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Capcom Cup 2014
Capcom Cup 2014 was an ''Ultra Street Fighter IV'' tournament held at The Warfield in San Francisco, California on December 13, 2014. 16 players qualified for the tournament by winning at events at the first Capcom Pro Tour, co-sponsored by Twitch. The tournament was won by Yusuke Momochi, defeating Kun Xian Ho in the finale and winning $30,000 USD. Capcom Pro Tour In March 2014, Capcom partnered with livestreaming video platform Twitch to create a year-long fighting game league, titled the Capcom Pro Tour. The Tour featured a large number of tournaments, among which ten "Premier Events". Winners of the Premier Events would automatically qualify for the Capcom Cup in December, and six more players were selected based on their ranking in Capcom-sponsored tournaments. During early tournaments in the Capcom pro Tour, the 2012 version of '' Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition'' was played. Tournaments transitioned into ''Ultra Street Fighter IV'' as it became available in Jun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of California cities by population, fourth most populous in California and List of United States cities by population, 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of , at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the County statistics of the United States, fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include ''SF'', ''San Fran'', ''The '', ''Frisco'', and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GameSpot
''GameSpot'' is an American video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on video games. The site was launched on May 1, 1996, created by Pete Deemer, Vince Broady and Jon Epstein. In addition to the information produced by ''GameSpot'' staff, the site also allows users to write their own reviews, blogs, and post on the site's forums. It has been owned by Fandom, Inc. since October 2022. In 2004, ''GameSpot'' won "Best Gaming Website" as chosen by the viewers in Spike TV's second ''Video Game Award Show'', and has won Webby Awards several times. The domain ''gamespot.com'' attracted at least 60 million visitors annually by October 2008 according to a Compete.com study. History In January 1996, Pete Deemer, Vince Broady and Jon Epstein quit their positions at IDG and founded SpotMedia Communications. SpotMedia then launched ''GameSpot'' on May 1, 1996. Originally, ''GameSpot'' focused solely on personal computer games, so a sis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Community Effort Orlando
Community Effort Orlando (often shortened to CEO) is an annual fighting game event held in Daytona Beach, Florida. Prior to 2018, CEO was held in Orlando, Florida. Introduced in 2010 and organized by Alex Jebailey, the event is known for its strong ties to the fighting game community. Fighting game players compete in a wrestling ring during the event's tournaments, and CEO has been a mainstay of the Capcom Pro Tour since its establishment in 2014. An annual side-event titled CEOtaku was initiated in 2015. Background Described in 2016 as one of the biggest fighting game community events in the United States by ''Red Bull'', CEO has been running annually since 2010 and has grown exponentially every year. Organized by Alex Jebailey, the event is known primarily for emphasizing community spirit. Jebailey's goal as CEO is to ensure the entertainment of all its attendees. The event has an "infamous" wrestling ring in which tournament players compete and those who reach the finals m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seon-Woo Lee
Lee Seon-woo, known as Infiltration, is a professional esports player from Seoul, South Korea, specializing in fighting games. Lee is a six-time Evolution Championship Series (EVO) champion; winning '' Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition v2012'' in 2012, ''Street Fighter X Tekken'' in 2012 and 2013, ''Street Fighter V'' in 2016 and 2018 (EVO Japan) and ''Samurai Shodown'' in 2019. Lee was fired from his team, Panda Global, in November 2018 after the organization learned of a domestic abuse case he was convicted for the year before. Gaming career Infiltration first started playing fighting games seriously with the home release of Street Fighter IV, but he offered tips for players hoping to raise their skill level. The "Infiltration" name comes from the Metal Gear Solid series, of which he is a big fan. Lee uses a bat-top joystick due to the first FightStick he bought was coincidentally a bat-top joystick sold for 2,000 yen ($20 US). Lee chose Akuma in ''Street Fighter IV'' b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gen (Street Fighter)
The main titles of the ''Street Fighter'' fighting game series have introduced a varied cast of 80 ''World Warriors'' from the main series, and 34 from several spin-offs, for a total of 114 playable characters who originated from different countries around the world, each with his or her unique fighting style. This is a list of playable characters and non-playable opponents from the whole franchise. They are categorized based on the game in which they first became playable, including the original ''Street Fighter'' game, the ''Street Fighter II'' series, the ''Street Fighter Alpha'' series, the ''Street Fighter III'' series, the ''Street Fighter IV'' series, ''Street Fighter V'', ''Street Fighter 6'' and other related games. Main series The table below summarizes every single fighter in the series. A green cell indicates that the character is playable, with the number indicating the revision of the game they are introduced in (e.g. the number in ''SFV'' indicates the downloadabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poison (Street Fighter)
is a character (arts), fictional character in the ''Final Fight'' and ''Street Fighter'' series of video games. Created by Akira Yasuda for Capcom, Poison first appeared in the original ''Final Fight (video game), Final Fight'' alongside a similar character, Roxy, later appearing in Capcom-produced games, media and merchandise related to the ''Street Fighter'' franchise. She is voiced by Atsuko Tanaka (voice actress), Atsuko Tanaka since the ''Street Fighter III'' series and Masae Yumi in ''SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos''. Originally conceived as a female thug in ''Final Fight'' and part of the game's antagonist group, Mad Gear, concerns during the game's development about reactions from North American audiences to fighting women led to the character being re-imagined as a "wikt:newhalf, newhalf". However, that was not considered satisfactory and both Poison and her palette swap Roxy were replaced by the male characters "Billy" and "Sid" and have been for every subsequent North Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier Hay
Olivier Hay, also known as Luffy or Louffy, is a French professional fighting games player of Teochew descent who specializes in ''Street Fighter'' and ''King of Fighters''. Hay began his ''Street Fighter'' career in 2009. He is famous for being the first Street Fighter IV player to bring the character Rose to competitive levels and also for being the first European player to win a tournament for a Street Fighter game at Evolution Championship Series (EVO), being the 2014 champion for Ultra Street Fighter IV. Hay's reason for maining Rose is because he thinks that she looks attractive. While he prefers his nickname to be spelt Luffy, some French Internet medias spell his nickname as Louffy to avoid confusion with the One Piece character, whom he took his nickname from. Hay is well known for using a PS1 controller as his controller of choice. Hay has a pet dog named RADIO in which he will dedicate his tournament victories to. Hay became so dominant in the European Street Fighter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metagame
Metagame, Hypergame, or game about the game, is an approach to a game that transcends or operates outside of the prescribed rules of the game, uses external factors to affect the game, or goes beyond the supposed limits or environment set by the game. ''Metagaming'' might also refer to a game which functions to create or modify the rules of a sub-game. Thus, we might play a metagame selecting which rules will apply during the play of the game itself. Etymology The origin of the idea of metagames originally came from the game theory field, with ideas first published in the groundbreaking '' Theory of Games and Economic Behavior'' by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern in 1944, though the term itself was not originally used in that work. The word can be found being used in the context of playing zero-sum games in a publication by the Mental Health Research Institute in 1956. It is claimed that the first known use of the term was in Nigel Howard's book ''Paradoxes of Rational ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snake Eyez
Darryl S. Lewis, better known by his in-game name Snake Eyez, is an American professional fighting game player. He is considered one of the best Zangief players of ''Street Fighter IV'' and ''Street Fighter V''. Lewis was the highest seeded player at Capcom Cup 2015 who wasn't automatically qualified. He was the only American player in top-8 of Capcom Cup 2015. Snake Eyez's career was the subject of a documentary called ''Cultivation: House of Snake Eyez''. Snake Eyez is also well known for being the EVO 2010 Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix champion, in which he also plays Zangief. Tournament results 2010 * 1st - Evolution 2010 (Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix) 2012 * 5th - Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Grand Finals (Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition v2012) 2013 * 5th - Winter Brawl 7 (Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition v2012) * 9th - Evolution 2013 (Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition v2012) * 4th - LANHAMMER 2013 (Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Wong
Justin Wong, occasionally shortened to just Jwong, is a formerly American and now Canadian professional fighting game player. Wong has won more EVO titles than anyone else with nine tournaments won: seven for '' Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes'' between 2001 and 2010, one for '' Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike'' in 2009, and one for ''Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3'' in 2014. Career Evolution 2004 In the Evolution Championship Series 2004 '' Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike'' losers bracket final, Wong's Chun-Li lost to Daigo Umehara's Ken Masters when, in an unexpected comeback, Daigo managed to parry every single hit of Chun-Li's super art II and land a max damage combo. This incident has been widely shared in a well-known viral video. 2009 Wong took part in GameStop's Street Fighter IV US National Tournament in 2009, which he won. After the main tournament, a set of special exhibition matches of Street Fighter IV took place in San Francisco, California, on April 18 afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double-elimination
A double-elimination tournament is a type of elimination tournament competition in which a participant ceases to be eligible to win the tournament's championship upon having lost ''two'' games or matches. It stands in contrast to a single-elimination tournament, in which only ''one'' defeat results in elimination. One method of arranging a double-elimination tournament is to break the competitors into two sets of brackets, the ''winners' bracket'' and ''losers' bracket'' (''W'' and ''L'' brackets for short; also referred to as ''championship bracket'' and ''elimination bracket'', ''upper bracket'' and ''lower bracket'', or ''main bracket'' and ''repechage'') after the first round. The first-round winners proceed into the W bracket and the losers proceed into the L bracket. The W bracket is conducted in the same manner as a single-elimination tournament, except that the losers of each round "drop down" into the L bracket. Another method of double-elimination tournament management i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Bull GmbH
Red Bull GmbH () is an Austrian private company known for its range of energy drinks of the same name. It is also known for its sponsorship of a range of sporting events and teams. The headquarters of Red Bull GmbH are located in Fuschl am See, Salzburg. History Austrian entrepreneur Dietrich Mateschitz and Thai businessman Chaleo Yoovidhya founded Red Bull GmbH in 1984. While working for German manufacturer Blendax (later acquired by Procter & Gamble) in 1982, Mateschitz traveled to Thailand and met Chaleo, owner of TC Pharmaceuticals. He found that the energy drink Krating Daeng, developed by Chaleo's company during the 1970s, helped to ease his jet lag. After seeing market potential in the drink, he partnered with Chaleo in bringing it to Europe. Under their agreement, the partners invested $500,000 each into founding Red Bull GmbH. In return, they would each receive a 49% stake in the company, with the remaining 2% stake going to Chaleo's son Chalerm. They also agreed th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
