{"id":886971,"date":"2025-12-21T23:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/mortal-kombat-1-player-wins-at-tournament-smashes-light"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:53:14","slug":"mortal-kombat-1-player-wins-565-at-tournament-smashes-3000-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/mortal-kombat-1-player-wins-565-at-tournament-smashes-3000-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortal Kombat 1 player wins $565 at tournament, smashes $3,000 light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/mortal-kombat-1-player-wins-565-at-tournament-smashes-3000-light.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>It was a wonderful weekend full of fighting game action thanks to CEO 2024, which was live in the USA. However, amidst many a tense match in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/street-fighter-6\">Street Fighter 6<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/tekken-8\">Tekken 8<\/a>, and more, it was a Mortal Kombat 1 player that shattered expectations with an over-eager pop off. <\/p>\n<p>Dyloch, one of the best General Shao players in the world and multiple major tournament winner, managed to take home the first place belt at CEO for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/mortal-kombat-1\">Mortal Kombat 1<\/a> as well as a tasty $565 in prize money. However, a few matches prior, in the winner&#8217;s final, he celebrated his victory <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CEOGaming\/status\/1807117300295704902\">by picking up his chair and throwing it over the wrestling ring ropes<\/a> surrounding the console set up. This chair, airborne and clearly in a juggle state, crashed down onto an Elation Chorus Line 16 LED light. You can buy one right now for the low, low price of $2,992.\n<\/p>\n<p>In response, tournament organizer Alex Jebailey posted several tweets, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Jebailey\/status\/1807117772087824600\">including one<\/a> where he (perhaps jokingly) asks for Dyloch&#8217;s Paypal because &#8220;somebody&#8217;s paying for that broken light fixture and it&#8217;s not me&#8221; and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Jebailey\/status\/1807118314516410645\">following this up with a declaration<\/a> that: &#8220;If one more person pops off throwing anything you will be banned from any event I ever do. This is a final warning to anyone in the future. Do not throw things&#8221;. Back in 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Jebailey\/status\/1467189988378873860?s=20\">Jebailey took similar action<\/a> against an attendee who pulled a fire alarm at the event, forcing a mass evacuation and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6gU_IFeTFfA&amp;ab_channel=BlackPhoenix843\">huge rock paper scissors exhibition<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/mortal-kombat-1-player-wins-at-tournament-smashes-light\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/mortal-kombat-1-player-wins-at-tournament-smashes-light\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a wonderful weekend full of fighting game action thanks to CEO 2024, which was live in the USA. However, amidst many a tense match in Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, and more, it was a Mortal Kombat 1 player that shattered expectations with an over-eager pop off. Dyloch, one of the best General Shao players in the world and multiple major tournament winner, managed to take home the first place belt at CEO for Mortal Kombat 1 as well as a tasty $565 in prize money. However, a few matches prior, in the winner&#8217;s final, he celebrated his victory by picking up his chair and throwing it over the wrestling ring ropes surrounding the console set up. This chair, airborne and clearly in&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/mortal-kombat-1-player-wins-565-at-tournament-smashes-3000-light\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":886972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[222,9675,8711,510,21,59,45,8773,54,4404,4616],"class_list":["post-886971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-fighting","tag-mortal-kombat-1","tag-multiplayer-competitive","tag-netherrealm-studios","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-pc","tag-ps5","tag-side-view","tag-single-player","tag-warner-bros-games","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mortal Kombat 1 player wins $565 at tournament, smashes $3,000 light | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It was a wonderful weekend full of fighting game action thanks to CEO 2024, which was live in the USA. 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