Capcom Pro Tour year-long SF tournament announced in partnership with Twitch

Capcom, in partnership with Twitch, has announced the Capcom Pro Tour, a year-long fighting game league featuring Super Street Fighter IV AE ver. 2012 and Ultra Street Fighter IV (upon its release this June) that culminates with the grand finals at the Capcom Cup in December 2014.

With the partnership, live streams of the Capcom Pro Tour tournaments (whether online or offline) from across the year will be available via the Capcom Fighters Twitch channel.
Twitch made the announcement on Monday on its blog, while Capcom quietly posted the news on Saturday, on the new Capcom Pro Tour website.

Introducing the Capcom Pro Tour, Capcom's Combofiend released a YouTube video on Monday. He described how the Capcom Pro Tour would feature premier events, ranking tournaments, and online tournaments.



According to Capcom, the Pro Tour will help "support tournament organisers, while delivering increased production values, supplementary video content, and new opportunities for players, content creators and sponsors."

At the end of the year, at the Capcom Cup grand finals, a total of 16 spots will be set, with two ways players can qualify. While players that win a premier event will instantly qualify for a spot, the remaining spots will be determined with a ranking system, with points earned during ranking events.

Ranking events will include trade shows, as well as independent tournaments that are managed and streamed separately from the Capcom Pro Tour. Tournament organisers can also apply to become a ranking event.

There will be a total of 10 premier events in the Capcom Pro Tour, and the remaining six spots will be determined using ranking system. More details about the three additional premier events will be announced at a later date.

Describing the significance of the Capcom Pro Tour, Victor "Victheslik" Denchartphan, Twitch's FGC (fighting game community) specialist, said, "The fighting community has always been a huge part of the world of competitive gaming, but has lacked global leagues and structure which other e-sports communities have benefited greatly from. What Capcom is setting out to achieve by organizing a year-long pro tour in tandem with leveraging the Twitch community is definitely going to change the face of the fighting game scene."

Current line-up of premier events

• Final Round (March 14-16 - Atlanta, GA, USA)
• NorCal Regionals (April 18-20 - Sacramento, CA, USA)
• Southeast Asia Majors (June 20-22 - Singapore)
• Community Effort Orlando (June 27-29 - Orlando, FL, USA)
• Evolution Championship Series (July 11-13 - Las Vegas, NV, USA)
• The Fall Classic (October 10-12 - Raleigh, NC, USA)
• DreamHack Winter (November 27-30 - Jönköping, Sweden)

Current line-up of ranking events

• SoCal Regionals (February 28-March 2, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
• PAX East (April 11-13 - Boston, MA, USA)
• E3 (June 10-12 - Los Angeles, CA, USA)
• San Diego Comic Con (July 24-27 - San Diego, CA, USA)