Tekken World Tour Might Have a Problem of Rigged Dojo Events

Bandai Namco recently announced the roster of qualified players, who will be coming to Tekken World Tour 2025 Finals and fighting for the title of the best Tekken player in the world.

There's just one problem here. Instead of being an exciting moment for the fans, it turned into a bit of a controversy, as several posts came out with allegations against players supposedly abusing the dojo system to secure their qualifications.

One of the earliest ones comes from Nickromancer. Pointing an issue with Guam tournaments, where Allidar was allegedly abusing ghost dojos, where people simply sign up and never play, in order to maximize earned points from the events.

This would allow him to easily rack up enough TWT points to get ahead of other players, and he is now qualified for Tekken World Tour Finals.

Some critics point out that players might have simply signed on for giveaways, but the circumstances make this seem rather unlikely. Especially when players who physically couldn't be at the event are given soft DQs (where their matches are marked os 0-2 instead of proper disqualification).

Normally, this should've led to players properly being reported as disqualified, and the dojo event reassigned an appropriate amount of points.

Strangely enough, Michael Murray himself noticed this post and passed it along to the co-founder of ResetGG. However, this seemingly led nowhere, neither clearing Allidar's name, nor disqualifying him from the event.

In spite of that, it's clear that Bandai Namco was or is aware of their system being abused, since yet more evidence and investigation led to some of MEA3 region organizers being banned from any future events, and points from their tournaments getting revoked.

While it's good to see Bandai Namco take action, it seems to be a drop in the bucket.

After Nickromancer, similar allegations came out from Blckpanther, who points out that Raef might have qualified by similarly abusing fake entrants in what people are calling "ghost dojos." TWT dojo events that sign on either real or fake players who never appear at the tournaments.

This case seems especially egregious, as they feature batches of freshly created accounts, all named in a very similar way, as if someone asked AI to come up with a bunch of fake player names. Apparently the names in the first Jeddah event were even more overt, with players like Gdojo2 and Gdojo3.

Raef is by all accounts a very strong player, and while he could be entirely innocent in this situation, being strong doesn't necessarily mean that a player wouldn't also try to increase their odds to get to the biggest Tekken event there is.

Spag even made a short video covering this situation and explaining how the dojo system can be easily abused by anyone desperate enough to do it.

It's not clear if Bandai Namco will try to do anything about this situation. Given that they were notified many times with the evidence people found, and yet still decided to finalize the qualified roster, it might be set in stone at this point.

Ultimately, we all know that players who qualified through dishonest means will not win over the players who had to fight for their placement and prove that they are the strongest of their region.

Still, this is a massive blow to Tekken World Tour finals, and it's a sad sign that parts of Tekken community can't be trusted with the dojo system. While it's great at giving a chance to players in less populated areas, the system relies too much on the goodwill of participants. If Bandai Namco wants to fix this, they will have to take more control over the events, which inherently makes the whole thing more complicated. It also means more spending from the publisher, which they're never happy about.

Either that, or the whole dojo system gets scrapped or reduced to just trusted events, inherently taking away opportunities from regions that don't have their own Combo Breakers or TGUs.