Now there's a 92-year-old esports champion

Earlier this year, we reported on the Care Esports Association in Japan's attempt to bring esports closer to the older generation.

She holds semi-regular Tekken tournaments for nursing home residents between the ages of 60 and 90 to help keep their minds sane. This year's summer tournament was won by Yoshie Murabe standing with Kuma, and last month the association held its record-breaking winter tournament (via Game Spark Japan).

A 92-year-old man just won the Tekken 8 tournament

Like the previous tournament, the 12th Care Esports Cup was conceived with great grandeur. It featured an entire three-hour live stream, two professional esports, and a group of eight contestants, breaking all kinds of previous records.

The tournament featured 95-year-old competitor Reiko Yokota playing Jin and was won by 92-year-old Hisako Sakai, making her the oldest esports champion in world history by our accounts.

Sakai won her first round match against Yokota with help from Claudio Serafino and advanced to the finals where she defeated Sadayuki Kato in the semifinals and Goro Sugiyama in the finals..

Her technique remained very lacking, the retiree rarely looked at the screen, only at the buttons she pressed on her controller, but a win is a win and Sakai was crowned the champion of the 12th Care Esports Cup. There was clear determination on the contestant's face and she went into such a fugue state that she had to be stopped after getting KO'd several times because she didn't realize the matches were over.

While Sakai's victory is unlikely to win her praise, and she's unlikely to take the crown from officially recognized oldest Esports champion Abbe Borg, who at 78 was part of the team that won the 2019 DreamHack CS:GO Seniors tournament, it's a clear testament to the power of video games.