Xiaohai, aged 35, wins the EWC August 11 or 12, 2024.

For perspective, Xiaohai won the whole thing. It was a single or double elimination, so a lot of ppl got smoked and knocked out early (including recent tourney winners... Punk 0-2, MenaRD 0-2 [Luke was nerfed], BigorAngryBird Rashid 0-2).
Xiaohai, is the best of the best of King of Fighters across various versions for years. He won a tourney in SFV in 2012 using Cammy. He used Cammy, EvilRyu and Yun in SF4. Apparently he's been doing well in SF6, but obviously just picked up Bison since the character was dropped like 4 or 5 weeks ago. https://liquipedia.net/fighters/Xiao_Hai
Xiaohai... nice tricky green dash (fake usual cr.mk or whatever) into SCISSORS at time: https://youtu.be/v28Ka6M9YHI?t=310 for this big EWC tourney he just now won.
BTW, Xiaohai used Ken vs. Luke and Ken vs. A.K.I.
He likes Bison vs. Rashid or Akuma though.

His Bison corner vs. burnout Akuma, he did inch towards st.LP whiff, inch more into st.MP -> DI to make an unblockable.

Wait... Punk called him Trash a while back (in the StreetFfighter League)? They say he's been powering up every since. Eat that, Mr. Punk. :P

And MenaRD cheers harder than anybody for his friend (they say)... and you see it here when Xiaohai wins... I like Mena more and more... and yeah, looks a bit like his main Blanka with the arms, heh: https://youtu.be/v28Ka6M9YHI?t=1083

The link

https://eventhubs.com/news/2024/aug/07/ewc-2024-sf6-results/

Bison + Blanka the Best Combo?

And VP|Vxbao uses these two also, (M. Bison, Blanka).

So two guys using Bison + Blank. And ProblemX usually tries to shore up deficiencies in Bison with another pick. Blanka is good against Zangief I think... and probably good against other long range brawlers.