Month: October 2014

Live from FACE Shinjuku in Tokyo, Japan is the Ultra Street Fighter IV Isshun Sengeki Cup finals tournament. Isshun Sengeki Cup (“One Autumn, One Thousand Strikes”, a play on Akuma’s Wrath of the Raging Demon) is the Grade A event of Capcom and TAITO’s national tournaments in Japan, featuring a sizable prize pool.

Isshun Sengeki Cup consists of a singles and 3on3 competition. While the 3on3 tournament will be a standard winners-stay team format, the singles event is a Capcom Pro Tour premier tournament, with a double-elimination, best of 3 games format (best of 5 games for the Grand Final). The winner of the singles tournament will claim a spot in the Capcom Cup 2014 finals this December.

Players, Teams & First Round Match-ups

Singles Tournament

• Momochi (Ken) vs. Hagejin (Zangief)
• Umehara (Ryu) vs. Mago (Yang)
• NISHIKIN (Blanka) vs. Kyabetsu (C.Viper)
• koujiKOG (T.Hawk) vs. Shimauta (Ibuki)
• Meu (Makoto) vs. Kazunoko (Yun)
• NINOMAE (Rose) vs. Nekojita (Abel)
• EBI (Hakan) vs. SANTAROU (Sagat)
• foolycooly2 (Rufus) vs. Bonchan (Sagat)

3on3 Tournament

• Double Dragon – Kyoku (Yang), Kyabetsu (C.Viper), Ojisan (Abel) vs. Shakariki Dynamic – Score (Yun), Tarezou (Adon), dath (C.Viper)
• Kachitagari – Fuudo (Fei Long), Bonchan (Sagat), Kazunoko (Yun) vs. Ultra Kaiser Phoenix – Hishow Rabbit (Sagat), MDR (Rufus), Shimauta (Ibuki)
• KARU no Konchuu Saishuu Monogatari – Ninomae (Rose), KARU (Cammy), Kita Senju DJ (Dee Jay) vs. FGC Raijin – Gachi-kun (Sagat), Hagejin (Zangief), Amiyu (Gen)
• MADCATZ – TOKIDO (Akuma), Mago (Yang), Umehara (Evil Ryu) vs. Chima – Nekojita (Abel), Itabashi Zangief (Zangief), Eita (Akuma)

Prizes

Singles Tournament

• 1st Place – 1,000,000 yen (~9285 USD)
• 2nd Place – 100,000 yen (~930 USD)
• 3rd-8th Place – 10,000 yen (~95 USD)
• Special Prize – 50,000 yen (~465 USD)

3on3 Tournament

• 1st Place Team – 1,000,000 yen (~9285 USD)
• 2nd Place Team – 100,000 yen (~930 USD)
• 3rd-4th Place Teams – 10,000 yen (~95 USD)
• Special Prize – 50,000 yen (~465 USD)

Isshun Sengeki Cup will be broadcast live on Twitch (via Capcom Fighters), Ustream (via TAITO) and Niconico Live.

Capcom Fighters (Twitch) – Winners Bracket Matches

Watch live video from CapcomFighters on www.twitch.tv

TAITO (Ustream) – Losers Bracket Matches

Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream

Schedule

All times in Japan Standard Time (UTC+9).

12:00 – Venue opens
13:00 – Opening ceremony
13:10 – 3on3 player entrance
13:30 – 3on3 finals tournament
15:20 – 3on3 finals tournament awards ceremony
15:40 – Break
16:00 – Singles player entrance
16:20 – Singles finals tournament
19:00 – Singles finals tournament award ceremony
19:15 – Closing ceremony

Sources: TAITO,  Capcom Fighters,TAITO, Niconico Live

Ricardo Roman recently put out a new Ultra Street Fighter IV video showing off some high-damage options for three very different characters: Sakura, Sagat, and Decapre. As with previous videos from Ricardo, you’ll probably see something that you’ve never seen before. There is plenty of looping, character-specific hurtbox abuse, and a whole lot more to keep this latest exhibition entertaining.

Perhaps the most interesting part of the video is a bit of tech with Sagat that comes early on. It involves a block string which spaces Sagat perfectly to land a cross-up EX Tiger Knee on his crouching opponent, which, of course, goes right into Ultra 1. And no Sakura combo video is complete without plenty of Tatsu loops!

Source: Ricardo Roman