Tony Cannon

Tech Lead at Riot Games working on 2XKO. GGPO rollback networking guy. Evo co-founder.

[Tony Cannon @Pond3r]

GGPO has a new home and is now available under the MIT License. Get it here!: https://t.co/7KXHGQ7OMN

[Ben Forbes @draggles]

just to set the record straight:

building Sett started after the feb layoffs, he wasn't always planned or delayed. he's coming out (along with The Climb) because the dev team took a big swing, rallied (despite half the team being gone) and built him in 6mo

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A grocery register. The woman said, “How are you?”

I have been studying this country. I decided to answer correctly.

“My left knee is honest today,” I said. “I slept six hours. I miss a mountain I cannot see from here. Thank you for asking.”

She blinked. The line behind me became a living thing.

“...That’s great, babe. Paper or plastic?”

I chose paper, because it can be folded into an apology.

Outside, Megan was waiting with the car. She looked at my face and sighed the way a teacher sighs when the lesson was on page one.

“Nobunaga. That’s not a question.”

“She asked how I was.”

“She asked if you are going to be normal for the next twelve seconds.”

I was silent.

“You say I’m fine,” Megan said. “Even if you are on fire. Especially if you are on fire. Then you take your bags.”

The next day I went back. The same woman said, “How are you?”

“I’m fine,” I said.

She smiled as if I had finally learned my own name.

I was not fine. The knee remained honest. The mountain remained gone.

But the door opened, and I was allowed through, and in this country that is the whole conversation.

So tell me, America.

When you ask a man how he is, and you do not want the weather of his soul — what are you actually asking?

And when he says he is fine, do you hear the mountain he put down to make the word small enough?

I am fine.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

A woman in Procurement ended an email to me with "Per my last email."

I know a formal challenge when I see one.

I replied: "Per your last email, which I have read four times and now keep beside my bed."

She wrote back: "As previously stated."

I answered: "As you previously stated, and as the moon stated to the tide."

Forty minutes passed.

Then: "Are you messing with me."

I wrote: "I would never. I am matching your formality, as one knight matches another's armor before the dance."

No reply for a day. I prepared my desk for departure.

The next morning she appeared at my desk, looked down at me, and said: "The moon stated to the tide."

She had quoted me. To my face. In this country, that is a marriage.

Now our whole team writes like this. "Per the old ways." "As the tide remembers." The CFO joined in on Tuesday. Nobody knows why. The emails take longer and everyone is happier.

I will never tell her that "per my last email" is, where I come from, a declaration of war.

She thinks it is a game.

It is a game now. She made it one.

That is the entire history of our friendship, and I have said none of it out loud.

[Esteban Martinez @TheBesteban]

We’ve always wanted to do one of these intros that somehow gets all of the event’s top 8 featured and this year we had the right amount of circumstances to make this happen.

Very happy to see @MetaMeeks work his magic again this year.

[Ian Torres @serrotnai]

sharing this forbidden teemo tech in honor of 2XKO's EVO debut

[GhostFrom3S @ Pray4MoneyMatches @GhostFrom3S]

Everyone reacting to @TheNitten predicting 2XKO doing Double Character drop:

[Reagan Kathryn @reagankathryn_]

Im going to CRY. Me and my dad have been playing as a duo in @Play2XKO and my sister sent me this photo today. He told her "Im practicing so I don't embarrass Reagan" 😭😭😭 HE HAND WROTE THE BUTTONS

[Evo @Evo]

#Evo2026 Early Bird Registration Leaderboard

[Rick @TheHadou]

Launch day.

[eskay @eskay520]

the eskay lily fgc tourist duo had way too much fun in 2xko yesterday hehehe

[Tony Cannon @Pond3r]

Thanks so much @esportawards! The FGC has given us so much. We’ve just tried to give a little back. Thanks to everyone in the FGC for keeping the spirit of fighting games alive and for letting us be a part of it.

[Esports Awards Presented by Thunderpick @esportsawards]

Congratulations to @ProtomCannon & @Pond3r, our second inductee into the 2025 Lifetime Achievement in Esports.

[Iheartjustice @IHeartjustice_]

I told Lily today that she might benefit from labbing a combo real quick after a loss streak,

She said "Fuck that I'm better" and doom queued.

She's more FGC than most people will ever be LOL 😌

[2XKO @Play2XKO]

hello 2xko tournament organizers, pls fill out this form so we know u exist: https://t.co/zut5EFeHNT

password is letsgo

[lily🪷 @LilyPichu]

i think one of the best things i’ve ever gotten into are fighting games. just makes me really happy. 🌸

[BMS | ib @Chez_ib]

They’re twins 👥
They’re ranked #1 and #2 on the Japanese server 🇯🇵
And they play as a duo, one of the most beautiful story in 2XKO ❤️

@2WINz25 just registered for IBGAMES this Sunday

Now featuring top players from Japan, the US, and Europe

SEKAI 🌍

[Kayane @Kayane]

I see a lot of English speakers wondering where @neiaa_tk comes from and how come this young 16 years old girl came in tournament so this is the whole story :

Neia sent me a message on Insta in May while she was still 15, she said I was a source of inspiration for her. That she is passionate about video games especially since she was 8 years old with Tekken 7.

She said she would love to come in tournament and be part of the community but that her age can prevent her to do so. That she hopes to come to my Kayane Session in June at Vitality Hive (Training session for every level with 100 players) to meet and play with me and live this first experience.

I saw her message and replied the same day, I am truly happy I could see this message ! I told her to come to my event, that I would personally welcome her and present her to members of the community I trust the most, so that she can feel she's not alone.
I told her I never regretted to have come offline, that it changed my life and that I've met all my friends thanks to that. 👍

So she was reassured and came to the event, she was so shy she was walking near the stage where I was, not knowing what to do, that was very cute to see hahaha 😆, I assume it was her who DMed me !
So I talked to her directly and invited to play with me. That's when I directly saw her AMAZING level with Lili, like wow.

I know I'm not a Tekken player at first, I have a Soul Calibur background but I still know and recognize an impressive player when I meet one. 😳
Even if I played Tekken seriously only for 1 year and half since T8, I could go to events and play multiple top players from all over the world. And I immediately knew that she is of this caliber. I made her play with some top French players, they all told me the same as me, they were all very impressed.

I said it on Twitter after the Session, people could think I exaggerated when I said that she will be a World Top Player if she participates to tournaments, and she actually just proved herself in 4 months only !

After my event, she went to several tournaments in Paris, managing to be TOP 8 at her first tournaments gathering the best French players.

She ranked 13th at UFA beating renowned players and managed to be 2nd best French performance after Hexmark and along side Jodd and Super Akouma who have many years of professional experience.

Then for #EVOFrance2025, the French Esports Team @BMS_CREW contacted me to sponsor Neia to support her for this tournament. (they also sponsored Verix and Hikari for EVO)

Neia was very worried about missing school one day to go to EVO on Friday, so I managed with @B00BI_ to contact very fastly the National Education to alert her school that she has huge opportunities coming her way and she would need to miss some classes without penalizing her. The school director learned about all the story and went to see Neia in person, congratulated her and supported her, so that she could have official good reason to miss class and go to EVO.
That was very important for us, Neia and her family, so she could go and compete with all her soul.

She just played out of my expectations, ranked 17th at her first EVO over 1169 players, she could beat amazing players and be mentally so strong. I lack of words to say how proud and how impressed I am. I wasn't solid like her at 16 for sure whereas I started competing at 9, I didn't have this vision of the game.

And she told me she only trained online in Ranked matches, she doesn't even lab really.
Now, I'll make sure she can get the most good experiences offline and play with strong players to gain even more matchups knowledge.

Neia has a long way to go, a lot of adventures to live, many countries to discover thanks to tournaments, Tekken players to meet and play with, and I'll make sure that everything goes smoothly !
I hope we will be able to find a good Sponsor or Team for the next tournaments to come as BMS was only for EVO France.

She is truly respected and loved by the French community and fans, since the day I met her until now, I shared everything I lived with her and people could follow her story and her amazing performances. (What is that speedrun though !!!)

She has made me very happy, I want to keep doing a lot of things for the Fighting Games Community in France, and keep organizing offline events to find other precious pearls like her. If it only took a DM to reply to have such a story, imagine all the hidden potentials we can find !

I hope you guys continue to support her, I truly thank you for all the kind messages towards her and even me.
Thank you for reading this very long message, at least you have everything now! 🙏

[Sherry Nhan @sherryjenix]

Made it to the @Play2XKO after party!! It’s nuts in here!!

[2XKO @Play2XKO]

2xko official cinematic drops tomorrow. tune in @ 8 am pt

[SonicFox @SonicFox]

I will be simply spending all of my money on cosmetics