teQi: first top-8 finish in TEKKEN 8

At the event

Demon Gauntlet took place on 2026-10-09 online, with 54 entrants.

teQi entered as seed 16 and finished 3rd. Seed 16 projects to a 13th-place finish, so the result was 5 placement tiers better than seeding. The event was won by Abdullah.

Sets on record

1. Bracket, Winners Round 1: won 2-0 against Zaibatsu (seed 49).
2. Bracket, Winners Semi-Final: won 2-1 against Tiny Giant (seed 33).
3. Bracket, Winners Final: won 2-0 against Barbakas (seed 24).
4. Top 8, Winners Semi-Final: lost 2-3 against Abdullah (seed 29).
5. Top 8, Losers Quarter-Final: won 3-0 against Annas Howard (seed 34).
6. Top 8, Losers Semi-Final: won 3-1 against Fahad (seed 5), an upset factor of 3.
7. Top 8, Losers Final: lost 1-3 against Maniac? (seed 14).

Record in these sets: 5 wins and 2 losses. The highest-seeded opponent beaten was Fahad (seed 5).

Why this matters

This is the first top-8 finish on record for teQi in TEKKEN 8 at an event with at least 16 entrants. It came at teQi's first TEKKEN 8 event on record. In total we hold 1 TEKKEN 8 event for teQi.