A Chinese Participant In The World Tour Tournament Was Disqualified From Tekken 8

After a strong start, a Chinese Tekken 8 player was recently eliminated from the Tekken World Tour competition. 

Since 2017, Bandai Namco Entertainment, the publisher of Tekken 8, has arranged the yearly Tekken World Tour, which serves as a global exhibition of the top Tekken players. 

Throughout the season, these players are tracked, and those who place high enough on the online leaderboards are eligible to compete in the Tekken World Tour Finals, where they can win a sizable sum of money.

Essence|XCC surprised many by rising to the 9th place ranking

The first Tekken World Tour focused on Tekken 8, which debuted to overwhelmingly positive reviews back in January, will take place this year. 

Thaiger Uppercut 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand, was the final Tekken World Tour 2024 tournament before the impending Finals on December 5. 

There, a young Chinese player going by the moniker Essence|XCC shocked a lot of people by beating a number of well-known rivals to take ninth place.

Unfortunately, Essence|XCC was ultimately double-disqualified in Thaiger Uppercut 2024, therefore this is the furthest they will advance in the Tekken World Tour 2024 competition. 

Eventhubs claims that XCC’s official disqualification reason was that they were from China, which isn’t on the official list of countries from which players on the Tekken World Tour are permitted to compete. 

Players from North America, Central America, South America, West Europe, East Europe, West Africa, South Africa, North and East Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan, Central & South Asia, Southeast Asia, Oceania, Korea, and Japan are the only regions eligible to compete in the official Tekken World Tour 2024 rules.

Harada said that he would look into what happened

The news that Essence|XCC had been disqualified and was met with confusion by a number of outside onlookers, including Katsuhiro Harada, the director of Tekken 8. 

Harada stated that he will investigate the incident and that neither he nor Michael Murray, the game designer for Tekken 8, are connected to the guidelines of the Tekken World Tour in a since-deleted tweet.

The young player continued to get support from Team Essence, the eSports organization that had sponsored XCC, and they voiced disappointment about their disqualification. Despite calling the disqualification process itself “villainous,” Team Essence seems to have been unaware of the regulations prohibiting Chinese players from competing in the Tekken World Tour event. 

Though it should be noted that a number of other players from banned countries, such as China and Russia, were apparently eliminated prior to this disqualification, it is unclear how XCC was allowed to enter the Tekken World Tour 2024 competition in the first place. 

XCC seemed to be accepting the latest setback with grace, expressing gratitude to the public for their support and promising to keep improving their Tekken 8 abilities in spite of being disqualified from the latest Tekken World Tour event.

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