Pakistan’s Muhammad Zubair emerged victorious within the Tekken 8 championship on the Esports World Cup (EWC) in Paris on Saturday, turning into the brand new World Champion of the favored combating recreation.
Zubair achieved a clear victory over South Korea’s LowHigh within the grand ultimate of the match held from Aug 5-8, after having simply scraped by throughout the early levels.
“He got here out of nowhere and took the crown!” EWC posted on social media following the participant’s triumph.
In Friday’s second group stage, Zubair decisively defeated one other Pakistani eSports icon and Tekken star — Lahore-born Arslan “Ash” Siddique — earlier than as soon as once more beating the eight-time Evolution Championship Sequence (Evo) winner in an exhilarating 5-4 semifinal on Saturday. Arslan is considered one of Pakistan’s most outstanding esports figures and one of many main names within the world combating recreation neighborhood.
Advancing into the grand ultimate, Zubair confronted off in opposition to LowHigh in a decisively much less shut recreation, sweeping his opponent with a 5-0 victory.
The newly-crowned World Champion was awarded a money prize of $250,000.
Ash, in the meantime, settled for fourth place after shedding the decider to Australia’s Yagami.
In June, he had received the 2026 Evo sequence in Las Vegas, thought-about the world’s largest combating recreation match, together with his fourth consecutive title.
Tekken is a world-renowned online game with a large following. Different ongoing and accomplished tournaments on the EWC embody Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 7, Counter Strike 2, Dota 2, League of Legends, Avenue Fighter, and Valorant.