It was not a very honorable victory.

Ubisoft held an official tournament to celebrate the start of Season 3. Its winner, Jakub “SB.Alernakin” Palen, made use of an exploit to win the $ 10,000 prize.
SB.Alernakin took advantage of an unpatched problem in the game that was detected in May. Controlling the Nobushi, he used an error where if a certain technique is performed during the attack can be chained combos without the opponent have parry option, giving him victory in all duels. He did not lose a single showdown like Nobushi.
In the later interview, he boasted of ‘not having played in the last two weeks’ and that winning was ‘easier than I expected’. When giving the prize to him, the creative director of the game said to him “Good job lad. You may have to change your style of play soon. ‘ As winner of the tournament he took $ 10,000.