Mortal Kombat player wins $565, celebrates by breaking a light fixture worth $3,000

Mortal Kombat player Dyloch has managed to overshadow his own Mortal Kombat 1 tournament win at the CEO 2024 fighting game championships with one of the most profoundly stupid—and expensive—post-match celebrations ever. Right after landing the killing blow on opponent Rewind, he stood up, picked up his chair, and hurled it off the stage, accidentally smashing a light fixture.

.@RezDyloch stamps his ticket to Grand Finals 3-1 against Rewind in #MK1 at #CEO2024! Also, Dyloch, please keep the chairs in the ring. Thanks! pic.twitter.com/aYythfQCYxJune 29, 2024

Was he workshopping a new furniture-based fatality? Perhaps he was infuriated by a subtle chair wobble he'd been experiencing all game? Or maybe he thought he was being ambushed by four vampires and hoped to stake them all in one four-legged attack?

Whatever his reasoning, he made a fool of himself in what should have been his moment of triumph, and it could end up costing him. His prize money for the event was $565, while the event's head (and long-time influential figure in the fighting game community) Alex Jebailey has pointed out that the light he broke was worth close to $3,000. 

In case anyone was wondering how much one of those lights costs… pic.twitter.com/BMM8VeeWuKJune 29, 2024

«Does anyone know @RezDyloch’s PayPal cause somebody’s paying for that broken light fixture and it’s not me,» he tweeted, following it up with «If one more person pops off throwing anything you will be banned from any event I ever do».  

If one more person pops off throwing anything you will be banned from any event I ever do. This is a final warning to anyone in the future. Do not throw things.June 29, 2024

It's a direct condemnation of Dyloch's actions, but also a warning to others—probably at least partly in reaction to Super Smash Bros player Hungrybox, whose over-the-top celebrations have also included power-slamming his own chair as recently as May 2024 at GOML X. 

The fighting game community has long pushed for an informal,