America’s long Street Fighter drought ends with a win at Evo 2024

Evo 2024 wrapped up precocious Sunday nighttime successful with Victor “Punk” Woodley beating Adel “Big Bird” Anouche successful Street Fighter 6. With his victory, Woodley became the archetypal American to triumph a mainline Street Fighter tournament astatine Evo successful implicit 20 years.

The lucifer was nail-bitingly adjacent with Anouche, who made it to the expansive finals via the loser’s bracket, beating Woodley 3-0 to reset oregon “flip” the bracket requiring different best-of-5 lucifer to find the winner. Their 2nd lucifer went the region with each subordinate having 2 acceptable wins a portion and tied 1-1 successful the last match. A well-executed ace determination from Woodley’s Cammy ended the match, and America’s agelong Street Fighter Evo title drought on with it.

Americans really fared exceedingly good astatine Evo 2024, taking location championships successful 4 of the 8 main tournaments: Street Fighter 6 ( Victor “Punk” Woodley), Mortal Kombat 1 (Dominique “SonicFox” McLean), Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising (Aaron “Aarondamac” Godinez), and Guilty Gear Strive (Shamar ”Nitro” Hinds).

Additionally, Street Fighter 6 wasn’t the lone Street Fighter tourney astatine Evo wherever memorable moments were made. Over successful the Street Fighter III: Third Strike tournament, Hayao, a subordinate from Japan, memed his mode into our hearts with his infectious enthusiasm and over-the-top celebrations. During 1 celebration, he bent his assemblage cleanable successful half, touching caput to level successful a airs lone characters from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure look susceptible of. In another, helium bust it unfastened connected the main signifier completing a afloat divided — notable arsenic Hayao is 41 years old.

But Hayao cemented his spot successful the Evo past books with playing skill. During the loser’s quarterfinal with lone a pixel’s worthy of health, Hayao pulled disconnected an astounding parry — in mid-air — then deftly sailed implicit his opponents follow-up ace onslaught to travel backmost and bushed his opponent, advancing to the adjacent round.

Hayao unluckily didn’t triumph the tournament, falling successful his adjacent lucifer to decorativeness successful 4th place. But his unthinkable show of accomplishment was truthful electrifying that immoderate are referring to it arsenic “Evo Moment 38” oregon the spiritual successor to Evo Moment 37 — possibly the top clip of warring crippled contention of each time. Even though helium didn’t win, Hayao inactive won.

There were a smattering of different hype Evo 2024 moments. Twitch streamer Lilypichu won a Tekken 8 show lucifer against the game’s shaper Katsuhiro Harada. Tekken 8 resurrected the franchise’s long-time villain Heihachi Mishima contempt Harada remarking much than erstwhile that the quality was good and genuinely dead. Evo besides plans to adhd 2 caller events successful 2025 with the archetypal ever Evo Awards taking spot successful Los Angeles and Evo France, marking the tournament’s archetypal quality successful Europe. Evo is already the biggest, astir breathtaking warring crippled tourney successful the satellite and it’s bully to spot that it continues to grow.