actual dump truck.
Wait a minute, oh, he instantly answered with a down 4-1.
Run him down, good patience, good block from low high.
The throw break intentionally for the side switch.
The force, but okay, guard break.
Using the armor a little bit.
Wait a minute.
Look, he's so tough from oil.
Can he get a bubble on the board?
Armor for armor.
Nice burst, Castle, because he knew.
If you let the first rock, he was gonna die bro. That was so good
Spring
Is this mad?
Boy, you're not ever getting a chance. He had a little burst right there of a moment, but low like instantly denying it
Another big hit big black black block breaker big body on the wall start us look out the wall. Wow. He just hit him trying to move
everything in pennies, everything.
We'll try to get it with the perfect close.
I'm no perfect, but that is gonna do it.
Off the trade and they shake it out.
Yeah, good play.
Strong, strong performance of Lo-hi there, very dominant.
Lo-hi gonna go to the next phase of this tournament,
making it even further to that lower bracket.
He started on the winner's side,
so he's still got a lot of work to do.
But make some noise, ladies and gentlemen,
FAMAL EEL!
One of the best players on the planet.
He's been on stages all across the world,
playing Tekken and a good showing here in top eight,
EVO Vegas 2026.
Yeah, we'll see him at EWC as well.
He did lock in that spot as well this weekend.
So he's done his thing, man.
At least he's got that out of the way,
but good stuff, man, nonetheless.
Well, of course, let's take a look at these replays,
presented pod, PlayStation tournaments.
And look, it was a pretty big clinic
that he put on right there.
And the thing is, my little,
He looked so prepared to fight Novi early on, right?
Yeah, he did a great job scouting it, but coming from Mohai, it just seemed like he had an answer for everything.
Like, even when he wanted to use the defensive gala how he just kept it light, kept it just peppered the jazz,
a couple of throws out of the two, but man, Moio, it was so hard to get any bit of momentum.
It was just so many tools that you saw that Mohai was employing, employing, right, like, using the armor.
This was so sick using the cancel and not being afraid to go away from his options
He knows that my love is gonna be fighting so much harder to keep him away
Then home defense right it's super important. Yeah, really really great stuff
I see this oil started getting anything he took it right back
And especially in the situation against the wall got a couple of taunt jet uppers
The back fours into the jet uppers like just a lot on display here
Let you know low highs trying to go on to the next phase possibly get a run back against arson
Yeah, I mean we were talking about at the beginning of the show that man is hungry and that guy
I know since like the beginning of Tekken a he wanted something big
He did get something with the TWT finals beginning of this year. I know he wants to eat of course, of course
He wants all of them. Well, you always trying to double up
But of course we saw that John Dean Ninja killer match go down because seem near gonna stay alive
Alive, of course, coming from that winter side versus John
Ding, our next match here to stay alive in this top eight.
We're getting closer and closer, though.
We're into that top four, top three area.
That territory, man, and Arsenal Nation
ranked you still sitting pretty on winter side.
That Korean-Pakistan rivalry still continues.
Still going strong.
I mean, look, even this match.
Yeah.
Casimir, John Ding, I mean, and even the match
after this potentially could be another Korea
versus Pakistan affair.
That's all I'm talking about, man.
Dancing in 90-degree and arm angles.
Ooh, I'm down, bro.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Let me check with the people out there.
Yo, Lops Vegas, you're still with me?
Make some noise!
That's what I'm talking about.
I'm glad you guys are enjoying this techin.
I'm enjoying the techin.
And of course, they got some really cool lights.
Shout out to AirHeads for giving the people
some cool stuff for the wrist.
AirHead, AirCam, we see you guys out there
looking pretty, everybody.
Let's talk about this matchup a little bit, man.
Seymour of course fighting his way tooth and nail to get up here John. Dang. We just saw what happens
We now know he's redeemed himself. So I feel like you got a little power up going into this next match
Oh, absolutely. And that's the thing too big shots to evil fantasy presented by AT&T
And this is the pick rate from you guys cost him here
13.7% pick rate to Johnny D's
86.3
Yo, shout out to AT&T the evil fantasy bracket live upset star gg slash evil 2026
But I want to ask the people I want to ask the people I want to know what you guys think if you guys
Would like to see me to take the set make some noise
If you guys want John the Dean to take a set
make some noise!
All right.
John Ding has always had fans.
Okay, it's okay.
Everybody loves John Ding.
Who doesn't love John Ding, right?
I also love John Ding.
And John Ding loves himself so much,
he puts himself on his sick.
That's love right there.
You gotta love yourself.
Here we go to sit into
Subconscious,
tricky character matchup Eddie looked to slip away in stances so Fina kind of
doing the same thing with her own senses and they sit maneuvers on both sides
really interesting to see how some of these interactions are gonna go to
slippery characters. Whoa! Nice conversion to the wall!
Oh
Yo, repeat a hole trying to force the duck he doesn't take the bait beats out the armor
Instantly not letting them play not letting them play
One-two into the low. Got another chance to use the heat smash there after he got
stuffed out of the first attempt.
Heavy stun right there. Wow! Right under the jab! Okay, opportunity!
One for the damage-hangers!
Stay talking, but still it wins with QCF3!
Good call to castle the tarantula stance there, otherwise you would have got a bunch of tornadoes.
Wow, even getting some with the handstand power crush.
Okay, wait a minute. Using the tracking move, Axi has some height here.
Oh!
Two, bro.
Wow, gets the back full launch, John!
Nice, Justin.
Yo, he's getting crazy with the OP. Hold on.
Smash, not in time.
Underneath!
Wow!
He's come out a couple of times this tournament.
He eats the heat first, leaves him in classroom,
goes to the cool classroom below,
and he's getting the counter right there a while.
Why ain't on top of it cuz you know a lot of people try to use the warmer there they get flipped out of it
Cuz low beats a mile. Yeah, that's how it goes downstairs
Hey
That level one already. No off-axis. I'm a freaking the next floor floors are gone
He's combo still got something I like that gets the spike
Shit down on both sides gets the way gets to recover his
I never do the second. Don't
test me.
Look at the chip. Don't think
healing at all. Yeah, look at
that. Great life. full. Detail
quite a bit. Oh, chip right
now. So, and taste the
me let me keep it Frank time here okay wait a minute
Wow good interruption the 3-3 rodeo broken oh what the massive core counter hit
again
degree like the switch of air
He's doing a lot more slow-paced, not approaching some of these things as much as he has.
Look at all the great, Hasan Mir is not even going for anything to hit, he just wants to block this.
He's been doing his job, but he's running away with it.
Whoa!
The champ!
He had an opportunity there, led us away.
Oh my God, he put that clean step into launch.
Whoa, he was blocking for so long, and was not, if you saw him trying to teach us to get the cash out, but it did not work out.
Now, John Dean ready at every turn going straight to the launch.
And he has a side step now in this game.
Cleanly steps that.
Gets the down four, three, Mirage, closes it out.
Nice stuff.
I can hear the different stage, open stage.
Oh, John Dean's like, ooh.
Not a fan of that.
I like my walls, man.
His wall pressure is crazy.
It is, yeah.
Especially with the handstand stuff
that he's been implementing a lot more nowadays.
This is great.
definitely elevated his eddy gameplay but here we go
Kassim Mish, Jodh Dean, he's got to do something
but he's looking a lot better with his arena than he ever had to play around
yeah gotta warm it up, wrap it up a little bit
attacking on the lows
counter hit, tarantula one
what?
that's got to be honest
yeah I can't imagine what that could have been
Little miss input there from John Ding. Maybe have like a 200 IQ Galaxy Reader.
We're not there yet. We're not there yet.
Look at that. Two rugs.
Little stance pressure trying to hit her out of the stance.
Wow.
Spacing from across the meter just making everything from John Ding whip.
But the staff again.
Let's get him.
He's a cool launcher.
And he's got heat.
Put the drop.
Oh, chase down.
Cancel this, man.
Hold this, mix that.
No hop, king.
The prayer to be the hop king is not working out.
We've seen it work too many times.
You're right.
It had to fail eventually.
What a down, down.
He needs to converge and off of it.
Close the heat to be plus four.
We'll converge it, but it'll also heat flow.
So all great life for John Dane.
Bro, look, it's big as great.
Yeah.
She could recover.
Yeah.
She could recover.
Yeah.
She could recover a lot, but she also uses her moves, but yeah gets it right back a big wall. Okay, wait a minute
This thing is starting to reach some of what they counter hit
That's a couple times now. Just try to punch the first hit
So this is why so dangerous to try to punch the first hit of that
Not dead the man you're in a bad spot
I'm 80 damage, almost, and a float conversion, yo!
What a round for Tossed Gear!
We're all running it all the way back, I see, man!
That was ridiculous!
And it started with those floats, right?
Yeah.
I thought it to kinda like check stance a little bit,
and even though it wasn't a big damage conversion,
you still able to get something to take that momentum,
get some wall positioning if you need.
That's the important part about converting those floats
into a full situation to a flip.
That's not only that you get the combo, now you have the Oki and the pressure after your
level 2.
Alright, let's see what he has for the gameplay.
See, he can keep this momentum on his side versus John Dink.
Oh yeah, he's been punished by this follow-up so many times he finally doesn't punch the
first hit.
He's trying to get it to his hand.
Psychological wall-damper.
Wow, dude.
The sidestep right built in punch, nice stance cancel for the other way.
Okay, he's starting to go up on two of these hills.
Stands for Stands right now, relax versus matches.
Okay, first.
Nice, safe punish opportunity there.
Wait till the second hit.
John D. playing a lot more tight on the defensive side.
Okay, just backgash it.
Great move!
Whoa!
Good power crush.
Yeah, that's good.
Definitely hold that out like that.
We got so many options in another counter hit by.
We got so many options with so many looks in his approach with this enemy.
That's actually crazy.
The long plus two have been so good, but nice step from John Ding.
This steps around Serena have been really good.
Pressure now.
We're in the mix.
Oh wait, is he holding attack?
nowhere. Yo, crossbow punish! Perfect punish gets the crossbow. He's already
ankle. Yo, that was a Clayton low. Big low.
Nice interrupt this time. Oh, the Clayton range.
Both of the chip follow too.
Ooh, nice quick punish.
Wow. Okay. A little bit of chip on both sides.
She's trying to stack up more chip with that big hand.
Nice back dash.
That'll sing.
Go back to punch the burse hit again.
Gotta keep that in mind.
Great move, man.
Oh, it worked!
Oh my god. That's a rare move.
That's like a combo.
I didn't expect it.
You know what, he's going either side.
Oh my god, this is so tense.
It's the time! 14 seconds, Javelin's roll!
23, into Rage Kart!
Yo, invited to the cookout.
Better meet the fans.
Got a piece of this.
Ah, it's a sandal.
Boom!
Oh, I thought you had another.
Wait, what?
John Ding, good call out with the rage art there, 2-0 over Kasim Nier with that.
And that's definitely something that we've seen John Ding do for a very long time.
Pressure, used to I think it comfortable after trying to fight back, now I'm going to bring
it up.
But yeah, John Ding not shy to go to the rage art when you need to.
Asim though, he's been having so many good moments with like the Manticore and
The man before follows the stuff, but John's being just a ball at some moments.
I say he'll always, but he'll let you get, oh, what a clock, what a punish, and the activation.
Dashing up, trying to get a reaction.
Vision for a response.
Confidence is building on John Dingside.
He's covered his garage, less of going under the high power crush.
The smash, trying to go for that mid.
Okay, back it up to the energy hole.
Keep the cancel, run up down for a one.
I thought they were going to fight up too, so.
Healed her a lot.
The multi-hit heat smash.
Okay, get the running one close to costing.
Looking good again.
Oh!
Man, this consistency, the minute he gets that block on the low,
goes for the activation with the crouched throw.
Whoa!
Oh!
What the?
What they try to save himself nice to jump in for coffee there
Finally gets a flow holy no solution on the call
But he was looking at the floor break
It's the one now he's got his back on the wall
Oh, I didn't mean to wall splat.
Not out of it yet.
Fix it up off the side.
Yeah, it looked like it was about to collide into another side wall,
so cash out with the rage art.
Time is becoming a factor, though.
Got to recover some of this life as well.
Small loss, any fourth change for John Ding?
Jab check.
Nice block.
He's been so consistent in blocking the down threes
the trade not gonna go in your favorite John Dean.
Yeah, a one plus two, that one for Eddie near the end of the round, that's so good for Johnny D.
And the setup for it is so good, he's like, yep, you're looking for modern backstage, you're trying to see what I'm looking for?
Yeah, check this out, boom!
Yes, the Crossroads link once again, full engagement, heat bar to play with.
Wow, just, oh man, having a block there, the lows, the down jab, this will be sawed last time.
The way that he presents heat smash though, besides that he's using it on the stance a lot of times because he knows that you're looking to stance, and then when you miss the spented bone, that's a smash big damage.
Yeah, and it reaches so far too.
Hey, hey, flip over route, what are we doing for Oki, running free, pressure city?
Oh my god, thoughts on pressure!
Lucky break!
Okay wait a minute and now he can get it. There we go. And the forebrake can lead to a little bit of gray.
Wow, not scared though. John D. fly back in instantly. Oh the drum roll please John D.
Oh get up. Block him low. Last chance. Causing near.
Counter as low. Getting a lot of life back. 15 seconds.
Not over yet ten nine eight
He's like a timer, huh? You're gonna block me out. I
Didn't have enough time to be comfortable
Nice double
Yeah, we got it in you
You can't last 10 seconds against me
Wow had it no confirmation though
Man, lots of luck on the side of the screen.
We've seen these comebacks last time.
What a down jab we've seen these close before too.
Side switch all up, yeah.
There we go, back one.
Oh, but it's a smash and it's a no.
And that is gonna do it.
John DeRine stays alive in EVO 2026.
Give it up, Kossi, near coming all the way out here from Pakistan. Give it up for Kossi!
Well played. Good showing, EVO 2026.
Hell of a run. Hell of a run. Making it all the way to Top 8 with all these killers.
Love to see him out here man. He's been traveling for quite some time too.
John Dean, people's hero. My hero going off the stage right now.
Right everybody loves a man, but dude it's so crazy. So crazy.
Bro these matches have been ridiculous. Let's take a look back at these replays
presented by PlayStation Tournaments so we can get a look at just how this went.
But it seemed like the first game John Ding was like let me see if you're
actually gonna test some of this. But the sidesteps were crazy. This is a 3D game
and he was showing it. Lots of evasion. And not afraid to run the mix as well
But also to like not afraid on defense to go for the rage art, especially that game number two
Look at these combos along the wall as well. Yeah to the wall
And the pressure to I think here has a lot of really good moments, too
With like the heat and the chip sequences with the asses all had and especially with the counter at one
Both twos in one round, but yeah this rage art here game for three just like stole that round right back from them
And the John Dink special, those rage-ups was definitely coming in.
But also like, when you're fighting somebody like John Dink, he never lets you get comfortable.
You never have a control of pace to try to stay alive.
Like, when am I gonna get a chance to breathe?
And that looked like Cosimo was gonna bring it back here,
but John Dink posing out that final round of A4.
So I should say, call that previous round from Cosimo there.
Well, the Safina representation steal there.
I mean, we're typically used to seeing it from somebody like Arsenal,
maybe a shadow, you know what I'm saying?
But, Cassine making great strides here for Evo,
great placement and a lot of Tekken World Tour points.
But, we need to take a quick break.
We gotta pay some bills, but right after this,
more Tekken 8 top eight action here from Evo 2026.
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Right? What? Why does he get a White Claw Surge?
Did I get zoned out?
Took Brigadier.
Got to have that championship mentality.
That's the best of his eye-seeing since Capnico.
I don't see myself waiting for at least maybe 20 more years.
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Big shout outs once again for everybody attending Eagle 2026.
We see you out there.
Airheads shout outs to giving us the air cam to see all your beautiful faces
and join some of this good ass tech in.
See all those sick wristbands glowing up out there, man.
It looks so cool, man.
Let's see the wave.
Yeah, so sick.
Dude, it looks so much cooler in person, too,
with the Omnias lighting and stuff.
But yeah, hopefully you guys can get the vibes at home.
This is so sick.
Well, shout out to everybody that's joining us here in person.
Everybody watching at home.
Shout out to Airheads, like we said before.
But of course, this is the top eight,
Tekken 8 action here from EVO.
And man, we're getting closer and closer
to crowning our official EVO 2026 champion.
And the story of the day is going to be,
can Arson make it to that eighth place again?
We're gonna have to see a big shout out to PlayStation Tournaments for holding it down
for us here this weekend, all weekend and if you guys are looking to get into the action,
you guys can play and register from your console at home.
My signups are free.
I try to tell people all the time, look you don't have to travel all the time, but look
let's just say you get it good enough to travel, PlayStation Tournaments has sent
a lot of players here as well as just giving you guys an avenue to enter tournaments
from the comfort of your own home.
So shout out to PlayStation and make sure you guys enter some of these tournaments.
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Yeah.
And you could also win prizes too.
You could win stags.
You could win a trip to Evo 2027 as well.
So there it is.
Big shout-outs to PlayStation.
But let's go ahead and take another look at the bracket.
How did we end up here?
And where are we at?
You can see so far we are now at the loser's semifinal.
Again, Lohai versus John Dean is a Luzai semifinal match.
However, we're going back up to the winner's side
to see who's going to be our first Grand Final showing.
It's going to be Rangchu versus Arslanahash.
Oh my goodness, this is going to be the set.
Who's staying on the winner side for Grand Final?
Both teams has already guaranteed no less than third place.
But, a big shout-out to Evil Fantasy presented by AT&T again.
And of course, let's take a look at the percentages.
Rangchu with the 8.3.
That's disrespectful.
This guy's a two-time T.W.
Arson don't even got that putt.
What Arson does have is seven evils.
He got seven evils.
And as you can see there, this is Arson at evil.
91.7% pick rate.
All right, well, look, I'm going to ask the people.
These numbers could be wrong, OK?
If you guys would like rank two to take the set,
make some noise.
I don't know what to say.
That's a lot more than 80% that's what I'm saying.
Okay, but if you guys want a seven-time EVO champion to make it an APR tonight, give it up for Arslan Ash!
Okay, okay, we got some believers out there. We have some believers out there.
We do, but it seems like, yeah, this is going to be a crazy one.
Focke-Pom, Horses, Moody, Nitsil, Vickens, you can see the characters in the light.
Or is it Nina Time? It's Nina Time!
Serious business here today, lockdown city.
And it sees the every stage.
I'm going to go on trap, stick your mouth up, and engage!
Hey, hey, that's the whole break.
Wow, second encounter.
Get off of me, lady.
Yeah, if you already knew he was going to break the fall, then it feels like you
already knew he was going to break the fall.
Punish.
Try this.
Just in case.
Ah, why did that work for you?
Oh, dead.
Wow.
Up to the third hit.
Not the fourth.
to the third hit, not the fourth though, and down four, we've seen it do wonders.
All the way, nice patience for Marsman, and whoa, a jet kick, off with her head.
That is probably one of the most satisfying butts in this game.
Bucklebaum just seems completely hit the women, oh my god, I guess.
Some fun boxes. Oh my god. So that's a GG. See you next round. I
Like these down for one of the starting to add up both sides to
Just trying to establish that pope mind game that book game
Arson a little burst of offense here the lockdown with the size that once in jazz
Solid play on both sides Arson has got
Hey, people, but the tour is huge laundry.
This is big damage.
Amy's got heat from him.
He's so hot for an ale for the wall.
Hey, hey, hey.
Oh, he's setting him up.
The fake out.
The power up he uses.
Oh, the stanky.
The mid check.
Oh, my god.
I thought she was going to duck on the stanky for him.
Yeah, right.
She was doing something for sure.
She was a...
Nice punish.
That one.
Ooh, Marsa's moving up.
Moving now.
We have to move it
For that counter hit on the third hit wait a minute
And the defense is on display here ranked you had no but it's like the block throw first down jab takes a throw for the side switch
Three twenty three up the heat down
And hey, that's the dash what do we do with it? Oh my god?
I just want to...
...likely steal and favor foc-
OHH NIGHT FLOG!
THE KIPPUP!
...could go and launch it standing three.
Thirteen frame...
One of the longest thirteen frame midfokes in the game.
Dancers legs.
The kibby toe.
Oh, drop the craziest hit.
UGH!
Did you ever get in the way?
I love it when he does it from the throw, the two of you said...
UGH!
I like how Nina's trying to hire him like you don't want a job at G-Corp, come to us man.
I refuse, I don't need to work for you.
We're not that evil.
Yeah right?
Welcome to G-Corp.
I know your boss is Tazugia.
I'm not trying to work for that guy.
Wow, the keep-off back once though.
Seen it a couple times.
Didn't think it would be as effective for some players like Arson and Jeffrey and
Poteer in this case, right?
Yeah.
It's just like franchise.
Didn't think it would be as effective for some players like Arsenal and definitely a team in this case, right?
Yeah
It's just like, right? You know, I'm like playing there for so many years, like when to use a hit-keep-out lunch, even if they're risky on block
You gotta put that idea in your head. You don't mount with a new gun to constantly put the pressure on the ground, hit down four
Woos!
Ah, Comfort 3 just doesn't hit me. Oh, the 4-1!
Oh, that's a classic! Up that 3 out of trouble!
She's attacking five.
That was actually just a call of light.
That down four activates the rage.
Side step, he puts himself on the wall.
Put a hitter up with the jab.
Returns the favor.
Jab battles right now, but the ball's buried.
Into the rage art clean.
Hearsle it, man.
Said I'm not even waiting for it.
The wall was there.
It will be trouble.
So I completely understand.
Don't play with just one.
Just kill it.
Yup, if the rage art's going to kill,
I love Lucy have it so baby hope this is one of your favorite ones
She's such a good speed on the lows for being a bear player for so many years
Counter hit
Calls out the arm, but only size step right that four two on two there, but the wall was there
Got hit
Just the first part eat the smash
Rage on both sides
Up to them in and arson called it out
That was so crazy because he could have done three ones down. Yes. What a kill. Yes. That was a big call out on David's
Marslyn
I guess follow up three hits big damage right there. Don't break up on us, too
Wow, that one does he find those?
Oh, he's after the kid.
Way to punish first.
Real close to that wall.
You got to be careful.
Wow, the punch punch.
That was it.
Triple.
He went for the temp rack.
Great patience.
Breaks the throat this time, but also position.
Definitely a favorite mix.
Yo!
What?
Oh, god.
The camera didn't keep up with this,
so it's down 4 or 2 to get down back 2.
It happens.
The camera man, bro. Trying to sabotage the place.
Oh, the counter hit throw.
Is that me?
The low tap. Wall pressure.
He's keeping back the wall. Are we gonna break it? Too low!
The impool crouch a little right there.
I'm so scared.
Okay, right you. Life deficit.
Trying to find something. You gotta activate it somewhere.
There it is.
Big life deficit on this side, though.
Arsenal Nash showing no sign.
Wack it up.
That kicks the run of threes.
Oh, the chip damage.
The chip damage.
Jet kick it run of threes.
No flow converter.
Oh my gosh.
The Arsenal life before.
The unblockable life before.
And the down four.
Classic.
That's such a good tool for the Willys system.
Because they meet generic down fours to watch
Punish Bowl in this game.
But the Willys have a follow-up on their
generic down four.
So small changes like that. You want to pay a ticket? I'm glad you said that. Yeah, like sneaky sneaky William sister
I see you guys
Come get this job
You got benefits and everything. I don't need it and I don't want to leave my family. You can transform into a devil and sick
You can try to kill his son and his day
Oh, damn.
That's how they do it around here, but yo, prank you.
Trying to sneak in those back ones, but it gets the activation.
Wow, okay.
It's just taking the wall signing one, even though it's one punch ball.
For me, those wall signing two is a little bit stubby.
There are some tip-ranging for a wall signing team that way.
Trying to sass them, he's getting caught a lot.
Great.
Wow.
Sidewall, still gets it.
Oh, he tried, he did that yesterday, Arsene doesn't fly.
He definitely did that yesterday, we did the catch.
Yeah.
On the wall sending 4 checks, he knows, he's seated.
Woops, engaged.
The QCF2 gets under the high power cost with the life of four.
I'm going to head up, not his favor right now.
Oh, Crusher City.
Trying to get a reaction on Arsene, he is not fighting at all.
This defense from Arslan, he's just like standing there and he's like you're too scared to go home.
And he finishes the string, he likes to do that first time we've seen it though.
Wow.
Oh, big counter hit.
Okay, good damage.
It's a faint, the armor not dead though and the pick is not gonna be in range down for one.
Man, Arslan.
Making his attack.
Running away with it now, he wants that eight throw.
No triple sidekick Ramas jazz, what are we doing the one?
Wow, oh my god maximum delay
Charge it
9 and 3.
4-4-3 to scan 3. Good choice.
One of my favorite things to do Tekken is watching the players play strings.
Yeah.
But they don't. They don't want to.
And they're playing around with like, you're not expecting me to finish this.
Do you think I'm not? But I will.
Can we reach the wall?
Yeah, yeah.
3-1-4.
Whoa!
And zap the bar.
Heat Dash gets away from the wall.
Yup.
That's it.
You're a f***ing duck right there.
Kurt!
That's a great little big launcher here.
Back to the wall you go.
Arslan.
Can you close it?
That's causing the damage with the Heat Dash as well.
Arslan.
He wants it bro.
Two to one now.
Overrank you.
I like how she's like, you know I can guarantee your family safety.
I got you.
It's like bro, security, dental, everything that works man.
And I'm an itch.
You might have to work for the devil.
work for the devil. You might have to work for the devil. I'm a devil. I'm the ishi devil.
He's the cooler color. He's purple. He's not more calming. You wear his clothes now. Not
like that. You're too. You know, so it's like, oh man, the fur pants as legs. That's true.
Taking a second right now, taking a breather. He does have other characters, right? We haven't
seen the bears in quite some time sticking to his guns. Oh, bears. Yeah. One back to the scene.
into it right back to the
sir.
I said more. Can you reach the wall? Sidewall peppers. The
Jaffi for combos. Wow. Not a good position to be. And he's
side stepping and I know he's not hitting up but this combo
should do it.
It's final for Marseille. We knew about this man. You can't
and at evil. Except maybe
you can't.
Simple one, two nice block this time.
Wow.
All himself countering.
Hopping down the tree.
Oh, yo, the counter.
Eat first.
Try to take his turn.
Wow.
Pressure's the wall.
It's the launch to the wall we go.
That's all the wall here.
That's more great.
to the bar. Even more, bro. Oh, spit on him. Oh, bro, on the wall. And look, you might have
a side step now, but you still got a tall character, bro, and that wall ain't gonna let you move.
Dude, now against Hino with side step one, the back two, two, and the down four, one, two,
and Arson on top of that. Good luck. Nice block and a punish. You gotta go on the run
right now. A hell of a run. Three rounds straight to stay alive for Rancho. Not
impossible though. These fantasy positions before the counter for the
third part. Decides them to get off axis and push it up to the wall. Floats out of the air.
This is ridiculous. Good position for Arslan. Pulls onto the heat for the
smash. Back to the wall. Rancho has to do something.
the attack that's gonna be a grand final showing and this guy Arslan Ash is on his
way to grand finals again and potentially in eighth Evo Tile. Crazy in the
short time that he exploded onto the scene in 2019 he already procured seven
working on an eight-winner side grand finals today. This guy's ridiculous.
He's actually this guy is ridiculous. Of course ranked you not out of it yet
He's gonna have an opportunity to get one more run as he waits in loser's finals
For whoever makes it out of this sharks pool to absolutely insane arslan in prime position once again
Look, I don't think it's gonna be easy
But I feel like if we said this before and Evo was basically arslan's house right now
It is we're all at his house. Let's take a look at these replays presented by playstation tournaments
And look that first game was looking a lot better for ranked you the fuck around look like it was definitely gonna get the job done
Well round by round after this you get to see that arson was like, you know what actually
Let me get a little closer play a little more offensively that way you won't feel so comfortable throwing on some of these highs
Or it definitely not these moments. Yeah, the deal about arson dude. He's just so ridiculous and his defense on the Nina
It almost just feels so natural, right?
And it's just like, he knows when to like actually just block or try to move
or try to challenge with the button.
And I think that's what makes it Nina just a step above.
But he also still has a really strong Koonie.
He can still bust it out.
And now he has two sets in Winner's side to play with.
And if things don't go as way like you said,
we could see that character come back up and it's not everybody
that's going to be comfortable defending against Koonie right now.
I'm telling you right now,
I've seen this character so much in Rank 1, 2.
She's got a lot of great tools to keep you on your toes.
Yeah, a lot of privileges as well, man.
But let's go ahead and take a look at the bracket once again.
We're going back to the loser's side.
Loser's semi-finals is going to be low-high versus John DeDing.
Korea versus Korea coming up.
And look, if you just look at the lay of the land,
that means no matter what, it's going to be Korea versus Pakistan.
And the grand final.
Yo, true, true.
We've got three Koreans on the lower side.
My winner of this will be facing off against Rangchu and then like you said, it's got to be the rivalry.
Oh man, this story and I look up, I like going back and talking about this.
Once we got our first champion for taking ATWT, I was like, the story begins anew.
Who will be the strongest region in the back and forth has been amazing.
And now we get a grand finals that is definitely a perfect storytelling element to continue said rivalry.
Dude, we need to have the Korea versus Pakistan
like 10v10 event again after each season.
We definitely do.
We have one at the end of season one,
but the story continues then.
But this is it, Loser's semifinal action,
low-high versus Vitality's own Johnny D.
John Dean coming up.
We've seen the Eddie do work.
I feel like every time he kind of just pushes
the envelope even further.
And especially with the season two,
season three changes to Eddie with the manjinga stacks
and also with the handstand transition
into relax a lot faster, with a three-frame faster.
A lot of those are really showing it into his gameplay now.
And he's definitely been using a lot of relaxed movement
to kind of keep you on your toes.
Yeah, like you want to float by handstand,
he threatens to handstand stuff a lot too.
And sometimes he challenges your jab with the handstand three,
or if you want to float it with a mid,
he's a powercrush bow, can't hit him?
And I love that he actually uses the powercrush
out of like, relax and handstand,
he can like, throw you off.
felt like in season one and two he wasn't using a lot of those tools as often, but I think he's really come full circle.
Yeah, like that.
Handstand three just in case you try to smoke the handstand.
Ooh, nice tracking move right there.
G-Club!
Big damage here.
Big damage.
Oh, he could have got more.
Yeah.
Little backfork gets the Engager.
Little hobble mistake from John Ding there.
Hopefully doesn't cost him.
It's low high a chance to stay alive here Wow three three I won't play down the
cobble peels to the left so it's fine hey on day first round man is he smashed
placement has to be risen Bob we got to put it yeah he's getting all over right
it feels like he hits at least like 78% 70 to 80% of his heat
Ooh swings into the second hit.
Counter hit big damage.
Did it, did it, did it.
Close wall splat converges. Nice counter hit.
Keep going.
Go back there so we know how to get out of danger.
Oh, he had it but he didn't have the snake eyes.
Oh, oh, this is the scariest position to be in the world against Shaunding.
Not close enough to get the wall splat, no block on the low, but down for one hit.
Oh my God.
Dude, John Dings, wall pressure when he starts getting crazy with those dances, that was so scary.
Once again, Loha finishing these strings and catching John Dings.
Gotta test them. You don't think I'll finish it? I will.
You stay there, you don't move.
Ah, chopping elbows.
Big signs of life right here for Loha.
Now I'm gonna get the wall but he's gonna be going right. Oh my god
Well, I am furious a hundred and fifty
My man couldn't even still on fire when he got a man to try to get him with the low
Nice confirmation on the size of two
Just pushing them towards the wall pressure running three big step though
Welcome to the third dimension. You want to push my back against the wall check out this size death
Big block. Didn't go for the 1-3 because the 1-4 with a wall slide in, he was closer but didn't get it and gets orbital for his troubles.
Get the wall again. Every time. Perfect walk here.
Oh, there's the taunt incinerator. One more chance. John Ding.
Wait a minute.
Hold the wall. The wall.
Go away.
He's doing it. He's got a lot of game and he's got a lot of game in the dude, but he's getting called.
Again!
He had it didn't believe the back one that close it up the down. Oh my god
John today
Don't know the soul. He almost doesn't believe me. He's like, oh man my clutch really is that good
That was my clutch my clutch. That was me. I got those that's me. I'm kind of nice
Am I him?
I might be. I might be him
Himmeth in the ding?
Himmy neutral?
But John the ding, clutch city once again.
Low-high.
He wasn't playing bad by any means,
but John ding, when the offense starts going with the wall pressure,
it is so scary.
Gets the counter hit knockdown, that head-pinsome looking real good.
Kip him, it's good.
Oh, big nooch.
Okay both going back to neutral right now. Now we're in. Deeper from low-high.
Oh nice dunk. Oh missed the link. I'm gonna get the taunt link. Look at the user that movement to
switch the positions. Oh you had low highs at the wall. Oh I'm so uncomfortable. I don't even
blame him. Get the wall. Explosion as well. Does he have a combo to kill? It's a lot of
scaling. Oh especially now if you hit you don't hit the tornado and the up to again.
It's such a good round-endor.
Used it to avail so many times.
Wow.
Whoa!
Nice block from all high, okay.
There's some confidence building orbitals.
To the wall.
Hey, take the damage.
leave the body smoke is up. Nice!
I'll take.
1, 4, 3.
Nice, good, Okie too.
Trying to set the heat smash lucky to hit the wall.
High crush with the low.
Good challenge from Ohai. Nice step.
Ok, ok, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Ohai not out yet.
Hat you'll do it again. Oh, oh, okay. It goes for the easier taunt stuff and he also gets the snake eyes. Oh
He's trying to down jab in between
He did a regular jab and worked out big step
Well the sidesteps in the oh, we all
He burst on the side of John D. Oh
Out of there to the wall we go. I'm trying to blast at the angle so messed up. He goes for a spike
Nice. That was actually good. That was a better choice
Block and he called it out with the smash pixel. Oh got there in time
Scary business roll high-looking good
step
Big combo to the wall
Explosion just a bit shy off to the right right there, but he's got wall position big damage. Just shy of 19 to 89
Good okey down back three to for the packing clip
And he got the super hatchet. Yo
nasty
Oh, it's a really good Okie situation.
That's a good Brian.
I've been working on it for a minute.
But Brian doing his thing.
Both these guys just like making the right calls on Okie in a lot of instances there.
Like he knew that John Dane was too scared to attack him till a taunt,
so he's like for a little mini pickup, and then he taunted really good stuff.
He's not stopped showing that he will reset you, hit you with Okie on the wall,
You know all you gotta look the back for yeah, I look for time
Big shot. I saw a cockable but can't stay down, but can't get up get up shout out stuff boy on top
Check those down for one
Stop all approach the one out of the air nice
What an adjustment what are we doing for the wall?
He'll get seven one
to the rage art once again known for that big damage and on top of that he's
gonna get some life back you're welcome to the cookout right nobody likes you
Yeah, the trade actually messed up like the distance feels bad.
Good launch punish there on the hatch is so risky to do against any,
but you gotta test his ankle sometimes.
Took the wall, oh my god.
Yo!
Oh, wow!
What?
What just happened there?
They don't want it!
He hit first!
That was crazy!
Offload of his armor.
against the wall. On scale, got it. Nicely timed. 9-13, nice punish. He's trying to safely
put jumping back against the wall, but jumping just uses that to ride the momentum. Nice
He's going to crush your wave punish.
Oh god, what a courage.
Oh, he's got him as well.
Going to push as close to his wall as he can.
Hell, he might hit it.
Oh my goodness.
I believe that guy he's spoken to.
I feel like Steve is doing the wall carry assist.
He's adding more wall carry into this combo.
Great yarder.
And one to many, he said.
Not this time.
Okay, all right, still alive.
Look, John D. wants to wave his sets.
So I'm happy.
For sure.
Oh, I put a fight right now.
Got him, man.
Burning life on the line for both these two.
Whoa, a second hit.
First out of trouble, pretty early burst,
but he doesn't like the momentum
going to jump things favor.
He snorts his knee roll,
missing the mob punch, rare miss.
The blow, the power up, he's got you stuck.
He's fixing the hell out of a bro.
Miss the taunt.
Smash, blister, gas, the low parry.
Chance, you got so much work to do.
No!
Nerves getting the best maybe in the punnish, John Digg.
That's already, that's two games.
Unfortunate there, super unfortunate.
Was the start of a beautiful comeback.
Was the start of something.
Just a combo drop into the range, all right.
It happens, they're the best of us.
Things get tense, bro.
The nerves get high.
I'm telling you right now,
those inputs get a little sloppy towards the end.
For sure, man.
long-term hit as well too. But this is it. Sad point for John Dane or Game Point.
Low high needs to do something. Can't lose another game or he's out of the way.
Oh my gosh. That's the way to start.
Look at the carry. Huge stage of that, but if you get to this wall...
Oh, I love when they both start shivering in each other's faces.
Give me a move, give me something!
Down 4 check.
Oh, spends it on the Refinem dash?
Try to get out of there, he's caught by the low.
Minus 10, takes it!
Whoa, what a call out by Lo-hi!
Lo-hi's going for a lot more overalls than he knows,
that John needs going for a lot more mix-up heavy playstyle right now.
I like this up close defense not trying to switch all those counter hits coming out of line.
Look how close you're playing this round. Now finally some breathing room.
You're so ready. You're on the lows. You're adding up. Every poke is adding up both sides.
No gray life on either side, all real damage.
Finally some gray.
Heat activated, low 50% on both sides, Neil Monk breakers.
Wow, blocks it.
No break on the throw, low high.
One round away from taking us to a final game for this set.
What we want to see in the all the game.
If they counter hit, double the lead.
Double the damage.
Double the fun.
oh yeah they're aware of the tonneau he after back 2-4
I like that little beat, track and move right there just to catch you
oh second hit actually saved his life
guess he engaged with the heal on top of that
nice snap, too low for a conversion, no never mind
Brian with one of the best heatworks in the game
get up attack, you've seen how he likes to use his heat
die, get to walk this time
that is so hard to do, walks around a heat smash
It's the 3-3-2, bro.
That is so hard to do.
Really impressive play by Low-High there.
Bring it back three rounds. Wow.
Final game of the set. We get one more to see who's gonna go to the losers' finals.
Yo, Ebo, you enjoying this, Tekken? Give me some noise for the one-time people.
Bro.
Fight tooth and nail. Tooth and nail to get back to the finals.
This is it, man. Only one can fight Arslan and Grand Finals here.
Of course we still got range right there waiting three Koreans one Pakistan left in
this top four who's gonna fight Arslan big watch all ready to the wall short trip
hey bitch it's the stock of two full charge now the time to pull on all the
bricks hatch it through it again oh super hatch it she's a man with a hatchet a
super hatching. Like, you know what? You can be bad at this. Right?
Oh, choppy elbows!
Geez.
Very good.
Hey. Out of the air?
Bro. Bro.
All the convenient anti-airs right now for low-high.
What a challenge!
He engaged and he got a huge chunk of life back off of that.
Get off the corner.
Nice throw break.
Half the timer's gone, 30 seconds.
Positioning's been Lo-hi's favor.
He looked out, that sidewall splat saved his life.
Oh! Reverse the positioning!
Hold up! The block!
Oh my god! The power crush!
Lo-hi on set point!
The armor to get through
Lo-hi's one round away from eliminating
John Deere's bracket.
He's fell to blood.
He's full sending it!
Back 3-3 big counter hit, and Jon thinks they'll fight against the splat!
They've over, what's for Oki?
Yo, the burst, counter burst!
I'm able to, oh my gosh!
Catching up the miss.
There it is.
Oh, so scary.
Oh, he took the frame trap!
Oh, I tried to down jab!
Oh, he was sliding on the wall!
Unfortunate!
Oh, so tense he had the 1, 2, 3.
No combo!
Okay, so tense.
Oh my god, spaghetti.
A little bit of spaghetti in that.
It looks like I'm gonna do a half round.
John Dane cannot come out.
Caloran, nothing to follow.
I wasn't able to get around the feathers.
Out of the air, not huge damage.
We're trying to side step.
Moha not letting him get away.
chopping away with the down fours, heat snatch, wall pressure time, bent alone, no
fear from John V, the legs of wall standing three, the Brian Classic, gets the
toss, Inciderator!
And that's gonna do it, John Dean goes home, and this is exactly what I'm talking about,
low-high fighting toothed nail from the loser side of the bracket eliminates John
Dean and has a chance to make it back to this winter side of the bracket but
he's got to get through range. Absolutely incredible Ronnie. If you guys love John
Dean's run here give it up for our proud favorite Johnny Dean. Shout out to John Dean.
Everybody loves John Dean. I love John Dean. I love John. Who doesn't love John Dean?
I feel like you have to look inside if you don't like John D, that's something to do with you, not anything to do with John D.
But let's take a look at the replays presented by PlayStation Terminus.
Man, what a set-up.
low high just staying up on the station just trying to stay up and ready but
dude it really looked like John being in some moments was just like the pressure
was too much like low high was doing uncomfortable stuff like defensive
orbital defensive heaps just power pitch get me out of this sometimes bro that
was crazy like thank you production for the slow-mo catch what I've never seen
that that was a crazy interaction I still don't know what they interact and
the step on the heats match so hard to do. We saw so many people this week and
try to step that heats match, Lohai with the confident walk.
And that's one of the things you were pointing out, like he's good at getting those heats
match. At least for you to block it because he gets a natural mix off of it.
And then we see the return, Lohai on those last few rounds, unstoppable, but
he brings it all the way back, stays alive the next time we see him.
It was his final.
That wasn't easy by any means by Lohai. We saw the stress after the round too,
He's just like, oh my God, it's just, it's a lot to take in,
but he has to stay warmed up.
He's going into another set right after this.
Yeah, you gotta stay warm, bro.
He's doing the gauntlet right now.
He's basically gonna do the gauntlet,
but look, it's not gonna be an easy gauntlet.
Rangchu's been in this situation before.
Hell, Lo-Hai has been in this situation before,
and we've been in this situation before
where we gotta take a break.
We're getting closer to that grand finals,
crowning our Evo Tekken 8 champion,
but it's gonna happen a little later.
and make sure you stay tuned right after this, Loser's finals!
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Too easy!
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Wow.
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Mama Gruggen 85 lives here?
Yep.
Hello?
Whoa.
Mama Gruggen 85 lives here?
Yep.
That's my mom.
The absolute legend you went from gaming on her phone to ruthless online streaming slayer
with no mercy for any living thing is your mom?
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No, she's so nice in real life.
Airheads have more fun.
You
Ready to banish the darkness
There are bit the pro activities right now people are trying to take arslan ash down
And if you manage to take arslan ash down you get some goodies
You get a five stick and get plenty of good stuff
So you can be there take a chance plenty of players will be there to allow you to challenge them along with fun tournaments
There is a Tekken ball tournaments and there are even games on the older Tekken
If you want to run the set on older games if you think you are no g you can definitely pull up there at the
Bandai Namco booth also fun activities here at EVO but Tekken 8 definitely one you should not miss
See you soon for more Booth activities.
Evolution 2026, we're getting down to the nitty-gritty for Tekken 8, Tape here.
We are in Loser's Finals action here and it's going to be an all-Korean of mayors here
to see who makes it to that Grand Finals.
To go up against Final Form, 7-time EVO Champion, Marshan Ash.
Potentially 8-time EVO Champion.
Dude, last year he was up here with like this?
Like it's like dude this year. He's going for this. Is that crazy double up? He's gonna
That's crazy. I mean look he is that dominant of a force. However, it's not gonna be free
Let's take a look at the bracket a tail of the tape if you will coming from that winner side our first two players
Right rain to definitely started off good a versus Cassimere
But when he went up against arson as that first time it didn't work out that puts them in that losers finals
But of course Lohai starting on that winter side as well and just did not work out right
It was not working out 3-1 puts him down on that loser side
He beats John Dean to stay alive and now he's going head-to-head with rain chew
This he's gonna make it back to the top well ever since he got sent to the loser side from our son on the winter side here
He's kind of just going through the gondola right here, but
Rancid is not gonna make it easy for him rain chew is definitely not gonna give it to him
I'm interested to see what character we did we've been talking about
We know he has these characters, but the Fokker mom seems to be the one he's gonna go to absolutely
Yeah, the Fokker mom's been doing so much work from out here, but you guys have been doing so much work
Yeah with the airheads air cam bringing us the action overhead shot with you guys here in the crowd love to see it
Well, we get closer and closer to the conclusion the championship moment
But we got to get through this loser's finals. I swear every time we get the closer low
High gets to winning the meaner his face looks he's like
I want this W. No matter what what this evil
He's like arson been hogging all the evil Vegas's he's like let me get one of those
All right, here we go evil if you guys ready we getting ready for this loser's finals make some noise
Oh my god, the special intro.
I feel demon.
I'll crush you.
The kickboxer battle is American kickboxing versus Muay Thai.
Ooh.
Now 3-2 there.
He knew.
Right?
It's nice.
Oh.
This is, dude, I don't know what happened, but ever since that last game, that last set against John Ding.
John Ding I think we might have woken up TWT finals low high right he's playing at like a different temple right now
We will know we woke up TWT finals low high when we see a very specific thing happen
You know what I'm talking about. Okay. All right. All right, then we're in. Oh
Yeah, are we my kid? We might see it
Whoa, but both trade
Oh, he's tagged! Oh my goodness, he's tagged! Could have been way worse, could have been
worse. Still hurts though. Oh, yeah, he played the mind game. Punish the second hit or step
right to third. Back one again, she's lost again, all great. It didn't work out. The
One to one the jammer not making it out of traffic to round already
Yeah, that's okay. I'll traffic so Cal traffic
It's the minus. Yeah, it's the 10
Wow
In the jet upper to make it whip that was so clean
Now this time getting up with holding back instead of tech only there so you create more distance while you're getting up
So you get taunted
The backwash do he should be marching off people with the back one
I mean the dash up kind of set the tone uses a lot of down for one
And he's not afraid to walk up. He's like a full crouch like three years
He really compliments that as well the cannonball because it's the high super fast
But then if you want to duck boom big bitch hopping elbows
And it's still slow, but it's not like they're both advancing full cover distance even plus soul. It's great
Wow! Just read it.
Oh! We down there, he's on the low.
Bro, how?
Yeah, minus 4 on hit, sometimes Rancuu likes to double up on that.
Put some rage? No?
Bro, try not to back dash in his face, he got caught with a smash.
Rancuu might be in trouble here.
Serious mode, low high is out now.
John Dean might have woken up the beast.
He's like if anybody's getting back to that grandpa,
if it's gonna be one Korean, it's me, he's got a big boot.
How to become the best in the world, right?
Hits him with his shins, bro.
You know how much it hurts to get hit with the shins.
Ah.
Ah!
It's time to get a power crush.
Saw the back one couple times.
Good choice, yeah.
There he is again marching in there with a chopping elbow.
Good interrupt.
First open cajira!
The long terry!
Ohio's the ready!
There's the keeper to the wall.
Perfect crowding for the wall!
Light damage and then he ducks for the back four strong round for loha!
Loha momentum building confidence oozing
Bro!
Dude that was ridiculous.
He was looking to kill us.
Dude the way he's moving right now is there's so much confidence
And he's covering so many options right now.
He's not afraid to play right up on him.
Yeah.
Stay right next to him.
And that's kind of what you want to do against Valkyrie.
Don't let him play at his optimal range.
Spother that man.
If you can.
If you can at all.
Go to the wall.
Wow!
Right in front of him.
That was crazy.
I mean, we just saw the same thing.
Back dash, jet up for him.
Back dash.
True, true.
Back dash to create the lift.
Confirmation roll?
Punish. Nice punish.
That's so hard to do.
4-3, not gonna get it this time.
Ranked, starting to stick it up at the sidestep.
Cannonball, but not afraid.
Triple sidekick. Now, yes.
Like that.
Then finish the downfall one, give, commit, and stand.
Reset 3-1 just to get more pressure against that wall.
now the floor is loud that means you get an opportunity the throws coming out
the throws are coming out he wants to break it
whoa faster oh
oh sir you're serious
look right there I could have gotten another wall slide he looked out that
a little bit real bad.
Floor still available too.
Breaking it.
Yep.
Still got the wall combo.
Ow.
Ooh.
Okay.
Wait a minute, right?
Two.
And you're back.
You'll kick his body into the...
Ah!
Sheel.
No.
You couldn't do that to me.
Right?
No.
Man, that's brutal.
How do I explain that?
Right, bro, did he kick your body into a shield drop down to this thing?
What the hell?
Three, two, one.
Going back to three, sad three, Brian.
All right, okay.
Give yourself some time, switch up the outfit, you know?
The evil Rhino.
Oh.
There he is.
We're the bad guys, chill.
You know, Falkamon seems like he's a bad guy, like appearance-wise, but you know,
he's never judged by his compromise.
motivations or not of a bad guy of course he looks like a bad he's a family man
you know just really intimidating looking so you said fuck around to be
teddy bears which is that's what they're doing yeah just doing it for his family
whoo you counter oh just not there for the down one round here out of the
Oh the armor slowed it down so we got to land and he just does it again.
I was about to say he's too tall, bro.
His tippy toes are still on the floor.
Too tall to fly?
Oh, first time seeing that beat.
I mean, I feel like out of the entire day to fly.
Yeah, it feels like that hasn't been as much of a counterintual for a lot of Bryan players in this game.
A lot more forward creep and cannonball for that range.
No, that's absolutely true actually.
Okay, burst out of trouble, trying to safely navigate away from the wall.
Great punish.
Ooh, even better.
No!
Jab, wait a minute.
He's got a little bit of a recoverable life and he is acting like a fuckwanker.
Is that drop gonna cost him?
It does for this round.
Oh unfortunate, low-high.
Can't get some damage on the floor. It takes the frame trap.
Y'all I love this.
Bushing.
One, two, four. Confidence.
Coming back. Jet kick.
Switching it up, finally into the pit.
Oh break the glass!
second armor wins let's go low-high get the bubble on the board one game of
ease brown-cow in favor of rancher really close nice punish good patience to
on the string ranch you're going back up into the range to range three and now
you can see him wait wow waiting even adjusted the punish to oh oh
Wow! Opportunity though. Oh man, close explosion.
Oh! He's too damn good, you're dead.
He's back in it. He's right back in it. Down two to interlock.
Yeah, Lo-hi was looking for another down two to low crush, but the lead didn't get it.
Ranks, you're taking this lead back in the set now. A lot of back and forth between these two.
Oh no, Ranks, Lo-hi just took off the headset.
Dang wants to feel the energy. Oh both of them. Yo, they can hear you yo Vegas
Let him here you guys make some noise for this take a top eight losers
They want to hear you they want to hear you want to hear you he took that thing off roll
Need of that energy
Do the one right choose favor losers final
All right you turning up now, so I got an extra game of cushion
Oh my god!
Slipple chopping elbow?
Low hop, we're in a crazy game right now. Still fishing, big counter hit.
We're playing a big game of chicken right now on both sides.
Chopping elbow, get countering throw.
No, we're couple of lifelike there.
One on burst.
That finger there was more.
Oh, that arm, that smart.
Super portioned trade, more rank to there.
Oh, downtown orbital.
Hey, hey.
Wow, that was nasty.
It looked like it was going to be a giant, exactly a jab ring.
Oh, put that three there for Oki.
Yeah, jab.
Again gonna get the hitter up there. I stay alive. Oh my god
Big damage. How does he do it? That's the bear instinct right there. Look at the damage
God these white back. He's in the lead now
Well, what's up for me
Oh, good, okay, from low-high, what a waiting spot, hold on to that round, because he was trying to rob you, bruh.
Can you see that guy with that gun, he was trying to rob you?
Yeah, right.
He asked you for your wallet multiple times.
Oh, wow, tornado.
Oh, the wall.
Wait.
Oh, so I have the wall combo.
Cannonball, get me off this wall.
The TA Brian, Cannonball Requiem.
Little fake duck out right there.
So low parry maybe?
Whoa, this is...
Oh, Ranchu, set point to eliminate Loha here and go back to Grand Finals.
Orsonash waiting in the rafters.
Loha have an answer here.
Counter and throw. It's gonna break it!
Hey, hey, casual semi-damage going in, low tap, don't let up, into the burst!
It's a 10, he doesn't even have the Garuda, so he's gotta take the 10, guaranteed.
Alright, not going out without a fight!
Game 4 7 point for rangel elimination point low-high oh
Break the glass with the jet
Oh, it's the first even better though
What's out of dirty lane with first setup so they get up kick or something that's what it felt like they almost felt like that
back once oh
Whoa, get the rescue, don't drop it this time!
He's one for the hard combo!
So scary, down two!
So tense! So tense!
15 seconds, he's fishing for the counter hit!
Oh my god, back one!
Any pump will do it, break you!
5 seconds!
You won't die!
OH MY GOD!
This was a lie!
That was ridiculous!
What's a crime?
What's a time management?
The life management!
Vegas, is this not some good ass taking?
Is this not some good ass taking?
I didn't come here to lie to you!
I came here to look with you!
That was incredible!
Mohai stays alive with the most
Clutch last game of the set. Oh my goodness. Let's put a final five. Please. Let's go final five give it to me
Jaffa jab hold up wall positioning matches favor what a jab to interrupt the armor take the wall splat though. Oh
Big counter hit
first step then he doesn't leave that's still got it still got the round though
ran you take the lead
bro this is crazy
not bad
oh that's alright
had a handcuffs he's already in the back of the vehicle
he was in the hunter chest
he was there
wait wait a minute just remember who he was
Whoa whoa whoa!
Showing his legions.
Heh heh heh heh heh.
You did it on it.
The branches looked at my money.
Oh but the cannonball just like that,
touched it on one of these!
A real match.
And real match.
This might be one for the agents.
Huh!
They're lying.
Second first wins!
What a sidestep, didn't do anything to him though.
Oh!
Heal lock breaker, get off of me!
Spansy.
Ah!
No, he don't either side.
Ah!
What?
Oh my god, did it stick?
Oh!
Charge.
Yo!
No block, doesn't stick either!
What a punish.
The 1-1.
The straight.
Get off of me!
Ah, that's a little break.
The three strings.
The shee.
Oh my god, Zero! I'm hit down four!
My down four is better than yours!
One more round.
Low-high can turn this around.
Wrench, you can't lose another round!
This is crazy.
Finally taking the lead now.
Big ol' Perry!
He wants it, bro.
He wants to face Arson and Grandfile short of the wall.
Oh! This is the time!
gets the hit, tries to follow it up,
prepare yourself to one.
Spins it, the mid hits.
Doesn't have to Garuda.
Don't have to worry about the guard break.
Punish, fakes him with the low.
Teasing it.
Paul just chaps chopping elbows, going in, pushing towards the wall.
Cannonball.
Cannonball again!
And we got it!
A final, final round!
Let's go! Final round! Somebody's going home! Somebody's going on!
This is crazy.
Ball of the doubt.
All out on the cannonball!
First, both teams activated.
Oh, the triple keep every doing!
The mid all day?
Into the low!
Final chance.
Down for the take-and-for-ride!
What a set, right to eliminated lo-hi, but Vegas before that man leaves the stage, makes
some noise for lo-hi!
Where is it on the sleeve bro?
That move is not like you.
He wanted that.
He wanted that bad boy.
Oh man.
What a great performance to lo-hi nonetheless, he played his heart out, but this is it.
This is definitely a we have to say goodbye to our TWT champion, but now we get grand finals coming down the pipeline.
However, we got to take a look at these replays.
I say however, I want to take a look at the replays.
They were so crazy.
Just look at the compact.
It's so ridiculous, bro.
Look at the back.
Both of them had those moments that clutched backfats, and then the game was still traveling towards him just barely within his face.
Both players had such incredible moments to head.
Oh man, and look at the Hawke's back and forth between these two.
He could not stop Mohawk from feeling like he was in the running.
Every time he was right there, he would bring it back from the brinks of death.
From off the edge of the cliff, he's walking.
Yeah, and right there, Ranchu started pulling away 2-1, and look at this lightly. Look at the time!
All we had to do was get hit by anything with no recoverable light.
Bro, and then we find the slay 2-4. We were losing it, bro.
I didn't know they had that shot, bro. I didn't know they had that shot. I wasn't even ready for that either.
Wow, but then ranked you here, closed enough shop,
Voli brought it to final, final round, but ranked you.
Damn, she ran final.
Geez, what a set to sit.
What a way to lead us into grand finals,
where we're going to get a new EVO champion
or an eight time over EVO champion.
We need the bets.
That's kind of crazy, but just in case you just got here,
Let's take a look at the journey this entire top eight so far for EVO 2026.
Insane, as you can see here starting from the winter side,
we had Kassimir, Rangchu, Arslan Ash, and Arslan just being comfortable on the winter side,
three runs all the way, and now he's got that extra cushion and grand finals against Rangchu.
That upside is that you do get an extra set, and we've seen he's willing to switch to these other characters.
It has a different enough play style with both of them.
Are you really going to have to change your game?
But also just looking at the fact that ranked you came all the way made it through pretty parts to the winners final side
Down the arson ash and had to fight oh, hi and a nail fighter to get there
We have not seen any other character outside of the Falker mom
But I can see plenty of wristbands out there with the airheads air cam
Oh my god
In the lights in and out y'all
I like when we just drop down the people and they're like surprised.
He's like, look at this guy on his phone, look at him, he's doing it.
He's on his phone, look at it.
Getting the shot of the RPS, the legendary.
Which side are we gonna be on?
Two out of three, one apiece.
Now the draw, now I can't see the hands.
It's a mystery.
But we won, man.
He said he wanted one feet.
Well, here we go, Grand Finals.
All right, all right.
It's been a great weekend, you know?
I've enjoyed myself.
Los Vegas, have you enjoyed Evo 2026 or what?
So I'm gonna start with the rap.
It's technically low.
I can't put it easy.
We got another one, but we're gonna get a champion,
a return champion possible.
Well, so, Quiche, do you think
At any point in time we get a character switch from Rangshu.
From Rangshu? Do you think he's going to bust out the bears?
It's not so tough, man. I feel like the whole reason he picked up the bakaman is because the bears got touched since season 1.
He has bought it out in season 2. Even in season 3, he has bought it out a couple of times, but not too very good success.
I feel like he's really just walking in the bottom on at this point. So I
Don't know it's gonna be tough
And we've seen the matchup happen before Nina versus bears before we have seen the cootie versus bear and every time after season
One it just looks like it's been getting harder and harder
Well the matchup is definitely we're about to see something we're about to see probably the fucker mom probably the cootie
Mitu or maybe the Nina who knows
But I have an important question
It's pop quiz time, Evil.
You guys have fans, you got favorites, but
I wanna know what you guys think.
If you think Rangchu is gonna take the set and
be Evil 2026 champion, make some noise.
Man, yeah, I like that, ask him about the other guy.
Ask him about the other guy.
What about the eighth time Evil champion being crowned here
today with Arslan Ash!
I don't know why that's actually pretty easy.
Maybe somebody won't ask Arslan Ash to win.
All right, let's go.
That's what I like to hear.
Leave it, man.
These heavy hitters meeting each other in grand finals now.
This is it.
Are we going to see the fair?
It's most likely going to be the Falkenbaum.
But the question is, Kunimitsu or Nina for Arslan Ash?
Yeah, that's true.
That's true.
We definitely got options.
Especially with the extra cushion of a set,
he might have been in there for a Kunimitsu.
from the start. Hey, I mean, look, why not? And on top of that, that's a matchup.
I feel like it's unexplored. You have to go so much deeper into the pocket
to actually be like, you know what? I'm going to train my Kuma to fight against
this Kumi Mitsumi Panda versus this Kumi Mitsumi. So hard. Yeah, you got to
three. Yo, shout out. Good work this weekend. Yo, big shout out to the
practice runners. All you guys are the on some heroes every event, man.
Yo, shout out to the T. O. Is out there. A lot of people came a long
way to help out at pools. I just want to say thank you guys. And if
you see if they have on the stick referee jackets.
Make sure you let them know.
Give them just a little bit of appreciation.
Because they was looking at it.
Show them some love.
Yeah, bro.
Show them some love for you guys and the crowd.
Yeah, bro.
Yo, Vegas.
It's evil.
I have more hands.
I have that for you myself.
You guys have been ridiculous.
Make some noise for yourselves, Vegas.
You guys are ridiculous.
I truly appreciate you guys coming on, hanging out,
watching this techie as we get the opportunity
to see a brand new champion.
It may be an eight-time champion.
Man, look at that crowd shot.
Holy, heads in the crowd, man.
We're gonna see it, dude.
Can he do it?
Or is he getting the eight?
I don't know.
He's ranked, you're gonna stop him?
We're gonna find out right now.
Grand finals, first set, let's go!
All right, here we go.
Here we go, grand finals, Evo 2026.
We need a champion to close it out.
It's the Falka-Rom versus Nina.
I like it. No more hooting into this is the evil champion seven-time character.
Rank two versus Arslan Ash. It's gonna be Korea versus Pakistan.
We're gonna do the A in the Stanky leg.
Stand on the ground this time.
Ooh, the triple!
The better.
Plus one. Signs first.
Also, we gotta talk about the fact that Rank two's warm now.
He just came in when nailed by the chef.
He passed across the tube with low high.
Good combo for the weird axis.
Whoa.
So the QCF2, he passed for the hard split.
Off the side, he knows the side wall too.
Keep it light.
Whoa, almost.
That was dangerous.
Damn, Jaffy.
He's saving his life.
And the wild standing, oh, he tried to do something.
What?
Oh, first round to Arson.
Range was a factor on the jab down reaching for the punish on that one on the Super T-Shot.
He'll have the counter-heave!
The Molo!
Woah, so armor! How did he know?
Once again.
Proper option to deal with the easy torn.
You'll land obtained properly in System Mechanics, man.
It's never not his turn.
He's even did something minus on his dow gen to keep the star going.
He's just not able to stop you, Arson, for being right next to you.
Arson, looking unstoppable, final form.
But you know this is what they say, pressure builds diamonds, so you can't rag you.
You do this, that's the way to start.
Oh, the jet key broke the glass.
Look at the damage, you're gonna get all this damage, you're gonna get the wall.
This is gonna hurt.
Hey, this is gonna hurt.
Oh, oh, oh.
That's a wall!
Can we go wall to wall here?
Yo, bottom drop got some cold lag, bro.
Yo, there's a lot of scaling.
If you reach this, die!
Oh my god!
Oh!
That hit to my scale!
Stop it!
Yeah, some of the small body characters that do 1-4
put the hit on at some time at certain angles,
so it just happens to be unfortunate for ours to do that.
The back tubes get slapped.
I don't know.
Cracking option from side steps.
Woah! Here it is!
They didn't for the walls anymore.
Now blast the wall, he got it.
Heal. End of the safe area though.
Dude, he like peeled from the non-blast wall to the blast wall.
Yeah, it almost felt really good.
Open the trade.
Transfer from two. Oh my god.
Another one. Apple arena.
Oh my gosh, he's still got HP.
He's still got HP from all of them.
Fuck it, this is bad.
Every hit.
It's the right time.
No, we don't want the wall.
You can be kicked on the top of that bar.
Yeah, I want to get rid of your gray.
That's way too much gray on our side.
For the whole family, your body is in a crater.
Shit.
Ha ha ha.
Oh, you closed the upboard.
Where do you put a choice?
It's the perfect deepness from ours.
Sometimes you got a hit button.
Sometimes you gotta move just we've seen people flow out with this jab, right?
He ran up did one to prepare for the fluke steel and got that confirmed Marcell Hatch
Takes the first game winner side
Only needs two more
More games. He wants it bro. He wants that eight
Talking about a two-time
TWP champion
Are juggernaut going up against each other
I feel like you got to talk about the fact that chip that you give, but being charging is actually really important, with a lot of pressure on his opponent. What a counter.
Especially so early in the round like this, you start pulling ahead in the light lead. Here we go, interrupts, get me off the wall.
He was late on the punish.
I actually did a 12, that's only 11 I think.
Counter is ready.
Yes, not there it was. He knew what range he was at.
I'll send him to a little bit stubby, but he'll sure.
Back to the wall again.
He's ridiculous, man.
Sheesh. Final form Arslan with momentum on his side too now.
Counter hit link off the second hit.
There it is. Power crush. It's never your turn.
Lockdown City, where do you go? He's literally cornered. He can't step left, he can't step right.
Just gotta deal with this.
He goes for the head, fighting back, goes for the carry.
Oh, sick!
Whips back one, not gonna block.
Stay ducking because of the threat of the high extension, but Arce didn't pull the
trigger on it.
He's like two, three sets ahead on every pull.
This is not looking good for Arce, but on a right shoe.
Yeah, right shoe.
Looking like he's in a lot of trouble here in getting the blocks though, getting
the punishes.
He's still awake.
He'll get the big hits too.
He's gotta run away with this here for the heat burst.
He's gotta run away with this arse and fight it back with his, away from the wall.
Oh!
Side step.
He's slow on the heat smash.
So scary, get the F4 3.
Oh, the low crush!
I'm telling you that he will make the read.
Willing to bet it, knows he's up around.
Wall carry.
Just short.
Pressure.
Oh, the lockdown, three rounds straight in game number two.
And now Arslan Ash is one game away from that eight-time.
And he looks like he's cruising, bro.
He is chilling, bro.
Brian Chu, right now, really thinking about it.
Is it the character?
Is it the time to go back to the Bears?
He's had a lot of history in that matchup in the past before.
No, he's sticking it out with the Fokker bomb.
What can he do different here?
It's looking so tough.
Let's see what the options are.
Let's see how deep the bag of preparation of Arslan Ash goes.
And is it enough to get him an E-Bow of 2026 A Championship?
OK, starting off with a jab punish into the mid.
And he gets the counter and low.
The damage, 70% already off of Poe's and Punish's.
Rage Art.
I think that's going to hit him.
Yeah, boy.
Counter hit two, which means big damage. Not a lot of great life to recover, obviously, so that's good, but still,
don't need arson as he did this before.
He burst on the wall.
Yeah, you give him a chance, he'll definitely take it away from you.
Hold on, hold on.
Better be careful, come on, see if he's ready to hit the counter.
Didn't get to use this heat. Spent it on the after bullets.
Did you have the punish?
So scary to go low on him bro!
Yeah!
Dude, this is the arsenal deep inside Evil bro.
Yep, yep.
We saw that Evil friends is real bro.
And the standing three okay.
The momentum.
It's almost like he lulls you into wanting to go mid or low.
And it's like, I'm too scared to go low.
I can't.
Yeah.
Kinda streamlined your offense.
Wow!
Punish!
That's where you get your damage guaranteed with punishes from Rangchu.
No! He tapped the wall, so you got to turn around.
Oh!
Got the three. Let's look at this up. Bro!
Engage!
A little bit of chip as well. Lockdown time now.
Gets clipped. Trying to move.
Great option. Free follow-up. And the down.
Okay! Okay!
Okay!
right you're not out yet I've read one throw you know has a true three-way
throw game to
how that avoid the down jab defense look it solid on the side of right you did
it at that little bit of cheerful how does he do it everything you just
He knows.
And he's playing for his range, you commit to it, and he's right for you.
Right.
Dude, don't test him, man.
He just wanted it, bro.
He knows all your options.
He's calling out which one you're going for after standing three and down four
ones.
Engage.
This is going so top, right?
You're still in those lead in this game, though.
And we've seen how he's gotten away with these devs,
or either they don't get counted.
They're just annoying enough to make second guess.
Or Arslan, Loco, and the multi-throw, the three-piece break the leg.
That's the arc.
And the low, one round away from crowning our Evo 2026 champion.
If Rage, who doesn't switch it up, something's going to go bad.
He needs this round.
Fletch blocking it on the downback three.
Counter-versed.
Heat for Heat now.
One for Heat Denial maybe, on Rancid.
Smash is good.
Doesn't spend the dash. Spends it on block.
Back to Dwall.
Oh, jeez.
Oh my god.
Life's so even. Arson with the smallest lead.
Less than 30 seconds.
3, 3 follow up, right 3, he's in there, close him out.
Don't come back!
Nice!
Rangchu, stay alive!
Stressful, a little sigh of relief from after that round 2 from Rangchu.
Can you blame him man, it's been looking like Ars is defense was unstoppable at one point.
And just the way he started staggering his offense, right?
going down a little bit, just a little mini-hezzy.
Throw on Arson, just throw on Arson off the trail,
just a little bit, just enough to get the momentum back,
put another game on the board,
and now we fight further in 2-1,
first set, Arson and Ash with the lead,
rent you, gathering momentum, it's building up.
Definitely is.
But can Arson deny it and secure that eagle duck?
That's what he wants, he doesn't want to go to reset.
Oh
You thought it was gonna clip a button oh
Then car dealer get me off this wall
Stop show up that one built in size the plan to map move. Oh
Oh, it's off the read.
Fuck.
He knows.
The KIPPUP.
Another nice block.
How does he block all those?
Faints.
Down four.
He's got to recover.
Super T.
Big low.
Everything's hitting.
Oh, the low.
He's no longer scared, Steve.
The lows are out.
That momentum.
Picking up.
Playing back.
Blank back.
You're further than you used to be.
Baka runs into a Migi-Apap.
Great damage on the wall.
And look at the boom, a great punish.
Triple kicks.
Where are we going?
Oh, what?
He never mixed it up.
Just one, one, one, one, one.
Arson's had to guess in that situation now.
First, Baka still got a little bit left,
but it's back into the wall.
Denied.
Wow, there's an empty pouch that has to bait you out with movement.
Man, the fact that he's so great, they get the brakes on that bag for crying.
It's the signs of a 7-time evil champ.
Uh-uh-uh!
That's it!
Wow.
Yep, that ones are working again off the keep-out timing
Yeah true chest incase there's a good button there or something
Punish what?
Okay, I swear. Okay every single down back three. How is he doing that?
He's all on right now the adjustments that start to happen
Hi flash down back for
pushing the momentum arson
denying it with the down jab early
spindly he don't both sides advance
the dash using the wall position
agree agree keep your corner
look at the chip he's adding up
get a little bit back had to spin
all your resources though oh or one
oh the super team
and he got the follow-on
two apiece
okay
not gonna be easy
easy. Nobody said it was easy.
Tell them they like it. Tell them.
There we go, man.
April, you thought it was going to be easy.
You thought this was going to be sweet.
Think I'm going to just give this to you?
You're going to have to shoot me.
You're going to take me out of the crack.
Have to earn it.
But this is it.
Back to Rebel Hanger again.
Are we going to get the reset from Frank Chew?
Are we going to crown the eight time for Arslan?
I want to say it's quick turnaround for Arslan to get this,
but it's not.
It's been years for him to get this.
He's had a lot of contingent along the line.
Ranked two of the most current.
Here we go.
Battle of Javs down below.
OK.
Oh, whoa.
What is he up right there?
Finally close for the down 4-1-2 option.
He's looking for the downboard 1-4, so often.
After getting the whole leeway, he's trying to go to some of these extra extensions.
Yeah.
And it's actually getting the hits, and he's even making Arson a second guess.
Oh, he hasn't gone.
Dude, every single time he's gone mid.
It's like, it gets Arson to second guess it in that situation.
No heat, so no extension.
He needs to be careful on this wall, the slide.
Oh, gotta keep him there, the winged con.
Don't let him off this wall.
The jab.
Good interruption.
Oh, the whole three piece and the deletion of the brain.
Oh.
Chance here.
He looked like he was mid-step with a step block from Arson into tournament point.
Oh my god, you'll see
That's the first time he's busted that out to
First tries to keep her through the third kick breaks it but the position definitely in arson action spade keepers not gonna work
Side step right
Good armor from Arslan hold this match. What are we doing with it? Just a pitch at no
Hold on wait a minute wait a minute, please hold wait a minute
Chabstruse again up to the fourth day arson has a bit on that yet
Oh, that's good on a push towards the wall fight back with the first push itself out
Nice generic for the homie and the side switch too. So now he's got that wall
First down jack, he's in his turn, oh he's here too!
This next exchange could be dangerous, the down 4-1, Arslan can smell the victory!
The call for 4!
Got him Grazier!
Oh my god he's not dead!
That was crazy!
He is not dead!
This is not hold!
right you is fighting a little bit of recovery there it is
we got a final final round set number one let's go what a bunch oh he was
fishing he was fishing
and this is already turned into not good situation for range in the position
for arson to take to your first launch and wall positioning.
Long range!
No chance!
He purses at the top.
Get him off this wall.
No punish! Arson, the right shoe gets punished though.
Need to rub.
What the where?
And that will do it!
Sign it up!
Eight times!
You're an evil champion!
It will be none other than our Slut Ash!
The eight-time is ridiculous!
It looks like you'll run out of hands before you run out of chances.
Eight times! Eight times!
Eight times! Your evil champion is the Marvel Oz!
Mars and Ash does it again, gives us the bow, makes the impossible happen one more time.
And you know what? He can also make it a nine this year.
He can definitely make it a nine this year if he gets the opportunity.
Goes back to talk to Rainchew, who will be going home in second place.
And man, Arsalanash still can't believe it himself.
The amount of traveling he's done from the time he started to right now
should be documented, especially because it got him eight evil victories in the back.
There it is. The game.
There it is. We got four of them.
the 8-time EVO champion.
Ever since he exploded onto the scene with EVO Japan to start it off in 2019,
he has just made himself a household name in the world of Tekken, in the world of fighting games.
Yeah, bro.
Well, he's, he's gonna have to start counting on his toes too, bro.
He's gonna have to, he's gotta get an EVO ring for the toe.
That's what's gonna happen.
Yeah.
He's gonna need more hands.
Bro, he gonna run out of hands.
I'm telling you, before he run out of chances, bro.
He gonna run out of hands before he run out of chances.
your evil makes a noise your evil 2026 champion
none other than Arslan Ash
5-4 Arslan, the story continues man
heavy contention, heavy contention across the board let's take a look back at that set
it definitely could have went another way presented by PlayStation Tournaments
and look we knew we kind of figured that we would see a change in the
character you at least counted I had hope
But great fight no matter what right? Yeah, at least he had an opportunity to switch up his approach and successfully did that
No, he was definitely slugging it out with Arslan to hand mail back and forth
But Arslan's going away early in the seventh the first two games right there a lot of big reads from Arslan to up or one over
The low rage arts on defense on sometimes sometimes you've got to do it man
You got to let him know that you're not afraid. Yeah, you're not scared
I this is an option on the table, and I will use it but right there the step
Arson asked no for a movement no for a defense, but
With his reasons up like even with the lows getting punished a lot never straight away
That last chance set right here. He started using moves
He had not the entire day. Hell, maybe even the entire weekend. Yeah, the super team right there, too
He hasn't really used that all the top eight.
Maybe one other time all weekend, I remember, I see him.
But Arslan and Evo just absolutely unstoppable
for Las Vegas.
Eight times in Evo champion.
Whether it takes a character, whether it takes him traveling,
moving to a whole another country,
this guy is unstoppable.
Like I said before, bro, he's going to start counting on his toes.
Dude, that was great.
And we have Evo France later on this year.
That's when he got two last year.
Dude, if he reaches nine, he's tied with Justin.
I mean, look, bro, if he does the traveling,
if he does the traveling, he can definitely make it a reality.
And it's not going to be easy still because you're still going to see a lot of these
players in the same run.
You know, ranked you wants to get that down the work down the line
somewhere in one of these terms.
And we know how much Loha wanted that to.
Oh, yes. So many competitors that are hungry.
Yeah, man. It tells quite the story, especially for the Tekken World Tour.
But now we have our eight time champion.
We still got the T.W.T. to worry about that.
It means there are definitely gonna be some matches that you guys are gonna see down the pipeline that have crazy fallout
The consequences come from here. They want those runbacks, bro
EWC is right around there's true events coming up. This is just one stop, right?
We still got you with France as well
Arslan has told when we were talking about it last year, right?
It's like, you know, he doesn't look as strong going into this evil, you know
But then he did it last year this year, too
He doesn't look as dominant in the Masters events in the other 12 other events, but
come evil time man. It's I don't know what's in the water. What's in the air here?
He just locks in and turns it up. I mean I feel like it's just the evil air.
If he was like, is this evil air that I'm breathing? That means I'm the best now.
Oh yeah, as soon as he inhales the evil air, he's like, oh bro, I know I am.
That smells like an evil trophy to me. That's a champion. It smells like another one man.
Oh man, shout out to everybody though. I'm glad that we actually got to talk about this,
about this, especially at length, what we've seen. We got to call quite a few of his matches
as well, just looking at his path all the way through. And some potentially short fallings
were he definitely could have failed by the wayside. So it's been a big fun topic to we
also got any representation of a Ninja killer doing his thing too. But man, let's go ahead
and give it up for Arson. Yeah, but first and foremost, we got somebody that will
make sure you guys get the lineup correctly. Let's throw it over to L I Joe on the
stage. All right everybody before we get started please blow the roof off of this
place for your Tech in 8 top 8 here at EVO 2026.
Alright, in 7th place, make some noise for the one and only, Nubbib!
also in 7th place. Nice and loud for Ninja Kera 2-1-2. And also in 5th place we got
Melo!
Keep the energy high for Placid Mir!
We all know this guy in fourth place, get loud for Jordan!
In third place, Low High!
Your second place winner, make some noise for Raiju!
Raiju!
And now, with great honor, I present to you an eight-time Evo Champion, the one, the
only, Arslanian!
And also, we have a special prize for our first, second, and third place winners.
Beautiful sticks, guys.
Please hold them high.
Let's make some noise right now for our top eight.
Let's go, everybody.
One more time.
Get loud, get loud, get loud.
Shout out to Vermila for the sticks.
Thank you very much for our first, second, and third prizes.
But before we go anywhere, Mr. Arslan Ash, Mr. Arslan,
can I bother you in the center of the stage?
We're going to conduct the EVO champion interview
presented by AT&T.
Please sit right over here.
All right, first, first and foremost,
I have to ask you, easily established
as one of the best Tekken players in the world ever.
but when you come to EVO, you are like a different person.
I don't know what it is, I can't explain it,
but you play with this ferocity, like you refuse to lose.
Is there something different about this tournament
that drives you than any other tournament?
I feel like even we have like seven EVOs next year,
I feel like this EVO is the biggest one
because of the prestigious house
and the history that this EVO has.
I think that's why I've won
You're in the biggest event of the world, like the biggest FGC event of the world, so I think this is what Regerson did.
Oh, yeah, thank you. And you guys be quiet for the man, the guys got eight medals!
Leslie, is there anyone back at home, anyone you want to give some props to?
This is an achievement that is almost unheard of, you're one away from the throwing someone of a medal count.
So is there anyone back at home, partners, family, anyone you want to give a shout out to?
Yeah, first of all, thanks to La La La for giving me the opportunity.
And my family, first of all, Anand, Mamma and everyone, my two children.
And also my sponsors Red Bull and Twistmine and Kamba and everyone who has been sporting me.
me and also the Japan community you know before coming here I play so much with
the only Japanese community and they never say you know no they want to play
and they helped me so much and also my friends thank you and to you guys who
supported me well sir I'm not gonna keep you waiting any longer there is
one more prize we're going to give to you we can please give the man is well
deserve an incredible eight victories deep. Arson Ash, hold that up high. Let them see
that you are the EVO 2026 Tekken 8th Champion!
And before we go to work, let me get it back to Tasty Stephen and watching.
Well, well, history has been made.
We have an eight time EVO champion in Arslan Ash, well deserved at that one of the best
in the world.
And like El Lajo said, undoubtedly one of the best Tekken players to ever be at this
point, bro.
Ever.
nobody else that has won this many evils for Tekken.
Especially when such a short time, the competition has only gotten crazy.
Yeah. And still he persists.
And still he's the winner.
And I'm telling you, it's very much homework about him too.
And they're just grinding, like trying to figure out what his play style is to
have this and stuff.
But he's still on top of his game, which is so impressive.
I mean, look, with a game like this that has been, you know,
It's changed a lot.
Even to this point, how many of these guys are adjusting,
changing up their characters,
moving on like it really does show
that this game is definitely still a lot and well.
And shout out to the players.
Shout out to the players for giving us amazing matches.
Evo has been crazy lit with matches
and it's because of the players.
So shout out to them as well.
Everybody in the top eight.
If you entered and you showed up to your pool,
you got a card.
You guys are part of that C in FGC, bro.
Yes, yes.
Don't ever forget that.
Don't ever forget that, but you don't.
Marcellan, is he gonna do it again?
I mean look I feel like once again and I like to make sure that this is no right
Obviously, he's the big man on kens, but the bigger you are the bigger the target on your back
That's exactly what it is for sure man
And you know big shots are awesome again for doing his thing is never an easy beat
Just seems like history is repeating itself from last year, but this is
Such a hard task to do because people are always gunning for him. Well, Mike
I just want to tell you yo Vegas before we get out of here. Can y'all make some noise for M Y
K, this is my brother right here.
Amazing play talk.
And I just want to say thank you guys so much for allowing me to get up here and talk this
tech and love.
We got a great game coming up by the wayside.
My boy IFC Yipestler, thank you guys for letting me talk about fighting games.
It's always love, it's always love and I'll see you guys next year.
Y'all be well, yeah?
Peace.
Peace out.
All right, now there is one more top eight that we do have in store.
Ooh, yeah, there is one more top eight we have in store.
It's more like it.
Thank you, everybody.
But before we get into that, we do have a couple of little surprise announcements
going on.
please give me a big round of applause as I bring out someone that has elevated
the tournament scene for the last I'm gonna say 15 but it's probably more the
person that's responsible for a lot of what happens today in our community and
and at events, please make some.
That's very nice of you, Joe, thank you everyone for the warm welcome.
I am here to talk to you about some updates regarding evil events and projects coming up
over the next year.
I have enough of them that they gave me some cute cards, so please bear with me and let's
get right into it by talking about Evo Singapore first. Next year, for the first time, from
January 15th to 17th, we'll be going to the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. There's a date.
There we go. Opening 2027 with a new event is a milestone for Evo. But it's also a milestone
for our friends at Bandai Namco as they'll be celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the
Tekken World Tour Global Finals.
I was very proudly involved with the creation of that event series and I'm honored today
to bring you some details about its next edition.
You know what my name is!
Oh, that is so good!
Oh!
Let's go!
Oh!
Damn it!
Oh!
Damn it!
Damn!
Oh my God!
That was crazy!
This guy is a monster!
You can see it in his eyes!
He punches his way into the next stage of this bracket!
Oh my God!
The full charge of it!
He takes it at the dawn, this qualifies, showing why he is one of the best players in the world.
It looks like we might have a brand new champion.
We are incredibly excited to kick off 2027 with an entire weekend dedicated to fighting
games as Evo Singapore and the Tekken World Tour Global Finals come together at the Marina
Bay Sands in January.
Also coming up in 2027 though is another weekend where I'd like to ask you to save the date
as Evo returns to the birthplace of fighting games, Japan.
Earlier this year, we set a Guinness record
for the single largest fighting game tournament of all time.
And we'd like to do it again next year with you
from April 30th to May 2nd at Tokyo Big Site
for Evo Japan 2027.
I appreciate you, man.
And that's very kind.
Before we get to 2027, though, I'd
like to talk to you about a couple of things right here
in 2026 that Evo's working on.
First up is early details in the Evo's Locals project.
We believe strongly that Locals are the bedrock of fighting
games.
And we want to make it easier to find them, to host them,
and to grow them.
So over the next year, we'll be launching tools
and resources to do just that.
First up today is a beta of a directory
that will be available at locals.ebo.gg
that is a gigantic list of every single local
that we can find.
And you can contact us today through that website
to get your local listed.
Yeah!
Then a little bit later this year,
we're gonna launch an interactive map and calendar
covering all local events and streams.
It's going to launch alongside something the FGC has never had, though,
and that's a grants and partnerships program for locals.
We want to create something that helps you start, maintain,
and grow local fighting game communities.
Yeah!
around the world each year.
Mary, that graphic looks great.
We're looking forward to supporting locals.
We want to have the first wave of those grant recipients awarded by the end of
this year with many more to come throughout 2027.
We want to help you start, maintain and grow this community.
Please come together with us so that we can try to do that. Thank you.
Before we go though, we've got one more opportunity here in 2026 to get together that announced this morning.
As we put out a nice video hosted by Kiana Damascus talking about Evo France coming up in Nice later this year.
Right now today you go to start that GG slash Evo France to register for that event that from October 9th to 11th is going to have the opportunity for each and every one of you to compete in eight different fighting game titles.
One of which is the debut of Marvel token fighting souls at an Evo tournament.
tournament. May we? To let all of you know a little bit more about what to expect during
that tournament, please help me welcome to the stage from Arc System Works, game producer
to Keshi Yamanaka, Game Director and Lead Battle Designer Pachi, and Localization Director
Amber.
Hi everyone, and thank you so much for your time.
I'm Yamanaka, the producer of Marvel Tocque-On Fighting Souls.
We're extremely honored to have Marvel Tocque-On selected as one of the official titles as upcoming EVO France.
And it will be the first qualifier event for Marvel Tokona as part of the ARC World Tour, and I'm very excited to see all of the players and everyone there to support it, so I'll see you in East.
The last team of the product version, the Ghost Rider Team,
we will now start to play the living trailer.
And now we have what you've all been waiting for,
the announcement of the final team for the upcoming release.
Allow me to introduce your glorious champion,
the Fighting Avengers!
The Unbreakable X-Men. The Amazing Guardian. The Knights of Doom.
And...
Stay out of my face, lady! You mess with the Ghost Rider, you'll end up!
There's the Ghost! All still no luck! And then, how about some help here?
You just like me, fatally-tongued beast.
You will not survive.
My?
Ragnarok!
Great footing of the ultimate fighting game set.
The challenge is fixed.
And now, the result is me!
The FG!
See you later!
And as always,
I will fight with you.
Oh, and we've already been defeated!
And you can't... somebody clip back!
So are you!
Random bullshit, go!
That fool was assembled!
Yeah, go for it!
Wait, wait, wait, there's something else we should do.
I think that means...
And, sir, the...
...nice samurai of redness!
Oh, we're cooking now!
T-E-A-F-N-O!
It's time to grab the shadows!
One is not close, a frost sign is everyone ready!
We better build this!
Rest in peace!
Come on attack!
The power of Kyo-Kima!
Helm is coming for you!
Hey, listen to me!
Never did quit!
Coming from...
So, how was the final team of Samurai Outriders?
So what did you think about the game trailer for the final team, the Samurai Outriders?
This is a really unique team consisting of the newly announced characters, Deadpool, Loki, and Blade, and please look forward to learning more about their team and the story.
Next I'd like to quickly introduce each character.
You can see Blade fighting with his katana, his machine gun, his whole arsenal of weapons, so he's a master of a variety of armaments.
And Loki has a lot of skills, such as power and spirit, and has a lot of feint skills.
He's a character who fights with a lot of power.
And lastly, Deadpool.
I think a lot of the people here at the FGC have noticed this.
As you can see, Deadpool is here to break the fourth wall, and maybe Vardy recognized some of the legendary moves that he references.
Next, we'll have more details coming, so definitely keep an eye out.
Next, I'd like to cover the open beta.
Open Beta will be available from April 24th to 26th for 3 days.
PS5 and Blade will also be available on PC.
Of course, PS5 and PC will be available on PS5 and Blade.
The Open Beta is coming up next month on July 24th to 26th for 3 days.
And as you can see, it will be available for not only the PlayStation 5 but also for PC.
And of course, you'll be able to have matches between PC and PS5 players.
Yes, never days quit, okay?
Yes, we will tell you more about that later on on the official website.
and we'll have more information available later on the official website.
And we're also excited to share that Marvel token will be available
at Anime Expo happening next week in downtown Los Angeles.
So for anyone who couldn't make it out to join us here in Vegas this weekend, you'll be able to play the same version of the game that's available at Evo Vegas, that there at NMA Expo, so hopefully we'll see you there.
PlayStation 5, PC, both of them are fine.
Please make an appointment and go home today.
And Marvel Telephone is coming out on August 6th for both PlayStation and PC,
so don't forget to place your pre-order.
Yes, and from now on,
we will be releasing a lot of information on the character's deep type videos,
We have a lot more excitement coming for you, especially the upcoming deep-dive videos to cover the rest of the characters.
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Now you never see it in my life.
All right.
I know I said it before,
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Top 8.
But before that,
we're going to cut to a quick break,
and we will be right back.
Don't go anywhere,
because she will miss.
Street Fighter 6 Top 8 coming up next season.
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We are here and it's almost the end of the road.
We have one more game.
We know what the game is and I want to hear this entire room give me the chance that I
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Street Fighter 6, V-Lock, ladies and gentlemen.
I used to be a street fighter.
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Take the stick, suck the water
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When I broke you next time
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And yo, the flow is in yo, better act like, you know.
Think of Slick, something like a Slick.
IFC and shit, too, with that filthy mix up.
That's right, that's right, get louder.
Now it's time for the top 8 player introduction presented by Visa.
Let's keep the energy high right now.
I got Chigamatsu!
No introduction needed, the ball!
Mena R.D.G.
And the Jamie Menace Tan-Tan Man!
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Alright we are going to get things started with our commentators.
Make some noise for the boys.
I am see yikes and
Welcome to the tournament where dreams come true, that's the only way I can describe it after hearing an intro track with JDK
Sheik Luchin IFC yikes stop it bruh
Yeah, I just want to give a big shout out to D block man Poodle and of course evil for getting this all together man
I appreciate everybody man. This is just an amazing feeling. How you feeling tonight? I
Know Steve was wearing y'all out
I know he asked for noise 45 times, but we still live we still in full effect
I can't wait to get into the street fighter six top eight
Shout out to the airheads air came of course you seen all the beautiful people out there
But what's going on man? Of course shout out to Joe of course doing a great job on the stage
I see I should mention it one more time. I know you love on the track side of things, but yeah, it's kind of crazy
I'm still some real about it to be honest. I'm cheating
Cheek-to-cheek. I'm gonna be real with you
So yeah, this is gonna be a good one of course ladies and gentlemen
We got some fresh faces, of course, familiar faces, some young bucks.
Pretty much a whole clean lineup that we don't really get to see every single day
in a big tournament, let alone, of course, in this big stage known as Evil World.
So very excited to see how this plays out and see who's going to be crowned.
Our champion, of course, you got Menor D with a chance to be the first time.
Two-time Evil World champion, so, it's a lot to see here.
And there we got the top eight predictions presented by Play Stations on
this live and in full effect for the chat right now.
So you can see in chapter 1, you got the exclamation point 1 through 8,
of course corresponding to the various members of this top band.
Got Shigematsu with one men RDA, two men all the way through to cross over RD.
But yeah, man, it's going to be an incredible time.
I already know what I'm going with, man.
I believe in the Jamie, bro.
Give me the Tauntaun men number one first place.
Well, I mean, it's no surprise considering where I'm from, man.
I'm a black but no eating bandits.
And of course, I love that we got two Dominican's here, but I've only
choose one, and that's going to be, of course, my boy, men are the-
Talk to my love seeing that, but yeah man.
It's a feel man, the tool to mitigate your public representatives in top eight and
even thousand man services so hard to get here.
The consistency of men are D is on display once again at crossover.
He's speaking right now man.
He had a great showing and play great spot at a great show.
He had combo breaker, but this show is even better than both of those.
So you know he's keep that momentum go.
I mean it's consistent.
That was a long road for those guys, but again, they was well equipped.
The way it was training of course all the way from the fact the battle that
they had with Daigle, of course, the men of us is Daigle.
So anywhere that crossed over one with men,
he was definitely leveling up.
So big shout out to the boys being in me,
being a proud Dominican.
I thought I was going to be the only one,
even though I wasn't born on the island,
but I'm very proud to have that Dominican heritage.
And just to see my beautiful people on the stage,
just to cook up and represent,
present to my island.
It's a beautiful thing, man, 100% right.
It all started back in that 2017 Capcom Cup
with men of R.D. taking in, right,
and really making his goal to bring up
the Dominican Republic community, right,
in the FGC side of things that we've seen it obviously.
Cobblast following this guy.
There's so many players across over the latest to make a top eight at EVO Vegas.
It's going to be amazing.
Yeah, let's check that victim breath is presented by White Claw serves.
As you see exactly how was their path all the way here to the top eight.
You see get my suit.
They took out the lights of making that move was a tough cookie throughout
the whole tournament.
So that's who defeated.
Ah, you have said that that's for real though.
Of course, taking out Diago and it's funny enough that was the guy that
was training Diago to get ready for that.
in that first attempt. So it's kind of poetic. He actually defeated the 2-0. Now I'm in, of course,
one of my personal mistakes. He's 2-0 everybody. 2-0 Fizz, 2-0 Reman, 2-0 Silly Goose, 2-0 V-Elder,
and 2-0 Sheepo, just so he could be dominant here to perform on the grand stage. That's crazy.
And it's not only poetic that he took out Daigo for this one and the fact that he was training
men of foreign art trading Daigo for men of economic media, but now he gets the chance
to avenge Daigo in round one of top eight, going up against men of R.D. You can see the
the path right there. Nothing. This needs that as well. Right? Crime. Got you. Cool.
Akuta Gawa. Highly. Tysa. Foxtra man. So many more shots. More of a manner as well.
But Akuta Gawa, I did see him bust out the loop for Akuta Gawa. And I feel like he's,
you don't want to play the Blanca man. I don't think he's going to want to.
So I was having that talk for a couple of folks for sure. Definitely. So I definitely
want to see, well, I mean, it does have the option, but I mean, personally, I want to see
the chaos in the Blanca Blanca. That's just me. Just to fill it out. I mean,
It's a three out of five and then you know men I have a pocket for the characters.
You got a geef, you got a bison, you got a Luke.
Obviously the product to the Blancachan.
But we'll see how this plays out.
Let's see some madness.
So y'all ready for this top eight y'all?
Please make some noise for one time for the one time.
Oh yeah, we love hearing the noise.
We can have, eats us here in the arena of Evo Top 8.
Man, they're here to show all players are getting everything clean and
probably before getting into it obviously for the Evo Championship.
We want to make sure everything is crispy.
It's going to be fun man, because as you mentioned, right?
I would love to see the most electrified match in Street Fighter Entertainment with the Blanca Mirror.
You know me? Like literally the most electrified.
But yeah man, I mean, Mena is such a well-versed, well-rounded player.
We've seen him on a multitude of characters, as you mentioned.
Obviously the loop got brought out, but we've seen the mice, so we've seen the geeks.
He's been able to be a Mena, so multiple people.
And nobody's gonna know Blanca better than him, right?
We might see a character that we've never actually seen from him before,
just because he knows that Blanca has trouble with them,
but tries to keep it low key because, you know, that's his main character.
I mean the way this matchup is gonna play is who is going to land the bigger buttons for the bigger bigger build
just to get quick into that block, that lightning beast that we all love to see and enjoy here from MenaRD
so I'm actually excited to see how Mena reacts to Blanca ultimately.
Like that's why I wanted to see the mirror just to see what he has the countermeasures to deal with that Blanca.
So we'll see what's up.
Yeah like what he's prioritizing right in terms of trying to stop or what he's looking for in the neutral.
It'd be very interesting to see for sure.
We are gonna see regardless we just don't know if it will be on his Blanca as well
But Shigamatsu as well having a great year so far riddle order in general is having a good year
They have junior under the ball. I believe her car is part of that organization as well
What's crazy is that like we see Shigamatsu in this top-aid. He's not even on their SFL roster
Ah, you know, I'm saying they might have to rethink that after this show and just as show how deep it is in Japan
How much death of talent there is get them off the bench man. Look who he's dealing with in the winter side
He does have a big chance man. Can Japan take evil worlds once again?
That is the big story here, but you got a lot of the young Bucks, of course, in the top eight, you've seen it.
One of my favorites, of course, is kills. You shout out to the Cubs, though.
But people that don't know, he kind of looks like one of my relatives, because we like skin and all that.
But now, this is going to be amazing, man.
If Mena or Deca pulled this off, I'm on to you. Last year, it was a speed run.
It was.
He answered you. Everybody left packing. Everybody went home pretty early.
But let's see, there's going to be a little bit of difficulty on the road to get that double, that back to back.
Did you see what his driving force is?
He tweeted about it this morning.
Was it, I think, as he missed the Yakiniku?
I was about to say yes, yes, yes, I'm a big bad guy too. So, you know what I'm saying? I actually know.
No, but you look good, my boy. Hey, I'm trying. Hey, I'm saying we both trying.
We all trying. So, definitely, we're looking at, I hope he gets his yakiniku, you know what I mean?
In a celebratory fashion, but it's going to be fun. Obviously, like we talked about, it's going to be Shigamatsu versus MenRD first.
But then we got TongTong Men versus KillsU on the other side. You highlighted KillsU, right?
I mean, having an incredible, you're definitely the strongest representative out of the European region as of late, right?
He got second at Capcom Cup.
He's been doing an incredible job lately.
But this is his first offline Top 8 since Capcom.
Yeah, he actually got ninth.
I think at CB or one of the two recent tournaments,
he got ninth, he got very close,
but now it's return to four, man.
In Top 8, Winnerside is going to be a good one to watch.
And then Tauntaun, man, I mean,
I know a lot of people are unfamiliar with him, right?
I looked up his results.
There hasn't been much outside of this tournament.
This is where he's really busted out and shown,
but he is part of LaVision, which is founded by KSK.
Yes, legendary third strike player.
So it's so cool to see the different factions forming in Japan and seeing the different players to come out of it.
Okay, well, let's take a look at our ego predictions, of course.
I want to see who is correct here in terms of the percentages of who's going to win.
47% goes to the favor of Menor ID. I mean, that is the returning champion, so I'm not surprised with that.
Let me see, let's go to the 20%. Of course, a lot of fans around the world going for doble.
Why the hell not? Let's do this recording content while he's on the stage, man.
Come on, he's trying to connect with you guys every single time.
I mean the percentages don't really represent, of course, the favorites in my opinion because it's all about who has the best day-to-day on this grand stage.
I mean I'm already looking at killers like Carl Silva. I know he's been looking for that big, big placement,
and he earned it. Now how far can he go going up against Douglas?
We'll see. That's going to be pretty challenging considering Carl Silva doesn't play too many Elanians at that level.
True, true. Yeah, that's, I think one of the big things that's really propelled Douglas in this tournament so far, right, is that he's been able to pilot Elayna at such a high level.
I mean, how do you get that practice, right?
We have so few eladers around the world.
Like, again, we have Levi Hakai, you know, with America,
some other players on trying to get to that
over our level, right?
But he is a legendary fighting game player.
He's been at the top of fighting games
for a very, very long time.
But let's take a look at the bracket
and see who's gonna be matching up.
You guys, a little bit clearer of a picture
about how we're gonna be moving across this thing,
right?
We're getting Shigamatsu versus MenRD set up.
Then I told you, Tom Tom Min versus Kills U,
and then the loser side of things,
Jen versus Cryme.
These are two players that have been struggling
20-26 the results haven't been there.
They musted out in this tournament.
Top A they're going to be trying to ride that momentum
all the way through.
Though there are another one, right?
He's been kind of soul searching in Street Fighter 6.
That's really started gelling with the Atlanta.
That's what sticks out to me about Crossover.
Crossover has been the one that has been steadily
building to this moment.
Result after the result has been a bit better
and a bit better after each tournament.
And now he's found himself in the Top A.
I can't wait to see how far he goes.
Man, listen, this guy went through so many hurdles
in terms of what character he really wanted to like.
And you see that the world of seasons for the online tournaments, but he's found his footing with Saga, but look who we have on the stage
These guys are the king of the jungle if you will both of these guys enjoy watermelons. I mean they play blocker
Oh, yeah, what it is. Oh, yeah, is that a blocker? I was trying I was like better leaning over the desk
I was trying to get a good look at it. I'm like I think I think it's like a blocker chain
But I think it's like legitimately like one that has like a hoodie of men are deep
I think you know I'm saying it's like the hoodies off so I was like men are D is the plush
Well guys, we're just figuring things out here so we can make sure we have a smooth ride throughout the whole tournament.
That mentality is just locked in here.
That is tunnel vision.
That is the man, the myth, the legend.
It's a legend that's still going and still kicking ass, which is pretty crazy, man.
Absolutely, man.
I mean, we've seen it, right?
I think Amanda himself has talked about it, right?
How much mental fortitude and mental composure and training your mentality
when approaching all these tournaments, when approaching competitions matters, right?
I think that's the make or break and why he's proven to be so consistent
over the course of a game where I mean barely anybody has been able to be consistent, you know,
he has somehow figured out a code to get there time after time after time. So it's a really,
really sick to see him go in. I feel like it looks like motivation is totalist that we got some
replays on deck again as we're trying to get everything on stage all cleaned up before we get
into this top eight but all I'm like, yeah, this is the replay. You guys didn't tell us that
this was the replay. You guys are funny. Good one. I was vibing out during the song.
That's a good one. I was like, we're going to watch some NRV highlights and check them out.
That's what I was gonna say, I was about to give you a little bit of a critical.
I was like, yeah, top 24? No, not at all.
So anybody that don't know, I love hip hop, okay?
No, so.
It's a great opportunity.
Anybody loves hip hop in here?
Yeah!
I'm having a big bias, so I'm just saying.
Yeah, I mean, of course.
That's just me.
And look at all the beautiful people, man.
Let me see your hands up right quick.
Ooh, let me see your bands.
Yeah!
Another Evo, man.
Let me tell you something.
This is my 21st Evo to date.
Oh, hi.
So it's pretty sick, man.
man to see this is obviously man shout out to the airheads air cam of course for
capturing this beloved scene right here about beautiful people that's
representing that community man so diverse so beautiful I love y'all man
make some noise for yourself for joining us here at Evo Vegas
be the presence of so many like-minded individuals right we are all gathered
under this roof to appreciate and joy fighting gives of course child sort of
Red Bull seats the best seats in the house in the building and everybody there
as well, making Charlie and Sherry in the building.
We got men in our D-shirts all across the section.
We'd love to see it.
Shout out to Mama Menor right there.
She's just chilling right now.
I already know who she, who I guess who she's with,
who is who.
The cosplay section, poison in the building, tune me.
Oh yeah, here we go.
Set those up, I like when they on the hot seat.
Oh, that is menor.
You like the couple it was, huh?
Yeah, yeah, I was like vlogger Chan,
like jumpsuit type.
They put the nephew in here on the freaking,
on the bag, that's crazy.
All right, let's go.
Opening gambit time, Ken, are we gonna see the Blanca mirror?
Or, now mind you, I'm gonna be very honest with you
throughout this whole tournament,
I actually thought he was gonna rock Blanca the whole time
with a splash of bison.
But the fact that he brand the loop,
that's how you know there is a lot of information
that Mena is withholding, pretty much being in the lab,
underground, not showing anybody anything.
Remember, Luke was the first character
he was rocking with for a very long time in season one.
So the fact of the matter,
and mind you, he always had Blanca on the side,
but it's pretty cool to see that
on the venture side of things.
And we get the results from the ego fantasy presented by AT&T and you can see heavily favored is Menardi, of course
Right, that's the thing that we talked about. Shigamatsu legitimately a training partner for Daigo in the lead up to Komonomichi
Not only is he well first in this type of matchup
But he's going to be one that has studied Menardi himself
Why you have to imagine that he watched so much Menardi thought tried to study the habits and maybe the mind like what he's trying to do
Mentally to process the match is gonna be a good one man
And I want to see how familiar Sugar Matsu is with men as game plan.
So one of the things that I want to highlight about Menace is he's hyper active
everywhere he plays, even when he's not doing absolutely nothing.
The left right is just looking crispy in terms of going in that range in terms of
how he wants to land those big faces into the big meter build.
That's what you really got to look for.
Menace loves to file those nails down.
And when I say that, I'm talking about the drive gates.
He goes for the green.
He goes for the cash immediately.
Big buttons that keep highlighting this because he keeps building fast meter
as well, always looking for those punish counters on the parries.
That way he could build that even faster.
So it's all up to Shigemetsu.
Shigemetsu, Shigemetsu, Shigemetsu, Shigemetsu, Shigemetsu.
Shigemetsu, so sorry.
Shigemetsu, if he can keep on par with momentum,
I do feel like he can keep an eye on it.
Oh, Psyche, and he's not doing the mirror.
I love that.
Let's go to shadow, little baby.
Oh, oh, it's okay, it's okay.
Damn, I got a little too heavy.
I'm a big fan of Bison, so, trust me.
That's actually not a bad pick.
Yeah, I like the Bison in this matchup, for sure.
If you get a good read on the fadeaway
blockable that's a free hell attack so it all depends. I wouldn't be surprised if you picked this but I would love to see them there.
I mean we need a reversal especially against Blanca. Yeah, a second version should do really well against the Blanca ball as well.
Just gives him something to react very quickly with if he does have the charge available.
So something to look out for as well. And Bison's got great range on some of his normals right there can kind of contest
some of that stuff that Blanca has on the ground. Obviously Blanca is a very strong 20 character.
with a crowd strong, a bunch of other normals
that really highlight how tough he is to kind of bully,
but F icing's gonna have stuff to deal with that, right?
The stand fear is going extremely far.
The stand medium kick just is a great grounding,
but great like bang for your buck
when it comes to speed and range.
Oh, he's doing it and I'm with that.
I mean, he gotta be careful.
As long as you don't do no reckless double reverses,
so he won't get blown up,
but Blanc from standing roundhouse, he should be okay.
You got, is this gonna be a very, very grounded game?
It's all about who's going to destroy,
who's dry gauge first,
But, of course, we are trying to detonate that bomb immediately on the side of Bicent.
So let's see how we're gonna handle this matchup.
Let me see.
Okay, okay.
Oh, we put a glass on, huh?
And I'm gonna make sure to see if Mena tries to give me a dresser coming out of there,
right?
Yeah, he wants me.
Mena told him he's like, let it rock.
He said, let it rock some a fair.
Yeah.
No, they're proud of it all.
The Mena, the people.
Mena, R.D.
What a show.
Man, I know y'all been here for hours, but this is the first match of S.S.
Let's make some noise!
Opening game at time, my favorite time.
Shaking my suit.
Mena, who wants to go to the winners finals?
Already the first throw was established.
Oh, stand round. Punish counter.
Bomb, the bomb is in the plan.
Can you defuse?
It's gonna be an overhead.
No, we're gonna just camp it out.
Wait till then, it explodes.
And what's it gonna be?
Wow!
I think our game's the only person who's not mistaken.
Mena does tend to dodge the block of hero with the bison.
They're gonna work right now already in the corner
when we don't do it with his feet.
detonated again. Oh wow. You have to fade away blonkable. The OD version this time.
Ooh, just wake up, crouching strong, just sniping and moving forward.
And that is the first blood here on the side of Men of R.D.
Yes, indeed. You're looking very strong already out the gate.
This is what I was really interested in. Who was going to dictate the pace in terms of being the aggressor?
Oh, that's faded!
You know, I like that. Just test them out early on, just to see if you want to keep going.
Just keep up pressing the issue with Medius, the standing medium kick.
Like that answer, right? It doesn't bleed as much, so please cool.
Yeah, Menon likes to establish wake-up reversals early on in the set as well.
I get you to think about it, what an answer after the back dash on the throw attempt.
Had the Blonkaball ready, another throw set up here.
Man, Shigamatsu going in right now.
Oh, he got him out for free. What a response with a perfect.
Shigamatsu, okay.
And picking up on Menon's habits a little bit of force.
This is what I was scared of, man, getting pressed in the corner,
and you don't have something to slow down.
Shigamatsu like the only reversal.
Standing medium kick at the anti-air.
All right. That's the bomb.
Drive rushes to do nothing, and he's gonna wait for it.
No, he could have got that faith it would have been a bit of damage, it's all right though
I think it was like looking at the track the drop you said before right?
He had the bomb on he was looking for the back heavy kick definitely looking to shave it down
About confidence on a check no confirmed there into the old DCs. It kicks. So it's okay
Uh-huh
No, I like that master the blockstone with the Paris is letting those oldie want the most rip
I like that very sneaky. That's the bomb. I'm gonna go low overhead
Right out like it is clever something that but what a perfect area to start switching this up
oh it's gonna be massive damage the raw CA
Oh my god.
Oh bless him on the max health.
Oh you dead just like that.
Raw un-scaled unfiltered damage.
Throw it all on the table.
Cajones.
Cajones Malone.
The classic.
The classic
That's so good about that cross jump this night you move it forward you're not even looking for what fun it was the time
You are but it's just really cool to stop the approach
That was wild right men actually both without level three after getting his level invaded earlier on right now
He did not let that discourage him whatsoever. Oh
I'll hold up back from block before he got exposed by that Bob Brown house. That is the bomb has been planted
Right. It's almost about the power. We're gonna do
Nice, let's throw.
Sneak in the throat right beforehand.
Oh, let me get another one.
Oh, we got to continue this one.
Yes, sir.
Shigamatsu, you better do something.
All right, you actually just blocked it out.
I'm going to try to switch it up.
And now the back drop.
Like, you got to make me believe.
Oh, we found the pocket to get out of there.
And look at that.
As you can see, Shigamatsu was looking for that putty
little whip when it came out.
Went just to the top up out of there.
And even if he did anti-air, Lisa's out of there.
Took a little bit of damage, but he reset to Uchuu.
And here comes the bomb once again.
I think this is going to be a loaded Tom Rage.
Hold on.
There it is. Oh, you already knew.
This time in the baits out, the Barry responds.
Was looking for anything that Shikmatsu was going to do.
But now he actually got caught,
trying to press a little bit early on them like me.
Oh, what? Whoa.
Going all over the place.
The compass rolls. Blanca.
We're going to go for the overheads.
No, I like that.
Trying to bust up Simon.
They're probably positing the double reverse side,
but no, he's getting more than his corner.
Men are on D. He's receiving his own medicine.
Okay. Whoa.
Trying to make something out of it.
He's just like a raw Barry,
thinking that he went and showed him the drive brush
and then he come out.
Responds with an O.D. Blanca ball.
try to get him. Oh, but I was gonna say, I was going to chip him out. Burnout, he thought
the normal was going to put him in burnout and then he would get the chip from the super,
but it was too short.
Oh no.
It's just like that, Menoradik would have quit two powdery donuts in this set. One more,
and Menoradik goes to the finals of the winners.
That's 100% what he thought was going to happen. He got the normal, would burn
him out and he would get the chip out with a level one.
Wow.
Over commitment. That's how you know they're so locked in like that tunnel vision. They
I mean, it was a slither drive.
So I don't blame him for even going for it.
Yeah, 100%.
It would have been, I mean, galaxy brain,
if it actually worked out, right?
Just slightly miscalculated.
All right, here we go.
The aggressor right here, Menardy.
Down on the sword, drive the edge in the hand.
That's a medium throw.
No, he's going for the legs.
He's exposing either a tech or the up back.
If I'm loving this from Menardy,
then this man is running a speed run.
Hold on, this is gonna be a throw.
No, looking for the block of ball, but there it is.
Great anti-head, she can match.
Great discipline to have to charge.
Now, re-draving like that,
just wait for the jump in.
That has done such a good job man, we've seen that since we came over the slide.
Ooh, jumps aside this time, it actually results in Chica Matsu getting burnt out.
Only one bar to the stage as well, Mena suffocates and goes on set point.
This man got open soul sandals right now, he's gotta stop abusing the fade away Blanc before.
Oh nice, alright, looks like Mena tried to challenge with a second core, but I need the ult.
Okay, nice, since Fyzen has to go over the DPOS,
might as well try and attack him with that.
Zack, oh, trying to hold up there in that situation as well, getting exposed.
Mena you about to hold this walk. How do you feel? No, I'm very familiar with that. So I'm getting the hell up out of there. Oh
Sneaky sneaky. All right. There you go. Dominance. I see you chicken monster wake up
That's over his back is the ball a new animal may have been awoken
Chicken monster can bring it in here
Let's go. I like that go for the jab me first. He's successful
Going to walk back nice caught him delayed tech in that back brown house is paying the bills right here for Mena
Like how men are not even scared of the weight, but as long as he holds the belt and the momentum in that corner, he's alright with that.
Precisely, right here, looks at the big picture here, he knows he has the overall advantage, but Shigamatsu has some nice gambits here, he's actually taking the life for himself.
Making him worry about the block of chance, he sneaks in the throw beforehand, almost the blockable, so avoid it inside, he's always so smart.
Men have thought that Shigamatsu already committed to a jump in.
Yeah, what a way to change that altitude, but you check the reaction state of that jump every night.
Tied up!
What if you can't?
Oh, and then trying to catch Menorad, even moving around a bit, right?
What a downback with Skaw instead of a slide at the last moment.
Now we got the ball planted.
Oh, my goodness, another hezzy nice bury on the explosion, though.
I don't think it was a natural bribe to even eat that back round, dude.
Yeah.
Don't put with pressure grab.
No, it's going to be played for something.
Waiting for that jab ring.
Of course, waiting for that counter-buck four.
Oh!
Put a nail in the crosser, says Menorad, deep!
Perfect dish!
The timing for the overhead into the mine explosion
we're right back to set point.
Let's go.
He's holding it down.
Look, it looks like he's doing a whole lot of nothing,
but he's walking slowly but surely into this corner.
Of course, he's a monster respecting that syndicate.
You don't want to know if you're going to pay full price.
That's a bomb off the target combo just
to keep it safe on the draw game side of things
and keep that meter.
Are we out of there?
Hailcare like that right into the scale combo.
Just side switch, but he didn't hold the corner, bro.
Oh, we're going to go for the check.
No, I like that.
with the buttons early that way.
He just recovered fast enough.
Shaker monsters are about to get punished.
This shit not enough.
Next thing, I think he's gonna do it regardless.
I would too.
He's getting close to the burn outside of things.
Why not?
So maybe it's actually gonna be universal.
I think he's gonna be able to wake up something without a fee,
right?
Oh, I thought he might have done a level one
to preserve the drive fee.
Everybody ends up getting burnt out.
What's those ones?
Both of those.
Oh, oh, the lightning beast.
Yeah, you know what?
Don't go down without using that meter.
You just went straight in, right?
I think I got kind of surprised by that.
I thought he would have made me play a mind game first
The Lightning Beast has already gone low to wall.
Mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm.
All right, back to touching grass once again.
Try to base him in the out right there,
catches the middle of the game.
It's not by that driver.
She has the pressure against Bison.
Oh, and he gets top lead.
That's her.
Shikamatsu brings it back.
Very nice, okay?
Nice hit to both hands from the desk of the burnout.
The heat dehydrating state.
Bringing it all the way back against the chin.
Like that big combo, midi throw.
Looks like men are trying to challenge with a bun.
I see a counter hit there.
Another throw.
This is getting dangerous and he's getting quickly.
gaining that meter very fast to get it to that level to that lightning beast but
I gotta be careful here you can't take no more blocks done yeah you see even the
hotbacks here you know he's got some lifelead that's to make men come to him
at this point
Shiasu was too close to comfort he was trying to snipe us he could mess with walking back all with an
either or shigamatsu taking control of this match momentum on his side and
going immediately to the character to the next screen
It's worth it that I want to highlight about men and men.
First and foremost, I did not see this bison at all throughout this whole weekend.
It's nothing but Blanca and Lou.
For the fact that he picked this bison on the grand stage,
that just goes to show you the level of confidence.
That was just crazy.
The level of preparation he's put in,
he knows that he's put in as much work as possible
before this moment, right?
Because of that, he's always confident
no matter what he brings out.
But the crowd wants the mirror!
And that's exactly what men is going to give him.
Shakes it up a little bit.
Very reminiscent of Blanca himself.
for all the marbles to get into winners finals.
Shigamatsu vs. Mehta R.D., the most electrifying match
in street fighter entertainment.
Let's go.
Blonford trying to immediately
from the side of Shigamatsu.
All right, I'm pretty sure that's gonna be a period.
10th next time on that Blonford ball,
Shigamatsu gotta be careful.
Mehta's getting mixed right now.
Shining the heart back and forth
with the fade away Blonford ball.
But on the assault, it's Mehta.
Stan Ruhaus, of course, looking for that delay.
Black Barrage on his favorite minds.
He's so good at using it.
Oh, about the parry, try to parry,
because he thought the reversal bug
was gonna come a little bit quicker.
Oh, actually, that's a little bit early.
Why not first one of the game, right?
First one of the set.
Absolutely, when you're five games in already as well.
Okay.
Okay, every overhead.
Man has got a lot of drive-eater back because of that.
Oh my God.
That's a little sticky.
Man, I've seen this before,
but this is actually a shaky name.
He's almost close to that level two.
If he really wants to close it out.
Like, she could want to, oh,
I was gonna say going for the jumping
when he saw that man didn't have charge.
Oh, he tried to jump, but it reached to the heavens and brought him back down.
Chicken mobsu on set point.
Unfortunate. That was the right idea for Mena.
He was trying to hop over to OD.
Yeah.
Speaking of which, OD pressure ain't coming right here.
Man, look at the confidence.
He's playing so fast now.
Chicken mobsu.
The lightning beast.
Oh, nice!
Jump back and fuck the block of all that was so sick,
and I activated myself.
Save with your chest.
Oh, that's a side switch.
What?
My God.
Overhead.
I think he's gonna set him up right here.
He's not in it, but he is filing down those nails.
There's a drive impact.
I've spent so much of my IDB still in nail-blowns.
He's been primarily on defense during men's lighting piece,
despite I finished it first.
Oh, tried to parry wrong neighborhood.
That's right.
We don't like that blue stuff here.
Oh, what a way to play this.
I thought he was gonna fix that count,
but what a base.
And that's what he tried to do around the corner
but this time it was successful.
Meta RD.
She can mental die.
This is the classic.
It's horrible.
Who's gonna go to the winners finals here?
My goodness brother manipulation around this mirror match up a perfect barrier night and though gives you come out to the opening
With the air block of although loving that just always challenging that he's not stated
There's none of that like me please activate a sandwich. Oh chest the taco meat straight from Brazil is getting represented
Another one. No she did not respond to the wake up
Right knew that man was gonna try to get to you
Pressing management like a piece was active the block of track gets activated granting him further and further damage
But another one on a wild chicken will play and see you go nice. I like every cover just in time
It's a damn it. There it is
Men are deep with another chance to repeat getting closely closer come in the moment
With a role I know full fact that was stressful
But if anybody can keep this composer is definitely men are dealing high level situation high pressure if you will
But ain't no pressure to sign him in the R.D., man.
Like I said, comes through, gives the people what they want,
goes with the Blanca beer for the final match.
And it's so tough to get a hand on him.
That's the one Blanca, bro, especially piloted by men R.D., right?
He made you go to four games of the Blanca Bison matchup,
just to surprise him at the end.
Now, it's beautiful stuff.
And that's one of the dangers that having multiple characters gives you.
Yes, exactly.
I was just about to point that out.
I feel like man, I hit him with the rope with those.
Like, I don't know what you think you got the data on me
me with this Blanca mirror match.
Hell, even the Luke probably paying attention.
So hopefully, Sigmund Metzl was actually
doing his homework on all the other characters.
But the fact of the matter is, he rode out with Bison.
And of course, on the clutch out,
bring his moneymaker Blanca.
Insane.
Mother base told us we're checking out an actual replay.
Now, please, I'm glad it's not on stand to give you.
This is it.
But then, if I place these detergents,
we are going to highlight some of the greatest moments
of this set.
But man, yo, men are on the, I like how,
so this is the thing about fighting Blanca.
You always have to be active.
That's one of the things that I highlight, all right?
So he always picks his spots to always jump out of the corners.
He would like Perry, master block spin.
You already see Shigamachi trying to walk back,
looking for that limp to whip on his.
Mainly the crouching stroll of the stand fears.
But no, he uses that pocket to get out of dodge, right?
He played it extremely well on defensive side.
Well done.
I mean, he is really familiar with this character.
Yeah, yeah.
And one of the best things about block
and having like that reversal, basically air ball, right,
is that it honestly catches a lot of people's auto timing
when they're looking to walk back with punish a light,
right?
That is like a the perfect timing is the exact timing that people get hit from the air block of all during that.
So yeah, I mean men are the issue come off. We both showed that off in this set.
Men are doing able to clutch it out of the end with the mirror, right?
Keep them locked out and that
How much you need in touch man is a menace since the beginning and always in the hands of men are the winners finals for the ball.
That man got a loud boy. I heard it through the head phone boy.
Oh men are D. Well, let's see who's gonna deal with him in the winners finals in this next match.
Let's look at our bracket just to see how we're gonna build up these storylines who we got up next
We got time-time man versus kills you. Oh, that's gonna be going like that could be any record
Jamie mine or Jamie County depending on the scenario here
That is true. Of course it kills you as comfortable to pick a candy
But I think it's safe to say you're gonna pick the mine
So that's gonna be interesting time-time answer me. This is his debut album here for me at evil worlds
I never even heard this guy just seen the Jamie just busting ass and everybody that he bumped into and I'm like
Yo, is he really gonna take it all the way and then we blink and he's here to top it
He's on the 2026 XSL Freshman list, you know what I'm saying?
I like that.
Yes, yes, yes.
100%, we're getting a real good look at Tauntaummen right now over the course of this tournament.
That showed out an amazing, amazing situation.
I actually want to take a look at his victory path presented by White Claw.
Certainly, when we get the chance because man, I know it's going to be crazy.
And you can see right here, starting from the bottom, we got no uptime, Shiro,
Zai, one-tenth of Venom, and I will kill you, and then we get some monsters that
he was able to take down Higuchi Tulo, Riddles Tulo, DCQ Tulo, Tulo on item, and then 2-1
on Bullcambon as well.
Barely even dropping any games, man.
Nobody is ready for this level of Jamie.
Pure dominance.
Let's take a look at kills.
You mentioned, I said, I will kill you though.
Of course, starting on the round one side of the free hug, of course, half attack,
crush free, Tulo all the way to the side, then we get to the Kremlin, Kremlin, the
killers as well as Kings Vega Tulo, Tony Shuaia, that sounds like a rap name, Tulo,
Amane Soma, 2-0.
Then we get to Pugada.
I definitely seen that match, of course, very close,
but very excellent match.
We finished it off strong, 2-1.
2-1 against the Suits, and of course, 2-1 against Crossover.
No knows, we'll see.
We might see that run back here in the top eight,
but amazing performance from our second place finisher
at Capcom Cup this year.
Kills you.
Yeah, exactly right.
Kills you as a, you know, a monster as a flag.
Being able to get second at Capcom Cup alone
is a testament to how far he's come along, man.
And, you know, I think it kills you, honestly.
Being the primary representative of the people out of Europe right now, I think what's led to his success is honestly his experience being a professional gamer in other genres outside of fighting games.
I think he doesn't have the baggage that a lot of people try to kind of carry with them when it comes to like, oh, I think that game should operate this way, or character should operate this way because of their past experiences, right?
It feels like kills you, accepts games for what they are, accepts characters for what they are, and really it's just all about getting that W.
I'm going to piggyback on that in a second, but let's go check out the evil fantasy presented by AT&T the percentage in terms of who's going to win here from their fans.
I don't know, 64.
You know what? That's fair. That's down to me. It kills you 60%. Of course, Tantan man, 39.6. I mean, I'm pretty sure most of that's from Japan, to be honest. Or Jamie mains, if I may ask.
100%.
back at what you said about the mentality he has. So late night at the
Blink Respawn, shout-outs to Kills and shout-outs to RobTV that was both talking
about like what's the mentality to have, right? So Kills, you straight up said if he
knows that it's going to be a difficult bout, he's just gonna play without no
fear as in like he's not gonna just sit there and play the regular old regular
I'm gonna be super defensive way for this. He's just gonna go with what he
knows in terms of mounting offense and he's just gonna let the opponent decide
how they want to react. Now if the opponent can actually react in the
proper way congratulations you actually get into that wave two going up against
Killsby so yes I definitely want to touch up on that that is a great point
that you bring up. I love the just the fact that you highlighted that right I
think so much success when it comes to competition especially at a high level
high-pressure environment is putting the onus on your opponent making them be
the one that makes the clutch decision in the heat of the moment right
that's something that's always going to be beneficial to the person being the
aggressor in those moments so it's a very smart strategy a very smart way
to approach these high-level matches from Killsby, man.
You could tell he is definitely a competitive person
and just has thought deeply about how to get good.
And he gets good at whatever he tries to get good at.
Hey, definitely we're tying a couple of games, man.
Yeah.
He used to be team-based.
Yeah.
Now he's here on his own lonesome with EU on his back.
Of course, I know Francis in the building, man.
Shout out to my Frenchman and my French ladies for sure.
This is going to be epic for the side of Killsby.
I mean, he just came off of that cap.
be consistent all the way through, right?
It's been a little silent.
He actually has been playing other games as well
on the side, on the fighting each side of things,
but he has been literally on the road.
I think he hasn't been home since the Cup.
I couldn't be wrong.
This guy has literally been on the front.
Yeah, he went to Japan shortly after, right?
Like, I mean, he probably stood there
for a little bit longer after Capcom Cup,
but he's been at every tournament,
trying to grind wherever he possibly can.
But we're gonna get it right now.
Yo, Vegas, I love y'all.
Can I get some noise for Ta-Ta-Men versus Kills U?
Oh, I'm up at it.
I think I got it.
I'm not going to do anything.
I'm just going to give it to you, Michael.
You want to forget that it's us.
Nah, nah, nah.
They're the important piece of this.
I'm up at it.
It's all right.
Opening game at time.
Here we go.
Time-time man kills.
We make some noise for the lock for the one time.
Y'all just going to be a classic.
Oh, there we go.
Are you ready?
I can't wait to see this game to get off, man.
Oh!
Bearing the best, protecting the drive.
Perfect bearing the overhead.
You already know, sneaking in two drinks.
I think he does have access to that target combo now.
now so he acts as a perfect defense next to the back forward that's how you see the jab right there
so it's another Bacchai now right the um break dancing the projectile interval
in vulnerable break dancing all right here to go a fresh drink they get a tap is open on the side of
mine warris the command grab available is now with three drinks like that from top top man
it's getting our kills you a little uncomfortable to throw that standing here it's only from
close range of course you see this represented on the side of kills you there we go full corner
carry nice shimmy nice delay got exposed level one of course let me get those enhanced mix
charge above. It's gonna be a perfect period this time. No. It's gonna be an overhead. No. He's just
attacking the drive game. Put him out of pixels. Hit him with the checkmate with the drive.
In fact, smart choice there and finish. Security. And get pretty all the owners on top of the
manner, right? He was like, I'm gonna pierce him fan. Pierce the fan. You're gonna either spin the
meter and throw yourself out to get out or try to do something or take my mix. That's right.
So far. Oh, man, that was massive stance. We got no drinks on the side of the
top. So, man, security could take full corner. Panage it. Urgent off the counter.
He is with back to the same game plan right back up fierce fan here's fan is such a good
a lot of harassment towards us.
So much drive,
game damage and situation like that.
Tom Tom man have been home.
You would think Tom Tom man
early on the brown.
He went for the perfect barrier.
You would get killed.
You will be a little bit discouraged
to throw that out there.
No, no, no.
Keep representing that.
Zachary, right?
Show me that you're consistent.
As high pressure as evil Vegas top
A we on the big stage.
I don't think you can do it every time.
But that's a case we're going to go for the DP.
Sometimes the little shallow,
it's not going to reach right.
So it just went for the good old block.
He pushing my life a little two piece.
Don't fold it to the fan.
Just create some space.
But that space is getting occupied by that lovely five-plane stand here.
That's a sit. Absolutely. We got to dive in now, so we got some defensive options.
Oh, whoa, whoa.
That kills you. It's trying to hold North right there. Try and get it up forward.
Get out of the corner.
Top Top Man has conditioned him to block now.
That kills you. That solo drop.
It's getting harassed down in right there when he tried to move again.
Top Top Man hit him with a heavy kick.
Make sure to burn him out with a DI after.
What a throw. Take a stand.
Life for Dali doesn't get a neutral demolition.
But that's fine. It's a second time.
Oh my God.
Trying to bounce the time so he can touch grass again.
Then we go to the charge fans,
just so he can get some time to recover.
And then as we touch his left back outside,
either the late throw, I like that.
He went for the defensive one,
just so he can get a little bit of that drive
against fast.
Oh, man, I love it.
Yeah, and he also did it on that driver's cancel.
He did it off of fear.
So he was trying to bait on an OSTP as well,
but time-time man didn't give it to him.
He's so good.
Stuff, yeah, head of the game.
Speed ahead of the game already powered up.
We got four fans in the tank.
All right, looking for the shimmy.
I mean, you know what?
He does have the data on it, considering the top-top man is doing a lot of the late throws,
so he's gonna have to be carefree, but full control, caught him on the clip, on the walk
back immediately, goes into the level three, and he still got some juggles in.
I like the slot right.
Go, spin the meter early, try to even up the lights up and say, you have a gigantic,
I was gonna say, drive advantage now as he burns him out with the IVM, cuts him
off in the pass with the raw driver, so the check was not in time.
Look at what a shithead.
Wow, over-committed.
Not to show what he was looking for there.
I should have just went for the regular jump in, but that's all right.
And he was so clean with the right to still walk out and take the corner now.
Look at that, see if they could the most happen.
Look at the guy.
That's what I was talking about earlier, the projectile in both dancing.
He did it that close.
That's big of a gap, got you.
Noted it.
Ooh, there it is, the burnout.
Man, so dehydrated.
What are we gonna do?
Just gonna walk him down.
I like that.
Top-top, man.
Super patient.
I wonder if he tried to back that, and he got clipped in front of the front.
I'm not too sure.
Very unfortunate for Top-top, man, but cute.
Finish with his play.
Yeah, you see he counted it or anything like that, but it was after like the try for speed threes as well, which I mean inputs gain all the time during something like that.
So could have definitely tried to like jump or back dash if it didn't come out how he wanted it to.
There you go.
Okay, nice. The perfect carry on the second part of the fan was too steep.
And he takes another sip of the too steep of the witch.
Got a little too close there. No.
He tried to go for the throw at that table. What? Out of range, for sure.
I think that the second one represented might as well, and that is a finish.
Good game piece out too, old solid.
Head for kills, you would a chance to go to the winners
find a support against the Bulls.
You made an R.D.
Very, very strong start for kills.
You would again, right?
You're just ready with that reversal cross.
You need a budget on hand.
They say all about putting the onus on the opponent.
Right, show me that your pressure is gonna be clean.
Show me that I can't poke the gaps.
I don't care.
Let's go, all right?
Wivesleeves takes the throw.
Oh, I get enough fears from
one of the best ones in the game
that stay in heavy punch from my.
I can do what it is.
Oh, nice.
No chargements for you.
I mean, he couldn't fight his drive-in
like a career wants him.
We're not taking those risks here on the grand stage.
The crowd's too strong.
He's gonna build that meter.
I think just in time, yes, it's almost.
Almost, oh my God, we got a chance at life.
He's in mid-screen, so he's not in danger yet.
That drive-in pack, this incoming, of course,
you know kills you, it's turning,
but he's waiting for it.
Listen, hold on, let's of course,
Tata Man is not gonna get greedy.
He's just gonna over the chip.
But the tip, the man throw the go to the other side
that was so sneaky.
This is a finished hell, get it!
Let me get that break dance fighting going.
Tom Tom, man, soon as kills you've got to burn down,
drag them to the other side of the screen.
Amazing command grab at the end as well.
They even need the DI to make the most out of that burnout.
We unlocked the negative phase two of the offense, yeah?
You know, pretty solid.
I was gonna activate absolutely.
We're playing RPGs here on the side of mine.
Oh man, those Stannis pumps.
Coming in so hot, all bad.
The reversal heavy punch,
always a great option for Jamie.
Absolutely, fight me.
All right, get in there.
I know he's not gonna spend it again.
Gonna save it for the kill.
Always gonna save it for the next round, smart choice.
Super control there.
Then he's just like running into everything.
I don't know if he's just assuming
that he's trying to walk up
and just probably parry to go for the stand-off.
You know, yeah, definitely something like that, right?
He's trying to like notify the space
that Mike's getting,
but he's paying a little bit too much for the space.
Now he feels you, you know what I'm saying?
For sure.
Ooh, the wall's sweet.
That would have been safe anyway.
The layered offense here for kill,
to knock down no ta ta man, the tab is open on the side of my of course.
Thank you for the beverage, we got one level, the dive kick's available, he's gonna look for it,
he's probably gonna invite you to move forward and go for the dive kick, it's a possibility.
Trying to get the punish counter day on the whiff.
So he just hanged here, I think he was even looking for it right there, right?
Just oh son of the come out, kills you once again.
Nails the dry brush overhead here with the level two no enhancements.
Even DP does not kill them off yet and chases down the area with the dive kick,
but the jab doesn't kills you will be in winners finals.
Okay, Munga.
West, west, my brother.
This man is moving to the winners finals.
Man, this guy's pretty strong, man.
And Conceased don't.
I like this guy.
Kills you with the answers to the winners finals
to go up against MenRB.
Yo, run up a pause, man.
This guy deserves it.
This guy's been on the road for a very long time.
For sure, but time-time, man,
though, definitely becoming one of my favorites for sure.
And I had to put a post on my wall.
I'm very excited to see him and lose his bracket right because I'm still winning his bracket
action.
Oh my man, he's a great general classic and of course kills you.
Really just dictating the pace and control of descent from the very beginning, right?
And it was really about the stuff that you highlighted that he was talking to Rob about
where he's like in a high pressure environment.
I know it's going to be a tough match.
I'm going to put the oldest on my opponent as much as possible, people back at the
corner and then fully capitalizing off of it.
But kills you just made sure Tuckerman always had a deal with something, right?
It's like the media pressure. I'm not worried about getting out of wake up. I'm gonna put the overheads on you
I'm gonna put the stand heavy into the fan on you
Like I'm gonna make sure that you show me you're gonna be able to be active defensive and you're not you're gonna get random
Man, but I wanted that you want to highlight that that was almost like a priceless match with you every single time that he set
I'm up right. It was always a shit. I think mostly when he caught him on mutual tech as well
That's what he's got in that range to actually do that
So that was pretty nice from Kills.
He represented that.
What a mix up.
And the latex definitely got exposed and cast in, of course,
was Kills.
It was very nice.
Yeah, man.
That was an incredible opening to this top 8 of Street Fighter
6.
A men R.D. Kills you winners finals is going to be fireworks
to say the least, man.
I can't wait to get to that.
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That's the thing about being hype about video games.
You gotta worry about everything else besides the video games.
It's kind of crazy, so.
Yeah, bro.
But of course, me and Ring's live, catching all the action here.
Of course, on this beautiful top eight,
we already seen our first two matches,
but it looks like we're going to be going
to the shark infested barters, but we lose this bracket.
We're about to check out Zen versus crime.
Let's take a look at their victory path.
Police.
Oh, man, I cannot wait to see this one, right?
Jen and Crime may have been a hitter for a while now,
but they've been struggling with it recently, right?
They're trying to break through,
trying to get into their performance to build that momentum.
And they found it here at H.E.V.O. 2026,
where we see Jen taking down the likes of Kosa,
punked the god of Kudagawa, Kings Vega, Yoss item,
and Nikki.
That is incredible.
A route to go through, right?
Having to go through a lot of losers,
he played so many big names and was able to defeat all of them.
That's so wrong.
I never want to go to the losers early on man.
But you know what, I always have to stay where if you warm up,
you get set to the losers, you warm up a lot better as you're
going on to the topic.
So big shout out to Zed, of course, a big hip hop in.
And of course, Kramer!
Look at that great performance, all two oaks.
The only person that he lost to going all the way to the top.
Oh, I ain't even know who he was here, shout out to him.
But the only person that gave a chuck, I mind you,
it went round for round game for game.
What's men are all these?
There could be a potential run back there, who knows?
Depending on how the matches go.
He was on fire, Dr. Soto, and he beat Hayate as well, which was one of the 16-year-olds in Zangief from Japan, who was a monster.
Actually, he made almost top 24 winners, almost made top eight.
So yeah, definitely impressive show again.
Anytime you beat Zangief on a warpath, I'm going to make note of that.
You know what I mean?
You got strong mental fortitude if you're able to do something like that.
Yeah, man. Absolutely.
He made climbing.
What can we say about these kids?
I mean, look, we know Zang.
This guy had to send the Rella story of Capcom.
I think he won the last chance qualified right and all the way to the grand finals and then bumped into men are D
That was a classic set. Let's talk about climbing man for those that was paid attention back in the day
I forgot who was that was always posting these results online, but it was the street fighter five
He's just young bucks. These are these guys even thought about traveling. That's great
I mean and blahs was pretty much the right you and Ken of Chile, right?
They started going outside people started seeing what they was bringing to the table
You already know what blasphemy to the table, but today is crime a time
So let's see how he represents his side, but I love how I love how he plays the game and so fast paced man
Let's check out the fantasy pick. Let's see who you guys voted for
Take this set. Come on drum roll, please
Let's see, let's see
It's me a D&T there it is Jen with a 65 over cry mace 35 very interesting
All right, this one I mean in my opinion can definitely go either way
I'm looking forward to see who is the better player on this day
But as you mentioned right crime he's kind of got that thing that kills you's got where he's always shown to put the
Otis on the opponent. He's looking to be the aggressor in the situation
He's not trying to second guess his decisions
He's not trying to sit there and wait to see what you're gonna do and react to the neutral
He's gonna be like show me that you could stop my offense the way I fall to the neutral
It's gonna be our first losers match brother. Oh
I just love that it's obviously like Zen is so calm and chill and you I try miss so excited like oh my god
Look at this guy with my guy and goes with the right-heel.
Excuse me.
He's in the right-heel.
Jen on the signature Bison.
Obviously, Rocks a lot.
DJ in this game as well.
But Bison is who we know him for from 3-5-5.
Absolutely.
His Saga has been doing phenomenal.
He's been picking it a lot throughout the tournament.
We're trying to see if I can...
Can I, of course, place Bison as well and Saga?
So if he really wants to switch it up.
But it's definitely his pride to choose the right-heel.
The back dash.
Okay, that could have been a center kick then.
So got to be careful.
Already with the donkey kick.
The ringworm lands.
Small ringworm.
He won't bring worm on the side of the jumping.
There we go, safe jump, could have been a throw-diver.
He's conditioning him now.
Oh, it hits here as well, right there with Primey.
Trying to keep the corner as safely as possible.
Just like a plus frame, with the sand fears here.
Speaking of sand fears, this goes back with him.
Hey, Jen calling out the back dash.
That was fine.
Okay, good play here.
Then it's low, but that doesn't mean he's not aware.
Oh, here's the chip right here.
And that's exactly what Primey trapped him with.
He's like, you can go ahead and get this fireball.
Drive rush upon landing, you're done.
You saw the male goes to Mitchell Robinson.
Oh, man, you lost that.
Oh, oh, heavy bomb, that's a guarantee.
Oh, that's the only bomb you can do with a big damage.
Forward fist, oh, not even.
Damn, you messed up the timing a little bit.
It's okay, but I like that it kept it nice and simple.
It's just for the jab bomb.
I love that.
We're taking his drive gauge with the berries.
Oh, my goodness, at least he avoids the punish counter
by drive rushing out.
Right now, I know you gotta take these throws.
Jen definitely tried to switch it up on him.
I'm okay like he's not practice that you gotta earn this kill you like you do throw me all day
But you gotta earn this kill my man, I'm gonna put a ring on down back
Right like my goodness look forward what we're gonna do here try to look for the shit
You know it's the late Perry just throw them off a little bit. Oh, they just gonna be so he's gonna burn out
You gotta be careful scent. Wow
Yeah, these are taking my ride out look like a fake safe job
You wanted to carry from Jack didn't give it to him. Oh my goodness neutral jumps on that one
And yes puts him into the yellow before the C8. That's real dog
You got no chance of surviving that what oh my bad
You try to test this reaction time well SRK
The logo oh
Jerry West of Street Fighter right there right you let's go. Okay. I like that trade off
Oh my god, both of these guys, you already knew they were gonna bring an explosive match here.
The Spidey has Z-Kenshin's end. Try to wiggle out.
Oh, nice shot. He's gonna get a meter back as well because it did counter a throw.
That's why he's on site-screen freeze.
Yes, sir.
Okay, that's a meaty throw.
He's gonna take it, know the back dash to avoid an entirely crime.
Staying active on the defense.
Low fold. You ain't just gonna walk up and stagger.
Get those counter hits, my friend.
This is gonna be a throw, know a delay.
It's for Sonic!
I actually thought he pressed the button.
Yeah, you saw where he was doing squats in front of him.
He's out working on light.
Hey, baby.
That was crazy.
That's a good way to manipulate a button press, right?
There's new sudden movements that actually does look like you're going to press it.
And what a check from that.
Prosperity is crazy.
Climb in.
You need to check the man.
You need a drug test.
100% man, the performance is enhancing.
Prime means we're so clean right now.
Oh, come on.
Oh, not even Perry.
Give me some cash on top of that.
Level three is there.
Is he going to spend it?
Give him everything.
All the hugo.
Everything.
All that you got.
Bam!
The logo.
The Jerry Wester Street Fighter.
Oh man, Ryu.
If you're dealing out CTE with that pun, it's kind of round out of six.
My cap.
Splash of brain work.
Yeah.
Now you catch the rash.
How about that one?
Bucking on Earth.
Immediate character select.
You know what?
I'll be gazed and I'll go sit down right now, Jim.
You got it?
Are we going with the DJ?
Oh, dance on him.
Dance on him?
Picks that DJ, AKA Cucaman.
Cucaman.
Go Caribbean on this man, bruh.
Let's see what we got.
I like this picked up because he's
He's gonna be able to match the tempo and pace that Primane likes to force, right?
DJ is definitely one that thrives in an environment like that, so let's see it, right?
I will say this though, those first punishes better be pure.
It's not like he can bump himself into something super easy.
True, true, gonna have to be careful because Primane, I feel like he's gonna snow even more blood now.
But of course, considering that Zen got a reversal, things might get slowed down for Primane.
I don't think he can crack a block that low key.
Yeah, 100% I think Primane is gonna be more than willing to just do his offense right there.
It's just like, slow down a bit.
Let's put some stuff on the screen.
It's pushing in towards the corner.
Check on the dry brush attempt, but not for free.
You're going back to the corner.
We got options now.
The big buttocks.
You can see some of that strategy.
Go black mark on this stage.
My friend, another one absolute in the check.
That connects.
That's a classic DJ Strat, right?
You sway back immediately.
Dry brush in.
That's out of the log.
While they're processing the fact that you swayed back,
you're already in their face with a jam.
I swear, three years in, and everybody's
going to get called with it.
We do, too.
Oh, it's all right.
Oh, the back row, yes.
Put that foot in his chest.
Oh, God, crime there.
See me jab, trying to right go to something there.
Way to protect your drive, guys.
I want to shape out so much.
He made love to that parry for sure.
That was an excellent choice here.
Oh, the stand roundhouse.
And that reach max distance and probably
flip the crotch strong with a low forward.
Look at that, raising out for the crotch
and jab with a count of fours.
Right, ooh, try to jump up.
Yeah, it's a little surprising what you're doing
because crime here, I'm back in so much
the machine gun just shaping up so much help before the level three. We don't
gotta ask any questions on this one. Two one, Jett is on the board.
Now I'm curious, Crimean doesn't have a pocket full of characters does he stay with the character that he's
formed up with? Yes he does. It's like in that good old cobblestone.
Like the back dash right there, that was pretty cool. Already?
Low on the drive gauge, this is dangerous, don't hit the crime, man, you got to be careful.
Out of range for the throw, big damage.
That's why he just goes through the donkey kick right, wants to build back into that drive gauge.
That's all again here, oh, catch some lows in, I'm going to be able to walk away from that,
but God's going to put a barrier on the solar plexus.
That's going to bring it back into this game.
Allow him to try and push to the corner, but crime may well not let him do it.
Wakes up with some of his own.
The low throw, baby, oh, he had that powered up in his hands.
It's going to be a throw scenario.
No, he's respecting the deck, like the OS was there.
I like that a lot.
Prime made conch gen trying to walk back multiple times and now around, driving south of crotch, flight kick action, that's how medium kick this top.
That's why you see gen already down badminton when it gets to that range, he's really recognizing the fact that prime is looking for him.
Fast-paced chest man, I like those tracer prime makes you invite that driver, that was beautiful stuff.
The cross stuff, the heavy, the ACL meniscus was big, air form.
Like the space trap, see I like that he follows up with the chase with a drive rush.
While prime make wants to enter that action, there's another jackknife on the side of gen.
Yeah, yeah, he's really a stop, he's like, he's willing to wake up with these reversals.
Tim Kame ends up with a clutch bait towards the end.
Oh, but again, trying to ignite the walk back, right?
That's where Jen has been able to adjust and make sure Kame doesn't get those clips.
Kame got to take a book from Justin Vaughn to take those throws from China Times.
You can see Zendri in the professional head taking that.
Even though he's in the corner, but now he is dehydrated.
No electrolytes inside.
Oh no, feel that rhythm!
Feel that rhythm! Cook up!
Cook up, man!
Alright, I love this Jensen as well, playing no games when he's out,
spitting a level 3, that's what I was already thinking about,
I was already buffering, let's just make sure we answer this DI,
go to a final round.
Strong foofa play here, you said that.
Yeah, oh sure, the turn style, like that, the drive rush hit the brakes.
Oh nice, that was organic, he reacted to that.
He just had the charge right, he was already down backing right there,
because he's trying not to get clipped by the walk backs.
So very smart for Jensen recognized they had to charge the first place like that send me in the aggressor
So you can hold all of that while what I walk under that was so clutched zero balls in the side of then
He's going to file him down before he goes to the driving impact
Big buttons don't have impact there Wow
The right idea but just off the mark have a jacket of course know immediately into the one
Huge sugar damage right there, try to get crime aid up, throw it off, but didn't get it.
Big back dash, some voice at home, directly into the CEA.
That's a good huge damage from crime aid.
Jett has no meter to protect himself and he has burnt out.
The chip is definitely a danger.
Oh, that was so sneaky to sway. That was godlike.
Oh my god, oh my god.
Not gonna survive this one, absolutely not.
Now, Krayme moves on on the loser side.
The gun, gun has it.
Look how excited he is.
Man, I would have been stressed.
I would have been out of smiles.
I'm probably going to take a swig of water, but no.
Getting with the badness, fist bump.
Looks at the crowd basking your victory, young man.
You're looking good on this stage.
And it feels good, right?
Having this power to put up everybody's ass
on this grand stage.
You've got to love it.
Krayme moves on.
But, y'all, I want you to give a big shout-out
to Zen, y'all.
One of our favorite street fighters of all time.
Please y'all give it up for Jen.
Amazing performers here at EVO 2026.
Very happy to see him in top eight.
Crime ain't gonna be moving on in the losers bracket
side of things though.
And again, all about being that aggressive, right?
All about making sure you get your opponent's face.
Put the onus on them.
But man, what is showing right now
from the American Republican now as well,
South America and Chilean pride ain't moving on.
They are really here to stay.
Thank you for pointing that up because that is correct.
We've got a lot of the Latino Spanish being here.
Reshaped this fan.
That is the global level of 3-5 and 6-9 right now.
It's not only Japan and the American,
it's getting bigger and bigger.
But I want to highlight that Krimes are awesome.
He's so good.
Postal dinky pressure.
He's so good at play to his game feasts.
With the late crossfaces and a lot of scenarios.
He shuts down a lot of obstacles.
And I play his force to save this offense.
That's why you see them go for the switch to music.
You need to slow this down, get a reversal
in the form of a jackknife.
But that still didn't slow down the young gun Krimes.
And it looks like in every scenario, it always says that Zen had at least a pixel of drive
age and always just had half.
That's how good the office was when it started to cry.
And even today, he just made the big reads when he needed them the most.
We saw, I think it's the bison was able to beat out that level one.
Got flicked by a lot of wake up up kicks from DJ, but at the end right there predicted
the throw, got the back dash, got the plunders that led to the chip out.
Man, I was making some big reads when he needed them.
Big roulette wheel, yes.
That's like one of the heaviest like mental stacks in fighting games.
You know, I was talking to you about this not too long ago.
Well, let's take a look at the bracket while we talk about this a little bit, but the best form,
well, I'll speak about it right now.
As you can see, climbing moves on the go up against Ta-Ta-Man.
That's going to be a fire match.
Man.
We're going to move over to Dobu, that versus Korossova.
And of course, we got one of the main meals, the main courses in the Winner Swinals.
Men are R.D. versus Killsby.
The bandit's management is going to have to have a talk and dinner after all of this.
But I was having this talk with you about fighting games
just in general, man, especially a street fighter,
especially in that match that I want to represent.
And said how he has so many different options
given a zen different looks.
It's all about who is the best liar in the game.
Ooh, I like the way you put it like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You think I'm going to sit there and just take a throw?
No, I'm going to mash back that.
You think I'm going to sit there and press a button
to get hit with the wake-up super?
And the way he lied about it, too, because he crowds first,
and then he jumped to bat out the super.
So that's one of the key things about fighting games,
man, who is the best liar?
That's why you can't be friends on the stage.
It's true, man. It's true.
And that's why I always say that the nicest people in real life
are always the biggest scumbags in game.
Because they know it takes, that's what it takes
to compete at the highest level, you feel me?
But let's take a look at the victory path presented
by White Claw search for Dogara vs. Cross over RG.
First up, Dogara, a legend in the fighting game community,
right, had to go through Kaba and Punk
in round two of pools just to get here, right?
And then taking down Akumasake, Pugara, Asuda,
Noah the prodigy, Inzo and Duel Kevin that top 24,
killing all of America's dreams
with that three straight victories.
Ah man, shout out to Duel Kevin.
I know he was close.
He got knifed again, I believe.
But it's not a bad thing though.
It's one of the killers of the game.
And of course, Crossover really Dominican.
Look at those biceps showing his strength
here on the grand stage.
You already see how he went through the pools.
Pretty easy, no disrespect to anybody there.
Of course, pools round two, taking out Tora Messi.
Wow, that's what happened to Tora Messi.
Then of course scientific how it looks like he had a good running until he ran into the crossover
Then we got on the top 48 side chance. I told you versus Plasman
So one with both of us
So it looks like it was a nail bite on that side and then we seen that epic match
Well, you the feeling kill when he lost the kills. Yeah, but the epic match with the modern Zangief
Yes, my personal favorites now hi take. Yeah, hi take was a so sick rock of the modern Zangief had the Mohawk and everything
My man was one with his character and it's a crossover digging deep to get that dub and get here in top
Bay and a right now the evil fans he presented by AT&T their favorite in the legend, right?
I can't blame him though. We're a bit here
He'd been one of the best fighting game players in the world since I got into fighting games
So you can blame the people for going with him across over like I said all of the momentum is on his side
He's been building to this result his combo breaker result was great
His big respawn result was better.
Now we got here at EVO, which is even better than those previous ones.
I feel like he's peeking at the perfect top.
Yep, but I've struggled, there is no progress.
And that man is showing that in his entirety.
I like that he found comfort in Sagat.
And that is what's taking him to the higher heights.
All right, y'all, make some noise.
It's gonna be a banger.
Let's go, EVO 2026!
Last match of round one top, babe.
Let's get it man. Nogura vs. Krossova over RDL. Layla vs. Sagat.
There's going to be a foot one to you. You're going to see this match that often.
And not Krossova. Don't see this either. So one of the things that he was trying to do was get some early practice against the laners.
But there's not too many high levels. I know he was trying to sort of leave out a combo. He probably left the building already.
But there's no excuses in this grand stage. Already Dogura with good neutral control. Krossova is fine. It's almost in the corner.
Oh, that's all Thogura is looking for right now. Right? It's just U-Joke and Krossova beating Krossova to the button.
with punishing when he overextends.
Punishing on the Zyger Nexus.
This has been clinical for Dogarra so far.
Just go.
Going for the basics of all two goals.
I like that going for lead.
I like to stand in roundhouse pressure there
just in case he puts a back dash or a jump back,
but it was not enough to back throw
to finish that first round for Dogarra.
But I like that approach with Dogarra.
Super aggressive.
We all know Sagat's great offense,
however, has walked speed from the lead sheets.
Yeah.
In terms of trying to get away from certain pressures.
And honestly, I think that overhead back out throw
was supposed to be a walk-recked one.
And he just ended up getting the overhands.
So yeah, I think that's a tough break for crossover in the end of that first round.
But nonetheless here, he's starting to apply the pressure that he needs to go up against
Goga right here.
R.A. having a dry gauge of air, but they're both in the green, so nobody's hurting too
bad.
The capo with that style is getting represented here.
I like that tip before that punish, kind of Spanish shorter to the DB possibly the
overhead.
Man, not an easy one with punish whatsoever, even with similar normalizations to it.
And I'll tell you what, I lay down in the corner, she could definitely do some
The Mahe, shout out to IAX.
Thank you, man.
It's pretty sharp on the Spanish.
That's it.
You can't know.
Get it on.
Oh.
Damn.
I saw the five o'clock shadow on the screen.
What monitor we rocking on?
I'm not too sure.
But who's rocking out right now is Dogunov.
First flood on the side, and it's Japan's favorite,
World's favorite.
There it is, already with the conversion.
The knockdown is going to be through Loop City.
Are we going to condition first?
No, we waiting for the reversal.
The pace team from Dogunov.
I like the standing, immediate kicking
with the Muay Thai special.
looking for those counter hits into the backstrikes,
but he's attacking that drive gauge.
Now we dehydrate.
That was so good from Cross over right.
He put a gap in the pressure just long enough
for Dugra's parry to become no longer active.
Burns about now puts him in the corner
and he's got no escape and he wants to DI,
but he wants to wait for it, right?
He wanted to get in the jump first,
but it gets a punish counter instead.
That means he's still not out of the burnout just yet.
Are we gonna test him with the DI here?
Oh, yes, indeed.
That was just a combo though.
So now Dugra in the green has a chance.
He never spout like that.
He's waited for his turn on that string
after the drivers and then come for the corner.
I'm loving this here for crossover.
You see the just to walk up and become the wall.
Obviously looking for the driver versus the DP,
but crossover take a control here.
Hands on the steering wheel.
Oh, like that.
Jumping out that gate.
Rich British Tiger knee, you know.
Oh, oh, that's a DP absolutely with a button
that's a stand strong off force.
The media's a stuck.
That hits Roy, you get a back face
without the counter hits you.
So I'll see what crossover's going for.
Oh, oh, that's Xavier.
He definitely met that overhead.
Let's go, baby.
Nothing but fist kneecaps.
Go ahead, just hit all those ligaments, the guy.
Ooh, oh, the ACL.
Hit, hit, oh, hit, damn!
Ooh!
Take flight to the Injury Reserve, Atlanta.
Goes one on one here.
That was the best two out of three.
Yo, shout out to anybody who got that horn.
Just hit that horn one more time.
No.
Oh, there it is.
Yeah.
Thank you, thank you.
I just wanted to confirm it was real.
Here we go, it's going to be a bad throw, no quick combo, because we're sizing with the barrel,
there's a setup where I'm going to connect with the barrel, and switch sides if you really want it to.
Oh, try to carry after the slide, right? I think that crossover is going to nearly precipitate,
but instead it got thrown, and that's a bit over in some situations, especially with crossover,
capitalizing all the way to the corner.
That's that, ah, cack, cack, cack, cack, punch.
That heavy punch DP, I love how he leans into it.
Oh, you see a spinal and duff, I'm going to go for another throw, no.
I like that you had a hit the ejection seat. I understand though with a while cross over is all one
It was like a delay no
So I like they take those risks. I like that cross over wasn't just waking up with that going back right when she's the driver
I was disciplined about a down back to make sure you didn't get clipped low
Not giving over anything easy the trade in action was over to the combo. Don't run like Sam Presti out here
Let me get the draft next dog
I'm serious.
Man, after picks, after picks, we don't need them.
I feel damn sun off of that trade.
And of course, it was cross over on the light side of things
with the jab, throws it up with the medium.
So it was only right that he got that trade.
The fact that he was aware of it is what impressed me.
100%.
OK, there we go.
The barrel roll, trying to get in there.
No malice smash yet.
I haven't seen it yet.
No need to.
We just trying to play good old honor scooch.
But I mean, to be honest with you,
Atlanta's just one of the best space trapping.
That's why I like to call her the space track queen. She's very efficient super super accurate
She's able to control this page
She's got great range of the normal's and again the spacing traps really allow her to control
I'll make you second guess where you want to reverse a lot not even just with your special but with your normal
Target combos long range with the big toe the capo weather
Go try not to push yourself out. Hey crossover. How's he gonna find this option?
Cross over is really good at replenishing with target combo crouching strong
So I think he's looking for that right now just to find that pocket to get the hell about it
Next, it definitely gives them the victory.
All those quick bonuses.
The space traps, like we're talking about,
you overextend and you get punished accordingly.
Dogura, super strong immediate character select screen
from Crossover, I agree with this.
The patience from Dogura in that moment, right?
Has the corner control.
Using that great Elena walks speed
to just continuously manipulate Crossover, right?
He's like, I mean, range, I'm out of range.
I mean, range, I'm out of range.
Legitimately, just trying to bait out a boy.
Finally got one.
Knew the whip push was gonna be in tow.
incredible harassment and corner control from the legend.
So what I love about Drogil is movement too.
The way that Elena moves, it looks like she's
going to let Rip make fun.
100%.
All the time.
Like, you see that little down back, down back,
every single time, trying to fight a normal,
but it definitely looks like you're going to press something.
She's got twitchy animations.
Yeah, which makes you a bit twitchy as a player.
100%.
That is that mental stack, man.
When my man Joe St. Pierre said,
he said, service along the lines of,
just keep throwing stuff for the mental stack.
I don't know exactly what it was he said.
But he has indeed a fighting from real life
to video games.
The mental stack is a huge part of it.
Big perfect bury from Crosswell,
but then I'm gonna let Dover continue that offense.
Oh, so high.
It was too high.
He had the right idea, but at least he's in the opening game,
but he gets to the other space
while found the pocket to get the punish on the Tiger knee.
So no, absolutely, miscondition.
First ask questions later.
Oh, I like that.
Oh, it is, oh my God, what could have been better than that?
Actually, that was like the better choice
in terms of the button.
Then that was big, actually.
Getting that time to try to trade.
Get the back cover as well now,
cross overs the one with the screen and the edge,
all the real signal world,
big tiger together with punish,
counter as well though we're trying to wake up
with something that was clean and trying to wake up
with another something only for crossover,
that beat it out.
Let's go cross over.
Little meal, let's get it popping.
So now how you start is how you finish
already with the pressure.
All just a space out for the crowd to finish,
but don't go that just holds back with the fear of life.
There it goes, the slide, clean.
Back dash cross over, thinking it was a kill,
But the focus of target combo, of course, lands a second time
that we back in this corner.
What's it going to be here from crossover?
Hold up for him to get attack.
I like that option.
Oh, yeah, big one, bam!
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh.
There we go into the level two.
We can set up a medium over here.
That is, of course, if you're going to risk it.
We'll see.
Oh, no, no, man.
We want that guaranteed 50% gone.
Sheesh.
I couldn't describe it.
And he had given drivers for sure.
And afterwards, I was going to say the trade combo.
You do not want to trade with Saga, brah.
He's got enough draft picks.
Don't give him more.
Oh, wake up with a level three, a big C.A. to send a message here.
This is not only going to get over a back into the life situation,
but a huge drive-gauge advantage as well.
Oh my God, to attack the drive-gauge.
Somebody hitting the brakes, he's dogged up, waiting for a drive-first,
and of course, all reversals get off of you.
Nice technical, good defense.
The space is getting held, you cross over, but he's getting walked down.
Look for the space.
There's buffering as well.
Oh, he thought it was going to be a DB.
What a way to call this club.
Wake up crouching short to clip the warp back.
Wow, you want to talk about high level chess,
high level guessing,
it's getting played here from Governa.
That's the home for me, that's what I'm saying.
To make such a gutsy decision in a top eight
and evil stage, in the losers bracket already,
sure he's up a game, but nonetheless, that took a lot.
And then the overhead right there, Governa's writing
all that momentum from that last decision,
gets a throw-down, Kossler's gotta do something here.
Oh, and he finds the hit with cross-medium punch,
wait a minute.
Do it, or you're gonna go for the safe jump first.
Yeah, I don't know, actually though.
He could have gone for a drive-ish right there,
but he hit the brakes knowing that he was low in the drive
and he's side of things.
Oh, so Dogra, he's been looking for these back dashes as well.
He already found one of the biggest agony before.
Oh!
Oh, another trade combo.
Cross over, both of these characters
really thrive in those moments.
Oh, it makes out the ODDP again!
How is he right every single time, guys?
Oh, man, it must be the Platinum.
Oh, man, it must be the Tres Golpes.
Yeah, even Dogra nodded on that one like,
damn, so you got me again, huh?
I didn't think he would give me that last time.
I would feel good if he had to do that spice though.
At least the late tag to fill that out.
I mean, he has been switching his options,
considering that he woke up with a crouch short right,
so he would do that.
True, true, exactly, yeah.
He could be a little more flustered
instead of trying to go to some offense.
The pace has been up.
Nice perfect parry.
Snipes off.
Snipes to stun, excuse me.
The block's lucky.
Some of that vision is actually how I cross over.
Oh, it is almost unconditionable, right?
He is very rarely shook in by his opponent's strategies.
Looked over a hazard block during the corner right now.
We're gonna do it, it's in the range, hugging nothing but air and now Thogna.
Gonna drive us, juggle him all the way to set points.
Yo, it took five days to cross over to Tech.
Yeah, bro.
Wow.
But just a point, just a full vicious point.
But we get a conditioning here, a little bit on the side of Thogna.
I like that he's not flustered yet.
Cross over still in it.
One ball, building a second one.
Wow, straight right there.
That big kick range is going for the drive, which might not.
I can figure it a little bit.
Looking for that counter hit there.
Every day, uh-uh-uh-uh, uh-uh-uh,
with jab goes for the back three, it's yes.
Out of the cots, with Bustin' to stand strong.
Oh, he's got him, get it!
Big damage, how dare you!
Uh!
Cross over, man, what a showing so far,
but the guard does manage to press back in the moment.
Mm, oh, man.
Now Sniper on the lows as well,
nice job, from me, into the target combo.
Oh no, I don't know what cross over,
trying to take it over,
trying to walk up the goal for a throw.
Oh my God, wasn't ready!
He got the level three, no way this is enough.
On the grand stage, wasn't ready for the drive-thru package.
And here you have it, ladies and gentlemen,
one of the favorites of all time in fighting games.
Dota and Fences in the top eight.
I know everyone is happy.
I know everybody that voted is happy.
Oh yeah, 100% Ryan was a very heavily favored
when it came to the fans.
He picked up a man, don't grab his sweat
and earned that, looked so hard.
Bring it out to the DI.
We pretty much saw DI's from either side.
These whole set rides tonight makes, of course,
the game five and that heated the moment
once so hard to check.
But y'all, can y'all make some noise for crossover, baby?
Top eight, Evo, let's get it!
Oh my God, I like how he never left the foot off the pedal.
You know what, I'm going to give you so many looks.
You think I'm going to DP fine?
If you block it, congratulations.
Yep.
If you block it, again, congratulations.
Let me go for a wake up cross show at this time.
You got to hit congratulations to me,
But the fact that he never got discouraged to just give him a different option
Just goes to show you that that man's heart was pumping with momentum and so big shoutouts to go
Dola and of course that'll me and my man crossover
I know this is a early end for you, but I know this is just the beginning
100% man crossover has only continuously
Been able to improve it and prove his results tournament after tournament like I said
This is the best result he's had in a string of these recent ones with point respawn and combo rigor
both where he made top 16. So it's just sick to see him continue to do better and better.
We got a great look at not only the whip punish from Crouch Media, but you look extremely difficult
to do, and it's not easy whatsoever to catch the guy whipping that Crouch Media punch and able
to get the punish in top. But then we see a din right here, right? Just spacing it out. He's
done such a good job, the whole set of being primarily aware of the ranges that Crossover
likes to play at, right? He's all back dashed up against the Tiger D as well. He's just been
I feel like this is a real curry dean with top 8.
Actually, you know I've seen it till I go to the tournament.
You know, you know what?
It's really broken with that heart.
But what I've seen is more so conditioning,
delayed burns, just to see if you're always going to attack
and then apply the situation.
It's been a real curry game throughout the Seoul tournament.
I don't know if it's just the air,
I'm not too sure if it's the temperature,
but man, the temperature is hot for all of these players.
Yo, one more time.
Evo, are y'all joining the Street Fighter 6?
Talk to us.
I like to hear.
Shout out for the A heads candy.
Can you bring like a bucket of the A keg?
The A heads candy.
I'm a big fan of charity for them.
Eat some.
Come on.
Come on over right here.
But it looks like we are going to take a quick break
before we get into the subsequent rounds
of our Street Fighter 6 Top 8.
Round 1 is in the books.
Don't go anywhere as we get closer and closer
to crowning a new Evo Street Fighter Champion.
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Mmm.
Oh, that boy calls his breakin' Joe in the mooch!
Look at him go!
How is he beating him?
This guy's a scrup!
There's no way I'm a scrup, too.
Use them, Joey.
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Plenty of things to do of course at Evo and with this I'm going to leave you. I'm
going to try to ask me man. See you soon.
Man, what a top 8 we are receiving here for everybody to just love and enjoy man.
Shout out to the best seats in the house, man.
Rebel, I see you, man.
Make some noise.
Can y'all just wave your hands from side to side?
Left to right, please.
Who's on the best seats?
Just left to right, side to side.
If y'all listen to that, okay, there you go.
Logan!
You the left to right!
He's like, he's on no way.
Not listening to us at all.
Logan, really?
You had to be the uncle?
Come on, man.
Are you serious?
Let's do it.
It's like, no, not today, fellas.
See the first street fight.
He looked like stress.
He looked like he got some investments.
I was gonna say, that's definitely what it's looking like.
That is what it is.
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That is what it is.
Let's take a look at the bracket one more time.
We got a banger on the stage for you guys.
If you missed out, you see what's going on there.
The closest set we've seen to both of the closest sets
was Cigar Metsu-Mena, and then, of course,
go with that cross over.
So there's been some bangers.
But, yeah, you can see the winners' finals already set.
Now, we're going to go straight down to the loser's
to decide to go and check out time time man versus cream.
I sent up to a good match, boy.
And you know what?
If anybody's well equipped to go up against a Jamie is
climbing to the fact that he has dealt with blizzards
man against when blizzards playing Jamie.
And he picked Jamie when he really feels like it
depending on the matchup about that.
So he's well equipped.
He's well equipped.
So let's see what time time man brings to the table.
I ain't gonna lie the ferocity that time time man
brings with Jamie kind of looks pretty different than
everybody else.
I'm saying I mean there's not many Jamie's left so we can't even really use it too much reference to see the differences
But this man has been showing up about this tournament. I think the buzz is checked
Here we go. Yes. I see elbows on kneecaps. I think we're good. I think we're ready
That's good man
I believe applause actually used Jamie to win one of the first world warriors for Chile this season
So he's been playing the character as a recent as well
So crime they should definitely have plenty of magical experience of my games a high level Jamie
Which is a rarity beautiful perfect period open top time man. You're not gonna get it fully
You're going to see a couple of instances from crime where he's going to set up a tone
in terms of pressure off the drivers and then get you to brand a back dash.
It's off the straight, and he's waiting for that stay here from Jamie.
So you'll see the big punishes on the side of crime.
I think Tata may definitely snipe that out early on.
The command, I didn't even notice yet that there's a trick over it.
That's what I was going to say.
I was like, I don't blame crime if we're going to hit by that.
I can't believe you already asked for your drink set.
Not to mention he's got four hair down.
But aside from Sice, not the record is to see what crime they've done afterwards.
That's so annoying.
Punish count on top of that, which means it was a punish.
Okay, right back at you, what a counter for Proust Fierce, really?
I know, right?
Stop!
Oh, a hair down?
Man down!
Town's on, man, in the building!
You know what I'm gonna appreciate in a moment?
As you know.
Come on!
We definitely aren't gonna hide like that.
Yes, sir.
Unhandy, says climbing.
Careful, the bomb was dead, blocked over on the side of climbing.
We got one drink, access to the dive kit, early on.
Wow, what a way to invite the normal off of the whip dive kit.
That was Godlike, he's awesome.
Oh, oh, the top foot monkey said pokeyaku.
Hopefully I said that right.
Oh, yeah, perfect.
Perfect pronunciation.
He decided to switch foot.
Top time man fighting back to the low of the screen.
Has three bars again.
There should be three drinks.
So the command grab is available.
Oh, look, it's for the Nuts.
You see Nuts are jumping.
He's looking for the stands here so the dive can hit the hole.
He's trying to cover both options.
There it is.
Break dancing.
Shout out to the Bronx.
Cross all on the cardboard.
Oh, one of the pillars of hip hop.
You already know.
Here we go.
The refreshing beverage.
It must be tasty.
See how he just bites it.
That's a level 2.
No skin, that's all he had in front of me.
And he is.
Kai had a level 2 that's actually active right now.
Oh yeah, I didn't even notice that one.
Yeah, he dragged all of it again just as late in the sweep.
Ring out.
Well, it's a bit of a slug-fest, dude.
Yeah.
I think we're gonna go to the bikes.
I believe it.
Hmm, okay, I would like that idea.
I give you something to kind of combat
Jamie from fullscreen a little bit easier.
It feels like Prime Maid was having to play a little bit
around the manipulation of the walk speed
That's on time in was kind of presenting the different normals the roundhouse and when I felt like you didn't have a great feel for it
But we're getting to the rear you get the first game can be just Intel after all
Let's see what crime is got now
I'm just playing this out playing it slowly but slowly till it gets this drink. No, not yet
Oh, there it is. Okay on the house and it goes back home. That's what I like to see the aggression now
I like that he hit the brakes quick with the stand jab just in case it can snuff out of low four
And that roundhouse again, definitely causing Crimean's emissions here.
Not feeling comfortable in that range that we can normally press buttons at.
They respect the new try here is Crimean.
Tata man trying to get his ball on the post-the-back throw on the side of
Crimean once again.
Got a little supremacy here from both of these guys.
Who's gonna take this first control and it looks like it's gonna be Crimean
with that top?
What a big, beautiful sum right there in the ride.
If he's especially coming right after a drive for us that is successful.
You know the time when a man's gonna want to put a stop to that.
Great big timing for Crockett.
Hmm.
Oh, on the count, it'll look like, you know, that's not gonna offer the drive for us.
Pardon me.
Right here to go, Stan Brownhouse.
The space trash that I'm getting represented here on the side of the time.
And now we in the corner.
Oh, it's an enemy drive.
And there he goes with the long big toe.
Lands the low forward and pushes himself out of another base.
And we got that number two.
We're gonna do this early.
You know, the top two, we're gonna go for the corner carry.
They condition right now. It's time to try to find an answer. Try to hit him with the defensive dodge to get his full
into the level 3 dominant performance here from Crime May. I love the way Crime May is going about his media pressure, right?
We see him consistently beating out the ODDPs, but you saw it being right there.
He's got a built-in timing to it. He's blocking and then immediately pressing at a late player, right?
He's covering the wake of reversal, but he's making sure he's not giving his opponent much time to react to the fact that he's not
He's just giving that window to block on the opening and then immediately pressing a button after that's why that crotch
We push a lot to continue that pressure and take the game. Correct. I like you know, there's another
It's like a high-level time to control if you hit the brakes with the jab when you're ready hold it down back
If you're still delaying your fun and the need comes out, you're still gonna block the top with exactly good
So I like layers of offense here from crime. I love this car
Here's the zealots, and I've got a counterpoked too.
We're gonna waste the perfect fairy for a drink.
Absolutely meaty throw note.
Delayed jab, trying to look for the second ball.
Like the counterpoked into the ring berm.
Oh man, oh, in-perfect area right there.
It's actually a down bag, but man, neutral jumps.
Yodi died, trick or tip, crying man.
I'm gonna have so many answers from top to bottom.
Damn, I looked away for a second.
He had that neutral jump in the second.
I look back and he's break dancing.
That's what I'm saying, man.
Oh, pure.
I mean, it's a guess on top of that, but it's still pure.
Another beverage, okay, level four.
We got access to that command.
Throw the bin, have it.
And Lord, you see, that move gave me so far,
going right out.
The driver's barely got started.
He was in a reuse space.
Like, I was definitely catching probably half the arc.
E, big box, across strong startup.
Wow, after the charge, it just goes,
run up in his house regardless.
Throw, we're gonna hit another one.
I'm mad close, yes.
Another one, he has to go another one for the dive game.
So he can abuse this whole thing.
Are you gonna wake up with the DP?
No, no, yeah, a whole big throw tag right there.
But I love that the shallow drivers, that's a crime they special.
He's really good at using the shallow drivers to maybe an answer out of you.
Then doing stuff like hockey, kid, or walk up throw, when you try to parry.
Super strong, that was organic.
So was that drink, get a ball for me.
He's like, give me a double, and now a two.
We don't have a couple of those left, you know.
You already know.
Staying face wide for a couple of times he took that bottom away immediately.
Right buffering right here, playing a bit of shadow boxing on the side of Tom Tomman.
I like the plasma just to get a little bit of space.
He ain't got no plans of like so careful now and that's why we bust out of your DDS.
Oh, that's excuse me.
Wow, he thought he was gonna hit the brakes but he kept going with the record.
Disrespectful Tom Tomman.
I mean, you could say Krami was just too considering.
And he tried to go for the counter poke.
He's still got juggled in his traveling pack, of course, just for the far and out.
But he tried to give him some time to wake up,
and Grimey immediately pressing a fine instead to full advantage of that opportunity percentage.
Now he's burned Tauntaumann out, and Tauntaumann has no meter.
Grimey gets the knockdown of the string on his.
Oh, he's gonna abuse it now, such a grasp inside of Grimey.
No meters on the side of Tauntaumann.
His name is Giddy Wolf, but he does have access to a bad kick.
He needs that good freedom of the throat, but Sike getting plastered to this wall.
All the leader in the world have finished their job.
Big body damage from the local.
Re-view pirated by Prime.
They want to fall match away to move on here in this topic.
Locked that man down and man, Tauntaun man.
Just a fortune they got put up a level three,
put him in burnout, that was just great priority
from Prime, knowing to attack the ground gauge.
Oh man, Tauntaun man with a big fade out this time.
Wheels up and turning.
That's right.
Quit little 30%, add a throw there.
That's a bit of a 42 right the overhead into the target.
Oh, you know, for me, the OSS has been solid.
Yeah, the pride of the consistent.
Wow, a bit of a scramble here.
I feel like Tom Tom and he gets most of his mileage off of the scramble, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah, 100%, right?
He really thrives in those moments.
Like, he's definitely willing to play against expectation,
take a risk just because that's not the optimal thing to do.
And usually it connects and he's able to stomp off from there.
Yep, throw off the playbook.
I like that.
All right, here we go.
Throw City B1 with the candles.
intimate here in this corner. All you've actually reached, how dare you?
Is it gonna be a throw? Absolutely a read on the reversal. We got a level three.
Let's tie this up, ladies and gentlemen. Ta-ta man is still here to play.
And this is kind of the set we expected, right? All these players extremely aggressive,
wanting to get into each other's faces, but the only thing on the opponent to make something
happen and then some big baits out on reversals from both sides. We had the fact that
that crime he was doing delay wakeups earlier right to fade out reverses and
put a button on him afterwards.
We see it this round back to back bait from the side of Tom's on the man.
It's gonna be a fun one to see in this phone around who is willing to do the
reversals with their tournament life on the line.
I know crime a salivate is like y'all as long as I can get in and
you don't get a drink, I should be okay.
For a time time man wants to get that one with punish,
one off is going to get that refreshing beverage so
you can get the party started.
Oh, the standing meter, I hate that button.
It's trying to allow low key.
I walk into that every single time.
It's quite good.
100% add, 100% allow fountain mantis.
He's gonna drink as well, but prior to that,
that's the most basic and free trap.
We go, not level two activated.
Looking for that low forward.
That's why you saw that standing brown house.
Curve.
Oh, that's trying to react to that.
Maybe he thought that has to do with a fireball,
but instead gets baited for it.
Correct.
That is actual fact.
Oh, come on over here, it's in my house.
Yeah, at least I'm going to punish counter by canceling
against the drive rush by a crime a pizza to the boy and it's upset boy
claim is looking good time-time man how are you feeling wow what a check the
rumble of the Brawls aka the standing fierce what a way to check it that's
my friends it makes sense I was like said fierce check it hello all right
the whole shoot yeah damn that was organic and he had that sinister smile
when he buried come there try to take the drink for me said not to name them
What you make of him?
Oh, you're gonna reverse-
Hey, Bronton, man, he's down around him, still even doing it, but he gets caught with this dead kid,
crying with the neutral jump, so much damage on this calm boat.
Can you survive when it comes next?
You better make an executive decision.
Tonsam and Dehydrated State is on the way-
Oh my God, Bronton trying to fade out of reversal.
Bronton may call it out with the Grouch Media King.
He's the throw-in, as he downfats.
hair down activates trying to get to try to get away with the grass again oh my god
wow
really
run up in your house and just throw a raw overhand
bro breathing the dough with the 4-4
raw overhand
wow
the overhand hurt across the arena
that dude just went and double dashed it
you just double dashed overhand
wow
That was such a cool point that you highlighted.
The fact that he went to Roble to despite having four drinks,
just to get out of burnout, right?
To get that drive meter back.
I definitely thought it was gonna be all momentum
for Tom Tom men in that part.
But cry, man, get it, his grill,
and doing a clutch overhead
to continue in the tournament.
Amazing stuff.
But y'all, EVO Vegas,
can y'all give it up for Tom Tom men?
Incredible performance, man.
Again, to see if Jamie,
go through a thousand person plus bracket
and get the top eight of Igbo is an incredible accomplishment.
A testament to his work and skill.
Hope to see more of Tom Tom men in the future.
Hey, let's take a look at the replay presented by PlayStation Tournament.
Dude, this was an awesome display of timp for tap.
You want to talk about somebody who's trying to be the aggressor
and just trying to condition at all times.
It's like these guys who's unconditional throughout the whole set,
always had to get different looks.
You saw Prime with the drive rush, with the jab, just to bait out reversals.
personally, Prime made was pretty much about 100% on DP or Wester, so yeah.
Top Top Man definitely had a switch to that man but in terms of who was really
the favorite here, I'm talking about who got the advantage, what's Top Top Man had
no connection, definitely Prime. Man I really love the way both of them played,
right? Because like as far as the unconditional park goes, they really
were, they were so good and not getting manipulated by the other's
decision and yet they were still able to adjust to some of the things
that they were like, I have to adjust to this though, right? I cannot
Just like he playing the way I am or this is gonna eat me alive like we saw in the very last round man
Tell them and called out the shallow Jack. He called out the baby. He woke up across medium kick, right?
It was so close to being his route the drive may show it
That it definitely is an overhead that's never paid a bill in its life. You know what I'm saying? So double no special responsibility
There's zero sense zero. I don't have to worry about that yet. I love the excitement from crying man, man
Absolutely, but guys, I hope everybody at home is excited. Everybody in the arena.
Y'all join the street for the 6th High Level, please.
Now, I just love that you're back to see the people, man. That's amazing, bro. That's amazing.
Shout out to the AHA, but guys, please don't go nowhere.
All this exciting action will continue.
Oh, we're actually going to go to the Bracket instead.
I thought we were going to go to the Bracket as well, but let's take a look at the Bracket instead, you know what I'm saying?
I don't know why, but I'm going to watch it for a second there.
Now, you're a wrestling fan.
Conzo, we love you. It's okay.
But as you can see winners finals like we talked about we've been teasing a little bit
as the Dominican Republic men are gonna be going up against kills you from France.
Crime may have secured a top four placing, but you know we want some more of that.
He's gonna wait the winner of our next match, which will be Shigamatsu versus Dukada.
That's gonna be a good one Blanca versus Elena.
I'm pretty sure that's gonna be a good one.
Of course waiting in the wins, but in a R deal versus kills you.
Obviously they got to respect the teams with the management of course,
holding a damn band. It's bringing the talent out just, you know, pretty much getting that mentality
in terms of championship DNA, if you will. It's gonna be a fun one, man. I belong covers the
lane. I do not recall the last time I actually saw this matchup. We're going to be able to see it
in a high level environment. Since two players from Japan right at them, the probably going to
be a little bit familiar with each other. But of course, Bill Grant is Mr. Osaka, you know,
I mean, Mr. West Coast of Japan. So you already know, he runs that whole side. So always
I always love seeing him and he definitely
primarily plays with the Osaka players,
but he's been proud of SFL and he's been a legend
in Japan for so long that I'm sure he's been exposed
to everybody at this point.
I'll tell you something, the 21 evils that I've been at,
this guy has been in every single one that I've seen.
So it's pretty crazy.
Doga does a legend, of course Shigamatsu is still
getting his legendary status, his stats up
as we go on.
What a great start, of course,
in the top eight here at EVO.
Man though, straight up man, Doga does a rock star.
You throw a guitar in that man's hand,
I would have told the difference.
Legitimately, bro.
I got from the beginning, I've always seen him.
He's always embraced the showmanship aspect of being on camera as well, right?
Charisma through the roof, always loved seeing him.
And he's always one of those players that honestly,
you could tell how his personality translates to in-game.
He's never won a shy away from the big risk, the big moment,
the one that he will make the decision.
That will make sure we determine what's gonna happen in the future of the match.
So I always loved seeing him, but I always love seeing the people out here for
Let me hear y'all.
Now you're waiting, I appreciate that.
There's a lot of people I can't even see you out in the back.
But what was in the blood section, man?
We love y'all too.
I mean, we got a big-ass screen, so it's all right.
We love y'all too. We love everybody here.
Here we go. Open the game of the time button.
I've been checked.
Oh, man, back to back.
I actually needed to expect Dover to get hit by the second one.
Oh, man, I'm already scared.
Already a scary situation.
Congratulations, that's excuse me, though it was never scared.
Oh, interesting, I thought he was waiting for a Hover Blonkaball possibly, I'm not too sure.
Yeah, but you wanted to parry the anti-air, you just put the OS in to avoid the potential throw,
but he got cleansed because Shikabatsu committed something on the ground.
And now we got a big throw here, Shikabatsu such a happy life.
Like he was living too far, but the shallow Blonkaball does a man as it always does.
Everybody gets squirming when they fight blocker, huh?
Everybody gets cool when we fight showed up cards,
everybody favorable, blockers on the screen,
definitely gonna have to have a knowledge to check.
That's why I'm gonna get the pro down.
That's why Doge is trying to stay offensive, right?
He's like, I've gotta give Shigamatsu
any opportunity to start playing the neutral,
or I have to start guessing,
cause like, die, we get the parry coming out.
And then the lift punish, perfect spacing
and timing for Shigamatsu,
knew exactly what Doge was gonna be looking for.
Electro likes lost.
There you go.
On the side of Doge to chill him out.
Don't drive them back.
Wow, Scythe, don't do it.
Don't drive them back, I'm so sorry.
Which, you've been driving them back.
He was up around, right?
He was like, hey, don't worry about that.
You're gonna spend that meter of sound, right?
And they're gonna be able to take you into the next round.
Anyway, great stuff from Sugar Momzu.
One, oh, already.
Man, I thought they were gonna return.
He looked strong.
Oh, I thought he didn't recover top.
Okay, okay, here we go.
Now, he's definitely young and hard.
My man, don't be able to remember be old.
Let's go.
I'm gonna give that stabber speed.
He's standing near the kick pressure.
Just stop him from holding up back.
That's what you see in the back dash there.
Right here we go, looking for the ground first.
Trying to make a block ball right there.
Didn't give it to him.
That's where he should have gone, sir.
Eek, in the shuttle.
Blockable on the beam to the blade afterwards.
Absolutely.
Space traps are getting set here from both of these players.
Nice DP, this is throw city.
No, there's the back dash.
I called this out early just to space out
to get the blockable.
That was so awesome from the over right there.
Well aware of one of the best defensive options
in the game and plenty of shooting.
He is
Not to show if she has like a body back in like a jungle or somebody's like holding up back
So I like that that's an option over there where you can just come out of the back dash and just punish it entirely
Very nice there
Like that, getting close to the level 2 in Shigamatsu
Though he's low on the drive-in
Oh, man, is that a jump in though? A dash up into the ground
I'm like, love it
Let's go
That's a DP for the finish
Oh my God
Got to reach for a second but no big punish here
Oh, big cut of shit here.
Of course, look at that.
He gave him trade though.
Oh, no.
Like this.
Come on, tell them I need this.
We have no try here.
Okay, I like that killin' some brains.
I thought he was gonna blow up the front full box.
I think it's coming out right here.
There it is.
Oh, the trade with the big buttons.
Snipe that though without magic.
I think that was a low four.
I can show a crouching short here to order.
Super mess.
I'm gonna catch her, but he still had Cho'Gal props.
That was wild, right?
I can't wait touching her.
Let's you go in the grave, six feet under.
That's it.
New addition to Matsu already off the races here in this next round as well.
Oh my God, are you serious?
Already up to that level two.
Those are not, he's going to have to find a pocket to get the hell up out of here.
The stance base for the extra damage of the drive gauge just to get up closer and closer to that burnout.
While the challenge is over, now we are going to be in medium level three.
I concur.
I like that ride at the time.
It's not just freeze on the insta-ride, it's still draining slowly a little bit.
It freezes towards the end here, but of course the drive gauge now is such an advanced result.
That's why I like that level three.
And now he's pressing his button quicker on the shallow block of all as well.
Beats Shikamatsu this time.
Oh, Spacey, no thing.
Shikamatsu knows that he's going to be engaged a while.
Try to hit the break, try to parry, but Doga doesn't not fight.
Oh, what a guy, wasn't it?
He's going to DP, no jump back short, just actually defeat a throw,
except he has a sign of Shikamatsu.
Wow, risking the slot right there.
No way he had with that much of a lively, he figured Doga would try to
want back drive, beat him to come to him, but beautiful from Doga.
Like he is such a veteran of the game knowing that he has a slide.
I'm just down back instead like that combo right there.
One of my favorites, even though I don't play walking.
But I like jumping man.
Oh yeah.
Oh, he's called a combo.
Yes, let's go all the way to the corner once again.
This is the control that we need.
Throw loose city.
Is there going to be a jump back?
No, I think we're going to see a back dash.
We'll sign it over at one moment.
No, not yet.
He's coming.
He's fully committed.
He's not scared.
Take me.
This is, I love a lockdown right now, bro.
You are not going anywhere.
Holy shawty, got a Ranger, but just barely got flamed.
Coming to the late second, over to two.
Oh, the cross strong just walked into it.
Actually, with the counter, I'm sure what I did there.
Unhand me, another technical.
Oh, my crouch medium budge is my savior.
I dangerous, we going to the beast that is lightning.
What a pain!
How dare you?
That's actually one of my personal favorites on the playbook.
I do that a lot.
And I love that, because you can obviously ride.
Knowing that the punish counter,
The extra damage will be enough to kill off and it's the best meter build punish as well in that moment
But now it's caught trying to reverse themselves. Let's go with a style. I check my chain a black cabra
No, the delay got exposed a little too long. Oh, no drive
I should hit the brakes to do a bit of a page across over earlier through
And I love to be as well before don't growl
I was gonna take him build drive to make sure he gets burned down here
huge from Michigan-Matsu, Dougram, of course, does that bring me here?
So it's not gonna be a free DI, but it's gonna connect anyway.
Showed him the drive rush first. Dougram, I can't find an answer.
Hey, too long, Michigan-Matsu.
He, man, she thought it was a bite. No, it's a drive-in, man.
He tried to be honest, but in this game, you just can't be honest.
Sometimes, man, the best way to avoid a drive-in, back to the Super,
is just get the hell out of there.
Bitch. Sheesh.
Here we go. Chance, Michigan-Matsu, to send Doug with a pack
spectator seat.
No shit me, I like that good defense of Dover,
the back dash instead of the tech,
but we said neutral, good check there.
You know the long legs of the law,
the gazelle from Hell, known as Elena.
You get that throw, no.
Wow, they're erupting.
Sure, he's missed it, looping over a one.
I can't train him, sure.
I think so, turning that hard, sheesh.
You know what I like, I like the spacing
and the standing strong,
ooh, the check with the target combo
for the low forward, I love it.
string them up. Play those musical instruments. I love it.
Into the throat. What a way to condition. I like when they kill
friends and just go for a rain of thought. Love it. Looks like
a mother. Oh, he's right. Definitely encourages the person to
applaud. Only for you to take four days and then throw facts.
Oh, ooh, she dancing. That's that good car. She could walk
barefoot on that. She's cool. Check the bottom of her soul.
Never 30. Uh-uh. There we go. Kapehweta style.
Ba-na-na-wee-hey. School.
Oh, and we are not being dissuaded from getting up with something.
It's the lightning desecration, you know that's why it's for the frisky.
Oh, and look at the ambiguous jump in, I think.
Nover may have been extended across him.
Honestly, if you press a different button, you might be able to cross him.
DI as well, there was a big damage.
Doga right here, strike throw away from death.
Oh, and he just stayed in front of him.
Did not move an inch after the back medium.
Yeah, Doga's GPS is off.
Yeah, we could not follow that one at all.
Oh, Syke! I thought you was gonna get something.
Wow, what a combo.
Yeah, I haven't seen that one in a while.
Yeah, on the airborne drive-in, that was pretty clean.
Yeah.
Look, the table's blocked up.
We almost saw him with the beast that is spinning out of flight.
And there it is.
Nua has pretty good calculation as well.
He built a level 2 with that fierce,
but wait a minute, but we're gonna fight back.
And make some reversal!
Oh, my goodness.
Last pass for Stutters.
Let's go.
Touch of grass really is freaking Elena.
Literally manifest the grass.
You can never find her on Twitter.
She outside.
You know what I'm saying?
She outside.
Oh, walked up and did a block and I'm fortunate.
Oh my God.
And the jump is jump up, into the stance short to expose
the technical.
Shing and Manchu, strong performance.
I know he's excited.
Moving forward here in the top eight.
Please give a round of applause for this great master.
Please give another round of applause
for one of my heroes of the game, Dolcuda!
Please give it up for Dolcuda, man.
Legitimately a legend has been one of my favorite players
since getting into fighting games.
Always loved seeing him,
always marching to the beat of his own drum as well.
And Elena in top eight, my man does it like nobody does.
The superhero in real life, what could we say?
100% man, but the control is definitely
on she to match you, man.
Let me tell you something.
Anybody that sees the blocker approaching especially when they have to lead and they start getting into that into that zone on the cross jab
But he's still walking back
It's pretty scary considering that the big ones come out for the early meter build on blocker
Right, especially on the defensive side of pocket
Throwing off the office capabilities of the border because like as you can see he kept switching up his options
You like string them up back dash to catch the riff on landing from the out from the fade away blocker ball
Or he's gonna go for the throw he started implementing a little more strings just to clip them from up back in but that's the tail
That's the tale that you're dealing with with blocker. You just don't know how to condition him consistently
He just have that many options. Yeah, I'm so glad you put it that way, right? It really comes down to the amount
Like this is the fact that you can cycle so many things. It's very hard and his options all work together so well
So like one answer is definitely answer for something else
Yes, you have to really call out the one option that you're looking for and then like you could cover some of the other options
But most likely you're giving up your turn while doing that
It's not like you're going to be able to keep the offensive pressure going.
So, yeah, I mean, there's a very much a problem here as we can see.
Two of them in top eight here at Evo should have marked me doing the damn thing.
That's a great move who set us as well.
But it's all in the corner.
We've seen that time and time again, you know, yo, man, this is I mean,
this is this is a tall tale when it comes to blocking.
You never think he's going to get this to all this fast.
You know, like during the match, we're just watching it.
And then out of nowhere, I just look down to the corner
and there's a second meter income and it's kind of crazy.
And that is all attributed to punish counter throws and of course those big button into drive rushes, so exactly right
He does such a good job of sequencing his offense to really just make every block string count like in the heavies coming on out
They're gonna build him meter and they're gonna shave off a lot of drive gauge as well
So you always got to be pairing which then opens up like a short string it's a walk-up throw like it's just so many mind games
They keep track of okay. Well for real this time ladies and gentlemen
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I like that we're keeping it safe here, no light or snow, no light or snow.
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We made our way through this street by the sixth top eight.
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So big ups for World War is holding it down as per usual.
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to the winners' finals to see who gets that grand seat in the grand finals.
R.D. representing the Republic of the many kind of versus kills you all the way from France representing you
I know everybody the EU side is watching. I know my god reasons probably doing a watch party or something
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, big shout out to my god reserve course my brother, but this is going to be an epic match
I don't think I ever see these dudes play besides cash
I want to see this on a grand stage that all goes through the window
I might have some different strats of it that you probably kept in the pocket of the nationals
Who knows let's see what they bring to the table. Yeah, I'm trying to think you know
They've been at a lot of the same tournaments and what not right, but
Man kills you right here responding with a fire in his own eyes
I cannot wait bro. I cannot wait to see who's firing side burns brighter in this winner's fight
While I cut you put that me look at that they bracing the energy look at that no headphones
They get that out of here. Mm-hmm. I want to see in it. Hey 96%
Time of better Rd. I mean who could blame them for getting that high percentage. All right
Here we go. This is a bit of a mental battle here for men Rd. I'm gonna be very honest with you
He's gonna run the flag that at the high state tournament. This is the character that falls
So if you've seen him in the back, it's all going up against me
So let's see what he springs to the table
If anybody that was teaching on the back, so what kills you? So let's see what kills you doesn't switch this up
Zacharman, MetalRD is not letting my play any of her games just yet
Ryan already in the corner already establishing all this pressure really nullifying that stand fears right try to stay inside that range
To make sure she can't do anything and MetalRD has the best slide reactions in the best
100,000.
Nobody is close.
Let's put that on the books.
While woke up standing face just to stuff up,
the crowd's been strong.
Now we have a big hit.
We are maximized.
Oh, the throw, that's a burn out.
That's big, that's not a burn out, but that's a face.
Let's see what's though.
We're gonna go on our own accord.
I respect that from Kills, you driver first.
Big damage incoming.
Oh, so mix up, it's a throw.
So you actually, how many throws
are you gonna take with 20?
Oh my, I just can't chill down right now
and then Kills, you have no meter, right?
Kills is doing all this damage to proceed
the DI so it's even more when you're counting it all up together.
I'm sure it's talking about those things, but this is like the beast.
Sure you brought him down.
I know you was back here with Yo-Yo, man.
Sheesh.
Oh, and the bucket shot is there, all happy with the jumpers.
Ready to get in the action.
Is this enough?
Absolutely.
Dominant first game year for men are really demanding.
Sheesh.
Sheesh, you can't find this footage, man.
You gotta find it, Eddie.
So we're talking about right men.
It's definitely gonna be looking to nullify the neutral of my.
Get her on the back foot early,
prevent this day and heavy punch game,
prevent having to deal with the fans and the charge fans
and all the different tools.
And that's exactly where we find ourselves
in this round as well, in the corner.
Here it comes, more action in the corner.
That's a throw, no respect from the driver,
versus the reversal.
Here's another chopper, look at these snacks right here.
Oh, nice, you're not going anywhere.
Trying to get out of the hallway for the throw,
looking for the shift, no bite though.
Too close to come.
D and then putting the back knee kicks on them.
Oh, beautiful stuff.
We talked about highlighting
How much that stand for his matters to my right there in a rd makes it out of the range with punish all day every day
Like how you wait for those little tips of time to jam jazz and look back to getting that sweet spot to get that fun
It's beautiful. Here it is the fuck go pop. Let's call it a little bit of the booboo. Yeah, the booboo set ups
Let's go. Oh, no. I'm in this corner. Don't DP because you will die. I don't care. That's in the back
It kills you mom. Oh, that's what he was looking for with his ride
That's why you sort of delay there for better. Wow, let's stay wild. Are you kidding me right now?
Yeah, he definitely could have pushed that block of all but he was not then go with the right movement
Right so fans immediately pressing knowing he moderately gonna be short. Oh
People that don't know yes, it's not a true
School kills you okay
The vintage stuff bringing up the jury the first million dollar character in Street Fighter 6. Let's not forget that's a fact
And I like that and mentally right now. He's locked in
Here's you have an exceptional can be as well, but I like this big
Right, he's been able to really get the better of pump for most of Street Fighter 6. He's well versus the candy matchup
Like that, buried in the media, CrossFit, shout out to CBS.
Every time I see that button, I swear.
No, no, yet, you're beautiful.
No delayed DPs in this house.
I wish there was something that was too late.
I'm gonna pull the trigger on the anti-air,
all the trigger pull and triggers.
We got there on the drive-thru,
so we gotta keep it tight.
Why do I smell a slime out of the water?
No, not yet, but that's the CrossFit stuff.
Oh, try that, check it.
Finally throw that up, up.
Then I was gonna hit the brakes,
or overhead, exactly.
One of those two for sure, 100%.
Oh, big time and his switch to jury worked out for a segment there with the quick adjustments
has himself on grand finals point.
This man is getting bolted out.
Oh, chomping.
Getting a free little smack here just to set the offense.
Oh, don't walk back a little too hard.
That's kind of hard to be able to watch those toes.
Wake your clients.
No respect for the side of kills.
He's showing no fear.
That's right.
It's like that distance.
I'm confident we're going up with the jab.
Man, that was good.
We want something a little bit more rewarding.
You need to get close to that.
Nice for all of them.
Kills you.
We actually have a jab and then press backwards.
Uh-oh.
It's that time for the parting.
Oh, the burnout.
What are we gonna do?
Oh, no.
Conditions.
We do have a level three.
You are young, my friend,
but how are you gonna stop your slot?
And he's almost back to a level two.
This is kind of,
there we go.
Spending that gas kills you.
Wake up.
I don't wanna see no free matches.
You see, I wanna see nothing but difficulty here.
Meadow was about to get his bag.
He did a dash for you though,
some shenanigans were coming after that.
Maybe a hot through, maybe a hot bag,
they were trying to make something out.
Kills you though, got the jab to check the dash,
just the top.
Oh, keep those toes to yourself.
Put them in some socks.
Lord have mercy.
Put the dogs away, put them away.
Put the leashes on them.
I am just salivating, literally.
Oh, Blanca, he's just such a savage.
Level to the beast that is made out of lightning.
activated. Here we go under the
Wow! My man, I'm covering every option possible.
3-0 to get into Grand Finals. Who's gonna stop this man?
That athlete, that athlete. That was insane. That was insane.
That was literally at the last active
France. It's turned, it's totally irreversible. What a setup. You want to talk about
calming plays and setting the picks. Men are R.D. is always one step ahead.
How did you know he was gonna pan it?
That boy Pat Riley with the X's and O's,
cause like, wow, wow.
The Texas O's and D, wow, Menor D.
This is kinda looking reminiscent,
I'm not gonna front.
This is looking like a bit of a speed run.
I mean, if you saw it last year,
you know, even production was happy.
It was just like, yo, man.
Washer, we're good, we're getting to have a body here.
But man, Menor D is just looking that dominant
once again, I mean, no surprise.
But yeah, let's take a look at that dominating set from an RDB a PlayStation tournaments great stare down as well
But when you stare at the down you are walking into his territory
You know what I'm saying?
He is always about that type of life and he proved it with the way the rest of this set played out right from beginning to end
Complete control trio. It was all about preventing my from ever playing her game, right?
We see him he often won the opening round
Gandon which got him in the corner and really notified a lot of what my wants to do now
She doesn't have room to throw fans. She can't really use her stand here stories
But she walks through the spot reactions as always are immaculate even going to the jury right it looks pretty good for an instant
But men is just too strong and in this inset of is just a ridiculous
That's the thing that's how fast and remember I pointed this out earlier. He plays super fast
He's not timid. He's not just gonna string up back dash and then let it be said no
He's going to stay on your ass like white on rice with that dude is ridiculous when it comes to all friends
It kind of feels like on the other thing on the defender side, obviously it's more pressure
But it's like yo when can I get to play like okay?
I have a second block all of this, but what can I get back on my footing and actually get to play?
And Mena is just so good at just shutting you down and keeping you guessing on defense before you even think about offering anything with some punches
Man, well, man are D could be in grand finals winners side. Let's take a look at this bracket now
It's all gonna shake out from there
Men are D3 to nil to get into that grand finals of course kills you is gonna be dropping down to the losers finals
He's not out of it just quite yet
But to determine who's gonna play him, it will be our losers semi-final match.
Falcon's Crimei versus Little Order Shigematsu.
Ooh.
Well, Crimei definitely will have put for this matchup.
So we'll see exactly what's gonna be the character pick.
I do believe it will be the right.
Of course, no brainer.
You did have a back and forth with Menor R.D. earlier on.
I think he, I think Crimei, I think Menor R.D.,
I think Menor actually had to beat Crimei for the top eight.
I do believe.
So there wasn't like that actually.
Ooh, the evil fantasy presented by AT&T here.
All the percentages right here.
Crime rate, 37% of the vote.
OK, that's pretty solid.
Versus Shigematsu, 62% so people are falling in love.
I'm pretty sure that's half of the land
of the rising sun voting right now.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, good point.
Most definitely shout out to everybody in Japan as well.
Obviously, we're going to hold it down.
I'm going to give a big shout out to Aru as well.
You know, hold it down.
The Japanese comes for this SF6 Top 8,
one of the legends in the business.
But yeah, man, it's going to be a fun loser.
Samwise, as we get this button checked underway,
making sure everybody is clean with it.
Love the glasses as well.
My man is just putting the poker face on.
We in Vegas after all.
Yeah, looking like Eric Estrada and Chittis.
100%, though, 100%.
Oh, he put some glasses on.
It's like he's saying, according to my calculations,
I think he's going to pick the karate man Ryu.
My man said, according to my calculations,
you will lose to Lightning Least.
That's it.
There's no calculation.
Yeah, that's it.
Let's say the least, man.
All right, here we go.
Y'all make some noise here for this top eight one last time.
Evo, make some noise.
I feel like I'm Jackie Steve's fine.
No one ever talked about saying that.
You know, it's just, there's not that many freezes.
Right, right.
I try to say, let's hear y'all some time,
you know what I mean?
It's tough.
Steve, Steve's guys had it.
He lived one lucky day, he doesn't charge for something.
So I said, all right.
Shout out to Thunk, Cry Man,
Shigamatsu, now Loser, Sevice,
Shigamatsu digging the back door,
but a beautiful sweep right there.
Actually got the punish down there,
so he's trying to press that button.
That top two sit up was so ambiguous.
You can tell it's good when we consider
the Shigamon to be held forward.
Wow, trying to chase back with a back dash with a drive.
But yo, I love how aggressive the climate is.
He raps that down for you.
100% right.
He's no hesitation in his game.
No second guessing.
He's got a game plan.
He's sticking to it.
He knows it's going to work out more often than not.
Hmm, how do we get in the plaza?
Ordinary man plaza can never get tired of that.
I still throw them invisibly in my household.
Facts.
There's always my main them joints.
Uh-oh.
Big Buttons incoming on you to try to bait off something maybe.
Drive reversal.
Oh no, the empty jump.
There was no attack there.
Nice little meter gain there from climbing and getting that hose to get the pressure
to finish the job.
There's blood here.
Climb it.
Like a man.
Eee.
A young gun dunk here.
Well, he was looking for the big donkey kick right there.
Trying to out-speech him out a little bit, but he inched forward.
And now that's like he's going crazy torquing on it breath to get that throw established
How are we gonna activate this the boo-hoo? Oh, yeah
Oh jumps out. I'm gonna be a shorty. Okay. No, you just jump out of there
Peacefully but back into the corner. Oh almost in reach
Back that side
Back here getting on the throne tag and people love to drive rush after rice
Especially aggressive plans like crime makes you come out to lose pretty with that check beautiful stuff
Man, he walked forward too when he did it.
That's how you know he was ahead of the game, ahead of the curve.
Nice and delayed, just to make sure it doesn't cross up.
Oh, Blanc.
Oh, the suck.
Weep.
Keep that plasma in your back pocket.
Aw, trying to sweep again, Ryan.
Check him out, too.
He has to be walking back a bit.
He can feel that primate is feeling a little bit
frustrated by the ground game of Blanc.
And that's why he's been doing so many sweeps,
checks the drivers, gives a pressure with the uplaw.
Oh, Lightning Beast.
Oh, my favorite.
Oh, that's that.
Oh, not yet.
Imagine.
Oh my god
Drive, it's a what can't do anything. Yeah
Trynna set the tone with a five wall probably just forcing the wall back a little bit
Or just forcing you to throw out a part of it afterwards
Trynna get a sequence there, but nope
Was ready for the punish with the drive and impact
Side of shikimatsu and he ties. No actually it's just a book
Let's get through the game
Little established lead here, Mark Good, that's no crime
Chunking them down with the delayed setup
No matter what, it was something that was just too long a start on
Either way, all the overhead part they represented now
Now we got a number of wave of offense in the footprint of Shigematsu.
So, Crimey's gonna have to be wary here.
He's gonna get a little more of an only reversal.
So, I'm gonna try to find out what happens here.
The time to find the big ankle bone.
No, the wake up.
She lost her to the one that wakes up.
He tried to base something out right there, right?
He rolled the two blocks,
turned into the back up, but Crimey didn't give it to him.
Oh, no DP.
I know he tried to do a delay there,
so it was a little late.
He dashed forward to one of the documents right there.
Trying to take the same jump,
They called him out for he's coming for the chip damage. He doesn't kill him out
But he does two string into the life versus don't you get to get that final piece of chip?
We're on the board with a round. Mm-hmm. Okay, I thought I did it was out of range there with that low forward across
Multiple strings. I like that just a condition for the walk back any activates the lightning beast
Like I said at a thousand times. Oh, yeah, post that man. We ain't gonna stop men as in grand finals backs
Oh, and there it is the offense
Mass alive on the first plate, that's how you know it's delicious.
Man, medium well right now.
He's definitely getting cooking that's going up for sure.
There it is, but he's gonna go for a sweep at least.
Okay, no perfect carry that's in there on the side of Shigematsu.
Right, Shigematsu playing very disciplined defense right now, right.
Just making sure he's risk averse, trying to keep the rewards low for
Crime Age, that's thinking across the union kick though.
And yeah, that was gonna save, he's been so much tried.
They didn't have much to defend themselves with at the end there.
Now it's away from the drop, so it would've been safe up against the first-down opponent, of course.
Oh my goodness, what a way to get out of the corner, man.
Oh!
You ain't going nowhere.
You're gonna sit right here with these cherry blossoms overhead.
Yeah!
Long distance on the overhead.
I felt like I was barely in range right there.
Shigamatsu, well-calculated as per usual.
Absolutely.
Oh, the end of the jump inside of Snapebuffer,
a Snipebuffer perry, right?
Did you get a casually throw in?
Oh, no.
You know what's next. It's my best friend. It's me and my friends.
Oh, no, we're parrying to avoid the crossover. I love that from climate.
Very smart with the parry timing right there, right?
Shikimatsu was now going to call him out again.
Canceling the parry this time.
He'll avoid the punish counter throw.
He's going to be able to keep a little bit of his drive meter for now
because he didn't come down with the play
and that was actually a chance to punish him.
So tough though that we talked about it.
Keeping that track of all the options with Blanca.
Now he's getting the throw loops going.
Try to beat him out.
Right, mate. Disable with the air.
Black down, Black.
Uh-oh.
The next counter focus is 100%.
Snap block is a mouth wheel.
Oh!
What a-
He do that jaw slap consistently.
He's like, here's your chance, sir.
Don't forget, before you leave.
Before you leave, you can cry, man.
I don't think he's gonna switch.
So we need that reversal just to slow down the yard slap
just a little bit so he can have some time to think.
sticking about it though yeah I think if maybe any of his other characters in
the book with the bison huh okay I do like this idea this is actually what we
saw Minna R.D. come out with right to start the set he picked the bison as
well so they get to owe the start she wants to brought it back but we've
seen bison has success in this match up but we can shoot him out to the floor
so can crime a pull it out oh shit it just committed with the crouching
jab into the jet and crouching light into the jam it's one of the best
conditioning tools man with this any character really especially with a driver
should be sticking right into there with the offer all the farm has been
planted I'm looking for that counterhand no dice like that space now nice
driver versa too we're not gonna stay on the plus screen side of things love
that mountain with a goal my sister so good at bullying your driving down
right I'm gonna spin the driver so that instant upload all that entirely and
it's so good mine we got torn down but it's really good okay here we go
All right, closing the windows, no, but Crime is keeping it open.
Okay, we've got that whip punch with that crowd strong, I know that's what he's waiting for.
Ooh, even better.
It wasn't crowd strong as far as Crime may end up, just giving the scissor kick, that interruption.
Oh, he tried to press a five, counter hit by the overhead, but he's not out of the just yet.
Trying to make something out of huge crowd for his anti-air instead.
Wants to catch a flitching, but he's knocked all the way through.
That is a save up, because the bird's out of the poll and a Crime-ish strike throw from death.
Does it one more time, birds himself out of the process, has two meters, and a bar both players.
Not committing to anything right now.
My God, you know what, he should have gone.
I would have been gangster since the kick in the media level one just tested out.
How could you imagine that would have caught the stage so it's you.
Maybe it would have recovered the time.
Who knows, but that's what it's all about my fighting games.
While he's in bird out, I think he would have caught it because of the extra box thing.
So I think I think I actually would have caught it if he did it in a personal life.
Damn it, that's such a sweaty decision.
I think you got to do it sometime.
I do, I do, I do.
Oh no, stay with your chest.
Where's my homey at?
Oh, not yet, not yet.
I'm staying in the car right now.
Oh, beautiful from Grime Man.
That was saying, very, very good.
Very, very good.
By some time, now you got some offense,
put them in that burn now.
Let's see.
Remove the possibilities of any electrolytes.
There you go.
We'll take those Traco things back.
We try to hit them with a trade.
Into those straight, raw brown houses
to keep what they got in.
No!
Give them another chance at life.
And he's almost such a grass unfortunately here
for Grime Man.
So unfortunate, right?
The normal in between, the normal that happened
in the Specialist didn't come out.
All he does, Barry, yes, come here, nice.
That's the middle, don't worry, don't worry.
Wow, wake up with a look.
Ooh, the immunity pass, and the only lightning
beams up to the front and drive it.
Stays alive in the center.
See, I like that he comes in at the top of the driver.
She went cross short, it hit, went through the cross,
that's what you want to do to implement that bomb
at all times.
Ooh, the sweep, it took about 30 seconds.
Look who we got.
Facts, and then the empty jump,
sweet-shaped music, just calling out to the latex.
Don't try to burst him now. It's gonna get ugly.
That's why you had to parry in between.
Oh my God.
Kreming was doing such a good job of staying out of range of that normal.
See, you knew that's what the activation was gonna come from.
They're trying to get no falling play-ins.
Oh, it could be just no tech.
Oh, I would have teched.
Oh, no. He's supposed to hit the corner, but you have to.
You have to react to the young child that hit you or a child.
So, let's see.
Very young adolescence.
Oh, we see the counter.
And he tried to input something, guys.
Wasn't clean enough to escape.
At least he'll survive here, he's gonna get a chance with the grade.
No!
It's up eating the jump in, maybe thinking that Shigamatsu's that fake ego for like a jump.
No, I'm not sure, but either way, Shigamatsu puts the Loser's semi finals away
as guaranteed himself a top three place.
God, I can get a little bit of points to match, a little bit of prestige.
But ladies and gentlemen, please give a round of applause
to one of the killers of this tournament world, Kraymi!
And the performance from the young runner, beautiful style again.
One of the players that I've really been looking forward to watching his career over the course
of many, many years now, getting just a young legend in this scene already with a top eight
evil under his belt.
You know this guy is only the winner.
Get back.
I could have said a bit of myself, man, for real.
That's literally, this is just the beginning for climbing.
Mind you, we've seen about what?
A year and a half, two years in Street Fighter 6.
But I like how, and I didn't even be like,
or some Joseph's stuff or nothing like that,
but I'm real big on anime.
It's like, Blahs had to be the sacrificial land
in order for climbing to get his light and shine.
You know what I'm saying?
It's kinda crazy.
Like you can't have two, it's pretty much
what I was trying to say.
It is, that's how it's been working out, huh?
It really, you do like that a lot.
Man, but I love that.
Compared to climbing, in a high pressure situation,
against Blanca, I know the first thing
that's in my mind is I need a reversal.
So it's a goal with bison,
obviously doesn't have those options.
I mean, it's pretty, I wouldn't say risky,
but it's pretty policy if you will.
But he does have the big, easy access, the big damage.
The spacing of the scissor kick, right?
To make you think twice about where
those four forward ranges.
That's why you see Chigamachi just slowly,
but surely just walking up there like,
ah, you wanna wait all day?
I can do it too.
And it feels like my signature,
kinda good up against Blanca.
Like the scrub here, Blanca's right there.
I just kinda, we're gonna rely on Blanca balls
and stuff like that.
People like respond to Psycho Crusher, but Chikobotsu plays the character Taylor to the matchup
He's like I'm not gonna give you anything easy to counter nothing like that
We never even saw much full-screen options that was easily able to react to right
He just did a good job making sure he inch closer and use that beautiful block of ground game to its maximum
It's kind of crazy considering that there wasn't a lot of bomb play from bison
It was more so he wanted to immediately throw off of the jab Psycho Crusher
So damn there's so many decisions to be made, but this is the decision you can make don't go anywhere
Okay because we're gonna take a quick break. So please keep a lock. Don't go anywhere.
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So we go to the PlayStation with the flex track.
We're definitely looking forward to it again, launching August 6th,
2026, but now it is time to conclude Street Fighter Six 2026 at Evo Vegas, baby.
We are down to three players right now, D sitting pretty in grand finals.
Winner side as we do take a look at this bracket and
we're gonna be determining who's gonna face him with our next match.
Who's gonna be losers finals kills you versus Shikomatsu.
France versus Japan for a shot at the king of the Dominican Republic.
What's gonna go up?
It's the dawn of all guns tonight.
Kills you with the Shigematsu.
You know, I'm all about the drama.
We'll have to see who runs back in any of these matchups.
I want to see more on the side of Kills
just because he did get a little wash.
Yep.
And I said, I'll turn all that out.
We see it.
That's what we do. We cast it.
But the Shigematsu, we can get closer.
So we can kind of see what we can,
we can, we can, we know what we can expect
with those two at this point.
Yeah.
I want Kills you to get a little bit of that revenge.
But of course, you don't have to earn that right.
Defend the feeling, Shigematsu.
to actually make it to that Grand Finals to go against
Mennavili Dominicini.
My man kills you caught as the meat in a Blanca sandwich.
That is a tough spot to be in, brother.
Grand Finals, I should say, Winner's Finals had to face
a Blanca and then Shigematsu has made it to Loser's Finals.
At least he's a bit warmed up in the matchup,
but that's always a gift and a curse, right?
Because obviously this is a different player.
He's gonna be making different decisions
at different timings than Menna.
You gotta make sure you're not all caught up
on the way Menna goes about high up
the thing to block up.
All shots to the Red Bull best seats in that house as well.
We see y'all.
Yeah.
We see y'all.
Man, I always feel like I miss a seat.
I'm not gonna lie.
Alex Myers.
I see you, Al.
I see everybody, man.
Shout out to the beautiful people.
Such a diverse folks, man.
Shout out to the Airheads, Aircam, of course,
so you can see how beautiful this crowd is.
Please, put your hands in the air, guys.
Please, your mom's watching Pops to go everybody.
I like the ice gift to rain for the sun.
That was a good one.
I will sacrifice my gaming addictions to make it to evil as you should just to be an addict in another spot when it comes to the video games
You know how we get down man. Absolutely look at this gaming man from a hole in the wall to this
And mind you there was it you know back in the day kind of felt like an exclusive club if you will you go to your local
Arcade or whatever the case may be like you know what I belong here
Yeah, so diverse everybody so honest with each other stat offline get to know people
Now look at the culture, how much it has grown.
Look at all these beautiful faces, these smiles, different nationalities, man.
This is what it's about.
It's about sticking together, man.
Okay, that's nice.
Okay, okay.
Yo, anybody can dab on the crowd?
Can anybody dab?
Let me see, can we catch somebody?
That's actually one of my favorite movements.
Okay, no, not that.
What's the, not?
I was gonna say, I was like, what's this?
Oh, the Millie Rock.
The Millie Rock.
Who could Millie Rock sit, dad?
Who Magnolia?
Who Magnolia Strong out here?
I'll see somebody over here.
Hey, Millie Rock, I see you.
So we'll catch it. We'll catch you on the camera. Yeah, right here on me right there. Oh, he was doing it
Hey, man, listen anybody that got a sturdy Milly right to come see me at the ball later. Oh
Definitely find out slainer baby, but right now it looks like our losers finals is getting ready to go down again
It's going to be Shigamatsu on the Blanca, kills you,
most likely going to be rocking the Mai, right?
We are button checking right now, but I have to imagine
there's going to be that same matchup
that kills you just faced in the winners finals.
So it's going to be interesting, right?
He did end up ending with the jury,
but it looks like he's going to be starting with the Mai here.
There's a different player, different style of matchup
against the Blanca, so I do like him starting
with the tried and true.
I want to know what's the pressure here for,
I want to say no pressure.
I want to know what's the thought process
and comfortability for kills you at this point.
Like, obviously, you dealt with men on RD,
now you didn't go to Shigematsu, and you're like,
hmm, do I go for the same approach
or should I just morn them as usual?
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, that's true, right?
Like, yeah, I wonder if Shigematsu, considering Kills you,
has just come off this match,
or maybe tries to change the game plan up a little bit,
try to see if he's looking for anything
a little bit harder than he would otherwise
because he just played a different Blanca.
I wonder, you know what I mean?
Especially with the reactions that Menahas
with this slide up against Fireball,
He honestly makes it very difficult for
the reptile characters to go against that.
We'll see if Shikamatsu's got similar reactions.
But oh man, it is time to skip the intro,
and y'all that's messed up.
But it is going to be Kyuzuki versus Shikamatsu.
Vegas, let's hear some noise!
Oh, I know.
You know what I love also, that they skipped the intro.
Yeah. So this is, that was great.
Yeah.
Sorry, man, I'm not trying to kill y'all for us.
But man, the difference is I want to get straight to that.
Speaking of the action, already Kyuzuki
is making love to this corner.
Already Shikamatsu found.
his footing. This is where he's gonna play the range that I put the game, or the way he
put his game, whatever you want to call it. Whatever you want to call it. Like you say,
I mean like kills you, you see already I feel like he's landed more fiercest in this set
than he did in the entirety against Fank, against Fennach, I should say. Everybody getting
so good fighting this character, huh? Mind you, this is Top Shelf 5 right here on the
side of kills you. What? Get up on the range for it? Not too sure. Of course,
it was definitely an input error, but oh, that is a fairy in the hand. Give
some cash on top of that and I'm going to kill you, kill you, the later that stuff right there.
That again just making sure he comes down with a proper jump in right again. Probably
was going to chip kills you out after that anyway so very smart. Just a movement of loan
looks like a fucking. Respecting that probably strong but he's on the side of kills you.
Defines, he's fucking. Now he has some putting of course the enhanced fans.
All came off that stand fierce again.
We've talked about it right there as a key component to the my game plan again.
Now it's going to be another one, but she's about to act like a driver versus a fan coming out.
Oh, close for the throat. No, no, no continuous block of bull shenanigans.
Keep it nice and simple like that delay walk up.
Roger strong looking for that countable.
But the respect is there.
He's going to be patient enough.
I should withstand the wild lightning beast.
Great check on the dry rush as well as earn himself.
earned himself almost a corner for his own right. Huge draw on Taken. Wow, Shikamatsu
just got raw for long a chance of it. It was a, you know, activation amount of hope.
Yeah, that's a call. Never mind. I thought he was gonna get something going, dude.
What, is that gonna be another throw?
He's back. I like that, the jump back. Oh, over-extending watch, Shikamatsu,
but Kyoji was on point with that, and ready. Yeah, he tells Shikamatsu like
brought in the back throw, but he also didn't want to be predictable about it.
It was tough, they kind of made him hesitant in his approach.
Definitely a lot of people get some room and snipe that.
And speaking of which, overhead this top,
not too much damage though,
there's visual plenary right there,
it's a little tough to determine what was happening.
Yeah, literally, he landed a clean hand,
he probably respected the defense a little too much,
respected the mindset,
while he was trying to put in front of the staff,
walked right into the slide.
Unfortunate situation if it kills you.
And he's down, half of the drive gauge,
and he got a little breath now, but that level two,
oh no, actually I'm looking at the wrong ball,
excuse me it's all right right now i should not do that any near so you'll
never worry about the install coming in anytime soon but
my obviously with the install grown and it can't strike the period not
blocking the overhead afterwards with those are gonna punch counter dp
to end the kills you strike it first blood get that w man
that might have been his first w actually no no no no what am i so
coming on i'm so ripped like you didn't go to the witness might as well
because men are deep i'll first up against bonka you know they go
they go that's what i meant that's what i'm asking my brother very
Yes. Oh, that's that space.
Trying to cage him in with that back though, same Shigematsu's life.
There's a block of janners, he's going to go for the electric stuff.
Electric stuff, no. I like that he hit him right here in the spot.
He keeps him in thought about going for a crouching stall and some electric stuff.
Exactly right. Kills, you got to beat him to that space where you knew Shigematsu was going to do some type of thing to activate the block of janner.
Yes. That's B.B. Nicely, we've seen that.
That's the patience he walked up and did it. That's great reaction.
That's great reaction.
You're gonna go for another throw, no.
He's trying to challenge, oh, still recovering from the stand strong, and he switches sides.
And he's in trouble, you know why?
Because the Beast is a failable.
Oh, man, yes indeed, brah.
He tried to actually get him with a shimmy first, and now he's even seen the rest of his OD meter on that,
because the fierce into the activation was coming, that kills you.
Either back dash it or jump it, try to avoid that, just stop eating the fierce.
I like how he's just trying to get the professional kills in, and being able to kill you.
Activates.
Let's go.
What are we waiting for here?
I think he's waiting for the best case to stand strong at this point.
Yeah.
Ooh, standing leader, kicking low right.
I think I'm going to try and push right there, but I didn't believe.
I really like that.
like that. He's walking around, how's his dash again?
That's too old, but he tried to rear bash from long a ball,
kills you beating him to the option of 1-2-3.
But I love that he won't forward and did it too sharp.
That was definitely confidence there on the side of Kills.
He gained a good breeze and he's about to close out with his frown.
Ooh! Oh, yes, I respect that. Keep him honest.
Locking ain't the only option, man.
I really liked that from Kills, you're right.
He knew that it was a very frustrating round
from Chigamatsu when he barely got in.
And when you have a frustrating round,
when you get that knockdown, you go on high pressure.
Absolutely. Now you're making the pinks white so long.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, that was two for two right there.
Besides, you get media level three, I concur.
Yeah, as soon as he builds it right,
he built it with the last hit of that combo,
goes into the level three and take a gigantic life
and drive lead.
Oh, there's a minute though, Shikamatsu.
He's like, I got enough.
You survive here, activate some lightning beasts.
Into the DI, I was gonna say.
I'll be the rest of us to meet him,
but the counter-DI is low worth.
I just thought he was gonna go through for a drive
and try to put it lower into the drive.
I think you know who's gonna go for holy dope.
and said if you want damage.
Oh no, one more decision has to be made here.
What you gonna do, Killsie?
I thought he was gonna go for it, I swear.
Yeah.
I'm gonna put him in the corner,
that's why I'm gonna do it.
Yo, I wonder if he might have tried like wake up,
he came here for something, right?
To call and shimmy back, I don't know,
we just saw a counter hit notification.
I'm gonna be honest, I think that's what it was.
Yeah, I brought it, that's called it.
Oh, okay, I'm trying to go for the counter hit.
Shnana is looking for the technical side of things
from Shigamatsu, Killsie.
Nice PPS, it's a great anti-air,
that's what you need here.
No reach here, brother.
No throws yet.
You see the delayed walker stand jab.
He's just trying to get countered.
It's like I was saying, it's over here.
Current team.
Can I see somebody throwing to it?
Bam!
Try to impact.
What are we gonna do?
Another try to impact.
No, it's a number one.
I didn't even see the lead.
Excuse me, mongol.
Love that ride.
Perfectly calculated to make sure
Shigamatsu gets burned down in this round.
Immediately doing the DI,
even with Shigamatsu having a level one.
That would have been a win for Kills you
if you'd get it, honestly,
with such unlike that said.
Okay, we got a technical hit.
We have a problem.
Now you kind of got to get that feeling of how he's feeling
on defense right off of that first shimmy.
So you're gonna see a lot more delays on the side of Kilsom.
He's in view.
That's exactly what I'm looking for now.
She's about to go through the Lightning Bees here.
Not a lot of drive-eaters,
but he actually just committed to the Parry
and they actually built him back some two bars.
Still gonna get bullied, but presses out.
I won't back from this.
I got the reach.
Oh, the throw.
Still recovering from the punt from the Parry.
Excuse me.
Another one.
I think he's gonna do a just over commit.
Overhead, open that range, I like that sweep, caught the charge.
Huge right here, Shikimatsu though, just on it.
Pink soz is going to be so tough to get any type of damage on, kills you at this point.
But now, he's with that last bit of meter on the OD right,
is going to make the frame trap a lot more accessible, and does get a DI.
He doesn't have any meter to kill here, but it will be interesting to see how it flows from here.
You son of a you piece of oh my god
That was so meeting on the block of time. He woke up into it. Perfect. Yeah
Man Adam reset. I have never seen that legitimately. He's never seen that long recently in my life
What a way for check them out to bring this one back
Hopefully kids you ain't mind. Yeah, it's the East Coast version. You know what I really want to say. Yeah, you already
Oh my god, stay to be a kick. No respect to jump interesting
I thought that was going to be a stand Brown House, but waiting for the dive possibly.
He's looking a little shaky.
I'm sorry.
The jabs, it's like a whole parry is definitely strange.
Only kills you and compose it up a little bit.
The block of ball straight through the fan.
And of course the block of chain is coming for you, Brown.
Oh no.
Oh, he's dancing on a dog!
Oh no!
Two games on the board for Suga Matsu here.
Not concerned about going to the car and just like not concerned about thinking about he wants to get back to the action
Better defensive decisions. I guess at this point kills you is doing great on office. He's just getting opened up
Yeah, like a can of you know what?
My goodness, so sweet. There is water with fun. It's not this organic. It was pure. Oh
Another one. No charter test. You're right there. It was a heat check, but it'll work out on the side of Shigamatsu
Sometimes the logo threes don't always go in
Just enough time to try to react to the play, but not enough time for it to be successful.
Wakes up with the only block of all yet again.
Just trying to get some breathing room in the hall for himself.
Lighting hate disrespecting him, no matter what.
Gonna react to the high, but it is what it is.
Let's go.
Oh wow, dancing in the rain.
Oh that burst of the smash of the monster's eyes.
Right over there gotta be the glasses.
My goodness, shout out to Lee Chong.
Oh my goodness.
It gotta be the glasses.
It gotta be.
Lord.
Okay, here we go. Try to tip the wolf back with that crouching medial, okay?
Here's the other guy here, over in the door for kills you.
I'll put the fake back in that leg, my man.
Shoot him off, he's starting to bulldog him down a little bit.
Yeah, then we smell the blood in the water.
It's turning up the aggression, but kills you.
Now, you should find him back to the corner, but you can see, right?
He's taking, especially after that roundhouse, he loves to dash you now.
That's right. We're gonna take that sweet old time as I drive.
He's getting a little cash in the bank.
Exactly. No overheads represented here.
I feel like I'm trying to make sure that it's coming for the killer.
I promise you.
Ooh, I thought that's what it was.
Even kills, you thought it was.
That's why you jump.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh.
Oh, I like that.
The failure wave.
Oh my God.
Trying to catch a flinch.
Oh, he's moving, boy.
Man, I killed him.
There's some dashes.
Dash out.
Summons.
The pocket chain yet again here.
Ooh, the air throw and tear.
Let's go move all hanging there.
It's all right.
Oh my God, he got two meters.
You know what this means.
Oh, and indeed, we're going to see it.
To close it out, you guys.
I should have gone for my life in peace.
Get into red and finals.
Yo, I'm gonna speak on the low up in a minute.
This is some incredible stuff.
I like how the stars are aligning here,
which is pretty cool.
But y'all, please give it up for the young gunner.
Kills you.
Stand up for the world.
Excellent performance throughout the whole time at EVO.
Of course, you've seen them at Cap.
Now, great performance, second place for this.
And finish it strong here.
third place in the evil world final.
So that's nothing to be upset about.
And you got a couple of points to match.
So you're getting even more and more comfortable
to see you again at that Capcom coming up.
100% man, second place at Capcom,
the third place in evil Vegas.
It is an amazing performance back to back.
He's knocking on the door.
I have no doubt he's gonna knock that thing down
one of these days.
You feel it?
Man, I'm stuck into the,
man that's how you know the difference in blockers, right?
In this case, he's stuck into the mind.
they weren't going back and forth.
It's true, man, I used to listen to the term.
So, of course, style flash, that's always...
But, man, I would say this,
I feel like towards the main way of the match,
I feel like Kyoji was just too focused on defense.
Like, he wasn't really trying to take no risk.
You can see, like, you can even react
to, like, a regular button.
It's a hop into a scrouchy, medium kick on top of that.
I wasn't even a jab.
So, you had all the ample time to react to it,
to get out of our dodge, but it's safe to say,
I think Shigamatsu conditioned him
No shampoo, proper now, it's disgusting.
What a reset, yeah, I couldn't put it better myself,
guys, it really felt like Shigamatsu,
there was one moment in particular
that's kind of escaping me what it was,
but it felt like that's where the momentum shifted, right?
Like it was like Kills you was gonna win,
oh that's right, remember Shigamatsu was on a pixel,
and he kills you and you end up
getting put in a burn out,
Shigamatsu was able to bring it all the way back
with that reset at the end,
and that's where it really felt like it turned around,
and it felt like Kills me was
kind of in his own head after that.
Like he was thinking too much, right?
trying to be active, like trying to consider all the options
at once when we have to have a balance.
I can't just start an instinct to fight a game.
That's just how it works.
Haney, I feel like he definitely got into that flow state
because he started freestyling a little more.
Oh, sugar meds?
Oh, yeah, big time.
So good stuff.
So this is a low I wanted to talk about.
I'm going to talk about it in a minute.
But take a look at the bracket.
If you missed all the action today,
we had a brutal battle all the way through and through.
But now we get into the Kremler Krem.
I can't even call this a dessert.
I think this is it.
This is the meal that we all been waiting for, man.
And we all get to watch them eat at the table.
Men are R.D. versus Shigematsu.
That went, it was a nail biter.
Yeah.
At the beginning of the semifinals,
you can see it's three-two.
So the saga continues.
Asshigematsu earns that right to get that run back.
Now this is what I wanted to highlight.
It's kind of crazy.
I think you know where I'm going with this.
First and foremost, this is the man, Shigematsu.
The one that trained Daigo to deal with.
Now I wonder after those results happened,
which was 10-6, shout out to Daigo Mahara of the Beast,
one of the guards and the legends of course.
I wonder if Shigematsu just thought of himself.
Man, how would I do against this guy?
Yeah, it's nice to know.
I pretty much show this guy all the gimmicks, all the ropes,
what's all the possibilities that men
could showcase to Daigo.
What can I do different to throw off men?
Obviously, it's a mirror match, but the mentality
is still there, right?
So it's kind of crazy, fast-forwarding,
that we got these guys in the grand finals at Evil Worlds.
I cannot believe it.
You can't write a better script than this, man.
I swear.
Absolutely not.
I mean like Shigamatsu having trained Daigo for this exact match at Nakamoto Michi and then putting in the on the fact that
Shigamatsu defeated Daigo in this very tournament to get to this point right for the chance to avenge men or to the
Avenged Daigo up against Meta. This is amazing stuff right here always big big fan of when the stars align and the fighting game
Gods know the script we got a big grand finals here in tow look at the beautiful people in Las Vegas man
I love fighting games.
You know, you kick back and you look at this, the only thing that could come to mind is Earth is our turf, man.
Everybody from across the world here to enjoy some fighting games.
And here it is, the grand finals.
Winner, Sot, Menor, RG with a chance to repeat back-to-back champion again.
It's just something about Menor and back-to-backs.
What is that?
But here we go, y'all.
Let's see if Shigamatsu can bring this together so he can take some championship gold.
Make some noise for your Grand Finals, y'all!
Yeah!
Let's get it, man.
Menard here.
Gonna have the winner side in the edge, of course.
And he is starting with the bison,
as we saw in that winner semis.
That's a lot of games.
He could take his time all day.
That is what he did, right?
He got a couple of lashes in with the bison.
And then when you got to the two series
and the two-two, and he went back to the Blanca.
I personally think he should have just
went straight to the Blanca.
But I like that he's giving them different looks
so he could keep stacking.
You hold him in terms of how he wants to approach
Menard there.
Oh, man, Shigamatsu is so clean with his anti-air throws.
But right now, Minoru-D, he will wake up with a bun,
get himself clear from the corner, apply that pressure,
Shigamatsu responding in kind.
You see the respect here from Minoru-D on that try and risk.
That's why you see those delay-packed roundhouses.
He's trying to snipe out those reverses for sure.
But now we're going to play in the Kido Champion
Superdition, right?
He's the stand-medium kick, psycho-crusher.
One of my favorite anti-airs in the game.
100% right now.
Love Minoru's parking, making sure he has the charge,
right?
Because it should go out.
Shigamatsu also got Blonkaball, he could have responded with Psycho Crusher to that as well.
Oh wow, he actually said, wow, the Disrespect Alumnus, that's for sure you get right there, might as well.
Okay, we'll take it. And it was that neutral stuff that on that one.
Yeah, top against the jab tree as well, considering it's a Super, he was a little bit slower than the traditional reversal, but still connected in time.
That was a guy-like setup, instead of Psycho Crusher, he did, uh, his Psycho, no, he did, uh, so we can't just get this shit beat.
Wow, they're fool-stolen.
Let's go, let's throw the run. You and your friend, your best friend is in the mix.
Oh no, it's a little biased here. That block of time loves Mena too.
Yeah, that's true, right?
Oh, got a hell of a attack, but he's trying to put the big heavy kick on him.
Should have gone through, able to challenge that gap with the light.
Yup, that was a great nice little rock-paper-scissor scenario.
Mena already had to represent in that delay, so he's seen that gap,
but press the button to back throw.
Oh, and there you go, man. It switches it up real quick.
Shows them the drive-bush again, but it's only all of baby 1-0 cool that momentum
Yo, I feel that aura that gay kid. I'm on the side of the matter. It's like right now
All the way through scenario goes for the drive-bush with the bus out here. She the monster
I don't blame him. He meant to Rd. Honest
Trade city scramble a little bit. Okay. Thanks, but your head
Always
I'm trying to walk away not gonna lend you that for free whatsoever. Ah
Ahh, so straightforward and not enough of a lot of disrespect.
Wow, okay, representing that level too much.
They're trying to get the perfect barrier, they're trying to sneak that in and take his turn back.
Everybody can see that picks will guess one of the greatest mix-ups of all time.
I like that for Meta though. He's very active defensively in that round.
He already has a game advantage, right? He's mind as well because he gets snowballed so hard
and he's so good offensively that he just get one correct defensive decision
and the opponent might not play again.
I'm with, that's what I'm saying, because he is sizing you up.
Anytime he's better at that standing middle kick range with a lead and he's walking back,
he is waiting for you to press the button first.
It's hard right there to drive rush with, he immediately with punished it.
Wow, the standing right house, the snipe up, the up back, that was digging it.
That's also some good piece of tech right there, right?
No free up back block of balls.
Oh my god.
He's buffering, you see it?
Oh my goodness!
Whoa!
man dead. Bicycle. Bicycle. Bicycle. Going down the hill, brother. Men are R.D.
Another round on the board here. He's one round away from taking a two-oh lead here.
Shikamatsu. This is ever important right here. Stopping the momentum before it gets
the two-oh is a necessity. A man said trade, whatever, man. I'm gonna try pushing this
standing round. Disrespected. Shikamatsu. Leasing. No free lightning beast.
says Menority, he's gonna have to earn this.
He just did it bro, I respect that, get a point, I'm gonna do that.
Yeah, especially with him being so low on drive gauge right,
I like him just automatically doing it, but ooh,
Menority thought he would do something to pump off.
I actually a little bit too close on this as I get, whoa!
That works, I'll lead to the homie.
That's the talent, I'll let him see that.
You need it.
Throw him?
No.
Nice, she's sniping out that stag of pressure.
I like that, just switch sides.
Okay, yeah, veteran bison, like this.
See, that's wild.
MinnaRD man.
Oh, it does get clipped.
It looked like he did the back dash,
and then he was going to walk back in.
He just got clipped on the walk back in.
I thought it was a throw, too.
Just the animation of him just going like that.
It looked like he was reaching.
Oh my goodness, okay.
Well, tie that up. I like that.
Shigamon, just let him know this is not going to be me.
This is not going to be easy.
You better get right there for MinnaRD
with a stand jab check this time.
He's so good.
He's going to know all of the frame situations
regarding the block of knockdowns, right?
So he's definitely going to be able to expose
a lot of these things and wake up.
This man feels like he's the best in the world, you're in the grass, you can just pick whatever you want, huh?
Yeah, he plays like he knows he's the best support.
Seriously, the back-throwing of the respect for Shikamatsu did not want to die to a counter hit because he definitely wouldn't die.
Oh, he could have went stand jab thrice, they could have finished the job, he could have built the meter for the level 2 as well.
So right.
And the feeling that Cicero was there, this time it should come out to immediately challenge us.
Activate the block and Chad, it was able to block the sweep and time.
Oh, and then the fears just catching it hard. The wrong timings right there. Try to challenge.
And those moments where you block and jump in, right, you usually input something because people don't usually leave a big gap like that.
Exactly. Maybe he was just matching the one that bad that it's a truth. It wasn't syncing with him, man. Absolutely.
It could be the auto for sure. Right here it goes.
We are waiting for an activation here on the side of Shikamatsu.
That is, of course, what he's trying to gain here.
Okay, midi throw scenario, yes.
Shikamatsu will gladly take that.
Wow, he's challenging to lay back roundhouse.
Okay, with the stand short.
That's the second time he's been successful with that, right?
He called it out earlier as well.
Highlighting the fact that man has been looking for a lot
of like the late or the big button set-ups after the dry brush.
That's why he's switching it up right there, right?
Trying to call it a check-in time from Shikamatsu that time.
Like that stand, he's gonna get another single stand.
enemy to pick a reset to move to a loveless pump.
Damn, organic berries sniked out the offense.
That is a go-to with mice.
They might stand strong, crouching strong.
Oh, man, oh, bro.
Oh, my lord, if he sees that blockable, watch the shallow one.
Oh, my goodness.
You see how he's hiding in the charge?
Yeah, man.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
They're doing pretty scary stuff right now.
Tense the trade, but nobody's
going to be able to come off it.
Oh, my god.
Oh, he could have anti-ed back first.
Oh my god, oh my god, nobody's sticking their hand in the plethora until they both did!
And Shigamatsu even a come-away clean.
2-1 now with a lead in this set, and Mena is logging into the bison for this first one.
I will guarantee, guarantee, satisfaction guarantee.
If Mena gets reset it on that will be a block of a trade in the Shigamatsu side of things.
Oh my god, I'm so nervous right now.
This is why we feel the atmosphere getting tighter and tighter.
Wow, Wall speaks to her with the hold in this young lad.
I'm going forward, I like that.
Try to push over, you might want to represent this down.
No, he was dunking too, he could have just left that wrist a little bit.
So, how about this brown house after blocking like the plus frame back in the kick?
They are all on a different layer right now for sure.
Yeah, absolutely.
Snipping out this bag of pressure that is correct.
Uh-oh, big button to think up, and I say,
see those video kicks, good sniping on the wall,
back there, shit a monster.
Oh no, you know what's coming, man.
What a get, he beat him to the butt on the back,
have you can get them baits out of the level one,
Shigamatsu, on Re-Seth Boyd.
And the R.D., how are you feeling?
Looks like we got the blueprint on this block.
I mean, that's what we see, this is looking kind of similar
to when they first met early on in the bracket, though.
And with this in series, we're in the grand finals,
looking a little shaky on the side of the R.D.,
the lightning beast is actively here.
Come to one.
What's on the inside?
What?
You're trying to hit him with a switch by a five?
Inside here.
No jabs here, bro.
Right now, though, it does get the perfect parry for betting.
Men are already continuing to apply that pressure.
Low on the track, as well.
That's why you see him waking up with a parry here.
Trying to get some of that back dash gets split though.
Oh, man.
And yeah, you talked about it.
He doesn't want to give him that free pierce in the activation.
He doesn't have to beat it, but still eating the pierce.
Come on.
There we go.
Now he actually finally gets to play the two-player game.
You can't even know the speed by the six.
Oh man, Shigamatsu.
Let's look at, aw, what a shimmy brains.
Shoo, down.
He's trying to walk back when he got thrown
in the crossfire, Shigamatsu.
Resets the set.
Woo!
He's looking like a full-con collected kill.
Okay, look like he's from National War Killing Center.
Don't be like that.
That's what I'm saying.
I'm gonna get that video, Cuban Dress.
Oh my goodness, come right now.
Giving the people what they want.
We're going to the jungle, ladies and gentlemen.
Oh man.
Make some noise if you enjoy this Grand Finals!
The Eagles are awesome!
It's in you!
Come on, I want to hit the crowd with a block.
Stop saying double block up!
Let's get it!
Grand Finals last set!
Man, I'm trying to take the disguise!
The back counter is with the best anti-air starters for Shigamatsu.
Immediately with the only one bomb back.
Nobody is trying to let the others gain momentum.
There it is.
Okay, establishment floor early on the minorities.
We like the break-off here.
He didn't hit most definitely.
Let's go up standing strong, okay?
We just to get that space out.
and right back into that Wicked Punish range.
We gotta find out if it's a brand new day,
that he's not only gonna get a former EVO champion,
put another four on his accolades.
Damn, that was a ball.
You know what I'm saying?
We'll meet each that fist.
Oh, what?
That was a hard freeze.
He was trying to catch the counter-poking of Sodace.
Oh, whoa!
He ain't, ah, willing to test him early.
I like it, then spicy with the options here.
After jumping the throw,
he's like doing something that I'm daring.
Yeah, he's not doing it just yet.
Well, he went for the juggler.
He wanted to kill this man.
I thought he was going to go for the hop to get inside the fade out goal.
He reversed to the side of the minute.
There's the buffer.
Oh my God.
Both of these guys can activate at any given time.
Oh, wait, wait, wait.
They went into those uncomfortable ranges at this point.
There is also a low on drive, right?
But actually connected with the cross-medium kick, but he couldn't
cancel it without turning out.
So we did it.
And now he gets actually interrupted in the middle of the cover
drive stance.
All week back into that potential to the loop range.
That's what men were suffering early on here in this set.
All we need to do is, we got some juggle properties here.
Light, I like that.
How to do the size for some size.
Block it, shot, my friend, please help me.
Here it is.
We're gonna go for throws, up that one point,
we're just about to know.
We got to block more regardless, period.
Boy, man, immediately we're gonna go for the button
that's on the right, right?
Look at the little frame kill back right there.
I've seen that.
And now we're gonna be able to force
the driver versus allowed.
I mean, turn it out for Shikamatsu.
Perfectly spaced on the air block.
I'm going to take a ball of Mendoff on the board.
Oh, man, it was just right on time, huh?
Right on time.
Mendoff on the weight punish.
Okay, regaining some composure here,
because it's looking a little shaky.
I'm not going to lie.
She's a monster.
It's looking phenomenal here.
Mm-hmm.
All of these players right now, look at them.
Top game.
Okay.
All right.
I feel like we're going to represent a little more overheads.
I feel like we're just going to have...
Shake about.
I think I'm the latest golf boy in tears I've ever seen.
Oh, God, man.
Seth Menor-Arty, now I'm going to act quickly.
Students, I'm going to act.
I'm so surprised he did it right there.
I definitely thought that fiercely activation was coming.
He's trying to get some of the belly-hands,
just spending the drive of first-order versus evil.
Definitely.
Oh, my God.
Level two.
I thought that was going to be a blockable stand-off.
This kid is shaky.
Oh, God, that's a daredevil.
And, man, he was willing to go on the bird out.
Just to get a start at right,
he's about to dust man,
to get the drivers off, but he ends up
eating the lightning beast.
Oh, God, he did it.
a hard game. Taking a lead here in the reset.
Oh my God.
How do you feel?
This is great, great fighter.
I never thought I'd be excited to see a Bronco Bearman through.
They could put Bronco in this game.
For real?
They really did.
I really have never liked Bronco before this.
Oh, nice on the...
Ladies and gentlemen, we are leading on the Bronco ball to be very deep, so he caught the cross.
Oh, he was with it.
He's like, no block stun on this side.
Throws, yes.
Don't do it, man.
He got the drivers.
He's gonna get in there.
There's the overhead representation here
on the side of Metal RV.
We are adding more layers to the offense.
Drive impact.
This is definitely enough.
And he got cash.
If he really wants to do this, actually, no, no, no.
Let's be safe.
Act as he happens.
OK, he's gonna set up shop right there.
He's waiting for Chicken Barz to be acted defensively,
but he's gonna be thrown.
Oh, my goodness, I met a yak.
He wasn't about three bars, man.
I love that Odie Blockball.
No, the fly of a stool, hey!
The Jogglebustic attack that better takes full advantage.
You like to call that a she-cock?
Man, man.
You're in the menace world, which means you have a 99% chance to choke it up a little bit.
That's how much pressure is involved here in this grand fight.
Oh my God.
Killing those frames.
Ooh, it put everybody no punish.
Okay, now in with one, but remember Lashikumatsu does fight
and so that's the advantage here, Liking Beast
and the corner control is available.
Man, back down below two bars here,
you have to say he pops out with an Odi Blankboska,
put him in burnout.
So hard to get out of the situation.
He absolutely, he, who are we gonna challenge?
That's the first one I've seen
represented here from NRV.
I got Lashikumatsu, man, that's a long distance to get.
Ah, there's the Lashikus, oh, the classic.
That's one of those moves in this game, right?
When you see the first start up of it, you try to lift putters and
you get counter hit by the end.
Men of RD, up to all.
That can't be your point.
Can he go forward?
The back to back is, it's possible.
Shigamatsu, how are you feeling right now?
I know the nurse must be killing him.
His heart is coming out of his head right now.
Look at the onslaught of momentum.
It's definitely on the RD side.
Look at him just building up.
It'll be in the center.
If we just find that pocket, get the hell out of the hallway.
Yeah, Shigamatsu, can you do right here?
I can feel the momentum, snives and goes on, turn him in, boy, just like that.
My God, it's the privacy, true.
Wow, good set, okay?
This man ate his breakfast today.
Good stuff, they break the ax to the side of Shigamatsu, they're jumping.
I thought he could win with an early jump, but I'm not sure how to actually defeat him yet.
Oh my God, here it is, the cross-base.
Trying to get that kind of catch to the drivers.
There's the jump.
They caught him on the recovery on the cross, he's strong.
Oh my goodness, he's dragging him to the corner, not even.
Actually gonna stay with the mix-free mix-up instead.
Menard, he's put him in the blender, that's why Shikamatsu, he had to put a stop to it.
Wakes up with the light, got his own like-me-beast going now.
Oh my god, here comes the block, now it's gonna get easy.
It's gonna get serious and personal.
Oh my god!
That was a call-out and a half, that was ridiculous Shikamatsu.
What a way to hold on to the tournament life.
What a hard read on the chopback clock, but are you serious?
Message sent on now, one interrupts the power crowd,
she had to get into the monster,
starting to build this momentum,
and it gets cut off by that crowd,
strong to pat him in the R.D.
I don't know, he's looking for that delay tag,
that's why he's representing those crowd house,
and he's gaining traction on that level.
There it is, oh my God, this is the burnout.
Is this it?
Oh, my sweet child of mine,
the back, the back champion,
is he gonna do it?
And there it is, META RD!
The prep fee is complete!
You're back to back, Evil World Champion!
Give it up for META RD!
For Evil Champion, just in total.
Back to back here at Evil Vegas.
As well as a two-time Evil Japan champion.
hold that flag up brother make sure they know where you from.
Oh my god, I know everybody's celebrating in New York man like your next one again.
Oh you know this.
Look at this, yo.
Yo there's no denying.
There's no denying.
This guy, Mr. Goat, all I hear is how hard it is to get consistent results in this game
and the bull somehow some way has put four evil titles on the board.
I started seeing weight everywhere in my eyes.
Okay, yeah.
Yes, yes, I definitely know what that is, bro, a hundred percent.
And then all these bringing it back to the island and mind you, he's posted up with Japan.
Japan got to have to deal with the man.
A hundred percent, bro.
Part of the Topanga League going to be part of SFL Japan as well, bro.
He is making sure he's going to get that celebratory yaku-nico.
That is my damn chore.
This guy's ridiculous.
I see him. I see him. I said he definitely thinking about the yakiniku that wagyu was just on stand by
Yo, man, I think you know much along with it
Man, that was something bro, you know, where were you at where boss at it's a reservation up brother
Get the reservation ready. They get the wagyu gonna get all that. Oh my goodness. Oh Santa
You know, it was the same in the back-to-back, it was a safe pick.
You know, it could have been a little bias on my side, but
just know that the consistency shows at every single time.
Look at that, look at that, I appreciate you, thank you so much.
The little Michael Lombeck before, he is just so funny, damn, the range is
all of Blanca, of course, what would he be, right?
He is the master of Blanca himself.
Did a good job on the fights of Michigan Mods who really had answers for it.
After seeing it in Winner's set minds, coming back on two games there,
he was in the second three-one, but when we got to the block, a mirror,
we saw who the most lethal was.
I love Commander's chain plans, man.
I know what he did, hit him with the rope, but he said,
you know what, I'm gonna establish your mind state,
so, oh yeah, it's going to be nice and paste, right?
Didn't know we're going into a fresh set.
And mind you, this is a real deal.
When you have press, press, press.
Okay, cool. He resetted it right, right?
But I can't even imagine how fast his offense come.
Yeah, he probably couldn't even continue the excitement
to actually just get some footing into the set,
actually concentrate and focus on the matter of hand.
Men are R.D. of course, which is his whole style of,
it goes for the bare match on the second set.
Wow, talk about championship mentality,
talk about championship DNA, talk about no excuses.
He just has the job done.
Men are really Dominican,
back to back, evil world finals.
Jamie, you know, I've been a fan of how he carries himself outside of the game for so
long, you know, I mean, he really approaches fighting games as a passion, as a professional
career. He definitely does whatever he can to put as much work in as possible,
looking into the nitty gritty details of the game, right? Not only just the game,
but studying player habits. I know that's something that he's always talked about,
right? He's like, yo, we need to highlight habits, but we need to understand about
dissecting the way people play and the little things that add up to matter and
he is I mean he exemplifies how good you can be when you focus on things like
that. I just love the blueprint man he has the characters for a reason though I
think he only picked Luke like once. Yeah that's how detailed he gets right
like he's like I got one character for one matchup. That's it. Bruh. Being
that good and being able to like not play a certain character at a certain
level for so long and then bust it out up against I mean a coup de gala is probably the best in all
in the world and he was like yeah I'll bust out my look like come on man I mean it's all that needs
to be said bro but I want to hear from Long Island Joe and men are D on the stage but we'll get
to men in a second holla HB Joe ladies and gentlemen evo 2026 please make some noise one more last
best time this year for your Street Fighter 6 Top 8 Lionel.
Alright, we got some trophies and medals to give out.
So, in 7th place we got Zen!
And also in seventh place get loud for my man cross over
In fifth place the OG legend dogerasa
And also in fifth place
In fourth place, the young prodigy, Kriven!
Another young prodigy kills you!
Here we go, let's get loud for our second place finalist, Shigamata!
And finally, with incredible honor, his second Evo in a row, one of the most dominant Street
dominant Street Fighter 6 players to walk the face of the earth. Let's get
loud for the one, the only, the Bull, META, R, D!
That is your first place champion.
Alright now also for our top three, we do have these wonderful sticks.
From Varmarillo, thank you very much guys for bringing them out, here you go.
We got our first, second, and third.
Pull those up high, guys.
Let everybody see what we got.
Pull them up high.
All right, now, before we conclude, Mr. Mena, R.D., Mr. Mena, can I
meet you in the middle please. For the EVO Champion interview presented by AT&T
my friend how does it feel to now have two back-to-back EVOs in Street Fighter
6? It feels incredible honestly but it's all because of my environment I'm
surrounded by a lot of amazing people and this result and this amount of
success. It's not because, you know, it's just me, the bull. It's because I have a lot
of great players around me. I have a lot of family members pressing at Evo today, and a
lot of friends showing a lot of support. So that's why, spoken like a champion, spoken
like a true champion. Second, you just came off a tremendous win in the first
attempt against one of the legends of the FGC. Do you have any idea or want
to do that again with another opponent and if you do, who do you have in mind?
Honestly, I'm extremely excited and it's something that I want to do.
Of course I love Ebo, like this is the essence of Street Fighter, but I'm also in love with
playing First Attack and the experience that I had in Kamonomichi was truly special.
So at the end of the day, I don't think it's my place to challenge anybody, but
I'm open.
want to do it I'm ready. And last thing one real quick one you're obviously an
incredible inspiration to a lot of people people up and coming young kids
young people all around the world I want to play fighting games and be just like
the ball. Do you have any advice to those people that look at you and say I
want to do that too? Honestly I'm gonna give the advice through a personal
situation I want to dedicate this win to my nephew Soel Elgoldo. I promise you
last year I was gonna do it and I know you're just growing up right now and
you're struggling to figure out what you want to do but at the end of the day what
I want to tell you is whatever you do do something that you love it's gonna work
out
beautiful very well said well there's one more piece that you get and that is
your first place trophy we can please bring this man his trophy his second
trophy in a row mind you
All right, this is it, EVO 2006 is about to conclude.
We are on our last game, we have our last champion, make some noise for Venom R.D.
I'm going to ask that everybody stay because we are going to take a big group picture in
second.
All right, but first I'm going to throw it to my commentators and everybody hang out
so we can get the EO 2006 picture.
Yikes, Ringe, what do you guys got?
Man, oh man.
I mean, what can we say after that, right?
I've been saying that men is the best promo
in the business for years now.
We're like sitting here like he's won everything.
What is he gonna say now?
Still, man, this is the tongue of our heartstrings.
We have to hold back tears here at the commentary table.
Like, I mean, we couldn't ask for a better face
of fighting games than the R&D trade-off.
Look, man, it's incredible for me.
But first and foremost, before I even say this,
shout out to everybody here in the building.
We love y'all.
Thank you so much.
Just saying nothing without you guys.
And I think that's the bottom of my heart.
Legitimate.
Bottom of my heart, of course.
Thank you guys so much for supporting us, being involved with this culture known as the
Fighting in Community.
At the end of the day, it's a diverse group of people.
We all beautiful.
But at the end of the day, we're a community, we family.
So please, thank you so much.
Bottom of applause for yourselves, y'all.
A hundred percent, bro.
You heard Manasay himself, right?
He said, I am a benefit of my environment.
This is the beautiful environment.
It wouldn't be the environment that it is without everybody coming through and
show in love and getting under one roof to appreciate what we all are passionate
about man. I mean listen we could we could celebrate all day that
men are one but to be honest this is a big one for the FTC. I'm gonna keep saying
the next day you see the future of fighting games. I mean you still got a
couple of OGs you see Doge down in the bigs. Oh yeah. You got seasoned veterans
like Xen they're still in the mix dealing with these high-level players
these youngins. Man I want to give a big special shout out of course to all
the players that actually answered that. Raise your hand if you actually
enter the bracket this weekend. Oh yeah! I love to see that. This is crazy. Man, I don't know man. This is a big... I'm about to cry in my life. I'm what you don't
worry. I've seen Mena win his first major at NEC and it's kind of crazy seeing him on
American soil at least and just seeing his prowess all the way through and
still being humble enough to try to push the culture forward. Oh, it's one
of the most inspiring things to see. And then his mom is here like, it's crazy, couldn't
have asked for anything better. And it was amazing to watch him start by lifting up the
Dominican Republic. And then after that, right after there are so many other players from
the Dominican Republic got put on, of course, he's still always uplifting that, but he
shifted his goal to the FGC as a whole, right?
Saying we are all one family and being able to constantly push this. That's why
I said, right? It's a big win for the FGC in general. When men, it takes dogs like
this man is an incredible son and I really love the point about bringing up
the environment man I want to give a shout out to everybody that provides us
with an environment to do what we love you know I'm saying the players us as
commentators Rick Jabele lizard man was over there Mando from back in the day
putting me on neo judo the can opener everybody that enters every single week
We love y'all man.
That was a 9,000 say at the album man.
Got the biggest winners in this room.
I know men are having everybody that one day evos.
Our champion is Machado Real Champions
and we're going to sign off.
Peace of love.
We'll see you at the next one.
Peace!
I want to take a moment to thank you all for coming, particularly on our year where I know
that can be a great commitment for a great number of you.
It is lovely to have everyone here celebrating the same thing at the same time.
As Joe mentioned, we're going to take a photo to close out the night, and then I'm going
to go sleep.
So I don't care what you do, there's plenty of great things to do.
But it's sleep time for me, so thank you everyone.
Let's go!
I'm here at EVO 2026.
You don't come into practice.
You practice at home, and you come in to show what you've been practicing.
You know what I'm saying?
I want to deliver on that grand platform.
There's no one bigger than EVO.
EVO 2026 is one of the biggest open bracket tournaments in the world.
That's it.
That's all right.
EVO.
Let's hope, baby.
Hold on.
You and me twist this.
Hold on.
Hold on. Hold on.
You can't wait for the next one.
It's Evo. Something special's in there.
Wow.
Sorry in the match.
Oh, he read!
What a comeback!
Oh, God!
Oh!
Oh, God!
I'm gonna have some of the darkest voices
Today we're really gonna see who is built for that grand stage
Oh, it is the fix it's me to do it
I'm gonna be an unbelievable performance
And another trophy to reign for Restito
Your evil grand champion
The Goons.
Walk has won EVO 2020, bitch.
Big what?
Win Evolution for Unity 2.
Now by seven, let's go.
And he is taping the chair.
Take, take, take, take, take.
Now, I'm gonna use it.
Haji is your champion.
It is about that time to crown the first two-and-one
champion.
Oh, it's just one second, because it's
And it's not! It's not!
It's not!
No, no! No, no, no!
You're bad!
But, Evo Las Vegas!
Invincible vs. Top 8!
It's about to go down.
And that's gonna be that!
Ocarina!
Is your invincible vs. Evo Champion?
And you're very simple, Top 8!
And that's it!
SHUT UP!
And it is on it!
Makes a noise!
Get it!
And then we'll do it, son of a gun, you are evil, champions are fun, Eric!
Big five to six, Tommy.
Welcome to the tournament where dreams come true.
The burn up is this it?
All my sweet child of mine, the back, the back!
Champion!
What is he going to do with this?
He's going to have a right of his ass!
You're going to lose.
Hey!
You're all free now.
I
I'm waiting for that feeling
Trust in process
No need for resistance
I'm obsessed
Getting over the line
So easy
When I go the distance
I don't need resistance
Because I'm Christian in this way
It's in my nature
One more thing I offer you
Travel comes from Canada
Tonight
My best behavior
you