Capcom Cup

Capcom Cup
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2015
Sport Electronic sports
Fighting games
Founded 2013
Country United States
Most recent champion(s)
  • USF4: Yusuke Momochi
Founder Capcom
Official website Capcom Cup

Capcom Cup is an annual esports tournament held in California that focuses on fighting games, specifically the Street Fighter IV series. The event's first incarnation was in 2013 which featured Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition version 2012, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and Street Fighter X Tekken version 2013 as the three main games each with 8 qualifiers.[1] In 2014, Capcom Cup was an Ultra Street Fighter IV exclusive tournament with 16 qualifiers. 2015's Capcom Cup will be doubled to a 32-man format.

History

In 2013, Capcom started the Capcom Cup right after EVO 2013, with Ho "Xian" Kun Xian receiving a special invitation.[2] Capcom released qualifier dates to determine the seven remaining qualifiers.[3] Capcom created a poll to decide which players would make it into the Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 tournament, with Nemo, Justin Wong, KaneBlueRiver, IFC Yipes, Abegen, NYChrisG, Filipino Champ, and MarlinPie being voted in.[4] For their Street Fighter X Tekken tournament, Capcom also gave special invites to Infiltration, Justin Wong, Alex Valle, and NuckleDu. The other four players were determined by two respective PlayStation Network and Xbox Live tournaments.[5]

In 2014, Twitch and Capcom partnered up to create an Ultra Street Fighter IV circuit known as the Capcom Pro Tour.[6] Ten players would automatically qualify into the tournament and the other six would garner points. The Capcom Pro Tour featured a point system divided into four tiers. Tier 3 consists of six Online Tournaments, which are the lowest earning tournaments in the circuit. Tier 2 is for Ranking Tournaments, which are international tournaments that are mainly composed of players in a certain region. Tier 1 consists of nine Premier Tournaments. A player would automatically qualify upon winning the tournament or being the highest player who hasn't qualified. Evolution Tier consists of the Evolution Championship Series, which grants the player four times the points of a Premier Tournament and also gives the winner an automatic spot in the Capcom Cup.[7]

Capcom Cup 2013

Capcom Cup 2013 was hosted at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport in Burlingame, California on December 14, 2013. The tournament featured Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition v2012, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and Street Fighter X Tekken v2013. There were two money matches scheduled for Capcom Cup. The first being Nemo vs. Loren "Fanatiq" Riley in a First-To-20, and the second was Nemo vs. Ray "Knives" Ruballos in a First-To-15. Nemo defeated both Fanatiq and Knives winning about $8500.[8] There was some controversy regarding the EVO 2013 Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 champion Job "Flocker" Figueroa being cut from the player lineup. In response, Capcom set up a First-To-Five exhibition match between EVO Champ Flocker, and the Capcom Cup 2013 champion to see who the true champion is. The victor of the Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 tournament, NYChrisG faced off against Flocker and defeated him. There was also two exhibition matches for an early build of Ultra Street Fighter IV; the first being Eduardo "PR Balrog" Perez-Frangie against Alex Valle, and the second being Infiltration vs. Filipino Champ.[9]

Capcom Cup 2014

Capcom Cup 2014 was the conclusion of the Capcom Pro Tour in 2014. Capcom Cup 2014 was held at the Warfield in San Francisco, California on December 13, 2014. One notable appearance in the Capcom Cup was a Brazilian player named Eric "ChuChu" Moreira Silva, who qualified by garnering majority of his points from the online tournaments.[10] Another notable moment was Momochi's dominant performance; taking a set off of SnakeEyez, losing a set to Ryan Hart, then completely dominated everyone in the tournament.[11] There were also two exhibition matches for the Ultra Street Fighter IV Omega Mode, a mode which changes how every character plays. The main exhibition was Alex Valle vs. Ryan "Filipino Champ" Ramirez, and the secondary exhibition was Kelvin Jeon going up against Hooman "Hoodaman" Ghahremani.[12] Capcom also showed the first ever match of their upcoming game Street Fighter V with Twitch's Mike Ross using Ryu going up against Capcom's Peter "Combofiend" Rosas using Chun-Li.

Capcom Pro Tour 2015

Capcom Pro Tour 2015 was announced by Yoshinori Ono at Capcom Cup 2014. The tournament will use the same ruleset as the previous year. Capcom Pro Tour 2015 has a total pot bonus of $500,000 thanks to a partnership between Sony Computer Entertainment and Capcom.[13] The tournament has also been doubled from 16 qualifiers to 32. There are 16 premier tournaments, with 4 tournaments in each region (North America, Europe, Asia, Wild Card). 16 players would automatically qualify by winning one of the 16 premier tournaments. When the points are finalized, the Top 15 players who have received the most points out of the non-qualified players will be granted a spot. The final spot was given to 2014's Capcom Cup champion, Yusuke Momochi. Capcom Pro Tour events are 2/3 games until Top 8, where Top 8 becomes 3/5 games.[14]

Current Qualifiers

Yusuke Momochi (Capcom Cup 2014) [15]
Ho Kun Xian (Final Round 18) [16]
Kenryo "Mago" Hayashi (Hypespotting 4) [17]
Daigo Umehara (NorCal Regionals 2015) [18]

References

  1. ↑ "Capcom Cup 2013". Capcom Cup. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
  2. ↑ Ian Walker (2013-07-13). "Capcom Announces Capcom Cup at Evo Panel; Eight Best AE 2012 and UMvC3 Players, Evo 2013 to Act as First Qualifier". Shoryuken. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
  3. ↑ Staff (2013-09-17). "Capcom releases Capcom Cup global qualifier dates". GameSpot. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
  4. ↑ Steven Chavez (2013-11-06). "Nemo, IFC Yipes, Justin Wong, KaneBlueRiver and more to compete at Capcom Cup - Capcom's official UMvC3 poll results and invite list". EventHubs. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
  5. ↑ "Street Fighter x Tekken". CapcomCup. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
  6. ↑ Vince Ingenito (2014-03-10). "Capcom and Twitch Join Forces to Create the Capcom Pro Tour". IGN. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
  7. ↑ "Capcom Pro Tour Rules". Capcom Pro Tour. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
  8. ↑ Nicholas Taylor (2014-12-15). "Fanatiq vs. Nemo and Knives vs. Nemo money matches game-by-game results and details". EventHubs. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
  9. ↑ USD (2014-12-14). "Capcom Cup 2013 Results". Shoryuken. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
  10. ↑ Ian Walker (2014-10-28). "ChuChu, Capcom Cup 2014, and the Legitimacy of Online Qualifiers". Shoryuken. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
  11. ↑ John Guerrer (2014-12-19). "Momochi, you've just won Capcom Cup! What are you going to do next?! 'I'm taking Choco to Disneyland!' EG interviews Momochi on his tourney experience". EventHubs. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
  12. ↑ USD (2014-12-13). "Capcom Cup 2014 Results". Shoryuken. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
  13. ↑ Nicholas Taylor (2014-12-13). "Next year's Capcom Pro Tour will have a total prize pool of $500,000 thanks to partnership with Sony, Yoshinori Ono confirms". EventHubs. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
  14. ↑ "Announcing Capcom Pro Tour 2015". Capcom Pro Tour. Retrieved 2015-03-12.
  15. ↑ "Momochi Wins Capcom Cup". Capcom Pro Tour.com. Capcom. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
  16. ↑ "Xian Qualifies for Capcom Cup 2015". Capcom Pro Tour.com. Capcom. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
  17. ↑ "Hypespotting 4: Mago Qualifies for Capcom Cup 2015.". Capcom Pro Tour.com. Capcom. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
  18. ↑ "Daigo Qualifies for Capcom Cup 2015". Capcom Pro Tour.com. Capcom. Retrieved April 11, 2015.

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