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Evo Japan 2024 results
Update: This story has been updated with final results.
It's finally time for one of the biggest events of the year to kick off — Evo Japan is back for 2024 and it'll once again be happening in Tokyo, Japan.
There are far too many notable players participating to list them all, but just a small sample of the beasts participating in the main games is as follows: Bandits|MenaRD, DRX|Knee, RB|Gachikun, BST|Fuudo, UMA327, Rohto|Tokido, FLY|Punk, TSM|Leffen, SANWA|Laggia, DouyuTV|Xiao Hai, HB|Kawano, Fukunaga, GS|Gamera, KDF|CBM, Varrel|Ao, Yesports|Chris Wong, KDF|Ulsan, SANWA|M', XG|ET, Tako, DRX|LowHigh, KDF|Meo-IL, Varrel|Rangchu, RB|Bonchan, PWS|Tahichi, Ibushigin|Tororo, DRX|Leshar, Ibushigin|Kakeru, MR|Umisho, Twis|Slash, FLY|TempestNYC, AMTRS|Score, Revo|Clearlamp, Oushuu-Hittou, MadKOF, Gobou, SNB|Yamaguchi, Watanabe, Saint, Yamasa|Nobi, Nuki, JeonDDing, Doujin, KDF|Mulgold, THY|Chikurin, Shirokuro, GS|Sho and Maikeru, but there are countless more top players waiting in the brackets looking to reach those top spots.
Final character stats for Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, King of Fighters 15 and Street Fighter 3: Third Strike at Evo Japan 2024
With almost 7,000 attendees and a multitude of featured games, Evo Japan 2024 ended up much larger than last year with the help of some new arrivals and fan-favorite classics.
Like we previously did for Tekken 8, we've gone and gathered the final character usage stats for Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, The King of Fighters 15 and Street Fighter 3: Third Strike.
Texas Showdown 2024 results
Updating with live results: This story has been updated with final results.
Texas Showdown is back again for 2024 and as you'd expect it's happening in Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
Notable players participating include RB|Anakin, PAR|JoeCrush, Nfinite|Shinblade, TUE|Genghis D0n, Trojan, SB|AzeemX, Brian_F, NG Obscure, Blitz|Jermanji, BigBlack, Bass, Lucar, NGNL|Zane, 9Moons|Rat, Elsa, Kanme|Xerom, Juliocrivera, Danke and more.
This meme of Foghorn Leghorn explaining to Justin Wong why he got hit by Evo Moment 37 is the funniest thing you'll see this week
Well... that's certainly not a headline I expected to ever write — but here we are.
For some reason, there's a Foghorn Leghorn meme going around right now that seems to have made its way into the FGC. We're thankful that it did, though, as one was created that sees the Looney Tunes character scolding fighting game legend Justin Wong and explaining to him why he got hit by the iconic Daigo parry during Evo Moment 37 — and it's pure gold.
Mugen match up pits Street Fighter 3's Ryu against Street Fighter 6's Ryu to demonstrate which version is stronger
Mugen is a fighting game engine released back in 1999. Even today, fans have been using the engine to create dream match ups that would otherwise be impossible.
As such, Violin Ken has released an interesting video that depicts a match up between Ryu and... Ryu. More specifically, this is the Street Fighter 3's version of Ryu facing off against Street Fighter 6's Ryu.
The bizarre story of Street Fighter's least successful protagonist
There's a good chance you don't even know it because Capcom doesn't tend to highlight them as much as they could, but Ryu isn't the "main character" of each Street Fighter game. He was back in the early games, but after Alpha 3 developers decided to anchor their story threads around other newcomers (while still widely keeping Ryu as the face of the franchise).
The protagonists of each game have seen varying levels of appreciation and success, but perhaps the most interesting instance comes from the least interesting protagonist: Street Fighter 4's Abel.
Smug's reaction to seeing impressive Dudley mod in action for Street Fighter 5 is as good as you'd expect
There's some fighting game pros out there who've become intrinsically linked to a particular character, and fans are going to want to see their reactions when they get announced.
Unfortunately, Dudley hasn't been revealed for Street Fighter 6 (yet), but we got to witness the next best thing for now with a ridiculously impressive mod of the boxer in Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition, which of course caught the attention of the one and only NE|Smug.
Akuma player makes almost superhuman counter with Raging Demon against Aegis Reflector setup in Street Fighter 3: Third Strike
Despite the fact that the game is about to hit its 25th birthday, Street Fighter 3: Third Strike still has a very active player base with new competitors and veterans alike grinding away in the technical classic.
One such player in Juan Zuniga recently shared a rather impressive Third Strike match with an almost inhuman Raging Demon punish with Akuma.
Dudley's missed the past 2 games but this ridiculously impressive mod shows what could have been for the boxer in Street Fighter 5
Despite being one of the more highly requested characters from the Street Fighter 3 era, Dudley has been missing in action throughout Street Fighter 5 and Street Fighter 6 (so far) wit no real hint at his return yet.
That's where the talented Ryuski and Killbox stepped in to show off what the boxer could look like in a more modern title by dropping a trailer for Dudley in Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition as a ridiculously impressive mod with his own moveset and mechanics.
8-time Evo champion Justin Wong shares opinions on the old vs. new fighting game difficulty debate
There continues to be quite a bit of debate lately sparked by fighting game legend Ryan Hart's comments about the genre being much easier to compete in now and how current players couldn't stack up to the best classic champions in titles like Street Fighter 3: Third Strike.
Who better to add his perspective now than another legend and eight-time Evo champ (nine times if you count Battle by the Bay) in Justin Wong with one of the most winning fighting game players of all time across a bunch of different titles talking about the new versus old.
Rollback netcode plays cruel trick on Justin Wong as he gets Evo Moment 37'd again
For years now, Justin Wong has seemingly given a variety of opportunities to recreate Evo Moment 37 against him in Street Fighter 3: Third Strike. This was a moment in which BST|Daigo Umehara was famously able to evade chip damage against Wong's Chun-Li using a super thanks to a series of perfectly timed parries.
One would think that Evo Moment 37 would be to Justin Wong's shame, but he has previously admitted that even he was glad that it happened looking back considering its importance to the FGC's culture. As it turns out, someone else has finally been able to recreate the situation that Wong had set up for himself, though the game's rollback netcode briefly gave Justin Wong false hope before snatching it away.
You'll have no idea who's going to win this crazy round of Third Strike until 'KO' pops up on screen
The most revered moment in all of competitive Street Fighter comes from Third Strike for a reason: it tends to produce the hypest sequences. Why exactly this is is debatable, but there's a magic that comes from the flow of the footsies, flow, animations, and the way the parry mechanic works.
The game may have dropped a quarter century ago, but it's still cranking out edge of your seat action as exemplified by the Akuma vs. Ken showdown waiting for you after the jump.
Mike Ross discusses how Excellent Adventures got started and revisits some of the history of Cross Counter
Mike Ross is a legend in the fighting game community. From being The People's Champ to the pop offs to putting E. Honda on the map in Street Fighter 4, Mike's achievements and impact on the FGC are up there with the best of them.
One of Ross' past projects that helped propel him to stardom was The Excellent Adventures of Gootecks and Mike Ross, which he co-hosted alongside fellow FGC legend Ryan "Gootecks" Gutierrez. In a new episode of Chris T's podcast Talking With T, Mike sat down and shared some of the history behind Cross Counter, Excellent Adventures, and how everything came to be.
This Super Smash Bros. Ultimate mod brings fans a dream match up between two of video games' best boxers
Video game mods can be a beautiful thing. While some PC savvy folks out there use mods to create strange additions to our favorite fighting games or reshape a game's mechanics, others add characters to titles that would likely never make the cut which can lead to some incredible dream match ups.
What we have here today is a mod for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate that brings Street Fighter 3's Dudley, easily the best boxer in all of fighting games and video games in general (I'm totally not biased, I swear...), into the fray. And best of all, this addition allows us to witness a dream match up between Dudley and another one of video games' best boxers, Little Mac.
Five characters in Street Fighter with ridiculous reasons for joining World Warrior tournaments
There are some really solid plot lines in the Street Fighter franchise about various character's motivations for joining the World Warrior tournaments — these are NOT those characters.
From making new friends to trying to become much better at the culinary arts, these are the five Street Fighter characters with the most ridiculous reasons for joining the official in-game tournaments.
Here's why Justin Wong is one of the absolute GOATs of fighting games
If you're newer to the fighting game space, then you probably know Justin Wong as one of the stronger content creators we have around right now. However, you might not know exactly why most of us here in the community consider him a legend and one of the greatest of all time (GOAT). You gonna learn today!
JWong has seen A LOT of success in the competitive space over the last couple of decades, and this new highlight reel featuring some of his biggest and best wins at the Evo tournament series show us exactly why that is.
Justin Wong tries to find a better fighting game comeback than Evo Moment 37 as the best of all time
Everyone here is almost assuredly quite familiar with Evo Moment #37 and the impact its continued to have on the fighting game community, but there's been plenty of other ridiculous comebacks that have taken place since then.
The legendary Justin Wong, who was of course on the receiving end of the Daigo Parry at Evo 2004, recently decided to try and see if he could find a comeback that could beat it as the best of all time.
