The Road to EVO 2013 tournament series wrapped up this weekend with Community Effort Orlando 2013 in Orlando, Florida. Didn’t catch the stream? Here are some of the highlights from finals on Sunday.

Scorpion OP or Ban Chris G?

Depending on who you talk to, worries about Scorpion being overpowered in Injustice: Gods Among Us were either validated or put to rest. On one hand, FNATIC|Perfect Legend, DEG, EMP|REO, and EMP|CD Jr. all used Scorpion from time to time in order to make it into the top eight bracket — but they still weren’t able to get past AGE|NYChrisG, who took first place over Perfect Legend with Green Arrow and Black Adam. Also worth noting: Both DEG (4th) and Salt Face brought some high-level Harley Quinn play to the top eight; adjust your tier listings accordingly, stream monsters. Lastly, Perfect Legend won MK9, and is looking like he’s in good shape to defend his EVO title for the second time.

Evil Geniuses x Street Fighter x Tekken

Team Evil Geniuses enjoyed a dominant run in Street Fighter x Tekken ver. 2013; not only did Momochi charge through the entire tournament unchallenged, he also played against fellow EG teammate Justin Wong in the grand finals, and Ricky Ortiz finished fourth under NorCal player LPN. But despite the new patch and revitalized tournament scene, SFxTK still can’t get no respect; Momochi and Justin both agreed to truncate the grand finals to a best-of-three set in order to keep things timely, which made the crowd happy.

Chris G wins Marvel, again

Marvel was a madhouse, as usual. NYChrisG, EG|PR Balrog, Justin Wong, and EMP|Flocker established themselves as the frontrunners going into EVO 2013. Each player came into top four with a solid list of kills: Flocker took out fellow Zero player Richard Nguyen (3-1), as well as MH|RayRay in a really good 3-2 set; Justin beat VxG.EMP|Yipes (3-0), RayRay (3-2), and Flocker (3-1); EG|PR Balrog ran through Ranmasama (3-0), Flocker (3-1), and teammate Justin Wong (3-0), but Chris G took relatively easy wins over MH.IGT.EDC|Unkn0wn (3-0), Justin (3-0), and PR Balrog in the grand finals (3-1) to win it all.

Meanwhile, Evolution 2012 winner coL|Filipino Champ got peaced out (3-0) in the round of 32 by Full Schedule (C. Viper/Doom/Amaterasu) using his Dormammu team. (Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Champ used his Phoenix team; we regret the error.)

Worth watching: Green Ace (Trish/Wesker/Dante) definitely set himself apart as an upcoming player to watch; not only did he beat PR Balrog in a Marvel exhibition on Friday (7-5), he also placed in the top eight with notable wins over TS|NerdJosh (3-1), CJ Showstopper (3-0), and a nail-biting 3-2 comeback against NeoKarsh (Nova/Spencer/Taskmaster) before losing to PR Balrog in an amazing back-and-forth set that you should probably just go watch right now.

Also, PR Balrog took a 1-0 victory over Ranmasama in arm wrestling prior to their top eight set. Maybe he’s been working out with fellow NorCal player Drew Grimey?

One More Win for Xian on the Way to EVO 2013

After the Marvel madness died down, it was time for Street Fighter IV, and it was good — with the obvious caveat that a major without Infiltration is basically a race for second place, anyway.

Team Evil Geniuses came into the top eight very strong; of the four winners bracket qualifiers (Momochi, DM.MCZ|Xian, PR Balrog, and Justin Wong) three were rocking the Evil Geniuses apparel. Two of them ended up getting sent to losers, though; Xian (Gen) took a convincing set from PR Balrog (Balrog), and Momochi (Ken) beat Justin (Rufus) in a very close set that any Street Fighter student should watch as a crash course in poking and footsies.

From there, Xian took an early lead against Momochi by reading practically every fireball with a focus attack or well-timed jump-in, and ruthlessly confirming pokes into full combos. Momochi responded by clutching out the second match with a few key knockdown mixups, but lost the third game by whiffing a crucial fierce dragon punch that Xian punished with a super and simply couldn’t block Xian’s mixups in the fourth — sending Xian to grand finals and leaving everyone else to play for a shot at his dominant Gen.

In losers, Chris G reminded the world why Muay Thai fighters have nothing against Japanese schoolgirls by beating Ryan Hart in an easy 2-0, took out Jayce the Ace (C. Viper) in a closer 2-1 set, then beat Justin Wong in a very tight 2-1 set. PR Balrog knocked MCZ|Mago out of the tournament with a 2-1 victory; highlights included a series of gutsy crossups, and a clutch poke-into-super to win it. But PR Rog’s shenanigans didn’t work on Chris G, who took the set in losers semifinals 2-0 and avenged his loss earlier in the tournament.

That set us up for Momochi vs. Chris G in the losers bracket finals. Momochi and Chris G traded games back and forth, with Momochi generally looking like the better player but making a few mistakes that Chris G converted into a win. Also worth noting: Chris G said that “the monitor slowed down” or something to that effect after losing the third match.

I’m not even gonna say anything. I’m so mad right now. — Christopher Gonzalez (@NYChrisG) July 1, 2013

(Editor’s note: The above tweet has since been removed)

Add it to the list of excuses, I guess; Alex Jebailey would have none of it, and Momochi took the set 3-1, setting him up to run it back against Xian in the grand finals. Unfortunately, Xian manhandled Momochi pretty badly in the grand finals, taking it 3-1. My money’s on a NorCal Regionals runback between Xian and Infiltration in EVO 2013 finals.

So, what were your favorite moments from CEO 2013? Tell us in the comments!

(images c/o Alex Jebailey)