Zekken

26 | Send me music reccomendations

For Esports Work: [email protected]

[Zekken @zzzekken]

In OCE theres not much support for players in Esports, so to see two players that were constantly getting better through 2024 and 2025 in OCE play so well at SOOP was amazing to watch.
Can't wait to see their runs at EWC

[Yagami @yagami2428]

4th Place at SOOP tournament and 3rd time EWC Qualifier!!!!

Since I didn’t have sponsor, I can’t go Evo or Mixup. I’m very happy I could make the most of my last chance and get a good result!

Thank you as always everyone who support me, I will make sure to train hard for EWC 😁

[MASO @OLSAEM]

Heartpt 6 is one of the worst songs ever made, if not the worst 😭😭

Every single bar on this song aged so badly omfg 😂💔

[Zekken @zzzekken]

@UnVeilStreams such a weak character

[UnVeil @UnVeilStreams]

Aussies don't claim him ngl, heat F212 too op
😀

[Complex @Complex]

Photographer captures iguana that looks like Godzilla 🦎

📷: @dale_r_morris

[Zekken @zzzekken]

@lobo_tekken Roger main

[Mr. Hamster Nervous @spidergenome]

you're under arrest

[Zekken @zzzekken]

I love all the Harada tweets with stories and old lore he has. It's like when you're outside a party and hearing history from a group of friends about stuff you weren't there for.

[Katsuhiro Harada @Harada_TEKKEN]

The person in the foreground is Hoshino, an engineer who used to be the lead programmer for Soulcalibur. He currently works at The Pokémon Company.

[Bandai Namco Esports @BNEesports]

Introducing your #TWT2026 Master Event commentators for #TGU2026!

🗓 Dates: November 14th - 15th, 2026
📍 Location: Bangkok, Thailand

Event Info: https://t.co/QO1pOWGpXY

[⋆⋅☆ Ruby ☆⋅⋆ @RubyDotPng]

Cranbourne line has fallen, millions must take a bus replacement

[Zekken @zzzekken]

@nanfakku my top 3 audiobooks

[House of Heat° @houseofheat]

TEKKEN x Nike Collab Coming Soon 👊

[halloween forever! @Estelar_L]

mysterious deal at woolies today

[Brownman ✈️ TGU 🇹🇭 @BrownmanFgc]

UPDATE 2:
@THEJON07 has been paid what he is owed.
@yagami2428 & myself have not received any payments as of yet.

[にしうりゆっくり @nisiuriyukkuri]

ﾜｲﾜｲ！٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و♪

[⋆⋅☆ Ruby ☆⋅⋆ @RubyDotPng]

yall need to stop overreacting this place is literally fine

[Abu Dahm @dhoomow7]

😊

[Katsuhiro Harada @Harada_TEKKEN]

Man, that brings back memories. Combo Breaker is one of my favorite tournaments.

If you want to get a sense of what EVO was like just before it grew into the massive event it is today, I'd recommend checking out Combo Breaker. It gives you a glimpse of what EVO felt like on the eve of its explosive growth.

That said, I've been traveling around the world to attend community-driven tournaments since the 1990s, so compared to what I saw back then, Combo Breaker is already astonishingly huge.

Back in the '90s and early 2000s, we would actually show up at these events with arcade cabinets and copies of our games to lend out, and we'd even help unload and set everything up. Nobody ever imagined that the actual game developers might be there, and we would quietly watch the tournaments, almost as if we were trying to stay undercover.

At Combo Breaker, people would keep playing until late at night—or rather, all through the night—even in the hotel lobby. I remember occasions when, in the middle of the night, people would suddenly break into a chorus of Japanese anime songs.

The official apparel they sell is also pretty nice. A lot of it is stuff you could comfortably wear in everyday life without looking out of place. And there are plenty of fan artists selling their creations, which is always fascinating to see.

Oh, and there's another thing.

This almost never happens to me, even in California or Las Vegas, but for some reason, the Chicago community is different.

I'll just be walking down the street, and someone will roll down their car window and start yelling at the top of their lungs. Or they'll actually pull their car over, stop, and come charging toward me screaming,

"HEEEEEEEY!!!!! HARADAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
(I have to admit, there have been moments when I instinctively ducked my head because I thought I was about to get shot.)

Another thing about the Chicago community is that when you ask for directions, they have this strange habit of explaining everything using people's names, which makes absolutely no sense to me.
They'll say things like "Eisenhower" or "Kennedy," and at first I honestly thought they were giving me some kind of history lesson.

They also constantly use Lake Michigan as a reference point when giving directions.

Now, I used to be a yacht sailor, and I've actually sailed on Lake Michigan, so I know perfectly well which direction the lake is in. But I remember thinking, "How on earth is anyone who isn't from Chicago supposed to understand these directions?"

And then there's deep-dish pizza.

Everyone kept recommending it so enthusiastically that I ended up eating it practically every night. But the funny thing was, none of the Chicago community guys ever showed up at those restaurants.

So I finally asked them, "Wait, don't you guys normally eat this stuff?"

And they told me, "Nah, what we usually eat is something called tavern-style pizza. It's got a thin crust, and it's cut into squares."

I remember being utterly confused.

I mean, what the hell? You guys spent all this time recommending deep-dish pizza to me, and that's not even what you normally eat?!

I guess it's sort of like when tourists occasionally ask us Japanese people, "Where can I find a ninja house?"
(Okay, that analogy doesn't really work at all, but you get the idea.)

Anyway, Combo Breaker is an event that holds a lot of great memories for me, in more ways than one.