Now that Snake Eyez has hung up his tiny red underwear in favor of Ryu, it could be argued that America’s strongest Zangief player is Frankie “Stupendous” Lee Jr, Wednesday Night Fights regular and consistently threatening master of muscle power. Clearly Dark Sided–a gaming team based in Australia–agreed, because they’ve announced that Stupendous will now be sporting their tag, joining Australian Street Fighters Falco, ZG and Pyro on their Street Fighter V team.

We're proud to announce the addition of @DS_Stupendous to the Dark Sided family! ? – @bahnism pic.twitter.com/3kuLjrGvqu — Dark Sided (@dark_sided) July 29, 2016

With great results like 13th place at CEO 2016 and cracking the top 100 at Evo 2016, it’s fair to say that Stupendous deserves the sponsorship, especially when you take his unflinching loyalty to Zangief into account. And, in case you were wondering: Stupendous was indeed the Zangief in that Time Over loss at CEO this year:

Source: Dark Sided (via Twitter)