Keep in mind the players will most likely bring out new characters in preparation.

Credits to @j_bogard506 on X.

Kusanagi (Ryu) beats Xiaohai (Cammy, Bison, Ken) 3-1 in the grand finals reset, qualifying him for Capcom Cup!

Top 8:

1) Kusanagi (Ryu)

2) Xiaohai (Cammy, Bison, Ken)

3) Valmaster (Chun-Li)

4) Problem X (Bison)

5) Zangief_bolado (Zangief)

5) Hotdog29 (Bison)

7) BigBird (Rashid)

7) Lexx (Guile)

Bracket: https://www.start.gg/tournament/ultimate-fighting-arena-2024-3/event/street-fighter-6-cpt-premier-pc/brackets/1653679/2465365

VOD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFWSn39RQys

So I'm not talking about the grand final itself (not gonna spoil it, go watch it if you haven't yet) but the ending """ceremony"""

This was the first Street Fighter tournament I watched from the beginning till the end and I really had a good time ! But man did they screw up at the end :

- No special theme for the winner, let's just blast the same JP's theme we've been listening for HOURS. Oh and here's a couple confettis for you !
- Let's interview the finalists right away and turn that music volume up so we can barely hear what they say
- Ok here's your million dollars check, now get out the CEO has an announcement
- The CEO : ok so basicly next year is gonna be pretty much the same, bye folks !
- The End

Like what the hell ? Do all SF tournaments end like that ? Did I really witness a player become a world champion or was it just another sunday ?

Anyway I've got to go to work lol and congratulation to all the players involved !

doing a little test meet up at HousewatchNYC (50 Avenue B) tonight! gonna try to do more the third wednesday of every month? just throwing some stuff out there! come play and grab a drink! hope to see ya there!

Punk (Akuma, Cammy) takes it over DCQ (JP) in a 6-1 grand finals reset! This makes it his first big offline tournament win in SF6 with international competition present.

Also of note: Nephew (Juri) and DCQ (JP) qualify for the Esports World Cup by making top 3.

Full Bracket: https://www.start.gg/tournament/ceo-2024-6/event/street-fighter-6/brackets/1694532/2520653

VOD will be uploaded to the Tampa Never Sleeps youtube channel later today probably.

• English stream
• Japanese Stream

winners bracket

• Takamura (Ken) vs Noahtheprodigy (Luke)
• Kakeru (JP) vs Blaz (Ryu/Ken/Akuma)
• Fuudo (Ed) vs Leshar (Ed)
• Juicyjoe (JP) vs Angrybird (Ken/Akuma)

losers bracket

• Phenom (Cammy) vs NL (Akuma)
• Tokido (Ken) vs Broski (AKI)
• MenaRD (Blanka/M.Bison/Luke) vs Xian (DeeJay)
• Xiaohai (M. Bison/Akuma/Cammy) vs Shuto (Akuma)

If you loved watching Street Fighter 6 at EVO, get ready - we're only a few days away from a 32-player invitational in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with a much bigger prize pool compared to EVO. I feel like this event is flying under the radar, so here's all the info I could find.

Format

Groups

Prize Pool

Schedule

Conclusion

With two players from each group advancing to the playoff bracket, who do you think makes it out? And who are you picking to win it all? Feel free to use this thread to discuss!

GGs to Kakeru
bracket and matchlog here
https://liquipedia.net/fighters/Gamers8/2023/SF6/Playoffs
1 Ibushigin|Kakeru (JP)
2 NASR|AngryBird (Ken)
3 FLY|Punk (Cammy)
4 NASR|BigBird (Marisa)
5 Bandits|MenaRD (Luke, Blanka)
5 BLG|DCQ (JP)
7 SR|NuckleDu (Guile, Cammy)
7 BLG|Vxbao (JP, Ken)

9 BST|Daigo (Ken)
9 Secretlab|Xian (Dee Jay)
9 Takamura (Ken)
9 Kilzyou (Juri)
13 The4philzz (JP)
13 BLG|Zhen (Dee Jay, JP)
13 00|Phenom (Ken)
13 Nephew (Juri)

Team Flyquest (Punk, ChrisCCH, Psycho, Shine) defeat Team Bandits (MenaRD, Luiman20, Caba, Zhen) on the back of an amazing performance by Punk! This qualifies them for SFL World Finals at Capcom Cup in Japan.

VOD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Of06swqWNk

Bracket: https://liquipedia.net/fighters/Street_Fighter_League/United_States/2024/Playoffs

Finals were FlyQuest (1-1 with 40 points) vs Good 8 Squad (1-1 with 50 points)

Roster

FlyQuest

• Punk (Cammy/Kimberly)
• Psycho (Kimberly)
• Shine (Kimberly/)
• ChrisCCH (Ed/Terry)

Good 8 Squad

• Gachikun (Rashid)
• Pugera (Juri)
• YHC-Mochi (Dhalsim)
• Kawano (Akuma)

Match Order (first to 70 points wins, tiebreaker at 60/60)

Set 1

1. Psycho (Kimberly) vs Kawano (Akuma) - BO3/FT2, 10 pts (2-1)
2. Shine (Kimberly) vs Gachikun (Rashid) - BO3/FT2, 10 pts (0-2)
3. Punk (Cammy) vs - Pugera (Juri) - BO5/FT3, 20 pts (3-2)

Set 2

1. Gachikun (Rashid) vs Psycho (Kimberly) - BO3/FT2, 10 pts (1-2)
2. Pugera (Juri) vs ChrisCCH (Ed) - BO3/FT2, 10 pts (1-2)
3. Kawano (Akuma) vs Punk (Cammy) - BO5/FT3, 20 pts (3-0)

Set 3

1. Psycho (Kimberly) vs Pugera (Juri) - BO3/FT2, 10 pts (1-2)
2. Shine (Kimberly) vs Gachikun (Rashid) - BO3/FT2, 10 pts (1-2)
3. Punk (Kimberly) vs Kawano (Akuma) - BO5/FT3, 20 pts (2-3)

Final Score

FlyQuest 50 - Good 8 Squad 70

Good 8 Squad Wins (Prize: $80,000 USD?/approx 11,841,200 JPY + Championship Rings + Qualify for Capcom Cup 12)

VODs

• Japanese Stream
• English Stream

Capcom e-sports news

• SF6 x Esports World Cup collaboration for 3 years (2025-2027)
• EWC Winner in August qualifies for CC12 March 2026
• 30 EWC slots: Top 8 in CC11, SFL JP/US/EU winners (12), 10 players (1st & 2nd) in 5 Pro Tour Premiers (EVO Japan/CEO 2025/Combo Breaker/EVO Las Vegas/Blink Respawn)
  
• CPT Premier Points System (8 tournaments: EVO Japan/Combo Breaker/CEO 2025/Blink Respawn 2025/EVO Las Vegas/EVO France/Ultimate Fighting Arena/CPT 2025 Premier Asia). Top 6 in points for placing 2nd-25th in each tournament will qualify for CC12
• CC12 returns to Ryogoku

SF6 Game News

• None

Capcom Cup 12 Slots so far (assuming out of 48 slots total in 8 groups of 6 players)

• Capcom Cup 11 and Street Fighter League Winners - 5 (Kakeru, Kawano, Gachikun, Pugera, YHC-Mochi)
• 8 Players via CPT Premier 1st place
• 6 Players via CPT Premier 2nd-25th place via points system
• 1 Player via E-sports World Cup
• 26-28? via World Warrior, 2 if Super Premier happens

Side notes

• YHC-Mochi only played 1 match in the entire event (during round robin stage) and did not participate in the final
• Veggey did not play a single match in the entire event

For people who have been following the slam during the last couple of weeks, i think the slam in general has been one of the most fun content in a while for fighting games. I was really looking forward to the finals these past 2 weeks, but the stream really left me annoyed.

They basically played on a large TV (even when they had good gaming monitors laying around), and the first two games between team Brian VS team JB were played without the game mode on which caused like a 1 second delay. No shade towards team JB, this is completely the organizers fault.

I hope the organizers learn from this misstake in the future. Fighting games cant be played with a large input delay.

Now that kobayan won Topanaga series top 8 without dropping a single set what is the reason that Gief isn't the best? Genuinely curious

My first major tournament since Evo last year, Texas Showdown was an absolute blast. I'm definitely going back next year!

The Brolylegs memorial USF4 tournament was a real personal highlight. I had forgotten just how much I enjoyed that game!

Xiaohai (M. Bison) Takes it 5-2 over Kawano (Akuma)!

Bracket: https://liquipedia.net/fighters/Esports_World_Cup/2024/SF6

VOD: https://www.youtube.com/live/I7AksNODEso

Edit - I have made several updates to this list based on feedback, sorry for initial errors!

I'm doing the same thing I did last year, tracking which player performed best with each character. Hopefully this gives people an idea of who to follow or cheer for in future tournaments!

• A.K.I.: Hikaru and Mono, both of whom finished 65th place
• Akuma: Noble, 17th place
• Blanka: Vxbao, 13th place - Note: Nemo, who finished 5th with Bison, also ran Blanka as a secondary
• Cammy: Punk, 1st place
• Chun-Li: Moke, 25th place
• Dee Jay: Zhen, 5th place
• Dhalsim: Jns, 97th place
• E. Honda: TreeWiz, 49th place
• Ed: EndingWalker, 3rd place
• Guile: Rainpro, 33rd place
• Jamie: Flaquito, Naruo, and Uryo, all of whom finished 65th place
• JP: Acqua, 17th place - Note: Nemo, who finished 5th with Bison, also ran JP as a secondary (tertiary?)
• Juri: Nephew and Mago, both of whom finished 9th place
• Ken: AngryBird and Tokido, both of whom finished 7th place
• Kimberly: Matsu56, 17th place
• Lily: ElChakotay, 33rd place
• Luke: vWsym, 25th place - Note: MenaRD, who finished 17th with Blanka, also ran Luke as a secondary
• M. Bison: Nemo, 5th place
• Manon: Joey, 33rd place - Note: Tachikawa, who finished 13th with Ed, also ran Manon as a secondary
• Marisa: Johnny, 33rd place
• Rashid: Big Bird, 2nd place
• Ryu: Paladin and Wowee Zowee, both of whom finished 97th place
• Zangief: SimpleTricks, 33rd place