Seong-ho Kang (alias ‘Chanel’) was similarly devoured. Sang-hyun Jeon, aka ‘Jeondding’, put up a dancelike fight against the panda with his long-legged Eddy Gordo but it was not enough to deal with the ursine can can. So began the bear’s ascent back up the loser’s ladder. ‘Rangchu’ from this point switched characters back to the beast he knew. They are constantly on the verge of non-existence, and yet they refuse to die. He lost those fights and was sent to the loser’s brackets. The panda was sleeping through this one, and out came upsetting crime kingpin Geese Howard, and noted eyebrow model Feng Wei, both trying to defeat Knee’s feathery Devil Jin. A panda in the top 8? That would be unusual.Īnd perhaps the zoo keeper thought so too, because he swapped from the panda to other characters to fight Jae Min Bae, aka ‘Knee’, the top-ranked player in the standings. At this point ‘Rangchu’ the panda player started to turn heads. With all the Europeans lying in a bloody pulp, two US players and a single Japanese scrapper waded in to to crack some ribs with five Korean sluggers. But imagine how ‘JDCR’ must have felt, to be told: “Remember how you fought your way through to get here? Naw, turns out you’re out.” His best-of-one brawl with one of the most feared players had been scary, high stakes, and totally pointless. The French master, Vincent ‘SuperAkouma’ Homan was likewise dismissed with many kicks.Īt one point, Korean superstar Hyunjin ‘JDCR’ Kim faced US punchpro Joey ‘Fury’ Bennett in a tense tiebreaker, only for the internet to shout in unison that the organisers had made a mistake: Joey Fury already had the points necessary to pass through to the top 8. Fergus McGee, the Irish champion and noted Ricky Martin superfan, was sorely decked. Sunday was a round robin, every knuckle sandwicher facing off against every other knuckle sandwicher in their own group. Out of this 10-hour chaos, Joshua ‘Ghirlanda’ Bianchi emerged, an Italian bruiser who became only the fourth European player to make the grand finals.īut when Sunday arrived, he might have been exhausted from the previous day’s bedlam, as he became one of twelve brawlers knocked out during the group stages. Basically, it was a day in which the world’s best Tekkenistas uppercut and drop-kicked one another in an effort to slip through that closing door and into the top 20. Saturday was a bloodbath: a 320-person last chance qualifier to fill the final space among the biffing champs that would fight the following day. The grand finals took place in Amsterdam, the last stop of the nine-month long Tekken World Tour. And by the time she landed the killer blow, she was all out of bamboo. She was here to chew bamboo and prove the doubters wrong. So, imagine an entire hall filled with skeptical faces looking at this animal. Tekken veteran ‘Qudans’ was also 3rd in the standings going into the contest, while ‘Rangchu’ was 13th, making him and his animal friend the definite underdogs. Whereas Devil Jin is seen as a top tier fighter worthy of many chef kisses. For the Tekken illiterate out there, Panda is generally seen as one of the weakest characters, since she is big and bulky enough to get hit in instances where normal-sized characters won’t. Eventually, ‘Rangchu’ faced off against Byung-moon Son, better known as 'Qudans', last year’s champion and fierce Devil Jin puppeteer. I say “panda”, I mean professional fighterman Hyeon-ho Jeong of South Korea, aka 'Rangchu', who mauled his way through the top 20 Tekken 7 players in the world using the black-eyed animal as a fighty pal. A panda won the Tekken World Tour grand finals this weekend, rampaging through its opponents with all the anti-human rage you might expect of an endangered species.
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