In recent years the Capcom Cup has grown quickly. It has become the main event for fighting games. Bigger than any pan-game tournament, growing prize pools have made it a tournament not to be missed.
Last year’s Capcom Cup showed just how much fighting games have grown. It was the main event for a brand new game in the biggest fighting game franchise. It was a record-setting tournament this time. The Capcom Pro Tour has pushed what anyone expects from fighting game esports. This tournament featured a prize pool of $1 million. How do you follow that up?
What’s coming next for the Capcom Cup and Capcom Pro Tour?
Which players are going to take the crown for the second year of Street Fighter 6 esports?
The Capcom Cup XI is going to decide this. It’s the climax of a whole year’s Capcom Pro Tour, but also Street Fighter 6’s second year in competitive gaming. It’s already one of the best esports fighting games. The newest Capcom Cup will see a champion for the second year of competitive decided after a long process. This is how it’s all going to work.
The Capcom Cup XI is set to be the biggest Street Fighter event ever held. You can catch most of the action at home too. You can follow along with the event on the official CapcomFighters Twitch and Capcom Fighters YouTube channels to keep up to date!
The qualifiers are also being broadcast by Capcom Fighters, so you can catch each of these events along the way.
The last Capcom Cup was huge, but we don’t stop there. Right as it concluded we got our first tease for the very next year of the Capcom Pro Tour!
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Once again, we’re going to see events held all throughout the year. These will allow the top players in every region to quality. Although, we won’t find out which events are included yet. We’ve already seen some early qualifiers take place, like EVO 2024.
The Capcom Cup XI is going to be an exciting conclusion. We’re only just at the opening right now, but there’s a lot to look forward to here.
It’s still quite early as far as qualifiers go, but we’ve already seen two players locked in. punk came first after an impressive showing at EVO. However, MenaRD has also made the cut. He’s already a two-time champion, and with this qualification, he could go all the way and make it three.
There are still quite a lot of players to go before we confirm our full roster for the Capcom Cup XI though. Keep an eye on tournaments over the next few months to see who else makes it in.
The Capcom Cup X set records for its prize pool, has it been managed this time for the second year of SF 6? Confirmed in the initial announcement was that Capcom was spotting up the exact same prize! This is how it works out:
Who will compete for this prize? We’ll likely see last year’s champions here. Otherwise, we’ll have to wait until qualifiers start to get to know more about how this event is going to work.
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The Capcom Cup X was the final event at the climax of 2022-23’s Pro Tour. We’ve had online qualifiers and in-person LANs events to get here, with the highest participation to date for the Capcom Pro Tour. The event kicked off competitive for Street Fighter 6 with a record prize pool.
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The tournament featured players pulled from EVO 2023, the Online Premiers, World Warrior events, and the Last Chance Qualifier. There were tons of the best players arriving at the tournament. In the end only one could go to be the winner though. How did the Capcom Cup X results go?
In the first year of the Capcom Cup, we saw some surprising results. Ultimately, UMA came out on top and became our first Capcom Cup Champion for Street Fighter 6. These are the final results.
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The Capcom Cup X whittled down to a solid week of matches 48 highest-ranking players in the last year of events. It’s divided into a few stages, as you’d expect from a tournament on this scale.
Things are going to start off with the Group Stage. Here, all players are divided up into 8 groups. They’ll play each other in a round-robin format, single rounds, all played in best of 3. The top players will moved forward to the winners’ side of the next stage, and runners up make the losers side. All other players, the bulk of our attending fighters, are eliminated right here.
In the Final Bracket, things headed up even more. This is a double-elimination bracket, so Group Stage winners have two shots at staying in the game. Here matches are best of 5. We saw the bracket whittled down until we found the best Street Fighter 6 players in the first year.
How exactly did we get to the final? It didn’t take long to start locking in fighters from all around the world, like the winner of Street Fighter 6 at EVO. There were a few more tournaments that took place offline though. These are the Majors that saw some players qualified.
There were plenty more chances to earn a slot thanks to the Online events. While online is always a bit different for players, SF 6 has a fairly strong netcode. We’ve saw these events run pretty smoothly in the Capcom Cup X
The headline feature for the Capcom Cup X was likely the huge prize pool. Capcom has completely outdone themselves, setting one of the biggest prizes we’ve ever seen in fighting games. The largest part of the prize went directly to the winner, UMA. It is a bit of a unique way of dividing up the pool. This is how the prize structure worked out.
As you can probably tell, there’s a pretty major jump for the player who claims first place. This definitely added an extra element to the Capcom Cup Final.
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