The competitive Tekken 8 game ended in controversy this weekend after a rogue controller connection dropped a combo that could potentially win the game, leading to a reset of the game and no longer being able to be the winner.

DreamHack Dallas has seen nearly 500 Tekken players descend on the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center this weekend to compete for a賞金50,000 prize pot and a spot at the Esports World Cup in Riyadh this summer, which itself boasts a賞金1 million prize pool. Two of them were Pro Kim Hyun-jin of South Korea and Pro Alexandra Aku Labeles of the Philippines, ducking it on the winner side of the top 64. Both players had each won one game and were both rounds away from winning the third and final game to continue their run on the winner side. 

JDCR struck AK with a helluva combo with a 90% health lead and carried his opponent to the wall ready for the final killing blow. But just before he could do it, the PlayStation5controller connect screen showed up, killing his input and dropping the combo. Commentators Tasty Steve and Kai Kennedy said, "Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no."Just by chance, when JDCR took off his headset and sank his face into his hand. 

When tournament organizers try to identify if one of the players had disconnected the controller, Twitch chat falls into absolute confusion — which would be an automatic loss for a faulty pad user — or if someone else who was previously connected to the setup was trying to turn on the controller. Try to identify whether or not. It was deemed to be the latter, leading to a reset of the final round to play from the beginning, which Kai Kennedy described as "quite a windfall for AK," and "This is a heartbreaker, and I hate to see this situation pop up, but it happens." Live competition is live competition.

Once the match is reset, Twitch chat can be seen saying "JDCR won its fair and fair", "JDCR has already won", "JDCR screwed up", "JDCR won", etc.Nevertheless, the game went ahead and as ak gets a neat life lead and clinches the victory with 22 seconds left to spare, most of the pre-controller disconnection round Twitch chat again loses its mind, calling for accusations of rigging and saying JDCR was "robbed."Shortly after losing, JDCR tweeted, "Idk It hurts a bit, but yeah."

The debate spilled over to Reddit and other social media, where fans were seen accusing the rogue controller connector of maliciously doing so in an attempt to deliberately sabotage JDCR — someone apparently had tried to connect the controller before JDCR's first victory over AK, which was not the case with British pro Joka. It was also happening during the previous set between the American player Jahzzo.

The situation has also led to the AK getting a rather excessive heaping of hatred, and others who plan the whole thing to give themselves another shot when ak takes victory are more likely to go against the official Tekken World Tour rules of "engaging or allowing correction of results," as AK pointed out. He said he should have forfeited his rights.

As Kai Kennedy pointed out during kerfuffle, there are finally rules in place to deal with this kind of situation. The Official Tekken World Tour Game Suspension Rules state that "In the event of a game suspension that a player cannot control, such as the behavior of another player's asynchronous controller, a game software crash, or a console hardware failure, the Tournament Organizer's staff may suspend the game from the time the game suspension occurred." The player must be ordered to restart the set with the same number of rounds from the set. "

DreamHack founder Alex Jebailey addressed the controversy on TWITTER and said he was incredibly sorry for what happened during the JDCR vs. AK game, and in a follow-up tweet "Outside I shouldn't have happened," Jebailey said: "I feel terrible for JDCR's end result and he's going for another chance." It helps to attend future qualifiers, but the amount of death threats and crazy things being told to me is pretty frightening."

, A person who slightly missed the top Eight and qualifying positions in the esports World Cup after losing to Pakistan's Arslan Ash took to Twitter to say: "I ended up in 9th place. AK and TO checked me many times if I felt ok at all. I had to check the bluetooth and I might have done better. Thanks for the support."

In the end, it's very disappointing that it happened because JDCR was obviously trying to close the set. As Jebailey pointed out in 2020, there was a much-needed debate about the responsibility of using the PS5 feature to turn off all bluetooth and let the fork play the game wired. 

I've been in and out of several tournaments since the beginning of last year, and given that tournament organizers have not been able to jump freely on stage during games and even make their pads asynchronous with unnecessary bluetooth de Ps4, it's possible on PS5, but a lot of players have been able to do it on their own. For the initiative personally, I feel like it needs to be a more robust part of the responsibility of tournament organizers, especially when it comes to setting up the main stage. It's cruel to see something like this happen in a top 64 game, but it can potentially happen in something as big as a grand Final game