Red Bull Final Summoning's top 8 is set to kick off here shortly, but yesterday already brought us hours of top-level matches to see who would be the final four to advance to Sunday.

The Dragon Ball World Tour Finals event ran four separate Last Chance Qualifier, single-elimination tournaments to determine who would join the likes of FOX|SonicFox, CO|Go1, GGP|Kazunoko and NRG|HookGangGod in the quest to take home the grand prize winnings and first world champion title for the game.

Co|Dogura, CO|Fenrich, BNBBN, and Kindevu were the final fighters remaining when the smoke cleared though 33 different players actually managed to crack the top 16 in the four brackets including players who didn't quite make the cut like Ponos|Moke, PG|Nakkiel, EG|NYChrisG and many other world-class talents.

We've collected the character usage statistics from those 33 players where Bardock and Goku were once again the most popular characters among these top competitors — three of the four winners had Bardock on their team. Bardock has been among the top tier in DBFZ's meta since he dropped in the first DLC pack last year even with his nerfs, but Goku has been steadily trucking along as the face of the franchise and all around well-round fighter that slots well onto almost any team as well.

Vegeta's numbers have continued to dwindle a bit since his Assist was nerfed with only six players picking him during the top 16s while Android 16 and Gotenks sit just above that. Only seven characters did not see any play during the upper part of the brackets yesterday including some of the regulars that are normally left out like Krillin and Base Form Goku.

We counted players only once to keep multiple entries from skewing the results, and we haven't included the four pre-qualified players in the numbers either since we don't yet know what teams they will decide to play until top 8 starts. You can check out the character usage statistics for the presumed final event for Dragon Ball FighterZ Season 1 after the jump.

Numbers in brackets represent characters used as a secondary or backup to a main.