Bleed claims 2XKO title as EVO France crowns eight champions in Nice

Bleed has won the 2XKO tournament at EVO France 2026, taking the top prize as the Nice event closed out one of the biggest stops yet on the game's Competitive Series calendar, according to Esports.net News.

The win carried extra weight because EVO France sat as the penultimate Major of the 2026 circuit, making the Nice bracket a key staging post in the season's story even though Esports.net News reported that the available results do not confirm how the finish affects points, standings or qualification for whatever comes next.

Bleed collected €37,833.90 for first place. YHikari finished second for €18,916.95, while SonicFox and INZEM took third as a duo, earning €14,187.71 between them.

That top three underlines the scale of the prize pool on offer for a game that Riot has been steadily folding into the established fighting-game tournament circuit rather than running as a standalone series.

2XKO was far from the only story in Nice. EVO France ran eight main-game brackets alongside eight side events, and the wider programme produced its own share of notable results across the weekend.

Dual Kevin won the Street Fighter 6 tournament, taking €20,000 and, with it, qualification for Capcom Cup 13.

In Tekken 8, Team Vitality's JeonDDing won €15,300 along with a place at the Tekken World Tour Finals 2026. The event's own account described the result as JeonDDing's first Tier 1 EVO victory, a notable marker for the player regardless of the 2XKO headline elsewhere on the card.

The rest of the main-game champions were spread across the bracket: Zando won Tokon, GO1 took Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, NitroNY won Guilty Gear -STRIVE-, Pepe Uehara claimed Avatar Legends, and ZanDori won Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising.

Avatar Legends' bracket was notable in its own right, with Esports.net News reporting it was among the first major tournaments to be held for that game.

EVO France's standing as the second Evolution Championship ever staged in Europe added to the occasion, giving the 2XKO circuit a significant platform even as the competition for the bigger fighting-game titles ran in parallel across the same weekend.

What happens next for 2XKO's season is not yet settled in public terms. EVO France's billing as the penultimate Major points clearly to one more circuit stop before the year's story is complete, but Esports.net News noted that the event results do not name or date that final Major.

For now, bleed leaves Nice holding the tournament win, with the rest of the 2XKO Competitive Series still to be decided.