for personal reasons, and Hart's team was forced into a 2 vs 3 handicap match, which they lost. Hart also qualified for Tekken 5 at Super Battle Opera by winning the SBO qualifier held in Stuttgart. Hart won Torneo Roma in 2007 defeating the player Liquid and also defeated Steve88 in Tekken 5 to win the event on both days. These were some of the last regular events before Namco introduced an update to Tekken 5 entitled Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection, with this new entry, tournaments began to run the newer iteration of the game and Hart transitioned over to compete. He later managed to secure 4th place at Ultimate Tournament Volume 8 and 3rd place at Ultimate Tournament Volume 9. Hart had more success winning Iron Man 2, E-Games Festival and Super Battle Opera European Qualifiers, this also became the third time that Hart qualified for the Japanese fighting game event. Hart also won 1st place at Super VS Battle 2007 for Hyper Street Fighter II and 3rd place at Summer Showdown. Additionally at Summer Showdown, Hart placed 1st on Virtua Fighter 5 and Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. Hart continued to show winning strides on Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike as he took 1st place at Ranking Battles 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3. Winning E-Games Festival, Iron Man, Netko Finals, Rome Tournament and placing 2nd at CPTL Paris Fighting Festival, Brussels Tournament and Fighters Day 3 hosted by the production company Unequalled Media. 2008 was a great achievement within Harts's career, it was this year that Hart would go on to win Evolution 2007 for the game Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection, defeating Paco "Gandido" Vilaró within the grand final to secure his fourth world championship and truly cement his name as one of the best Tekken players within the world. While also winning Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection, Hart also saw success within Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike placing 7th. And once again had success within The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match by placing 3rd at Rebirth 2008. Hart would also go on to win the Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection Giessen Tournament, defeating the Polish champion Devil. 2008 also saw a new introduction to the Street Fighter franchise with the release of Street Fighter IV in Japanese arcades, with this release fighting games quickly became a mainstream genre again and revitalising the fighting game community. 2008 also marks an