CEO 2025 hosts world-level tournaments and gathers top players. Event guide

More than 20 games are featured at Community Effort Orlando (CEO) 2025. Surely, the main focus is on the few that have their big qualifiers here. The best players from all over the world travel to Orlando, Florida, to grind for standing points and hope for direct invites to the global finals. The entire fighting games community wins thanks to this: high stakes create impressively spectacular matches.

Everything about CEO 2025, also known as CEO XV, is here: the schedule, streams, some important details, and results of the main games.

According to the official stream schedule, 11 Twitch channels broadcast fighting games esports tournaments from CEO 2025. Check out our schedule section for all the details.

One of the main channels is the official Twitch channel of CEOGaming. It streams FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves, Guilty Gear Strive, Mortal Kombat 1, and more.

The event goes on for three days from June 13 to June 15.

The detailed CEO XV schedule is shown in the image below. It features the ET start time (North America East). For the Western Coast, the tournament starts three hours earlier. For Europe (CEST), you should add six hours.

The final brackets for the main games happen on Sunday, June 15, but there also are some finals on Saturday, June 14.

Combo Breaker 2025 was the previous big fighting games esports event. It happened only three weeks ago, but a lot has changed within some of the titles.

CEO 2025 is all fun and games, unless you are in the top-level competition and plan to qualify for the World Tour Finals or the Esports World Cup 2025. The stakes at these tournaments are extreme, as we have the highest-tier qualifiers for a few titles.

High stakes and big adjustments — it’s a great premise for a wonderful esports show!

This platformer fighting game rarely has official tournaments at traditional FGC events, but CEO is a good exception! We could enjoy the Brawlhalla Mid-Season Championship at CEO 2024, and this year, we have the same level of competition at CEO 2025.

Brawlhalla has gotten big changes since then. A new weapon was added, Chakram, and a few new Legends powered up the roster.

The official hints make it clear that a new Chakram character will be revealed around the Brawlhalla CEO 2025 tournament. Let’s keep an eye on the announcements!

Two games at CEO XV are part of the official Arc World Tour 2025. Guilty Gear Strive and Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising had qualifiers of the Gold+ level. This means the top participants earn a decent amount of standing points, but there are no direct invites to the Finals.

Unika joined Guilty Gear Strive right after Combo Breaker 2025. It is hardly enough time to bring her to such a big stage, but surprises may happen. Opponents are not really prepared for her either.

The same goes for Galleon in GBVS Rising. She was added to the game only two weeks ago.

The biggest change that happened with this game is the official confirmation of having no more MK1 characters and updates.

The pro community is still eager to battle through the Pro Kompetiton 2025 season, and CEO XV is a nice chance to earn some points. The event has the Kombatant-tier qualifier, which is not the biggest one. Therefore, we don’t see some of the biggest international players here. Local competitors can win big!

With the reveal of the Invincible fighting game and its brutal art style, we certainly can expect many MK players to shift towards this title — unless NetherRealm makes their own big announcement.

The game has not been around long enough to experience meta changes. We are waiting for the first DLC character to be released. Perhaps, Andy Bogard may bring a balance update with him.

FATAL FURY CotW has an SNK World Championship 2025 qualifier at CEO XV. The winner takes it all, as they advance to the circuit’s Finals event.

The CEO XV FATAL FURY tournament is also an Esports World Cup 2025 (EWC 2025) qualifier. The three top players win their spots at the Saudi event.

The story of the disastrous Season 2 may finally come to an end. At least the developers want that a lot. They released another TEKKEN 8 Patch, and this version 2.02 balances offense and defense in the game even more. CEO 2025 should demonstrate how it works on the top level.

This tournament is a Master-tier event of the TEKKEN World Tour 2025. Many international celebrities join the party in Florida to add some good points to their name on the global leaderboard.

The top 4 players win qualification spots at TEKKEN 8 Esports World Cup 2025. Even lower placement can feel like victory, as some strong competitors are already on the list of the EWC 2025 participants, for example, thanks to their TEKKEN 8 Combo Breaker 2025 play.

The Capoeira dancer Elena completed the set of Year 2 DLC characters in SF6. The Elena update is a big milestone for Street Fighter 6, as it brought changes for all the characters. The most apparent among them are buffs for Ryu.

CEO 2025 is the first big tournament to feature these changes. While adapting to them, top players hope to qualify for Capcom Cup 12 — they need to win the event for this.

There are three SF6 Esports World Cup 2025 qualification spots distributed at CEO XV. They go to TBD.

Many well-known players have already qualified for the EWC 2025 from Street Fighter Combo Breaker 2025, and other tournaments.

More details on the big CEO 2025 tournaments will be added to our dedicated articles. Stay tuned!

After CEO XV, the FGC has a little break from the globally big multi-title events. Evo Las Vegas 2025 is from Aug. 1 to Aug. 3.

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