Evo France 2026 Final Results

[u/nsm1]

• Top 8 Bracket on Start.gg
• Japanese Youtube Stream
• English Youtube stream via Evo Events

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Results

1. Dual Kevin (Rashid)
2. Tachikawa (Viper)
3. Punk (Cammy)
4. Kobayan (Zangief)
5. Hinao (Luke)
6. Problem X (Alex/Ingrid)
7. Lexx (Guile)
8. Dogura (Elena)

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• This tournament is the last major before Arjun's release
• Next Capcom Cup qualifier tournaments w/ Arjun playable will be the World Warrior Finals
• Evo France 2027 will be in Paris

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Arjun Release schedule (Requires Character Pass purchased in order to play DLC characters offline during release day maintenance)

• Tuesday, October 13, 11:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. JST
• Monday, October 12, 7:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. PDT
• Tuesday, October 13, 2:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m. UTC

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CPT Premier Points Top 8 qualifying for Capcom Cup 13

• Punk
• Higuchi
• Kobayan
• Micky
• Kilzyou
• Cosa
• Tantanmen
• Tachikawa

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• Blaz is cut off from the Top 8 placing due to Tachikawa's 2nd place finish in Evo France vs Blaz's 4th place finish at CEO as both were tied for points per 2.3.1.(1). on CPT Rules
• Tachikawa and Dual Kevin qualified for Capcom Cup regardless if either wins Evo France as their points earned will put them in the top 8 and cut off Blaz

https://sf.esports.capcom.com/cpt/rules/

[u/odd-taxi]

Congrats to Dual Kevin. Mister consistency finally wins his first Capcom premier. It was long overdue and I'm glad he did it at EVO France.

What an amazing top 8! This is what fighting games are all about!

[u/Rabbitey-]

Gutted for Tachikawa, but DK iced tf up.

Top 8 was a fun watch, and the crowd showed out. Evo France was great.

[u/magusheart]

This was the hypest top 8 I've seen in a long while. A lot of people I wouldn't have expected in Top 8, no Mai/Ryu/Sagat/Blanka/JP, lots of emotions on the stage and insanely close sets.

What a show. And good shit to Dual Kevin. After being picked up by CR, what a way to represent. Man's been on the cusp of a big win for a long time but never quite landing it. So good for him.

[u/Greek_Trojan]

What a great top 8! DK pulled the reverse sweep after the reset!

There's a lot to complain about in SF6 but it really is one of the goat competitive fighting games. Constant down to the wire matchups.

[u/Terrible_Ice_1616 → u/Greek_Trojan]

And for as stale as the matchups can feel online there was quite a bit of character diversity

[u/Greek_Trojan → u/Terrible_Ice_1616]

Even got a non-meme Ingrid set.

[u/Lanky-Survey-4468 → u/Greek_Trojan]

Online seems stale because some people will pick the best all rounder character at that patch.

[u/Gayfetus]

😭

I remember when Dual Kevin was just a little kid challenging FChamp to a money match in UMVC3... and winning. And now that little Deadpool player is an Evo Champ in some other game!

https://giphy.com/gifs/U9C6fsC5a42eQ

[u/TSDoll]

He can finally graduate to Triple Kevin.

[u/Cosmic_Eye]

Tachikawa noooo

Also, Punk looked almost unstoppable, I thought he'd win this.

[u/never_safe_for_life → u/Cosmic_Eye]

I’m no expert, but I feel like Punk has consistency issues. Like there he was about to take Tachikawa out, he took a perfect round at 2-0 (or 2-1?) and it was almost over. Then it all turned around.

Did Tachikawa just flip into overdrive? Or did Punk’s nerves give out?

[u/o___Okami]

Grats to Dual Kevin. And what a showing from Tachikawa.

Reddit/Twitter/Content Creators were already bitching about Viper+Elena moving up in the Japanese tier lists, wait till they see the ones that will come out post-Evo France.

[u/welpxD → u/o___Okami]

And conversely we should see all the characters who didn't make top 8 move down. Blanka, JP, Ryu, Sagat, all in B tier.

[u/BP_Ray → u/welpxD]

Ryu, Sagat

They technically weren't in top 8, but Hinao used both of them during his run.

[u/Earth92 → u/welpxD]

The game is very balanced.

Aside from Ryu and Luke, because they are more prevalent now than any other characters in top 48, I struggle to make a top 10 with confidence...and I don't think anybody can, unless they pour personal feelings into it.

[u/deathtofatalists → u/o___Okami]

they'll still all put blanka in S+ despite him completely dropping off the radar except for mena.

[u/bloodyshogun → u/deathtofatalists]

LOL, I like how a celebration of Dual Kevin and Tachikawa's amazing final set....

Turned into a rant about a character whose highest profile representatives mostly chose to sit out the tournament (e.g.Mena, Acqua, Shigematsu, Nishikin) . Mena also didn't participate but still got glazed. KingsVega is the only big game Blanka at this event.

I am not saying Blanka is over-rated / under-rated / correctly-rated... but I do like judging a character based on KingsVega's 25th place only. Goated.

[u/Aggrokid → u/bloodyshogun]

Yeah a premier is a numbers game, due to SF6's competition size. Even round 2 is already loaded with sponsored killers. There was one event where many stud Kimberly's attended, and lo behold a few got through to final day.

[u/curlyw → u/bloodyshogun]

both of KingsVega's losses were to Japanese Kimberlys (Matsu56 and Pipokun)

[u/TheRyanRAW → u/deathtofatalists]

The most prominent Blanka players aside from Mena are Japanese and don't travel much.

[u/lewiitom → u/TheRyanRAW]

Yeah one of the recent world warrior events in Japan had three blankas in top 8 haha, and none of them were Shigematsu or Kingsvega

[u/shaker_21 → u/deathtofatalists]

Japanese tier lists are historically weird. SFV Gief got round after round of nerfs to the point where he couldn't even link his jabs anymore, and they were still puting him ridiculously high on tier lists just because Itazan is an animal in their ranked matches.

[u/deathtofatalists → u/shaker_21]

far as i'm aware they always rank a character based on their theoretical maximum, so if the best player in the world plays a character, that is clearly the best character and needs to be nerfed. it takes no account of character specialisation or individual ability.

[u/SgtTittyfist → u/deathtofatalists]

Some japanese pros also straight up said "I am putting him this high because I hope it will cause him to get nerfed" lmao

[u/Mask___DeMasque → u/deathtofatalists]

Only one prominent Blanka player was at the tournament, so you can stop the downplay.

[u/Onphone_irl → u/deathtofatalists]

wish there were more Blanka mains with all the complaints about him

[u/B3llana]

By far the best SF6 top 8 I've watched. My goat finally got his victory. Lfg!

[u/jak_d_ripr]

Tough finish for Tachikawa after running the gauntlet of top 8, but Kevin has had so many close calls that I'm glad he finally got his Evo win while Tachi still qualified for CC with his performance. That was hype top 8, so glad I decided to tune in, only disappointment was Problem Xs Alex getting bodied in winners and then swapping to Ingrid in losers only to lose again. Every other set was a banger.

[u/Greek_Trojan → u/jak_d_ripr]

His Ingrid match was legit though, did get downloaded at the end but he was very close to closing it out a few times.

[u/jak_d_ripr → u/Greek_Trojan]

Oh yea, it was a dope set, I just like watching his Alex so was disappointed to see him literally win one game I think in the entire top 8 with his Alex.

[u/Lanky-Survey-4468 → u/jak_d_ripr]

That set was hype bro

I don't know how is gief x Alex match up but imo he should have picked him when the set was 2/2

[u/Exciting_Ad_4202 → u/Lanky-Survey-4468]

I don't know how is gief x Alex match up but imo he should have picked him when the set was 2/2

Gief kinda just mog Alex if it comes down to neutral. So Alex have to out gimmick Gief by A LOT to win.

[u/Lanky-Survey-4468 → u/Exciting_Ad_4202]

Well it was the last set

Alex could do Alex stuff for win or lose

[u/TheCommonKoala]

Tachikawa ran the gauntlet. What an insane Viper run. He won in my heart.

[u/lewiitom]

Noooo Tachikawa :( really thought he had it. Insane performance from him all day, still waiting for a Viper to win a major... Great stuff from Kevin though, came back from so many tournament points.

Brilliant top 8 all around too, one of the best that I can remember in SF6. Great character representation and some fantastic matches.

[u/LeoXT]

Tachikawa had a hell of a run. Good shit Dual Kevin. Was a great top 8, I thought Punk was gonna take it til he lost to Kev lol

[u/Mask___DeMasque]

Really happy for Kevin. He's been so consistent and so close on so many occasions that he's really paid his dues for this win.

[u/Crux_Of_Orion]

I thought Tachikawa was gonna take it. That was such a run. But glad to see Rashid finally tame a tournament.

[u/odd-taxi → u/Crux_Of_Orion]

To be fair, before this EVO France, Gachikun won CPT Singapore 2023, DreamHack Dallas 2024 and DreamHack Birmingham 2026.

Big Bird won DreamHack Summer 2024 and Red Bull Kumite 2025.

While it's not a Capcom premier, Dual Kevin won this year's EWC LCQ which was INSANELY stacked.

Rashid is definitely one of the characters with the most tournaments to his name imo.

[u/Chemicalcube325]

One of the first live EVOs I've been able to watch ever since I got into Fighting Games and Street Fighter 6. It was hype and I am so glad to see a high level Viper make it so far.

Definitely will be looking forward to seeing more of them in the future.

[u/Peopleschamp305 → u/Chemicalcube325]

Honestly this is tragic for you because this was one of the best top 8s I've seen, it's likely it's all downhill from here haha

[u/Onphone_irl → u/Peopleschamp305]

while true, once they start following people it'll be more fun at the same time. I'm new to sf6 myself, but I'm picking up who I like and don't like as players

[u/Peopleschamp305 → u/Onphone_irl]

yeah absolutely. I was being somewhat tongue in cheek since it's almost always hype watching these tournaments, but it also was really just one of the craziest and closest tournaments i've seen in this game.

[u/Lumpy-Manager8580]

That grands reset might go down among the most insane matches in SF6 history. Kevin was down on double match point THREE times, and he somehow managed to comeback from ALL of them. One of the greatest demonstrations of perserverance I've ever seen in a fighting game tournament, straight up.

[u/hloupaopica]

EVO France once again the best tournament of the season. Insane comeback from Dual Kevin. Going from 2-0 down to winning final game final round with 30% life remaining

[u/OrlandoNE]

Absolutely exctatic to see Kevin finally win. He's been steadily improving with each tourny and finally he did it. Fully earned.

[u/RawIsLaw]

Tachikawa was on demon time but Dos Kev locked TF in last minute. 

Amazing top 8 felt like a real knockout dragout fight. Dk wasn't my pick but I'm happy for him. He is a true grinder. 

[u/TempestTheMonk]

Kudos to Dual Kevin for wining Evo. It’s not easy. And a lot of great moments too.

Hats off to Dogura he put some amazing Elena skills on display.

[u/Lanky-Survey-4468]

Bro, almost felt bad for dk, this time he got this, he deserved, he has been consistently hiting top 8 at tournaments.

[u/Getting_the_gorbage]

Amazing run from Tachikawa, and well fought win from DK, splendid matches.

The entire top 8 was a delight to watch, having 8 different characters was the icing on the cake.

[u/SeenB4]

Holy finals, happy DK finally got his first EVO France win, but so gutted for Tachikawa. Both deserved it

[u/pinelotiile]

Why can't the game be like this top 8 all the time man

[u/TheRisos]

Evo france really does have the best top 8s for sf6,also nice to seeing kevs redemption after becoming a highlight for kobayan last year

[u/OldTurtleProphet]

I can see the winner from outside, just a heads up

[u/InstructionUsed8407]

I can’t believe what I just witnessed…. Greatest SF6 top 8 imo!

[u/Starscream5]

Top 8 was great, and what a comeback from Dual Kevin. I remember back in the day when he hit the scene playing UMVC3...glad he was able to get a big Street Fighter win.

[u/Zac-live]

yoo, so happy that DK finally got a massive win. he it feels like he always gets top 8, he is present so often, it finally paid off

[u/Oakwhite]

I SUMMON YOU, GREAT DESERT STORM!

[u/RRudge]

I only caught Kobayan vs Problem X and that set was crazy good.

[u/Andigaming → u/RRudge]

Honestly there is a top 8 vod on capcom youtube channel if you have the time, it is well worth the watch because all the matches are on that level.

[u/timee_bot]

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[u/bohenian12]

I'm just happy a Viper is in grand finals

[u/Foldingchai]

They went down to the wire. Glad Dual Kevin finally got one. He's been grinding for YEARS.

[u/Dratsi_]

That's why he's the goat!!!!! Finally Dual Kevin deserved it so much

[u/Stream_3]

Tachikawa played amazing, Viper is so hype

[u/Ghanimo]

Few peoples stayed for the award ceremony as it wasn't Tachikawa that won. All the crowd was with him (he was waving a french flag during all the day)

[u/MurDoct]

Dual Kevin has been playing out of his fucking mind lately

Hes going to win a big one soon

[u/lewiitom → u/MurDoct]

I mean it doesn't really get much bigger than this haha

[u/MurDoct → u/lewiitom]

Oh shit Ive had a bit to drink and wasnt aware my man won lol

[u/121jigawatts]

Grats to kevin

[u/Xc_runner_xd_player]

8 different characters in top 8, including some that people on this sub complain are too weak. Will this stop the Ryu circlejerk? Probably not

[u/Space_Lion2077]

As usual. punk choked in the matches that mattered. The footsie game was gone last the few matches. It's just all attacks and no blocks. He played it like it tns game in winners and losers final.

[u/NeighborhoodLast9422]

Great top 8, but what a lame ending.

[u/Mammoth_Opposite_647 → u/[deleted]]

Dual kevin is arguably the most underrated player in the world atm

[u/odd-taxi → u/Mammoth_Opposite_647]

While OP's comment is dumb, I feel like Dual Kevin is very appropriately rated honestly. Everyone knows him as being one of the most consistent players in the world. He just needed that little extra something to win his first premier.

He's nowhere near the most underrated player, he's not even in the conversation imo.

[u/YaYeetThePolice → u/[deleted]]

This comment is a guarantee whenever a Japanese player loses a major LMAO