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A rather better angle is this one, from the crowd at the Las Vegas Convention Center, shot by YouTube user DopeDojo. It captures the moment that Infiltration landed the final, Evo-winning blow.Look at the size of that crowd. This competitive video game playing lark, it'll never catch on.Of the top eight finishers in the Street Fighter V tournament, three used Nash and two Chun-Li. The Ryu-playing Hajime "Tokido" Taniguchi, ranked second ahead of Evo and expected to be right up there among the highest finishers, especially given he'd beaten Infiltration only last month, could only finish in 13th. New Yorker Justin Wong, widely considered to be one of the finest Street Fighter players the West has produced and with a number of titles already won in 2016, tied in the same position after a poor showing with Karin.(Via Eurogamer, Kotaku)Read more articles on video games on VICE here, and follow VICE Gaming on Twitter at @VICEGaming.I just won — RΛZΞR INFILTRATION (@INFILTRATION85)July 18, 2016