Tiny Giant: first top-8 finish in TEKKEN 8

At the event

Iron Fistt Arena (Open Brackets Singles) took place on 2026-10-16 online, with 33 entrants.

Tiny Giant entered as seed 14 and finished 5th. Seed 14 projects to a 13th-place finish, so the result was 3 placement tiers better than seeding. The event was won by Barbakas.

Sets on record

1. Bracket, Winners Quarter-Final: won 2-0 against Blory (seed 30).
2. Bracket, Winners Semi-Final: won 2-0 against imthesickboy (seed 11), an upset factor of 1.
3. Top 8, Winners Semi-Final: lost 2-3 against Silly Yoshi (seed 23).

Record in these sets: 2 wins and 1 loss. The highest-seeded opponent beaten was imthesickboy (seed 11).

Why this matters

This is the first top-8 finish on record for Tiny Giant in TEKKEN 8 at an event with at least 16 entrants. It came after 8 earlier TEKKEN 8 events on record, where the best finish at an event of any size was 17th. In total we hold 10 TEKKEN 8 events for Tiny Giant.