Evo France 2025 was the largest fighting game event in Europe to date, showcasing a ton of talent in a variety of fighting game titles. This includes the first 2XKO tournament in the First Impact series.
French player Marwan ‘Wawa’ Berthe came out on top, becoming one of the best 2XKO players in the world at the start of the game’s esport scene.
Riot’s 2v2 fighting game takes popular champions from League of Legends and turns them into dynamic fighters. There’s been a lot of hype (and frustration) ahead of the game’s launch, with Riot announcing a lot of esports initiatives to increase the game’s presence in the fickle FGC. This has included the First Impact series, which started with a tournament at Evo France in Nice.
2XKO First Impact Tournament at Evo France 2025
The first-ever First Impact tournament at Evo brought a couple big names in the fighting game scene to the France. The most notable were Dominique ‘SonicFox’ McLean, an Evo champion that is no stranger to tackling all types of fighting games, and William ‘Leffen’ Hjelte, a Super Smash Bros. Melee veteran who has also been dominating in other fighting titles.
It almost seemed like one of them would be the clear winner in this new scene, but they weren’t alone. Jo’siah ‘Hikari’ Miller was also in attendance, a world champion and Evo champion for Dragon Ball FighterZ – he even won for this title at Evo France 2025. Steve ‘Supernoon’ Carbajal is another American fighting game icon that wasn’t to be ignored.
Wawa is himself an Evo champion, bringing his experience and skills in the fighting game scene to 2XKO. When it comes to Dragon Ball FighterZ, he’s won plenty of large events, including Evo and the 2022 World Championship.
There were 256 total competitors, but Wawa really had no issue taking them down. Wawa even beat SonicFox when they met in the Winners Semi-Finals, taking the victory 2-1. Wawa remained on Winners throughout Top 8, beating Supernoon to make it to the Grand Finals. In Losers, Supernoon fought through SonicFox to make it back to face Wawa once more.
In the end, Wawa won 3-1 against Supernoon, making it a pretty impressive and one-sided Grand Finals. This showed the French players’ overall domination in the early 2XKO scene.
SonicFox ended up in third and Leffen in 7-8th, making the Top 8 overall impressive. Still, Wawa is currently the one to beat in the 2XKO esport scene.
Just won 2XKO at Evo France!” Wawa tweeted. “Congrats to my GOATs, it was so fun playing them again. Merci la famille pour le support c’était aussi incroyable… Can’t wait to play and learn more about the game!”
Wawa is currently a free agent.
