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Capcom Cup 2015
2015
USD $250,000
Final positions
ChampionRyota "Kazunoko" Inoue
Runner-upDaigo Umehara

Capcom Cup 2015 was a professional

Yun
, the latter winning the match 3–2.

Being sponsored by

USD
, $120,000 of which was awarded to Kazunoko. Capcom Pro Tour 2015 saw a rule change where an automatic qualification would be eliminated and converted into points if the top four winners of a Premier Event had already qualified for the Cup.

The event was the last major tournament before Ultra Street Fighter IV would be succeeded by Street Fighter V, which was created with professional competition in mind.[1]

2015 Capcom Pro Tour

Tour background

The Ultra Street Fighter IV tournament at the 2015 Tokyo Game Show was part of the Capcom Pro Tour.

A series of qualifying events for the tournament were held throughout the year, known as the 2015 Capcom Pro Tour. The Pro Tour consisted of 16 "Premier Events", divided into four "regions", them being North America, Europe, Asia, and "Wild Card". The 16 Premier Events of the 2015 Capcom Cup were:[2][3][4]

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

2015 Evolution Championships, one of the "Wild Card" tournaments, had a prize pool of US$50,000, $20,000 of which was awarded to the tournament's champion.[3] Capcom stated in their press release that they had three goals in mind for the 2015 season, the first being to "give fans more Street Fighter content to enjoy and look forward to," the second being to distribute tournaments and points more evenly across the different world regions, and the last being to increase tournament prize pools in order to incentivize more players to participate.[2][4][5] In total, 261 players scored points in the ranking.[6]

Tour summary

Daigo Umehara won first place at the NorCal Regionals and Stunfest Premier Events.

The Capcom Pro Tour kicked off on 22 March at Final Round 18 in

Kun Xian Ho.[7] The event was followed by NorCal Regionals on April 3, which was won by Daigo Umehara, and Hypespotting 4 on April 4, which was won by Kenryo "Mago" Hayashi. A wrong version of Ultra Street Fighter 4 was accidentally played during the first four matches of the NorCal's quarterfinals, which prompted tournament organizer Terry "Kineda" Ng to call for these to be replayed.[8][9] In May, Seon-woo "Infiltration" Lee qualified for the 2015 Capcom Cup by making it to the finals of Stunfest 2015, where he lost to Daigo Umehara.[10]

In May, 2015, Capcom released the

SCEA's "Third Party Production group". This version of the game suffered from severe lag and glitches. Capcom announced that tournaments that are part of the Capcom Pro Tour would keep using older hardware until the issues were resolved.[11][12]

Stunfest was followed by the South East Asia Major in June, where

EVO 2015 in July. GamerBee lost to Capcom Cup 2014 champion Yusuke Momochi, despite the latter's arcade controller experiencing a malfunction during the match, handing GamerBee a free round.[15][16] In September, Dashio qualified for the Capcom Cup by winning the Tokyo Game Show,[17] while Fuudo qualified by coming second to Xian at the KO Fighting Game Festival.[18] The 2015 Brasil Game Show, held on October 8–12, was won by Brazilian Keoma Pacheco, beating Japanese player Haitani in the finale.[19][20] SoCal Regionals 2015, which was moved from May 1 to October 9, was won by Masato "Boncan" Takahashi,[21][22] while Arubi "RB" Kao qualified later that month by coming in third at Milan Games Week.[23]

The Canada Cup, also held in October, was won by Tokido, defeating Fuudo by a 3-1 margin in the Grand Final. Yusuke Momochi came in third-place and GamerBee fourth. As all of the top four finishers had already qualified for Capcom Cup, the stake was eliminated and converted into an additional points-based berth, due to a rule change announced after Infiltration qualified for the Cup at Stunfest by coming in third.[24]

The Capcom Pro Tour Asia Finals 2015 were held on November 13–15.

Olivier "Luffy" Hay in the Grand Finals, though the latter had already qualified for the Capcom Cup through points alone.[27][28]

16 players, including

Fortune.com that each Premier Event got 300,000 to 500,000 unique viewers, cumulating to a total of 40 million views throughout the season.[1]

Tournament background

Capcom Cup 2015 was held at Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Capcom Cup 2015 was held at

San Francisco, California on Sunday, December 6, 2015. The tournament was hosted on the second day of Sony's PlayStation Experience event.[29][30] For the 2015 Cup, Capcom increased the maximum player spots from 16 to 32. Players had to win at least two out of three games in order to reach the Top 8. The Capcom Cup had a total prize pool of US$250,000, which was split among the Top 8 players as follows:[2][3][4]

  • 1st Place: $120,000
  • 2nd Place: $60,000
  • 3rd Place: $25,000
  • 4th Place: $15,000
  • 5th-6th Place: $10,000 each
  • 7th-8th Place: $5,000 each

The tournament opened at 10:00 AM local time and closed at 9:30 PM. There were two

livestreams of the event available on the official Capcom Pro Tour website.[31]

Prior to the tournament, many fans worried that the character

healing Ultra skill. Justin Wong, GamerBee, and Xian had been highly successful throughout the 2015 season playing with the character, though Elena ended up not being used much during the tournament.[32][33]

During the tournament, YouPorn-sponsored player Valentin "Valmaster" Petit was barred by Capcom from wearing jersey advertising a pornography website, and YouPorn replaced the jersey with one featuring a pixelized version of its logo.[34][35] Capcom Cup 2015 runner-up Daigo Umehara donated his US$60,000 prize check towards the NYU Game Center EVO scholarship award winner.[36][37]

Tournament summary

Opening ceremony and elimination rounds

Snake Eyez in 2016
Kazunoko at Capcom Cup 2015

According to

underdogs. The livestream opened with a recap video cataloging the "best moments" of the past season, followed by commentator Mike Ross introducing the tournament's outline and prize pool. At the start of the tournament, every participant got his own introduction, "emerging from behind a glossy door showing an enlarged silhouette through a puff of smoke." The event's six commentators were also all given an introduction.[38]

Early rounds of the tournament saw a few fan-favorites, such as Justin Wong and Naoki "Nemo" Nemoto, lose two consecutive rounds and get eliminated.[38] NuckleDu was the only American player making it through the first round with a win, though he lost against Misse and Kazunoko in the following rounds, leaving Snake Eyez as the only American representative to reach the Top 8.[39] Meanwhile, Pacheco was the first Brazilian player to make it to the Top 8 of a tournament of this size,[38] while Misse used rarely played character Makoto with high skill to beat Bonchan, NuckleDu, and Tokido and enter the Top 8 as well. Xian won four elimination rounds despite pushing it to the maximum number of games three times, while Poongko featured three easy victories over Itabashi Zangief, Yusuke Momochi, and HumanBomb, losing to Xian before entering the Top 8. Both also lost once to Daigo Umehara on his way to the finals.[32]

Kazunoko lost his first game of the tournament against Gustavo "801 Strider" Romero, but didn't lose any games from that point onward, defeating Problem X, Misse, and Daigo Umehara before entering the Top 8. Umehara's games during the elimination rounds were less dominant, though he defeated 801 Strider, Snake Eyez, Poongko, and Xian on his way to the finals. Umehara's scored a surprising comeback against Infiltration during the final match of the elimination rounds, turning around the last round of the match despite having only a sliver of health left.[32]

Cup finals

The Capcom Cup finals started with Kazunoko, Umehara, Xian, and Poongko in the winner's bracket and Snake Eyez, Misse, Infiltration, and Keoma in the loser's bracket. Umehara eliminated Snake Eyez and Poongko after being knocked into the loser's brackets by Kazunoko in the quarterfinals. Umehara defeated Xian in the loser's finals 3–0, despite Xian using

Evil Ryu's combos. Kazunoko won the third round, followed by another quick win by Daigo. The final round of the match was won by Kazunoko, making him the Capcom Cup champion.[32][39][40]

Results

Ultra Street Fighter IV
Place Player Alias Character(s) Qualification
1st Japan Ryota Inoue Kazunoko
Yun
 CEO 2015
2nd Japan Daigo Umehara MCZ|Daigo Umehara
Evil Ryu
 NorCal Regionals 2015
3rd
Kun Xian Ho
 RZR|Xian
Poison, Dhalsim
 Final Round 18
4th South Korea Chung Gon Lee /r/Kappa|Poongko Seth Capcom Pro Tour Asia Finals 2015
5th United States Darryl Lewis RB|Snake Eyez Zangief, Evil Ryu Points
5th Japan Kentaro Nakamura /r/Kappa|Misse Makoto Points
7th South Korea Seon-woo Lee RZR|Infiltration Decapre, Chun-Li Stunfest 2015
7th Brazil Keoma Pacheco FGCBR|Keoma
Abel
 Brasil Game Show 2015
9th Japan Hiromiki Kumada Itabashi Zangief Zangief Points
9th Hong Kong Jonny Cheng CCG|HumanBomb
Sagat
 Points
9th Japan Hajime Taniguchi MCZ|Tokido Akuma South East Asia Major 2015
9th
Olivier Hay
 MD|Luffy
Rose
 DreamHack Winter 2015
13th United States Du Dang Liquid|NuckleDu Guile, Decapre Points
13th Japan Sanshiro Nagai YBK|Shiro Abel Points
13th
Bruce Hsiang
AVM
|GamerBee
Adon
 Evo 2015
13th Japan Kenryo Hayashi MCZ|Mago
Yang
 Hypespotting 4
17th United Kingdom Benjamin Simon KIG|Problem X
C. Viper
, Seth 		Points
17th
Keita Ai
 RZR|Fuudo
Fei Long
 KO Fighting Game Festival 2015
17th France Valentin Petit
YP
|Valmaster 		Chun-Li Points
17th Japan Takenori Shimomura MF|Tonpy C. Viper Points
17th China Haojun Su Qanba.Douyu|Dakou Evil Ryu Points
17th Japan Hiroshi Arai YBK|Dashio Seth Mad Catz Tokyo Game Show 2015
17th China Zhuojun Zeng Qanba.Douyu|Xiao Hai Evil Ryu, Elena Points
17th Japan Yusuke Momochi EG|Momochi
Ken
, Evil Ryu 		Capcom Cup 2014
25th United States Gustavo Romero
WFX
|801 Strider 		Abel Points
25th Japan Masato Takahashi RB|Bonchan Sagat SoCal Regionals 2015
25th United States Kevin Landon YOMI|Dieminion Guile Points
25th United States Justin Wong EG|Justin Wong Rose, Elena Points
25th Singapore Ghim Kee Eng RZR|Gackt Fei Long, Sagat Points
25th Japan Naoki Nemoto Nemo
Rolento
 Ultra Hyakkishu Cup
25th China Xijie Zeng Dark Jiewa Ken Points
25th Taiwan Arubi Kao RZR|RB Rolento,
Hugo
 Milan Games Week 2015

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