Xiaohai reigns supreme as the King of Fighters XV Champion at EVO 2024

As EVO 2024, the penultimate fighting game tournament continues, a new champion for King of Fighters has been crowned. Xiaohai is the EVO 2024 King of Fighters XV grand champion.

Xiaohai has claimed the title as he's defeated the competition and become King of Fighters, and claiming his fourth EVO title. His legacy as the greatest King of Fighters player is now cemented even further, with this victory.

King of Fighters XV was the first game of the many featured at EVO 2024 to be center stage. The anime Fighting game has been a consistent title featured at EVO for a handful years now.

With nearly 400 entries into the tournament, only one reigned supreme. Xiaohai fought his way through the four brackets, to claim his fourth title as the EVO King of Fighters Champion, and truly cementing him as one of, if not the best King of Fighters players out there.

As Xiaohai has been a top contender for King of Fighters throughout completely different eras. From his first EVO win in 2014 to his back to back wins at EVO 2023.

Xiaohai's journey to the top wasn't a easy one. He had to face off against the best of the best to claim the title. Since the start of the tournament, due to his history and previous wins at EVO 2023 and EVO Japan 2023, eyes were set on Xiaohai.

The finals day started with the winner's Semi-Finals with Xiaohai going up against SCORE and Tamago going against ViolentKain. Xiaohai went with his bread and butter fighters: Geese, Benimaru, and Isla to sweep SCORE 2-0.

Then, in the other Winner's Semi match, Tamago followed suit and swept ViolentKain 2-0 in their matchup.

With Xiaohai's spot secured against Tamago in the Winner's Final, he watched as his fellow competitors SCORE, E.T., ViolentKain, and KoferoHonesto duke it out in the losers bracket.

The Lower Bracket was tough to say the least. But in the end, E.T. made an inspiring climb through the loser's bracket back up to the Grand Final.

With the momentum of fighting through the loser's bracket and the community by his side, he was ready to face the final boss of King of Fighters.

However, Xiaohai reminded us why he's the greatest King of Fighters player of all time. He dominated even in Grand Finals and despite the momentum that E.T. had going into the match.

Regardless, E.T. and Xiaohai are long time rivals, not just in King of Fighters but other games as well. The Best-of-five between the two went back and fourth.

However, in a intense Game 3 mirror Isla mirror match, Xiaohai came out on top against his rival. Crowning him he King of Fighters XV EVO 2024 champion.

The final results, as in the top 6 for the King of Fighters XV at EVO 2024 are as follows:

Each player had a great showing, but in the end there can only be one Evo 2024 Champion for The King of Fighters XV. Regardless, with the introduction of two new characters, there might be a huge shift for our fighters come the next tournament.

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