Combo Breaker 2024: Results

Combo Breaker is a great opportunity for players from the US East and West to gather together and have a lot of exciting matches. Sure the motto “No coasts, no kings” includes everyone at the party, so competitors from all over the world travel to Chicago and participate in tournaments. 

Combo Breaker 2024 features quite a few titles: classic and the newest. We can witness a few big global league qualifiers. All the info on this fighting games event is here: the schedule, streams on Twitch, a selection of the most important tournaments, and a list of players to watch out for.

Let’s take a look at some results from Combo Breaker 2024!

SonicFox had a confident run at this tournament. Their main opponent was dekillsage, the Skullgirls Evo 2023 Champion. Still, even if the opponent reset the grand final, SonicFox won the match, the tournament, and the Championship series.

Nicolas, an MK pro from Chile, defeated some of the best Mortal Kombat players in the world to win at Combo Breaker 2024, including TheMightyUnjust, Ninjakilla_212, and SoncFox.

INZEM won all his matches in the DBFZ top 8 at Combo Breaker 2024, without losing even a game.

Zippy and BEPaw played three matches in the GBVS Rising Combo Breaker 2024 Top 8 brackets. Zippy won the winners final, but BEPaw reset the grand final. In the decisive match Zippy celebrated the ultimate victory.

Scrub Saibot won this tournament pretty confidently. In the Samsho Combo Breaker 2024 top 8 brackets, the player defeated royalpsycho and Maki.

TempestNYC repeated his success from Evo Japan — even if he had pretty tough matches in the GGST top 8 brackets at Combo Breaker 2024. All three matches for TempestNYC in the final part of the tournament were close 3:2s. This victory significantly strengthened his position in the Arc World Tour 2024 standings.

While playing Minecrafi Steve, Onin fell to the losers brackets after the semi-final against Atreus. Then, the same opponents faced each other in the grand final — in a close fight, Onin reset the bracket and won the tournament.

Goldeneye161 celebrated victory at the DNF Duel Combo Breaker 2024 tournament. The player defeated LuFL in the semi-final and Monikat in the winners final and the grand final.

ViolentKain fell to the losers bracket after the winners final vs Wero Asamiya. But then, he defeated Koopa in the losers final, reset the bracket, and got victory in the tournament. The reward is super great — ViolentKain got a direct invite to the SNK World Championship 2025.

knotts was really close to the ultimate success in the Uni2 tournament at ComboBreaker 2024, despite entering the top 8 via losers. The player reset the grand final and reached the decisive game. Still, BigBlack managed to be better in this important situation and win. BigBlack is the Uni2 Combo Breaker 2024 champion.

ElChakotay played Lily throughout the whole top 8 part. His main opponent was NoahTheProdigy. Their winners final was super close, but in the grand final, ElChakotay achieved a much more confident victory.

AK from the Philippines defeated Rangchu and Farzeen on the way to the grand final. The most difficult match for him was against the legendary Pakistani player Arslan Ash. Only in the very last game, AK won the tournament.

Combo Breaker takes place on May 24-26, 2024. The venue is located near Chicago — the Schaumburg Convention Center. For those who cannot attend the event, the matches will be streamed online, on a few Twitch channels.

A detailed schedule of Combo Breaker 2024 is right here.

To not get confused with the variety of options at CB2024, let’s highlight the biggest games and the most important tournaments.

There is no major esports event for Street Fighter 6 on CB 2024, but the game is big on its own, with many registered participants. One thing still makes this SF6 tournament special — Akuma will be eligible to play, only two days after release. In addition to this, the whole game will be right after a huge balance update. Following Street Fighter 6 on Combo Breaker 2024 will be especially interesting.

One more game is worth mentioning, even if it is not really big. Skullgirls has a World Championship Series Final at Combo Breaker 2024. The participants had to win their regional qualifiers to get invited. This should be quite a feature show for the fighting games community.

In the table below, you can see the schedule for the final Top 8 parts of the most interesting tournaments: for the mentioned big games and some others.

The beauty of any esports tournament is that no one can foresee the outcome. Still, it is possible to highlight some of the strongest players in the fighting games to watch out for. 

Here are a few top players in big tournaments:

The yearly fighting games schedule is filled with super interesting tournaments. And in 2024, we have the Esports World Cup that features Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 6. For everything interesting from these events, stick around on esports.gg!