KOFXI Sawakoro Festival 2024: Unterschied zwischen den Versionen

As the grand finals were about to begin, the last players dropped their casual matches and a huge crowd was forming on each side of the stream cabinet. Rallying behind their champions, most of the Nagoyan players were standing behind Arata/Ozuma/Gian, with many of the others standing either on U-rasia/Kentucky/Nori's side or around the stream station, eagerly anticipating the matches.<br>

Arata first had to face Kentucky's skillful Whip, which proved too strong. She first eliminated Kula, then almost Gato before she finally was KOed, but the damage was done - Kentucky had an untouched, 3-stock leader Athena left, plus his backup Yuri, and managed to win the first match. Next up was Ozuma vs Kentucky. Ozuma's Gai managed to deal a good amount of damage against Whip, but got KOed anyway. Kenta managed to whittle down Ozuma's K' until landing a skilful combo into Athena's LDM and almost killing K'. Right after this was a small window of opportunity where Ozuma had 2 skill stocks and could have landed a stun- or kill combo, and the chance presented itself, but he unfortunately dropped the combo. Ozuma carried on however and almost managed a crazy comeback with Gato, but Kenta took the match with a wakeup j.C in reaction to Ozuma Gato's 214X.<br>

Next up was U-Rasia: time for a real boss battle. Many blows were traded in the point matchup and the crowd was cheering for Gian with every hit. Eventually, Gian's Kula emerged victorious against Oswald. Gian kept up the pressure and managed to land a risky rayspin on block> delay slide hit> QS Gato for good damage against U-rasia's Kula. U-rasia in turn was able to QS to K' for a nice chain drive combo, proceeding to KO Gato with an instant overhead j.C>623A>236236A. A missed 623C should spell doom for his K' however, which was stunned, then KOed by Gian's Ryo>Kula>Ryo combo. One last incoming crossup and Gian had taken the match.<br>

Now only Gian and Nori were left, the very last match of the event was to begin, and one of the best matches of the entire tournament. Nori a played a patient game with Ralf against Kula, always keeping the perfect distance for his normals to hit, outside of ray spin range. The matchup was even, with Gian eventually shifting from Kula to Gato to finish off Ralf. Nori ended up in a pinch in the corner against Gian's Kula with his own and had to saving shift to Gato before Gian had to invest any resources, which now gave the advantage to Gian. Fortunately, Nori was able to finally KO Kula with his Gato, and with great awareness decided not to risk doing mid-screen okizeme against Ryo (who has no landing recovery from a DOWN!), instead choosing to tag in Kula again. A well-timed guard cancel got Nori out of Gian's Gato's tenryu, and a saving shift counter hit shortly after allowed him to get some damage in. The timer began creeping closer to zero, and both players were losing life at the same rate, the match was close to reach an exciting conclusion, with Nori having a judgement lead with 4 seconds left. Gian however managed to hit with an instant overhead j.D in the Gato mirror match, KOing Nori's Gato, snatching away the judgement lead at the last second. An incredible match and tournament had come to an end: Arata/Ozuma/Gian had won the tournament!