2015 Capcom Pro Tour Capcom Cup 2015
the ultra street fighter iv tournament @ 2015 tokyo game show part of capcom pro tour.
a series of qualifying events tournament held throughout year, known 2015 capcom pro tour. pro tour consisted of 16 premier events , divided 4 regions , them being north america, europe, asia, , wild card . 16 premier events of 2015 capcom cup followed:
north america
final round – atlanta, ga, united states
norcal regionals – sacramento, ca, united states
socal regionals – orange, ca, united states
community effort orlando – orlando, fl, united states
europe
hypespotting 4 – scotland, united kingdom
stunfest – rennes, france
milan games week – milan, italy
dreamhack winter – jönköping, sweden
asia
south east asia major – bangkok, thailand
tokyo game show – tokyo, japan
capcom pro tour asia finals – singapore
ultra hyakkishu cup – tokyo, japan
wild card
evolution – las vegas, nv, united states
canada cup – canada
brasil game show – são paulo, brazil
ko fighting game festival – kuwait
$500,000 usd made available prize money entire capcom cup, donated capcom, twitch.tv, , new partner sony. each of premier events had prize pool of $15,000 usd split among top 8 winners. 2015 evolution championships, 1 of wild card tournaments, had prize pool of $50,000 usd, $20,000 of awarded tournament s champion. capcom stated in press release had 3 goals in mind 2015 season, first being give fans more street fighter content enjoy , forward to, second being distribute tournaments , points more evenly across different world regions, , last being increase tournament prize pools in order incentivize more players participate.
tour summary
daigo umehara won first place @ norcal regionals , stunfest premier events.
the capcom pro tour kicked off on 22 march @ final round 18 in atlanta, georgia. tournament won kun xian ho, despite him having qualified 2015 capcom cup coming in second previous year. event followed norcal regionals on april 3, won daigo umehara, , hypespotting 4 on april 4, won kenryo mago hayashi. wrong version of ultra street fighter 4 accidentally played during first 4 matches of norcal s quarterfinals, prompted tournament organizer terry kineda ng call these replayed. in may, seon-woo infiltration lee qualified 2015 capcom cup making finals of stunfest 2015, lost daigo umehara.
in may, 2015, capcom released playstation 4 port of ultra street fighter iv, developed scea s third party production group . version of game suffered severe lag , glitches. capcom announced tournaments part of capcom pro tour keep using older hardware until issues resolved.
stunfest followed south east asia major in june, hajime tokido taniguchi qualified capcom cup after losing mago in grand finals. ryota kazunoko inoue qualified winning @ community effort orlando 2015 next week, followed bruce gamerbee hsiang qualifying reaching grand finals of evo 2015 in july. gamerbee lost capcom cup 2014 champion yusuke momochi, despite latter s arcade controller experiencing malfunction during match, handing gamerbee free round. in september, dashio qualified capcom cup winning tokyo game show, while fuudo qualified coming second xian @ ko fighting game festival. 2015 brasil game show, held on october 8–12, won brazilian keoma pacheco, beating japanese player haitani in finale. socal regionals 2015, moved may 1 october 9, won masato boncan takahashi, while arubi rb kao qualified later month coming in third @ milan games week.
the canada cup, held in october, won tokido, defeating fuudo 3-1 margin in grand final. yusuke momochi came in third-place , gamerbee fourth. of top 4 finishers had qualified capcom cup, stake eliminated , converted additional points-based berth, due rule change announced after infiltration qualified cup @ stunfest coming in third.
the capcom pro tour asia finals 2015 held on november 13–15. lee chung poongko gon won tournament defeating naoki nemo nemoto in grand finals. dreamhack winter 2015, last premier event of capcom pro tour, third premier event of 2015 season won xian. defeated french player olivier luffy hay in grand finals, though latter had qualified capcom cup through points alone.
16 players, including darryl snake eyez lewis, kentaro misse nakamura, , justin wong, qualified capcom cup 2015 acquiring large amount of points throughout pro tour. director of brand marketing @ capcom matt dahlgren stated in interview fortune.com each premier event got 300,000 500,000 unique viewers, cumulating total of 40 million views throughout season.
Comments
Post a Comment