Capcom holding online 'Street Fighter V' qualifiers for a spot in $250,000 tournament
Did you watch Evo two weeks ago, and think you might be ready for the Street Fighter big time?
Capcom is opening up its annual Street Fighter V tournament, the Capcom Cup, to a wider swath of players by holding online tournaments over the next few months. Players that win their respective online tournament will be able to compete in their regional qualifier for a spot in this year's Capcom Cup, which has a $250,000 prize pool.
There will be two 256-person tournaments held in each tournament region: North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. Players on both PC and PS4 are eligible, so long as they register on Challonge a week before their tournament starts. (A tournament organizer confirmed those spots would be first come, first served.) There is no charge to enter, and you should probably take a peek at the full rules before signing up.
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The first-place winner from each of the eight online tournaments will win airfare and hotel accommodations for the applicable 16-person regional qualifier.
The Capcom Cup, which collects its 32 entrants from tournament winners and the winningest players in each region, will be held at the end of the year, with a date and location still to be announced.
The first online ranking event, which is for the North American region, will take place this Sunday at 1 p.m. ET.
Topics Esports
Chelsea Stark was the Games Editor for Mashable, where she covered everything from AAA titles, mainstream consoles, indie gems, mobile games and gaming culture. She handled news, feature stories and reviews. Before that, Chelsea was Mashable's Multimedia Producer, where she helped develop visual storytelling aids, whether they were photos of video. She came to New York in 2010 to pursue her master's degree in journalism at NYU's Studio 20 program, which focused on innovation as journalism is changed by new technology. Before coming to New York, Chelsea lived in Austin, where she did online journalism and social media for the local CBS affiliate. She loves good beer, classic Nintendo games, and all things geeky, and spends her time attempting to find anything close to good Tex-Mex in Brooklyn.
