Las Vegas is wrapping up its biggest fighting game weekend of the year, and EVO 2026’s final Sunday has already produced some memorable moments. Five game brackets have been settled, the competitive scene is buzzing, and Singapore’s FGC community has been tracking every bracket update from GMT+8 — with the most anticipated finals still ahead tonight.
GBF Rising: Kojicoco Goes Back-to-Back for Japan
PAR|Kojicoco has now won Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising at EVO two years running. The Japanese competitor carried Beatrix through the entire bracket on Sunday, resetting the grand finals and closing out the deciding set 3-0 over GS|Shio, who played Lowain throughout. Back-to-back EVO titles in a single game is a rare achievement in any era of the FGC, and Kojicoco’s combination of footsies and neutral control with Beatrix set the bar for the field all weekend. The decisive finish leaves very little room to debate who the world’s best GBVSR player is right now.
Guilty Gear Strive: RedDitto Dominates with Ramlethal
RedDitto claimed the Guilty Gear Strive EVO 2026 title running Ramlethal, defeating BMS|Verix — on Nagoriyuki — 3-1 in the grand finals. NitroNY rounded out the top three. It is a strong result for the Ramlethal camp heading into the back half of Season 4; notably, the DLC calendar keeps filling up too, with the just-announced Robo-Ky returning on 2 July. Arc System Works had a banner weekend across multiple titles at the event.
Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O.: GentlemanThief Wins at a Historic Moment
SF|GentlemanThief won the Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage championship in one of the weekend’s most dramatic finishes, defeating GKJ|Gakusei Sarah 3-2 across five tense sets while rotating between Akira and Jean. The result lands less than 24 hours after SEGA revealed Virtua Fighter: Crossroads, the long-awaited full-series revival — a coincidence that felt almost scripted. If you missed the Crossroads announcement from yesterday, that context makes GentlemanThief’s win feel all the more significant for the franchise’s future.
Under Night In-Birth 2 and Rivals of Aether 2
PAR|BigBlack took the Under Night In-Birth 2 Sys:Celes title with Byakuya, edging out BNP|Knotts 3-2 in a close deciding set — another Arc System Works-adjacent title, another PAR squad win, cementing the team’s weekend as arguably the best of any organisation at EVO 2026. Meanwhile in Rivals of Aether 2, Eggdog|Plup claimed the top spot with Orcane and La Reina.
SF6 and Tekken 8 Finals Tonight: What Singapore Fans Are Staying Up For
The two biggest titles of the weekend have not crowned champions yet. Street Fighter 6 — which drew over 2,400 entrants, the largest pool of the tournament — and Tekken 8 are both running their Top 8 finals this Sunday evening Pacific time, putting them deep in the Monday early hours for Singapore viewers. Defending SF6 champion MenaRD is in the mix, as is Tekken stalwart Arslan Ash. The Tekken 8 Season 3 reveals this weekend — including Bob and Yujiro Hanma — have the community buzzing heading into the bracket’s climax.
Results will be updated on our social feeds as they come in. For all the EVO 2026 game reveals and DLC announcements from this weekend, head to the GameTrader events archive.