The cycle remains unbroken. With Abadango Saga coming to a close last night, the Saga curse still persists. Not a single one of the nine players who have had sagas named after them have succeeded in winning their eponymous event. Many people were betting on Abadango to finally break the streak but unfortunately, fate and the Mario brothers conspired to send him out at 13th place, after losing to B7Games’ Dr Mario and eM|Elegant’s Luigi. Abadango’s brother in arms Komorikiri did place higher, achieving 5th place but failing to take a saga title home for Japan. It may be up to Kamemushi in a future Kamemushi Saga to finally break the curse and bring the a title back to Japan.
Top 12 of Abadango Saga was a nest of vipers, with big names like Team eLevate’s Larry Lurr, IMT|ANTi, CLG|VoiD and C9|Ally sitting in Losers’, while TSM|Zero, Komorikiri, NRG|Nairo and Rich Brown remained in Winners’, making the struggle for those final positions an absolute bloodbath. In Winners’, ZeRo started to pick up steam in his journey to Grand Finals, taking out Rich Brown with a swift 3-0, before edging out Nairo with a 3-1 victory. ZeRo only dropped three games in his path through top 48 and he seems to be returning to his 2015 state with every passing tournament.
Elsewhere in the bracket, Larry Lurr was putting on the Losers’ run to end all Losers’ runs. After being sent into the lower bracket in pools, Larry began to smash his way through everyone that stood in his way. The man looked unstoppable, racking up successive wins against Komorikiri, K9 and WaDi before cruising into Losers’ side of Grand Finals with back to back 3-0s against Ally and Nairo. Larry’s Fox was moving at near enough the speed of light when heading into Grands, resetting the bracket 3-1 against ZeRo for a final showdown between the two, reminiscent of their set at 2GGT: Mexico Saga. Unfortunately, this legendary run was not to be completed, as ZeRo regained his composure and won 3-1 in the bracket reset, claiming first place at Abadango Saga.
Alongside the blistering action on stage, congratulations must go to the 2GG team for holding a 500+ man major with singles and doubles event in a single day, without any major holdups. The TO team is running with military efficiency at this stage so major kudos to all of the behind the scenes staff who made this event happen within 24 hours. All of the VODs are available on the 2GGaming YouTube channel and check out Losers’, Winners’ and Grand Finals below.
RESULTS:
1. TSM|ZeRo (Diddy Kong)
2. eLv|Larry Lurr (Fox)
3. NRG|Nairo (Zero Suit Samus, Lucina)
4. C9|Ally (Mario)
5. Komorikiri (Cloud, Sonic)
5. Rich Brown (Mewtwo)
7. eM|Elegant (Luigi)
7. SS|WaDi (Mewtwo)