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Some of the best competitors received their invitations to this fighting esports event. Through the Group Stage and Playoffs, only one have been crowned.
Invitational tournaments have a special atmosphere. Such events as TEKKEN 8 Red Bull Golden Letters 2024 feature thoroughly selected players, so each and every match here is a banger. Also, the organizers pay a lot of attention to introducing these people, showing their real-world personalities. You rarely have such a chance at a huge open tournament with hundreds of participants.
Red Bull Golden Letters 2024 happened from Sept. 28 to Sept. 29. Sixteen players were invited to it, and four qualified for this TEKKEN 8 esports event. Everything about the tournament is here: the stream, schedule, info on the format, a brief introduction of the players, and the final results.
“He’s back to snap you like a twig.”
Amy Chen
Where to watch TEKKEN 8 Red Bull Golden Letters 2024
you may watch the Playoffs of this TEKKEN 8 invitational right here, as the stream is embedded below.
Schedule and format of Red Bull Golden Letters 2024
The event consisted of two stages:
All TEKKEN 8 matches at Red Bull Golden Letters 2024 were of the best-of-three format (Bo3). The event had a unique rule of automatically winning a match after achieving three Perfects or Greats in it.
A few top players registered for this tournament in Bolivia
Eugene Bozhenko
The results of TEKKEN 8 Red Bull Golden Letters 2024
Check out the Red Bull Golden Letters 2024 TEKKEN 8 results in this section. Our recap is divided into the tournament stages: Groups and Playoffs.
Group Stage
The Group stage matches are in the video below. There were quite a few exciting TEKKEN 8 fights, and you can learn a lot from watching these dedicated players competing for the Playoff qualification.
An interesting thing to notice is that Arslan Ash had difficulties in his group. He lost two out of four matches: to AK and to Kaneandtrench, so Arslan Ash advanced to the losers side. The British player Kaneandtrench looked amazing with his Yoshimitsu, and he completed the Group stage with no losses.
Nino, one of the qualified participants, played Kuma and had no losses in his group too. ULSAN was on his Dragunov, and his results were rather expected. CBM and Yagami finished on the top of Group D, and it was a great result from Yagami, an Australian player.
Here are four groups, players in them, and the final results: numbers of won and lost matches.
Playoff brackets
This part of the competition started with the winners quarter-finals. The closest match was between AK and Nino — only in the last, decisive round, Shaheen of AK defeated Kuma of Nino.
Four players left the TEKKEN 8 esports tournament after the first set of elimination matches: Yagami, Nino, JDCR, and Shounen. Nino was eliminated due to the event’s rule: Tetsu got one Perfect and two Great rounds against him. The second Great was in a round-point situation, so Tetsu would win anyway.
In the winners semi-final, CBM nicely recovered from a lost Round 1 vs Kaneandtrench and won the match with 3:1. ULSAN and AK had an amazingly close fight! The players exchanged rounds, and AK reached the series point first. Still, ULSAN took the match to the decisive round and won it in a very dare situation.
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In another super close match, Kaneandtrench eliminated Arslan Ash himself. AK won over Jodd thanks three Perfects — when AK Jodd had the match point.
ULSAN destroyed CBM in the winners final, even if the opponent had some really good rounds. In Game 3, CBM made the reverse sweep dream slightly more real thanks to an amazing comeback in one of the rounds. ULSAN did not let this happen! He won that game with a Time Up.
ULSAN was absolutely unstoppable at this tournament! In the grand final, AK resisted this power nicely, but ULSAN was somewhat better at various crucial moments.
ULSAN is the winner of TEKKEN 8 Red Bull Golden Letters.
Final standings and TEKKEN 8 characters
A nice variety of characters was showcased at this T8 esports event. Only Speedkicks switched from his usual main, Hwoarang, to Steve, to be relevant in a difficult matchup. All the others were loyal to their TEKKEN 8 fighters.
Dragunov is on the top, but he is also among the top 9-12, so he is not too broken. Yoshimitsu reached the top 4. There are two Nina players in the top 6.
How to change your TEKKEN 8 main menu character
Players can now customize their favorite TEKKEN 8 character and show them off on the main menu! Here are the instructions on how to do this.
TEKKEN 8 players at Red Bull Golden Letters 2024
Most players were invited to this event, and only four got their spots via open qualifications: SourPiggy, Nino, Shounen, and Tetsu. Check out the full list of Red Bull Golden Letters 2024 participants in the tables above: the division into four groups. The image below also shows the participants — note thatATIFcan’t participate because of personal reasons, so he was replaced.
Top participants
Here we can highlight a few of the most prominent TEKKEN 8 players at the event and mention their recent achievements.
Arslan Ash talks TEKKEN 8 at Evo Las Vegas: “I never thought that I would make it this far. I’m so happy I have come this far.”
“When I was a child, we used to have an arcade center in front of my house. So coming back from school, I used to go to the arcade center with my cousins and my brothers and my schoolmates.”
KDF | ULSAN: “Attacking with [Reina] is more difficult after the patch”
Our exclusive interview with the TEKKEN 8 champion of DreamHack Summer 2024.
Anakin talks TEKKEN 8, FGC, and origin story at Evo 2024: “Every tournament feels like a family reunion.”
“I really enjoyed asking my older sister to play or asking my dad to play. That was the start of it.”
Just a week after T8 Red Bull Golden Letters 2024, we will witness the last TWT 2024 Master event. Thaiger Uppercut 2024 takes place in Thailand from Oct. 5 to Oct. 8. For allTEKKEN 8 news and updates, stick around on esports.gg!
