Big shout out to the man TST|lorigordo! He is the champion of Dreamwalk FGC’s King of Fighters 2000 Top 8 Tournament. The man went undefeated in both the round-robin league play and the Top 8 tournament. This is the first time Dreamwalk FGC (formerly Happenstance FGC) has seen a player dominate undefeated from start to finish. So massive props to TST|lorigordo!
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Top 8 League Play Standings
The Top 8 participants can be seen in the above graphic. Top 8 Tournament runner-up Neochris finished as the fourth ranked player during round-robin league play with a very respectable 11-3 record. But it was TST|lorigordo who finished with the perfect 14-0 record.
Top 8 Tournament Bracket and Results
The above graphic captures the entire tournament results in bracket form. Neochris got off to a tough start by losing in Round 1 to Master Kim. Having immediately been sent to the Losers Bracket, Neochris had some work to do. In Losers Round 1 he took out Khrysaor 3-0. In Losers Round 2 Neochris notched the 3-1 victory over HN-TST|Rolandub. Things got tougher in Losers Round 3 with the rematch against Master Kim. But this time it was Neochris who prevailed in a tough match by the 3-2 score. Neochris then advanced to the Finals by taking out TST|Charly 3-0. Congratulations to Neochris for his effort in making it to the finals! He surely took the hard route to the Finals by winning four matches, starting from Round 1, in the Losers Bracket. On the other hand, TST|lorigordo ran through every step of the Winners Bracket with perfect 3-0 scores!
Top 8 Tournament Records and Standings
Final standings for the Top 8 tournament can be seen in the graphic above.
The Grand Final
Grand Final Game 1
In the first game, TST|lorigordo started with Jhun as his first character and dominated by taking out both of Neochris’ first to characters Iori and Chang. Jhun almost took out Neochris’ entire side with just Jhun as Kyo was down to only one-third of his health meter when Jhun was finally put down. In Round 4 of the first game, TST|lorigordo used his second player, King, to quickly finish the game and go up 1-0.
Grand Final Game 2
TST|lorigordo was even more impressive in Game 2 of the Finals with an even more dominant performance as his first character Jhun took out all three of Neochris’s team. As you can see from the graphic below depicting part of Jhun’s finishing move, the character had half of his health meter remaining as he finished the fight with Neochris’s third character Iori and Game 2.
Grand Final Game 3
In the third and deciding game of the Grand Final, TST|lorigordo finally was forced to use his second character as his Jhun was defeated for the first time in the Grand Final. But not before Jhun took out the first two characters on Neochris’s side.
Utilizing Chang, however, Neochris was finally able to defeat Jhun. On several occasions, Chang was able to get a hold of Jhun and made good use of his one-arm side to side overhead slams.
But when TST|lorigordo called on King to finish the Grand Final, the character did not disappoint as King quickly finished Chang and secured the Top 8 tounament victory to become league champion. Congrats to TST|lorigordo on his championship and truly dominant performance!
