First official 2XKO tournament sees Wawa victorious at Evo France 2025

Evo France 2025 was the biggest combating sport occasion in Europe to this point, showcasing a ton of expertise in quite a lot of combating sport titles. This consists of the primary 2XKO event within the First Influence sequence.

French participant Marwan ‘Wawa’ Berthe got here out on prime, changing into top-of-the-line 2XKO gamers on this planet at first of the sport’s esport scene.

Riot’s 2v2 combating sport takes in style champions from League of Legends and turns them into dynamic fighters. There’s been quite a lot of hype (and frustration) forward of the sport’s launch, with Riot saying quite a lot of esports initiatives to extend the sport’s presence within the fickle FGC. This has included the First Influence sequence, which began with a event at Evo France in Good.

The primary-ever First Influence event at Evo introduced a pair huge names within the combating sport scene to the France. Essentially the most notable have been Dominique ‘SonicFox’ McLean, an Evo champion that’s no stranger to tackling all sorts of combating video games, and William ‘Leffen’ Hjelte, a Tremendous Smash Bros. Melee veteran who has additionally been dominating in different combating titles.

It nearly appeared like one in all them can be the clear winner on this new scene, however they weren’t alone. Jo’siah ‘Hikari’ Miller was additionally in attendance, a world champion and Evo champion for Dragon Ball FighterZ – he even received for this title at Evo France 2025. Steve ‘Supernoon’ Carbajal is one other American combating sport icon that wasn’t to be ignored.

Wawa is himself an Evo champion, bringing his expertise and expertise within the combating sport scene to 2XKO. With regards to Dragon Ball FighterZ, he’s received loads of giant occasions, together with Evo and the 2022 World Championship.

There have been 256 complete opponents, however Wawa actually had no concern taking them down. Wawa even beat SonicFox after they met within the Winners Semi-Finals, taking the victory 2-1. Wawa remained on Winners all through Prime 8, beating Supernoon to make it to the Grand Finals. In Losers, Supernoon fought via SonicFox to make it again to face Wawa as soon as extra.

Ultimately, Wawa received 3-1 towards Supernoon, making it a reasonably spectacular and one-sided Grand Finals. This confirmed the French gamers’ total domination within the early 2XKO scene.

SonicFox ended up in third and Leffen in 7-Eighth, making the Prime 8 total spectacular. Nonetheless, Wawa is at the moment the one to beat within the 2XKO esport scene.

Simply received 2XKO at Evo France!” Wawa tweeted. “Congrats to my GOATs, it was so enjoyable taking part in them once more. Merci la famille pour le help c’était aussi incroyable… Can’t wait to play and study extra in regards to the sport!”

Wawa is at the moment a free agent.