Capcom Cup
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| Sport |
eSports Fighting games Ultra Street Fighter IV Street Fighter V |
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| Founded | 2013 |
| Founder | Capcom |
| Country | United States |
| Most recent champion(s) |
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| Official website | Capcom Cup |
Capcom Cup is an annual fighting game tournament held in California, specifically focused on the Street Fighter 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. The 2015 Capcom Cup was doubled to a 32-man format. The series of qualifying events for the tournament are known as the Capcom Pro Tour and include many of the largest, most prestigious pre-existing fighting game tournaments such as Evolution Championship Series and DreamHack.
History
2013
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]
Capcom Cup 2013 was hosted at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport in Burlingame, California on December 14, 2013. 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. 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.[6]
| Place | Player | Alias | Character(s) | Qualification | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st |  Naoto Sako |
HORI|Sako | Evil Ryu | Treta Aftermath | |
| 2nd |  Kun Xian Ho |
DM.MCZ|Xian | Gen | Special Invite for winning EVO 2013 | |
| 3rd | Keita Ai |
RZR|Fuudo | Fei Long | Capcom Cup Asia Finals | |
| 4th | Tatsuya Haitani |
Haitani | Makoto | Tokyo Game Show 2013 | |
| 5th | Hajime Taniguchi |
MCZ|Tokido | Akuma | Shadowloo Showdown 2013 | |
| 5th | Ghim Kee Eng |
DM.MCZ|Gackt | Fei Long | Capcom Cup Asia Finals | |
| 7th |  Christopher Gonzalez |
AGE|NYChrisG | Sakura | The Fall Classic 2013 | |
| 7th |  Alioune Camara |
BCN-eSports|Alioune | Cammy | Play Expo 2013 | |
| Place | Player | Alias | Character(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Christopher Gonzalez |
AGE|NYChrisG | Morrigan/Doctor Doom/Vergil | ||
| 2nd | Michael Mendoza |
EMP|IFC Yipes | Spencer/Vergil/Hawkeye, Dante/Vergil/Magneto, Wesker/Dante/Spencer | ||
| 3rd | Ryan Ramirez |
coL|Filipino Champ | Magneto/Doctor Doom/Phoenix, Magneto/Dormammu/Doctor Doom | ||
| 4th | Naoki Nemoto |
BE|Nemo | Nova/Doctor Strange/Spencer | ||
| 5th | Justin Wong |
EG|Justin Wong | Wolverine/Storm/Akuma, Wolverine/Spencer/Frank West | ||
| 5th | Genki Abe |
BE|Abegen | Tron/Thor/She-Hulk | ||
| 7th | Kyohei Lehr |
BT|MarlinPie | C. Viper/Doctor Doom/Amaterasu | ||
| 7th |  Nicolás González |
BE|KaneBlueRiver | Hulk/Haggar/Sentinel | ||
| Place | Player | Alias | Character(s) | Qualification | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st |  Seon-Woo Lee |
Infiltration | Jin/Alisa | Special Invite | |
| 2nd | Dexter James |
EMP|Tampa Bison | M. Bison/Rolento | Online Qualifier | |
| 3rd | Justin Wong |
EG|Justin Wong | Hwoarang/Chun-Li | Special Invite | |
| 4th | Alex Valle |
LU|Alex Valle | Yoshimitsu/Lars | Special Invite | |
| 5th | Du Dang |
DSC.EMP|NuckleDu | Guile/Zangief | Special Invite | |
| 5th | Alexander Ramos |
KS|Ramos | Vega/Cammy | Online Qualifier | |
| 7th | Garrett Palmer |
THEZOMBIEDRIVER | Hwoarang/Nina | Online Qualifier | |
| 7th | Sareth Sok |
KS.CORN|Sethlolol | Law/Kuma | Online Qualifier | |
2014
In 2014, Twitch and Capcom partnered up to create an Ultra Street Fighter IV circuit known as the Capcom Pro Tour.[7] 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. Capcom has removed Tier 3 (Online Tournaments) from the 2015 Capcom Pro Tour circuit. [8]
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.[9] Another notable moment was Momochi's dominant performance; taking a set off of Snake Eyez, losing a set to Ryan Hart, then completely dominated everyone in the tournament. [10] 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.[11] Capcom also showed the first ever match of their upcoming game Street Fighter V with Twitch.tv's Mike Ross using Ryu going up against Capcom's Peter "Combofiend" Rosas using Chun-Li. [12]
2015
Capcom Cup 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. One of the spots was reserved for 2014's Capcom Cup champion, Yusuke Momochi. [14] In May, Capcom announced a new rule for the Capcom Pro Tour Premier events, stating that if the Top 4 players in a Capcom Pro Tour premier event have all qualified, Capcom will remove the automatic qualifying spot and add a new qualifying slot to the CPT Leaderboards. [15]
Capcom Cup 2015 was held December 6 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, coinciding with the PlayStation Experience conference. [16]
2016
Capcom Cup 2016 is to be held in December 2016. 32 players will qualify for the tournament by winning one of the eleven Capcom Pro Tour Global Premier Events, Evo 2016, one of the four regional events, or by scoring high on the Points Leaderboards. Street Fighter V was released shortly before the start of the 2016 Capcom Pro Tour and has replaced Ultra Street Fighter IV during this season.
2017
Capcom director of digital media and esports Neidel "Haunts" Crisan said in an interview with Yahoo! Esports in November 2016 that the company is thinking about moving away from auto-qualification spots in the 2017 season. This would be done to simplify the Capcom Pro Tour, as confusion arose around the Global and Regional Leaderboards throughout the 2016 season. Haunts also noted that the 2017 Pro Tour may host fewer events than the 2016 season.[17]
References
- ↑ "Capcom Cup 2013". Capcom Cup. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Staff (2013-09-17). "Capcom releases Capcom Cup global qualifier dates". GameSpot. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Street Fighter x Tekken". CapcomCup. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
- ↑ USD (2014-12-14). "Capcom Cup 2013 Results". Shoryuken. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
- ↑ Vince Ingenito (2014-03-10). "Capcom and Twitch Join Forces to Create the Capcom Pro Tour". IGN. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
- ↑ "Capcom Pro Tour Rules". Capcom Pro Tour. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
- ↑ Ian Walker (2014-10-28). "ChuChu, Capcom Cup 2014, and the Legitimacy of Online Qualifiers". Shoryuken. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
- ↑ Migliacio, Michael. "SHINRYUKEN! The Street Fighter Champ Speaks Out!". Evil Geniuses. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
- ↑ USD (2014-12-13). "Capcom Cup 2014 Results". Shoryuken. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
- ↑ Yin-Poole, Wesley. "First Ever Street Fighter V Match". Eurogamer.net. Eurogamer. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Announcing Capcom Pro Tour 2015". Capcom Pro Tour. Retrieved 2015-03-12.
- ↑ "Capcom adds new rule regarding Capcom Pro Tour Premier Events". capcomprotour.com. Capcom Pro Tour. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
- ↑ Martin, Michael. "Capcom Announces Dates for Capcom Cup 2015.". ca.ign.com. IGN. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
- ↑ Martin, Michael (2016-11-10). "Capcom considering removing auto-qualifying for Capcom Cup 2017". Yahoo! eSports]].