Month: August 2018

Yesterday, the online portion of the 2018 Capcom Pro Tour continued its steady forward march with the Finals of the second Online Ranking Event for Northern Latin America. Eligible regions included Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, the Republic of Panama, and Puerto Rico. With 101 registered entrants, it was certainly going to be a tough time to crack into the top 8 and score some precious Ranking Points.

Though this event was played to top 8 on its originally scheduled date of Saturday, July 28th, a PlayStation Network outage forced the top 8 matches to be temporarily postponed and rescheduled until after Evo 2018. A Champion has now been crowned, though — and we have results and replays here for you.

Results

Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition

1. OWL ALLIANCE|Crossover (Akuma) – 150 Points
2. Mono (F.A.N.G) – 70 Points
3. TIGERS|LuiMan20 (Dhalsim) – 40 Points
4. RH|Zeromex7 (Balrog) – 20 Points
5. Lilo24k (Balrog, Abigail) – 10 Point
5. Jochy (Akuma) – 10 Points
7. MGR|NovaMage (Kolin) – 1 Point
7. RD_EricKOF1 (R. Mika) – 1 Point
9. RISE|Caba (Guile)
9. DR Ray (Ibuki)
9. PXLN|Roberto (Ryu)
9. FS|Fraud0noko (M. Bison)
13. Infused|Droker (Akuma)
13. -Starlight- (Nash)
13. Juanfraroth (Alex)
13. Taker (Ibuki)

We’ve got replays of the top 8 action below, featuring commentary from LevelUp’s Alex “Calipower” Valle and Godspeed, below.

The next Capcom Pro Tour Online Ranking event will be the second event for Eastern Europe, next Saturday, August 18th. Eligible regions include Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and the Ukraine. The tournament will begin at 10:00 AM BST, with the top 8 being streamed at 4:00 PM BST at twitch.tv/capcomfighters, as well as the Capcom Fighers YouTube Channel and Street Fighter Facebook page. Registration is currently live at smash.gg.

Source: Capcom Fighters

From the fall of Marvel vs. Capcom, to the rise of Super Smash Bros. and Street Fighter V, Evo shifts into the modern esports era!

After detailing the origin point of the Evolution Championship Series, theScore esports returns with Part 2 of their documentary on “The Story of Evo.”

Following Daigo Umehara’s back-to-back victories in Street Fighter IV and Super Street Fighter IV in 2009 and 2010, Capcom made the pivotal releases of Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 in 2011, ushering in what would become a new 7-year era for the Versus Series — that would sadly end with 2017’s Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite being excluded from this year’s main lineup of titles.

In the meantime however, another force was slowing rising up, Super Smash Bros. Melee, which made a triumphant return to the Evo main stage in 2013 after raising a whopping $94,683 for breast cancer research, ending a five-year streak of absence. Notably, they trumped Lab Zero’s Skullgirls, which to this day has yet to taste main stage glory. However, as noted by James Chen, Maximilian, Liquid|Daniel “ChuDat” Rodriguez, and Joey “Mr. Wizard” Cuellar, they first had to combat Nintendo’s attempts to shut down that portion of the event.

However, the Smash community would not be denied, as Evo 2015 and 2016 played host to the four biggest Smash tournaments of all-time between Melee and Wii U. In more recent times, we’ve had the controversy of BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle being added to this year’s lineup months before release, to the massive 5,065 player debut of Street Fighter V in 2016, to last Sunday’s Dragon Ball FighterZ Grand Finals between Echo Fox|Sonic Fox and Cyclops Osaka’s GO1 being the most watched set in the history of Evo. There is also the rise in developer support, with new characters, entire games, and tournament circuits being announced in Las Vegas, not to mention the expansion into the East with the debut of Evo Japan.

The video closes with a rundown of all past and current Battle by the Bay and Evolution Championship Series Champions. You can enjoy the entire video below.

Feel free to share some of your favorite Evo moments in the comments.

Source: theScore esports

From the fall of Marvel vs. Capcom, to the rise of Super Smash Bros. and Street Fighter V, Evo shifts into the modern esports era!

After detailing the origin point of the Evolution Championship Series, theScore esports returns with Part 2 of their documentary on “The Story of Evo.”

Following Daigo Umehara’s back-to-back victories in Street Fighter IV and Super Street Fighter IV in 2009 and 2010, Capcom made the pivotal releases of Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 in 2011, ushering in what would become a new 7-year era for the Versus Series — that would sadly end with 2017’s Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite being excluded from this year’s main lineup of titles.

In the meantime however, another force was slowing rising up, Super Smash Bros. Melee, which made a triumphant return to the Evo main stage in 2013 after raising a whopping $94,683 for breast cancer research, ending a five-year streak of absence. Notably, they trumped Lab Zero’s Skullgirls, which to this day has yet to taste main stage glory. However, as noted by James Chen, Maximilian, Liquid|Daniel “ChuDat” Rodriguez, and Joey “Mr. Wizard” Cuellar, they first had to combat Nintendo’s attempts to shut down that portion of the event.

However, the Smash community would not be denied, as Evo 2015 and 2016 played host to the four biggest Smash tournaments of all-time between Melee and Wii U. In more recent times, we’ve had the controversy of BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle being added to this year’s lineup months before release, to the massive 5,065 player debut of Street Fighter V in 2016, to last Sunday’s Dragon Ball FighterZ Grand Finals between Echo Fox|Sonic Fox and Cyclops Osaka’s GO1 being the most watched set in the history of Evo. There is also the rise in developer support, with new characters, entire games, and tournament circuits being announced in Las Vegas, not to mention the expansion into the East with the debut of Evo Japan.

The video closes with a rundown of all past and current Battle by the Bay and Evolution Championship Series Champions. You can enjoy the entire video below.

Feel free to share some of your favorite Evo moments in the comments.

Source: theScore esports