Evo Japan 2025 - Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising Top 8

With nearly 500 competing players, three rounds of pools, and a top 24 bracket, the top 8 of GBVSR ended up being all-Asian, with seven Japanese players and one Chinese representative. All of them were competing for a ticket to the AWT 2025-26 finals.

The Top 8 Players

The plyers that made it into the winners were Shio, Hinoki no Bou, Zangief_Dream, and Kasausagi. Joining them in the losers were a1r0ke, Tororo, Kosame, and debgame.

Kasausagi made a winnders run by defeating Zangief_Dream and Shio 3:1, and then beating Zangief_Dream in the grand final again, this time 3:2.

The final top 8 looked like this:

• 1. Kasausagi
• 2. Zangief_Dream
• 3. Shio
• 4. Hinoki no Bou
• 5. a1r0ke
• 5. debagame
• 7. Tororo
• 7. Kosame