Kabeer Butt: first top-8 finish in TEKKEN 8

At the event

PPG - Battle of Champions (Season 6) (Tekken 8 (Dojo 96+)) took place on 2026-10-24 in Lahore, PK, with 221 entrants.

Kabeer Butt entered as seed 117 and finished 3rd. Seed 117 projects to a 97th-place finish, so the result was 11 placement tiers better than seeding. The event was won by Ahsan Ali.

Sets on record

1. Pools, Winners Round 1: won 2-0 against Waseem RC (seed 140).
2. Pools, Winners Quarter-Final: won 2-0 against Ali Raza (seed 76), an upset factor of 1.
3. Pools, Winners Semi-Final: won 2-1 against Jinrang (seed 21), an upset factor of 5.
4. Pools, Winners Final: won 2-0 against Umair khan (seed 69), an upset factor of 1.
5. Top 16, Winners Quarter-Final: won 2-1 against Mohsin Shooter (seed 13), an upset factor of 6.
6. Top 8, Winners Semi-Final: won 3-0 against Shehram (seed 16), an upset factor of 6.
7. Top 8, Winners Final: lost 0-3 against Ahsan Ali (seed 3).
8. Top 8, Losers Final: lost 1-3 against Mohsin Shooter (seed 13).

Record in these sets: 6 wins and 2 losses. The highest-seeded opponent beaten was Mohsin Shooter (seed 13).

Why this matters

This is the first top-8 finish on record for Kabeer Butt in TEKKEN 8 at an event with at least 16 entrants. It came after 21 earlier TEKKEN 8 events on record, where the best finish at an event of any size was 9th. In total we hold 22 TEKKEN 8 events for Kabeer Butt.