Dominique "SonicFox" McLean has won titles in a number of games, but in Dragon Ball FighterZ, he found his challenge in Goichi "Go1" Kishida. After losing to Goichi in several tournament and exhibition sets, McLean finally got his tournament win yesterday in a heated grand finals at Combo Breaker 2018.

One of the best parts about a series of bouts between two talented fighters is seeing how they adapt. When a player has to scrap it and step outside their comfort zone, that's where contenders are made. And it's exactly what Hoa "Anakin" Luu did in a tense Tekken 7 loser's bracket match-up today.

The recent fighting game tournament Combo Breaker featured the obvious big games such as Street Fighter V and Injustice 2, but a less-heralded game had one of the event's best and most unconventional showings. Vampire Saviour, a 1997 fighting game featuring demons, zombies, and mummies, drew perhaps the greatest collection of North American competitors it's ever seen, setting the stage for an amazing grand finals match between characters thought to be two of the weakest on its roster.

While one-on-one battles are commonplace in many fighting games, it isn't really something you see go down in Skullgirls all that often. But the Combo Breaker grand finals last weekend featured Dominique "Sonic Fox" McLean and Jeremiah "WingZero" Beaty, two of the community's best competitors, using just one character apiece. Both players left a path of destruction behind them as they journeyed to the championship match with their unconventional playstyles.

When you enter a gaming tournament, you usually know what you're in for. Unless you're entering a mystery game tournament. Do that, as dozens of people did at the Combo Breaker event in St Charles, Illinois last weekend, and you're playing the notorious Dong Dong Never Die. That's just for starters. Weird picks followed in bracket after bracket throughout in one of the weekend's most entertaining events.