Capcom Cup 2013 (Dec 14) Preview & Curleh Mustache, USFIV dated & FGC News!

Welcome to the final FGC tournament & News blog from me for 2013! Featured news items include Ultra Street Fighter IV and Killer Instinct!

Tournaments Featured in this blog

Capcom Cup - December 14th

Following on from Capcom's successful 25th anniversary tournament season last year Capcom are now ending this year with the first ever Capcom Cup. The most notable difference between it and EVO is the qualifier events, which serve as entries into the tournament instead of seeding events for an open entry tournament like EVO. The top 8 finalists for AE ver. 2012, UMvC3 and SFxT are as follows:

Street Fighter (1st place wins $6000, 2nd - $3000, 3rd - $1000)

• MCZ|Tokido (Akuma)
• HORI|Sako (Ibuki)
• Haitani (Makoto)
• RZR|Fuudo (Fei Long)
• DM|Xian (Gen)
• DM|Gackt (Fei Long)
• BCN|Alioune (Cammy)
• AGE|NYChrisG (Sakura)

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (1st place wins $3000, 2nd - $1500, 3rd - $500)

• AGE|NYChrisG (Morrigan, Dr. Doom, Vergil)
• Nemo (Nova, Dr. Strange, Spencer)
• EG|Justin Wong (Wolverine, Storm, Akuma)
• coL|Filipino Champ (Magneto, Dormammu, Dr. Doom)
• KaneBlueRiver (Hulk, Haggar, Sentinel)
• EMP|IFC Yipes (Nova, Dr. Strange, Spencer)
• BT|MarlinPie (C. Viper, Dr. Doom, Amaterasu)
• Abegen (Tron Bonne, Thor, She-Hulk)

Street Fighter X Tekken (1st place wins $3000, 2nd - $1500, 3rd - $500)

• Infiltration (Jin, Alisa)
• KS|Sethlolol (Law, Kuma)
• EG|Justin Wong (Hwoarang, Chun-Li)
• EMP|NuckleDu (Guile, Zangief)
• LU|Alex Valle (Yoshimitsu, Lars)
• EMP|Tampa Bison (M. Bison, Rolento)
• TheZombieDriver (Hwoarang, Nina)
• KS|Ramos (Vega, Cammy)

North East Championships XIV featuring the Curleh Mustache Battle Royale 2 - December 6-8

NEC XIV is your last regularly scheduled weekend spanning tournament event of 2013, here's the game and stream details, check it out this weekend! -

• Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012

• Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3

• Street Fighter X Tekken

• Killer Instinct

• Injustice: Gods Among Us

• Mortal Kombat 9

• Soul Calibur 5

• Tekken Tag Tournament 2

• Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate

• King of Fighters 13

• Persona 4 Arena

• Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R

Primary Stream - http://www.twitch.tv/teamsp00ky

Secondary Stream - http://www.twitch.tv/bifuteki

Injustice / Mortal Kombat Stream - http://www.twitch.tv/kombatnetwork

Anime Fighters Stream - http://www.twitch.tv/st1ckbug

Extra Stream - http://www.twitch.tv/kpbfgc

Curleh Mustache Battle Royale 2

Personally I only enjoy team tournaments when they're either Canada Cup or Curleh Mustache Battle Royales, so I'm expecting good things from this.

News

Ultra Street Fighter IV location testing under way, releases in Summer 2014

USFIV releases in June 2014 digitally and physically on PC and consoles in August 2014. The game is making the rounds across the globe, giving players the chance to test out mechanics and characters. It's been such a long time since I saw Chun-Li as a half decent character in SFIV.

Check out Street Fighter X Tekken crossover characters Rolento and Hugo.

Fighting Games hit the next-gen consoles

The PS4 and Xbox One launched last month, Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition for the PlayStation 4 has a Metacritic rating of 82/100 from 12 critics, while Killer Instinct for the Xbox One got 73/100 from 37 critics. Both make sense for each game, Injustice was already a much loved game by the gaming press and the little content KI has is considered a good start.

I'm very interested in seeing some KI tournaments and if KI will accepted into EVO 2014.

Assist Me, the final season begins!

That's it for 2013, see you soon for EVO details and the event coming out of New York, Defend the North!