To help celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Street Fighter, Capcom is organizing a series of tournaments throughout the year in locations across the globe that will include over $500,000 worth of cash, non-cash prizing, and amenities. This high-stakes tournament series will culminate in a grand finals event held in San Francisco on Dec. 8, 2012 and will include players who qualify in the preliminary tournaments throughout the year. The tournament series will feature the following monumental titles from the past and present: Street Fighter X Tekken, Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition, Street Fighter III 3rd Strike Online Edition, and Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. http://www.streetfighter25.com/
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition Ver. 2012
Released: 2009 - 2012
If the players do not agree on a stage within 15 seconds, the match will be random stage select.
You may not use any glitch that prevents the game from being played. This includes game freezing, game resetting, player freezing, etc.
Winner may change ultra, but has to pick ultra first after loser picks character.
I'm actually pretty excited for Street Fighter II! I don't know what Turbo remix does, but I really liked the original when I used to hang out by the arcade at the municipal pool.
HD remix is the re-released version of Super Turbo (what is usually played for SF2) with new HD redrawn graphics etc and there was a rebalance mode included (hence remix). But it will be played in 'original mode' without the new rebalances but the hd graphics still cause some differences from the true arcade version.
Saturday 8:00AM: Venue Opens 8:00AM-8:45AM: On-site registration 9:00AM: Brackets are published 9:00AM-10:00AM: Casual Play / Practice 10:00AM: Tournament Begins for All Games 6:00PM: Down to 32 players for All games 6:00PM-9:00pm: Quarterfinals Begins, Top 32 -> Top 8 (up to Top 4 for 3rd Strike and HDR)
Sunday 8:00AM: Venue Opens 8:00AM-10:00AM: Casual Play / Practice 10:00AM: Top 4 begins for HD Remix 10:45PM: Top 4 begins for 3rd Strike 11:50PM: Grand Finals of SFxT 2v2 exhibition 12:30PM: Top 8 Begins for SFxT 1v1 3:00PM: Top 8 Begins for SF4 6:00PM: Tournament ends 6:00PM-8:00PM: Casual Play 8:00PM: Venue Closes
It was left off the official site and still unconfirmed yet so I didn't have it in the original OP. I had to go back to the original press release from back in may to find that info.
Stream was fine for me. They are apparently working with bad venue internet
I don't get why jab fighter x time out was even in the list of games, its not one of the main street fighter games. Capcom must really want to push it to success. Also, i don't think there is a point to banning chun because the scene for 3rd strike is so small already and the game only has a few viable characters tbh. If she was banned, we would probably see only yuns and kens, you really wouldn't get more character variety. Of course, i don't know much about 3rd strike so someone correct me if I'm wrong.
On July 30 2012 06:31 itsben wrote: I don't get why jab fighter x time out was even in the list of games, its not one of the main street fighter games. Capcom must really want to push it to success. Also, i don't think there is a point to banning chun because the scene for 3rd strike is so small already and the game only has a few viable characters tbh. If she was banned, we would probably see only yuns and kens, you really wouldn't get more character variety. Of course, i don't know much about 3rd strike so someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Pretty accurate on all counts. They're pushing xT because they want it to succeed, but it's... meh. The game needs gems, badly. Did you see the Ricky vs Justin games earlier on in the day in xT? The game ended, the camera panned to the crowd, and... they could not have been more apathetic. It's a boring grind of a game right now and it desperately, desperately needs a way to introduce gems without it taking like five minutes to set up before each game.
On July 30 2012 06:31 itsben wrote: I don't get why jab fighter x time out was even in the list of games, its not one of the main street fighter games. Capcom must really want to push it to success. Also, i don't think there is a point to banning chun because the scene for 3rd strike is so small already and the game only has a few viable characters tbh. If she was banned, we would probably see only yuns and kens, you really wouldn't get more character variety. Of course, i don't know much about 3rd strike so someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Pretty accurate on all counts. They're pushing xT because they want it to succeed, but it's... meh. The game needs gems, badly. Did you see the Ricky vs Justin games earlier on in the day in xT? The game ended, the camera panned to the crowd, and... they could not have been more apathetic. It's a boring grind of a game right now and it desperately, desperately needs a way to introduce gems without it taking like five minutes to set up before each game.
A complete overhaul of the gem system needs to happen. Cut the gem list down to 10 or 20 and make players be able to choose their gems at the character selection. I don't see any other way to make this game playable.
Having SFxT in the lineup is easy advertisement for the DLC Character pack they're releasing next week. It's not like they can just abandon the game before milking more money out of it.
I'm a little sad there will be no event in germany. I didn't expect there to be one but when I read France and England I got my hopes up. The german championship capcom hosted 2 years ago (I think?) was amazing. Even met a former sc player from clan [DEF].
On August 10 2012 18:57 Mandalor wrote: I'm a little sad there will be no event in germany. I didn't expect there to be one but when I read France and England I got my hopes up. The german championship capcom hosted 2 years ago (I think?) was amazing. Even met a former sc player from clan [DEF].
Keep an eye on german communities. I think the paris event is just finals event and has qualifiers over europe leading up to it.
On August 11 2012 20:27 Mandalor wrote: nah it's not. compared to the US, of course, but it's grown a lot since AE. There will even be a 10.000$ tournament in Berlin next month I think.
sure thats the one at campus party, however, with 128€ entry fee for the event, i fear for the competition a bit
On August 11 2012 20:27 Mandalor wrote: nah it's not. compared to the US, of course, but it's grown a lot since AE. There will even be a 10.000$ tournament in Berlin next month I think.
sure thats the one at campus party, however, with 128€ entry fee for the event, i fear for the competition a bit
On August 11 2012 20:27 Mandalor wrote: nah it's not. compared to the US, of course, but it's grown a lot since AE. There will even be a 10.000$ tournament in Berlin next month I think.
sure thats the one at campus party, however, with 128€ entry fee for the event, i fear for the competition a bit
Well... that's a huge entry fee but you get a lot for it. It's not like this is a specific fee for the tournament. Also, there's gonna be satellites for free entry (that's what I heard at least).
On August 12 2012 02:24 CaffeineFree-_- wrote: Stream is live! I don't play 3s or st so could someone tell me why gill and akuma are banned from each respectively :o ?
Gill and Akuma are both secret boss characters, and are far too strong to be used in competitive play.
Gill is god tier. He is like Urien on steroids (More damage, priorities, better moves etc...) + broken ults. Same kind of stuff for akuma in ST. He is not balanced. Faster, stronger than the others characters. He would make the other shoto characters obsolete and trash the rest of the line up.
On August 12 2012 03:08 Mandalor wrote: waitwait akuma is banned from 3s competitive play? Or just sf2/some other sf game? Akuma never striked me as remotely imbalanced in 3s
Noo he's banned from Turbo and gill is banned from 3s.
EPT
EG Ricky Ortiz Rufus
WW Infiltration Akuma
AVM Gamerbee Adon
DM Gackt Fei Long
N Elena
MCZ Daigo Umehara Ryu
GR Breno_Fighters Cammy
MTLSF Chi-Rithy Chun-Li
CG Problem X Seth
Alioune Cammy
Phenix T.Hawk
SimSim Dhalsim/JACK-X
Nindo Dudley
Chunkis O.Sagat
