AngryBird and iDom Join Red Bull Kumite 2024

Red Bull Kumite is an annual event, but one with an elevated level of hype for Street Fighter. The latest tournament in the series, Red Bull Kumite 2024, was recently announced. It’s coming up soon, taking place in New York. The original announcement for the tournament confirmed one attendee but promised some of the biggest SF 6 players would be showing up. Now a bit closer to the tournament, we’ve gotten confirmation of a few more players.

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Red Bull Kumite 2024 have been gradually teasing out the invited named names to this new tournament. Organizers have just announced four more players who have been invited to the tournament, including some of the best active in the game. Who else is attending the new Red Bull Kumite 2024 tournament?

4 More Players Announced for Red Bull Kumite 2024
Red Bull Kumite is returning soon, taking place right in New York. Four more names have been announced for the new tournament, and it looks like one of the most stacked rosters we’ve seen. The first of the new names is Chris Wong. We’re also getting iDom, one of the stronger players from the first year of SF 6 and fighting game esports.

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The next new player announced is going to be AngryBird. Last year’s EVO champion is still a dominant force in the game. The last of the new names is Hibiki, a newer player but it’s always fun to see emerging talent represented in events like this.

New players invited to Red Bull Kumite are showing the tournament is set up to be one of the most exciting. We’ll see how all these players rank against other when the tournament begins pretty soon.

Kumite Returns
Red Bull Kumite is a tournament series that’s had a long history in fighting games. This year, we’re getting a new installment in the series. Only the second to feature Street Fighter 6, the Red Bull Kumite 2024 tournament is the ninth in the series and the biggest so far.

We saw Red Bull Kumite make a comeback last year, to celebrate the launch of Street Fighter 6. In the time since we’ve seen the game go on to be a standout in the genre, one of the best fighting games. Now a year into its game’s meta, it’ll be interesting to see another Red Bull Kumite take place. A chance to see how players have changed and how the game has developed. How will the Red Bull Kumite 2024 event work?

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Red Bull Kumite 2024 Announced
The 2024 edition of the Red Bull Kumite tournament has just had its first details announced. The tournament series will be holding its newest installment early in 2024, with a cage match going on in Brooklyn. The series is moving to New York for this outing, a big contrast from the 2023 Red Bull Kumite location.

This tournament will be focusing exclusively on Street Fighter 6. 16 different players will be taking part in the tournament. The format is pretty unique here though. They’re playing in best of 9 matches, with a single elimination bracket. Unlike most tournaments, there’s no secondary bracket to rise back up. Once a player is out, they’re out. The players chosen will be determined by past performance, with invites going out to some of the best Street Fighter 6 players.

The final few players though will be decided by an open event. There will be. Last Chance Qualifier where 256 people compete to make the roster. We already know that last year’s winner Big Bird has been invited and we can expect similarly impressive names to make up the rest of the invites. The whole event is going to take place March 16-17th. If you can’t get to the event in person though, it’ll be broadcast online by Red Bull too. This will be a great tournament to restart competitive Street Fighter after we wrap things up with the Capcom Cup X next month.