Xiaohai on winning CEO 2025 FATAL FURY CotW: “The crown belongs to me”

Eugene Bozhenko

Eugene Bozhenko

The game has been out long enough for top players to reach mastery. The CEO 2025 tournament comes with high stakes, and every match delivers a wow factor.

The initial period of slight chaos is most likely over in FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves (FATAL FURY CotW). Top competitors have figured out the game, at least to a certain, pretty deep extent. At CEO 2025, we certainly can witness what is possible in this fighter in terms of the best characters and all sorts of tricks and mechanics.

The FATAL FURY CotW tournament at CEO 2025 is an SNK World Championship 2025 qualifier, so the winner advances directly to the Global Finals.

Also, it’s an Esports World Cup 2025 (EWC 2025) qualifier. The top 3 placements earn their FATAL FURY CotW EWC 2025 spots.

Like at a few other big fighting games community (FGC) events, Andy Bogard is playable at the venue of CEO 2025. He is the first DLC character and a potential game changer.

How to watch FATAL FURY CotW CEO 2025: Stream

Three Twitch channels streamed FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves matches from the fighting games esports event CEO 2025.

Results for FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves at CEO 2025

Stay tuned for the detailed results of this CEO 2025 tournament, including FATAL FURY CotW characters in the top 8 brackets.

Final standing

Placement
Player
Character
Qualifications
1KuaiShou Gaming | XiaohaiBilly[already qualified]
2Saishunkan Sol Kumamoto | NemoBillySWC 2025
EWC 2025
3IGZIST | KojiKOGBillyEWC 2025
4Team Falcons | ETHokutomaruEWC 2025
5-6Sanwa | LaggiaHotaruEWC 2025
5-6All Gamers | ReynaldKain-
7-8All Gamers | QiuqiuKevin-
7-8masaoBilly-

The top 8 brackets

Winners Semifinals
Winners Final
Grand Final
Reynald 0:2 KojiKOG
Kain vs Billy
KojiKOG 1:3 Xiaohai
Billy vs Billy
Xiaohai 3:1 Nemo
Billy vs Billy
Xiaohai 2:0 Nemo
Billy vs Billy
Losers Round 1
Losers Quarterfinals
Losers Semifinal
Losers Final
masao 0:2 Laggia
Billy vs Hotaru
Nemo 2:1 Laggia
Billy vs Hotaru
Nemo 2:1 ET
Billy vs Hokutomaru
KojiKOG 2:3 Nemo
Billy vs Billy
Qiuqiu 1:2 ET
Kevin vs Hokutomaru
Reynald 1:2 ET
Kain vs Hokutomaru

Three Billy in the top 3? That looks interesting!

Xiaohai played this character and won three mirror matches in the upper brackets. It's the second bit tournament won by this SNK legend.

Xiaohai is the FATAL FURY CotW Champion at CEO 2025.

"At this moment, the crown belongs to me and to everyone who supports me. Let's continue to work hard!"

KuaiShou Gaming | Xiaohai via X
KojiKOG, Xiaohai, and Nemo (photo by CEO Gaming)
KojiKOG, Xiaohai, and Nemo (photo by CEO Gaming)

FATAL FURY CotW characters at CEO 2025

Beyond the Billy dominance, we could see a few other character highlighted at FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves CEO 2025 tournament.

Reynald was on his main, Kain. The player could not repeat his Combo Breaker success: ET on Hokutomaru had other plans.

Surprisingly, only Laggia brought Hotaru to the top 8. He even defeated one of the Billy players but then lost to another Billy player.

Qiuqiu played Kevin, but he was stopped by Hokutomaru of ET as well.

FATAL FURY CotW SNK World Championship 2025

This official esports league has no global leaderboard. Only winners of big qualifiers advance to the Global Finals event.

Since the release of FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves, we have witnessed five SWC 2025 qualifiers, so five players have won their qualification spots.

  • Xiaohai at Evo Japan 2025
  • Fenritti at Brussels Challenge Major Edition 2025
  • GO1 at Combo Breaker 2025
  • DarkAngel at Headstomper 2025
  • ZJZ at Battle Arena Melbourne 15

FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves at the Esports World Cup 2025

The same big FATAL FURY CotW tournaments are also qualifiers for the EWC 2025. However, they distribute more qualification spots. Ten players are already on the list of the Esports World Cup 2025 participants.

  • Xiaohai and Fenritti from Evo Japan 2025
  • GO1 and Poongko from Brussels Challenge Major Edition 2025
  • Reynald, NYChrisG, and RB from Combo Breaker 2025
  • ZDarkAngel from Headstomper 2025
  • ZJZ and Kindevu from Battle Arena Melbourne 15

Quite a few other games are featured at CEO 2025: Street Fighter 6 and TEKKEN 8 also have their World Tours and EWC qualifiers. 

The next tournaments for FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves are City of the Cream LIVE on June 21 in Mexico City and Hessen Crash XXII from June 20 to June 22 in Frankfurt, Germany.

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