SoCal Regionals 2015 (October 9th-11th) Preview + Capcom Pro Tour October & EVO moment 37 interview!

It's finally here, SoCal Regionals, for real this time!

SoCal Regionals 2015 Preview

We live in a post-EVO 2015 world! And yet the road to December's Capcom Cup continues. SCR 2015 was originally slated for May (before EVO 2015) but due to venue issues it's been bumped to October. Its premier event status for the Capcom Pro Tour is still active so its USFIV tournament still has a spot in the Capcom Cup for its winner, as well as Capcom Cup seeding points and $15,000 bonus for the top 8.

SoCal Regionals is run by one of the original world class fighting game players Alex Valle and his production company/group, Level|Up Series. They are also known for Wednesday Night Fights, the primary West Coast fighting game weekly, which just yesterday announced its new venue at the brand new eSports Arena in Santa Ana, California.

Wednesday Nights is scheduled to return on October 21st. So it's a very busy month for Valle and Level|Up!

Streams and Schedule

http://www.twitch.tv/leveluplive

http://www.twitch.tv/leveluplive2

Friday

Ultra Street Fighter IV 3v3 Teams

Onsite Registration: 8AM-11AM (Capped at 32 Teams)

Note: Spectators can enter this event!

Tournament: 12PM-6PM

Rules/Format:

Pokemon(Character Locked)

Best of 1 Set

Double Elimination

Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3

Pools 1-4: 10AM-12PM

Pools 5-8: 12PM-2PM

Pools 9-12: 2PM-4PM

Pools 13-16: 4PM-6PM

Semis Top 32: 6PM-8PM

Finals Top 8: Sunday Time TBD

Dead or Alive 5 Last Round

6PM-Close

Finals Top 8: Sunday Time TBD

SkullGirls

6PM-Close

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax

Pools 1-2: 10AM-12PM

Finals Top 8: 4PM-6PM

Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax

Pools 1-2: 2PM-4PM

Pools 3-4: 4PM-6PM

Finals Top 8: 6PM-8PM

Saturday

Ultra Street Fighter IV Capcom Pro Tour

Pools 1-4: 10AM-12PM

Pools 5-8: 12PM-2PM

Pools 9-12: 2PM-4PM

Pools 13-16: 4PM-6PM

Semis Top 32: 6PM-8PM

Finals Top 8: Sunday Time TBD

Mortal Kombat X

Pools 1-4: 10AM-12PM

Pools 4-8: 12PM-2PM

Semis Top 16: 2-8PM

Finals Top 8: Sunday Time TBD

Smash 4

Pools 1-4: 10AM-12PM

Pools 4-8: 12PM-2PM

Semis Top 16: 2PM-4PM

Finals Top 8: Top 8 Sunday TBD

Melee

Pools 1-4: 4PM-6PM

Pools 4-8: 6PM-8PM

Semis Top 16: 8PM-Close

Finals Top 8: Top 8 Sunday TBD

Killer Instinct

Pool 1: 10AM-12PM

Pool 2: 12PM-2PM

Pool 3: 2PM-4PM

Pool 4: 4PM-6PM

Finals Top 8: 8PM-Close

The King of Fighters XIII

Pool 1: 10AM-12PM

Pool 2: 12PM-2PM

Pool 3: 2PM-4PM

Pool 4: 4PM-6PM

Finals Top 8: Sunday Time TBD

Tekken Tag Tournament 2

Pool 1: 10AM-12PM

Pool 2: 12PM-2PM

Pool 3: 2PM-4PM

Pool 4: 4PM-6PM

Finals Top 8: Sunday Time TBD

Guilty Gear Xrd

Pools 1-2: 2PM-4PM

Pools 3-4: 4PM-6PM

Finals Top 8: Sunday Time TBD

Under Night In-Birth (UNIEL)

Pools 1-2: 10AM-2PM

Pools 3-4: 12PM-2PM

Finals Top 8: Sunday Time TBD

Blazblue Chrono Phantasma EX

Pools 1-2: 2PM-4PM

Pools 3-4: 4PM-6PM

Finals Top 8: Sunday Time TBD

Sunday

Guilty Gear Accent Core Plus R

10AM-12PM

Finals Top 8: 12PM-2PM

Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme: Vs Full Boost

Pools 1-2: 10AM-2PM

Finals Top 8: 2PM-4PM

The SCR schedule page on its websites says that any of these could change and that the Sunday line-up has yet to be finalised.

Capcom Pro Tour October Calendar

The EVO 2015 top 8 received four times as many seeding points as premier events and the premier events top 8 receive(d) twice as many seeding points as ranking events.

Capcom have the full standings here

News

Kotaku interviews Daigo Umehara, Justin Wong and Seth Killian about EVO moment 37

"I wanted to show Justin that this wasn't going to be an ordinary fight."

A well put together video by Kotaku (minus them mistaking Daigo for Raoh). I especially like the description of their mindsets during the match.

Full list of Street Fighter V reveals since EVO 2015

The King of Fighters XIV was unveiled and everyone hates its graphics

An extremely early version of KOFXIV was shown at TGS and it hasn't gone down well! I will reserve judgement of their decision to drop their graphical style for polygons until a version much closer to release is shown. Also I hope the online is good, or just better than XIII. May give this a try myself when it releases.

Thanks for reading and enjoy watching!

I'm glad to finally get this blog up, it's been delayed several times, but now that it's up I'm going to be watching as much fighting game events as I can. Hope you will too!