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Over 4,500 people registered for various games at Combo Breaker 2024, and 1,633 of them were playing TEKKEN 8.
The fighting games esports event Combo Breaker 2024 featured quite a few big games, and TEKKEN 8 was certainly among the heavy hitters. Not only did lots of players register for the TEKKEN 8 tournament, but also some of the players had come from remote locations. The stakes were super high, and the fights were uncompromisingly spectacular!
In this post on esports.gg, we highlight various details on the Combo Breaker 2024 Tekken 8 tournament, including, the stream, results, top T8 characters, and Tekken World Tour 2024 standings.
Combo Breaker 2024 Tekken 8 results
The tournament is over, so let’s enjoy the full stream and also T8 results from Combo Breaker 2024.
Top 8 recap
One of the biggest favorites of this tournament, Arslan Ash, fell to the loser’s bracket in Round 3, after his match against Dr.theJAKEMAN, M.D. In the top 8 part, Arslan had a super confident run with his Nina, defeating four opponents, including another Tekken legend, Knee.
On the winners side, AK from the Philippines also played impressively! With Shaheen, he defeated Kuma of Rangchu and Victor of Farzeen.Quite interestingly, the Tekken 8 final brackets at Combo Breaker 2024 brought us almost no character swaps. Most competitors played one fighter throughout their all matches. Only JeonDDing switched to Eddy at some point, thefirst T8 DLC character.
Grand Final
The grand final between Arslan Ash and AK was back-and-forth, incredibly intense. Both players had their moments, and both got their rounds and games. Everything had to be decided in the very last round. Could Arslan reset the bracket?
AK was super patient when Arslan Ash activated Heat. When that was over, he found a couple of lows and performed a great launcher. With Heat on his side, he landed an effective combo and won the tournament.
AK is the Tekken 8 champion at Combo Breaker 2024. Congratulations!
Combo Breaker 2024: Results
This fighting games event features 24+ tournaments, with a few global league qualifiers. Some of the biggest names in the community participate in them.
Eugene Bozhenko
Tekken World Tour 2024 standings
This official global league has only started, and we have many Tekken World Tour events planned for 2024. Top 20 players will proceed to the TWT Finals 2024. Here is the current situation with the point distribution in the general standings — after T8 Combo Breaker 2024.
Chikurin becomes Evo Japan 2024 TEKKEN 8 champion!
The player took home the bulk of the 2 million yen prize pool. He also qualified for the Esports World Cup 2024 event.
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Format, schedule, and streams
Over 4,500 people have registered for various games at Combo Breaker 2024, and 1,633 of them are going to play TEKKEN 8. It’s a lot of participants, so the format of the competition is strongly dictated by this number.
There are so many matches to watch, and most viewers will be naturally be focused on the final top 24 or top 8 parts. Still, if you decide to enjoy a fight or two from the pools, here is the full schedule of the TEKKEN 8 tournament at Combo Breaker 2024.
The weekend is going to be super exciting! The official streams are on theTEKKEN Twitch channel.
Top players to watch out for
Here are just a few big names to watch out for during many rounds of the TEKKEN 8 tournament at Combo Breaker 2024:
As the event takes place in Chicago, we can expect the U.S. players to give a good fight at Combo Breaker. Such players as Anakin, Joey Fury, Shadow 20z, and JoeCrush are among the strongest.
The updated game
TEKKEN 8 got some pretty big updates just recently. Patch 1.04 is part of a massive plan of the developers to re-balance the game. Many characters have already got their adjustments, and the rest of the roster is waiting for the next update, TEKKEN 8 patch 1.05.
This means the Combo Breaker 2024 participants will be playing the updated game. The pros sure have the skills to adapt to changes quickly. And they had around 20 days to get prepared. Still, it’s the first big TEKKEN 8 tournament on the newest patch, which may shake the competition quite a bit.
The popular fighting game has a new update.
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