A new installment in a classic fighting game series is taking place over the end of this month; Red Bull Golden Letters 2024. The new tournament is an international event, with top players from all around the world turning up here. It’s a Tekken 8 event with a limited roster of 20 top players invited or qualified. What can we expect at the event?
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Red Bull Golden Letters 2024
Red Bull Golden Letters is returning for another installment this week. The event is taking place over September 28-29th. Although, we’ve already seen some action. Some players have already been competing in qualifiers held for North America, Europe, London, and Tokyo.
The event itself is a double-elimination format for Tekken 8. Players start out in a Group Stage, divided into 4 sections of five players. The top-performing players in each group move to the Finals, with the bottom two getting eliminated. As this is Golden Letters, there are some extra rules at play too. Players can win in the normal way, or through getting some particular results. They’ll need to get 3 Perfects and greats to win outside of the normal conditions.
Groups and Competing Players
There are tons of huge fighting games out there, but Golden Letters is focusing on Tekken 8. This event will be bringing in most of the world’s best competitors for this game. This is how they’ll be grouped up for the first round of the tournament.
A Group
Arslan Ash
AK
Kaneandtrench
YUYU
SourPiggy
B Group
ATIF
JDCR
Speedkicks
Ayorichie
Nino
C Group
Ulsan
joKa
Jodd
Anakin
Shounen
D Group
CBM
Yagami
Joey Fury
The-SAM-brother
Tetsu
Most of these players are invited. However, four got here through qualifiers. These are Sourpiggy, Shounen, Nino, and Tetsu. Each of these players came up through a tricky competition to secure their spot.
The whole fighting game esports tournament will be taking place this weekend. The Red Bull Golden Letters 2024 tournament will also be shown on streaming platforms too if you can’t quite make it to London for the event.