Ne-Yo And T-Pain DO BATTLE In Tekken 8!

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The Tekken 8 match took place August 24 t at the Global Gaming League’s first competition between the teams of T-Pain and NE-YO at HyperX Arena at the Luxor, Las Vegas. It was a tie breaking round in a match that had seen T-Pain and NE-YO’s teams battle over Tetris. TrackHawk, Tony Hawk Pro Skater, and Call of Duty. (here was even a surprise guest appearance by Flavor Flav, where he played Centipede.

NE-YO won the tie-breaker, and the overall match, so his team advances to the championship in November. The teams for the next match will be announced soon.

Boxer Shawn Porter attended the event.

Global Gaming League founder Clinton Sparks told Fightful how things came about: 

“Me and T-Pain saw a random video of NE-YO challenging Pain to Tekken, or any fighting game. Pain gets trolled often so we didn’t think much about it – until NE-YO kept coming at him, at which point Pain had to respond with something. This sparked an online buzz with people suggesting this debate be settled with a Global Gaming League match to actually see who’s better.

Fighting games have a passionate and dedicated community and Tekken is one of the best fighting games — especially if you’re a mixed martial arts fan because it spans all kinds of traditions like capoeira, wing chun, Bruce Lee’s jeet kune do, muay thai and tons more. It also has interesting storylines that keep you locked in, which aligns with what we are doing here at the Global Gaming League — rivalries and storylines throughout the season that fans can connect with and get excited about.”

Ne-yo gave Fightful a quote, saying:

“T-Pain is my guy, but there’s no chance he could have beat me playing Tekken. I’ve been playing Tekken for way too long and my skills are too sharp for him. It’s the ultimate fighting game and it’s just one of my favorite games to play. Whenever I’m on the road and on tour, I love to come back to my hotel room, unwind and play Tekken.”

Pro Tekken player Babyfacekiddo, and Global Gaming League player:)

“So NE-YO used Paul Phoenix —  a character from America whose fighting style is martial arts based off judo and T-Pain played Eddie Gordo from Brazil whose fighting style is Capoeira. The stage that was chosen at random was Yakushima which commonly is confused for having no walls but just like Coliseum of Fate,  there are walls the stage is just huge.

“Round 1 Neyo was able to Perfect (meaning he was able to kill the opponent without getting touched) T-Pain, Round 2 Tpain was able to hit Neyo with a rage art (a special move that only the player can activate once their health bar is low) but NE-YO was still successful and won the round.  Round 3 T-Pain was showing signs of life by chipping away at his health bar but NE-YO was able to take it in the end and 3-0’d”

Another version of play by play provided to Fightful

Round 1:

– Ne-yo Selected Paul as his character

– T-pain selected Eddy as his character

– Ne-yo goes into a kick combo hitting T-pain to the ground

– Ne-yo executes a ground smash combo repeatedly where T-pain is struggling to escape the stun lock

– Ne-yo wins first round with a Perfect (this means he took zero damage)

Round 2:

– Second round starts

– Ne-yo goes into his light attack combo

– Ne-yo does a upward attack knocking T-pain to the ground again

– Letting T-pain get up again, Ne-yo executes a light attack combo again knocking T-pain to the ground, teasing him

– T-pain tries to get a hit in, which after one hit gets blocked by Ne-yo who then light attack combos again

– T-pain executes a grapple into Eddy’s ultimate which lands getting Ne-yo to half health – Ne-yo recovers after the ultimate into a double heavy attack winning the round

Round 3:

– Third round starts

– T-pain comes out swinging but gets blocked by Ne-yo at first but then lands a heavy kick attack knocking Ne-yo to the ground

– Attempting a charge attack t-pain misses it though, letting Ne-yo recover – T-pain blocks several of Ne-yos light attacks and gets Ne-yo into a grapple attack – Ne-yo recovers and does some light punches and kicks, which t-pain seemingly cannot block.

– T-pain then lands a light combo knocking Ne-yo to the ground

– Ne-yo then recovers, after some light attacks on eachother Ne-yo activates Pauls ultimate which then K.O’s T-pain for the final win on the match.

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