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Capcom’s games may still be the most popular ones at the annual Evo championships, but the greatest match this year came in the finals for BlazBlue:

ChronoPhantasma. Fighting games are often criticised for being impenetrable to newcomers, but you don’t need a degree in footsies to follow as Litchi player Garireo pulls off comeback after comeback against Dogura’s Azrael. Coming from two-nil down in the second best-offive set, Garireo delights an increasingly disbelieving crowd and casters, prompting this fine punditry: “This man is not human! This man is a legend! This is the birth of a god!”