NYChrisG dominates First Attack 2025’s Street Fighter 6 tournament

Capcom Cup and Evo champion Christopher “NYChrisG” Gonzalez puts himself back on the map of Street Fighter as he takes down another Chilean prodigy, Jaime “Craime” Bustos, at First Attack 2025, becoming the tournament’s Street Fighter 6 champion.

In the absence of multiple top players from the US, as most of them are in Japan training for the Street Fighter League, NYChrisG showed a dominant performance, only losing once throughout the whole tournament. Starting round one, his matches were all 3-0 in his favor, and he only lost one game in the grand final against Craime.

He used Chun-Li paired with a Modern control scheme, which means that there are no motion inputs and also takes away access to some character moves, which was a rarity, especially at top-level play. Most professional players use classic due to it being the standard, but NYChrisG has traded that for one-button specials, allowing him to react much quicker.

First Attack 2025 is a fighting game tournament that happened in San Juan, Puerto Rico, featuring a whole host of games such as Tekken 8, Guilty Gear Strive and 2XKO. The tournament is not part of the Capcom Pro Tour 2025, which might explain the lower-than-usual attendance for a Street Fighter 6 tournament.