Luis Guadalupe “DarkAngel” Castillo Gomez beats Virtus.Pro’s mi2ha4 4-1 in Paris to claim $250,000 and 1,000 Club points.
Luis Guadalupe “DarkAngel” Castillo Gomez won the FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves tournament at Esports World Cup 2026 in Paris on July 11, beating Virtus.Pro’s Kenta “mi2ha4” Ichihara 4-1 in the grand final. The result delivers the first trophy of EWC 2026 and a first major Club Championship points haul for NAVI.
DarkAngel entered the finals bracket as the only player from last year’s top eight to return, improving on his third-place finish at EWC 2025. His run included a comeback win in the quarterfinals against Elite Esports’ Reynald Tacsuan after trailing 3-0, and a 4-3 semifinal victory over Japan’s Naoki “Nemo” Nemoto.
“This win marks the first major FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves tournament win for DarkAngel,” according to the organisers, after he “narrowly missing out at DreamHack Birmingham earlier this year.” After the final, Castillo Gomez said: “I’m extremely happy and extremely grateful, thank you for my team NAVI, and everyone in Latin America that follows me and supports me,” adding, “I’ve learned a lot through every single person who has played with me, from the wins, from the losses. Thank you to everyone who has ever helped me, even though you are not in my team specifically, I have always learned from them, and I’m extremely grateful.”
Runner-up mi2ha4 earned 750 Club Championship points for Virtus.Pro. The release also noted this was the second time he has finished second at a major tournament in 2026, following EVO 2026. In the third-place match, Nemo beat Laggia 5-2 to secure 500 Club Championship points for Saishunkan Sol Kumamoto.
The organisers said 2025 champion Goichi “GO1” Kishida withdrew due to health issues, while last year’s runner-up Zeng “Xiao Hai” Zhuojun did not reach the top 16 after a group-stage loss to Team Vitality’s Konstantinos “K-TOP” Lamprou. DarkAngel’s title comes with $250,000 from the $1 million prize pool, automatic qualification to the SNK World Championship 2026 finals, and 1,000 Club Championship points for NAVI.
