From the Vault — originally published July 20, 2009. Some links, videos or prices may be out of date.
The results are in and Daigo “The Beast” Umehara has won the Street Fighter IV tournament at Evo 2009 that took place last night. Justin and Daigo do have a history of epic matches though Daigo was able to beat Justin two sets to one to take the championship. Daigo stuck with Ryu and Justin used Abel for the first set and lost then switched to Balrog and also subsequently lost to Daigo’s Ryu.
Terry Ng at Kineda has posted some great photos from the match.
Hit the jump for VIDEOS OF THE FINAL MATCHES between Justin Wong and Daigo.
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Kaisei
It was actually 3 sets to 2 of the loser's bracket. Justin Wong beat Daigo out of the winner's bracket, forcing the two to fight in the loser's bracket for the championship. Both were out of 5 games.