Japan Cup 2016

The Japan Cup was a Street Fighter V tournament held at the 2016 Tokyo Game Show On September 17, 2016. As a Premier Event of the Capcom Pro Tour, the winner of the event automatically qualified for the 2016 Capcom Cup. The tournament was won by GamerBee, who defeated Poongko in the finale.

Background

The Tokyo Game Show has been a major gaming convention held in Tokyo since 1996. The Tokyo Game Show became part of the Capcom Pro Tour at its inception in 2014. The Street Fighter tournaments held at the event were traditionally sponsored by Mad Catz, but due to significant financial issues – losing more than $4.3 million from April to December 2015 – Mad Catz was forced to drop their sponsorship of the 2016 event. The company also dropped their sponsorship deal with two Street Fighter players: Taniguchi "Tokido" Hajime and Hayashi "Mago" Kenryo. Capcom confirmed that the tournament was to be held as scheduled regardless.[1][2] The Japan Cup was one of three esports tournaments that were held at the Tokyo Game Show on September 17.[3]

Unlike prior instances of the tournament, the Japan Cup featured an open 256-player bracket. However, the tournament had an unexpected large amount of registrants, with over 100 people signing up to compete within an hour after the registrations opened. A few hours later, the Japan Cup organizers announced that they were forced to hold a lottery to see who would compete. At the time, the tournament's organization told Yahoo Esports that there would be no preferential treatment for any players.[4] Tokido, Fuudo, Yusuke Momochi, and Infiltration, who had all already qualified for the Capcom Cup, were absent from the tournament. Regardless, many established players with strong contending positions on the Capcom Pro Tour leaderboard attended, such as Kun Xian Ho, Daigo Umehara, and Justin Wong.[5][6]

Tournament summary

The Daily Dot reported after the first day of the tournament that Japanese players such as Go1, Eita, and Kazunoko were playing well, making it through their respective pools, while American players such as alucarD and Gootecks were not able to do so.[7] However, Taiwanese player GamerBee faced off against South-Korean player Poongko in the finale. GamerBee defeated his opponent and won the Japan Cup by playing a highly defensive Necalli. Timothy Lee of ESPN noted that the tournament "solidified" the tier list of Street Fighter V, with Cammy, Ken, Chun-Li and Karin being popular picks in the top 8.[8]

Results

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Place Player Alias Character(s)
1st Bruce Hsiang ZW|GamerBee Necalli
2nd Chung-gon Lee Secret|Poongko Cammy
3rd Ryota Inoue GGP|Kazunoko Cammy
4th Rinta Ken
5th Joe Egami MOV Chun-Li
5th Kenryo Hayashi Mago Karin
7th Kanamori Tsunehori Gachikun Rashid
7th Hiroyuki Nagata HM|Eita Ken
9th Cojiro Chun-Li
9th Ryota Takeuchi John Takeuchi Rashid
9th Naoto Sako HORI|Sako Chun-Li
9th Hikari Nishikawa Hikarin Necalli
13th Takuto Sato BegetaminB Chun-Li
13th Goichi Kishida HM|Go1 Chun-Li
13th Kitipaamu Zangief
13th Nauman Ken
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References
  1. Stubbs, Mike (2016-04-17). "Mad Catz drop two Street Fighter players and Capcom Pro Tour sponsorship". MCV.
  2. Jurek, Steven (2016-04-15). "Mad Catz will not sponsor the Capcom Pro Tour event at Tokyo Game Show". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 2016-09-16. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
  3. "大興奮確実！TGS2016ではe-Sportsステージに注目". Nifty.com. 2016-09-02.
  4. Martin, Michael (2016-08-24). "Registration for Japan Cup at TGS called 'overwhelming', 256 spots up for grabs in lottery". Yahoo Esports.
  5. Lee, Timothy (2016-09-17). "East meets West: Japan Cup 2016 preview". ESPN.
  6. Bahn, Chris (2016-08-30). "North America Rolling Deep at Tokyo Game Show". PVP Live.
  7. Jurek, Steven (2016-09-17). "Mixed performance for the Americans in Japan Cup opening day". The Daily Dot.
  8. Lee, Timothy (2016-09-18). "Gamerbee stings the competition at Japan Cup". ESPN.
  9. http://capcomprotour.com/japan-cup-2016-results/
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