Kayane
She specializes in fighting games, in particular in the Dead or Alive, Soulcalibur and Street Fighter series,[1] and has been playing competitively since 2001.[3] She is of Laotian and Vietnamese descent[4] and her nickname Kayane comes from conjunction of the names of Dead or Alive characters Kasumi and Ayane.[21] In April 2021 she co-hosted the WePlay eSports Ultimate Fighting League Soulcalibur VI event, a high-profile invitational hosted in Kyiv.In 2012, Kayane entered Guinness World Records in the categories "First Female Super Street Fighter IV World Champion"[22][23][24] (EVO 2010, playing as Chun-Li, regarded by Kayane as a personal role model[8])[25][26] and "Most Podium Placements in a Fighting-Game Tournament for a Female (2001–2011)".[1][30] A character named "Kayane" appeared in 2012's Soulcalibur V. In 2012, Forbes called Kayane "the most consistently successful female fighting game competitor of the 21st century,"[31] and French magazine Le Point called her the "queen of fighters";[8] in 2013, Complex included her beating members of the audience without looking at the screen[32] among the "most incredible performances in video games".
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