The Capcom Pro Tour is a series of international
fighting game
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tournaments
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sponsored by
video game
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developer
Capcom
is a Japanese video game developer and video game publisher, publisher. It has created a number of List of best-selling video game franchises, multi-million-selling game franchises, with its most commercially successful being ''Resident Evil' ...
. The Pro Tour culminates in the annual
Capcom Cup
Capcom Cup is an annual fighting game tournament 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. Capc ...
, a single-day tournament held in the
San Francisco Bay Area
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.
2014
Capcom Cup 2014 Qualifiers
2015
Capcom Cup 2015 qualifiers
2016
Like the previous year, Capcom Pro Tour 2016 has a US$500,000 prize pool. ''
Street Fighter V
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Similar to th ...
'' replaced ''Ultra Street Fighter IV'' as the game played during the series.
Final Round 19
Final Round 19 was a fighting game tournament that took place in Atlanta on March 18–20, 2016. Being the first of the eleven ''Street Fighter V'' Premier Events of the 2016 Capcom Pro Tour, the winner of the tournament automatically qualified fo ...
was the first major tournament in the circuit. Capcom plans to make the Capcom Cup itself much more balanced nationality-wise. The organizers also stated that only first-place finishers of each twelve premier events and regional finals can qualify, meaning that if someone who is already qualified takes first place, another global points qualifier will be added. Eight players will qualify from regional point leaderboards (two from North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America each).
Capcom Cup 2016 qualifiers
2017
The 2017 Capcom Pro Tour took off on February 17, 2017. The points leaderboards and qualification mechanics for the
2017 Capcom Cup were greatly streamlined in the 2017 season, with automatic qualification upon winning a Premier Event being taken away. This Capcom Pro Tour still features Regional Finals, but the Regional points leaderboard is otherwise unused. This Pro Tour features more online events than the 2016 event did. The finals were won by MenaRD, using
Birdie
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.
2018
In total, 465 players scored points in the season. The finals were won by Gachikun, using Rashid.
2019
In total, 508 players scored points in the season. Idom won using
Poison
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.
2020
Live events in 2020 were cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
The Evo weekend was replaced with an online-only tournament. ''Street Fighter V'' was not selected for this event.
At the first official online event, two leading competitors, including Idom, dropped out live on air, citing the poor netcode of ''Street Fighter V''.
In August 2020, top player Punk was penalised by Capcom for a public outburst against the poor netcode.
References
External links
Official Website
{{Capcom Cup
2013 establishments
Capcom Cup