The Mixup 2019: Punk beats Daigo to win at Street Fighter V
French player Super Akouma also managed to win the first Tekken World Tour event of the year.
The Mixup 2019 was just like its name, blending a Capcom Pro Tour Premiere and a Tekken World Tour Master event.
Taking place over the weekend in Lyon, France, the fighting game community showed up, with 239 attendees for Tekken 7 and 197 for Street Fighter V, according toEventHubs.
Legend Daigo “The Beast” Umehara was primed to take his first major tournament of 2019 as he tore through the competition beating out Hajime “Tokido” Taniguchi, Ryo “Dogura” Nozaki, and Amjad “AngryBird” Alshalabi from the upper bracket to get to the grand finals.
With a sprinkling of “Ume-Flash Kicks”@daigothebeastadvances onto Grand Finals.#CPT2019#TheMIXUP– Winners Finalhttps://t.co/TqnNrZI0HDhttps://t.co/qPUfYs5GADhttps://t.co/XX373dGROTpic.twitter.com/vASt93mq6n
Punk, on the other hand, was sent to the lower bracket by AngryBird during their top eight match up. He then faced Tatsuya Haitani, Benjamin “Problem X” Simon, and finally redeemed himself against AngryBird.
Winning the run back, continuing his rampage through top 8,@PunkDaGodwins losers final to advance onto Grand Finals vs@daigothebeast#CPT2019#TheMIXUP– Losers Finalhttps://t.co/TqnNrZI0HDhttps://t.co/qPUfYs5GADhttps://t.co/XX373dGROTpic.twitter.com/4xbbr40tSI
In the grand finals Punk quickly adapted to Daigo’s new in-your-face strategy and showed that Karin was better suited for such a playstyle. Daigo had all the momentum during the last match but Punk would not be denied, mounting an amazing comeback to beat the legend and take home first place along with US$7,540 and 700 Global CPT points.
Punk has shown incredible tournament placement consistency as he sits on top of theglobal leaderboardfor Capcom Cup 2019 while Daigo’s new and aggressive strategy with Guile has managed to take his opponents by surprise.
To close up the CPT Part of@THEMIXUPLyon,@PunkDaGodovercomes “Shin”@daigothebeastgoing all the way to last game, last round of Grand Finals#CPT2019#TheMIXUP– Grand Finalshttps://t.co/TqnNrZI0HDhttps://t.co/qPUfYs5GADhttps://t.co/XX373dGROTpic.twitter.com/LWX6kvagDP
Meanwhile, for Tekken 7, a Cinderella story was developing as native Tekken 7 pro, Vincent “Super Akouma” Homan, reached deep into the upper bracket but lost a close best-of-five set to Jae-hyun “CherryBerryMango” Kim during the winners finals.
What a set!@Tekken_CBMholds on for a spot in the Grand Finals!#TWT#TheMIXUPhttps://t.co/NRgewzDuTRpic.twitter.com/p61XxmI8HZ
Super Akouma then defeated Tekken 7 Evo 2018 champion Sun-woong “LowHigh” Yoon in an unbelievablelosers finalmatch up to set up the rematch against CBM.
Rallying in game 5,@SuperAkouma???????? defeats LowHigh for a runback vs@Tekken_CBM???????? in the Grand Final!#TWT2019#TheMIXUPhttps://t.co/NRgewzDuTRpic.twitter.com/00PjiqWwMB
With the stage set and the home town crowd fully behind Super Akouma, he picked up the pace to beat CBM’s Jin Kazama 3-0 to reset the bracket and then proceeded to complete the comeback by winning the final set with his unique Akuma rush-down playstyle.
Super Akouma won the first Tekken World Tour event of the year along with US$3,040 and 300 TWT points, while CherryBerryMango takes home a respectable US$1,520 and 200 TWT points.
The next Capcom Pro Tour Premiere and Tekken World Tour event is theNorthwest Majors 11taking place on April 27 to 28 at Gameworks Seattle, USA.
