Vincent “Super Akouma” Homan dominated this year’s TWT Challenger Clash of the Olympians event in Athens, Greece, running through the field to reach a grand finals match against Sang-hyun “JeonDDing” Jeon.
The grand finals was a rematch of the winners finals, which Super Akouma won 3-1. Super Akouma stuck to his trusty Akuma throughout, while JeonDDing switched to his secondary character, Lucky Chloe.
Super Akouma got off to a quick start, and seemed to have JeonDDing figured out from the get-go, with a quick meter-burn combo and a punish to take the first round.
While JeonDDing managed to tie up the score 2-2, he was unable to close out the first game despite hitting a huge Rage Art and then following it up with a while-running low, as Super Akouma was able to counterattack with a meter-burn uppercut to take the first game.
For game two, JeonDDing switched to back to his more reliable main of Eddy Gordo, and immediately played better, taking the game 3-1, thanks to some tricky mixups.
However, JeonDDing was unable to maintain momentum and Super Akouma took game three with ease, winning 3-0 and finishing off round three with another huge uppercut.
In game four, with the score tied 2-2 and time running out, Super Akouma tried to finish off JeonDDing but ended up overextended and left himself open to a counter-hit, which JeonDDing gladly took advantage of, immediately launching Super Akouma with a deadly combo, to take the game and tie up the score.
Game five again went the distance, with the rounds tied up 2-2. But with time ticking down and JeonDDing holding a life advantage, Super Akouma had no choice but to run in and attack. Unfortunately, JeonDDing laid low (literally) and ran down the clock to get the reset.
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The second set started with another close game, with the score again tied 2-2. With time ticking down, it looked like Super Akouma would face a repeat of the previous game, but this time he caught JeonDDing with a huge launch, and then comboed it into a Rage Art to take game one.
Game two was a nearly perfect repeat of game one, with the score tied 2-2 and time again running out. This time Super Akouma hit JeonDDing with a big meter-burn combo and then finished it in style with his Rage Art finisher.
For game three, Super Akouma broke the cycle and managed to close out the final game 3-1 with another big meter-burn combo and his third finishing Rage Art of the set.
With his triumphant win, Super Akouma went home with US$500 and 150 Tekken World Tour points, moving up to 5th place on the TWT leaderboard.
Runner-up JeonDDing won US$250 and 100 TWT points, rising up to 33rd place.
The next Tekken Master event will be REV Major in Manila, which will happen on September 28-29.
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