In an attempt to summarize the ST events of the week… here they are:
North America
Canada Cup:
- The biggest ST tournament of the year in American lands. Too many big names to list. 5 Japanese invites. James Chen joining the commentators in the finals. Daigo also joined Mattsun and Koemon for the team tournaments. Mike Watson invited too. 91 players in the solo tournament.
- Bracket The official videos are coming soon on Atari’s channel also with offstream footage and several hours of casuals. In the meantime, you can check the stream archive of CanadaCup and CanadaCup1 twitch channels.
Monday Night Fights @ Arkadeum. Special #50 event.
- Leaderboard update with Marsgatti taking it
- Note: Marsgatti also interviewed this week by Fighter101
- Alex Valle, Tomoaki and AfroLegends invited to the studio.
- Alex Valle doing a short interview to Tomoaki
- Video
Wednesday Night Fights @ eSports Arena:
- AfroLegends took it over Tomoaki.
- Unfortunately there is no stream of it.
Upcoming tournaments:
- Super Turbo for Charity in TX with eltrouble, millertime, rizOne, ultracombo and many more. Stream channel
- There was also an announcement of Aniken being invited to the Redbull Battlegrounds tournament (Capcom pro tour finals) which will take place in Boston on November 18th. Unfortunately, the communication between the organizers and the community has been extremely bad but we still encourage everyone to make it there even if it’s last minute.
Japan
- Gamespot Versus Solo tournament with Nakamura making it to the finals
- Gamespot Versus East vs West format with Shiki Boxer as guest
- Gamespot Versus HSF2 special event
- Game Daytona Shiki with Haru King honda beating EVERYONE
- Space Shuttle Team Battle with Superstar boxer and Tasaka Cammy as team captains
France
- LaDose Ranking Battle (also with a special kumite event)
- Posting XSB videos on youtube. XSB was the biggest ST event in Europe this year. 4 Japanese invites. 80 players in solo. Great final between Zagi and Kusumondo. Also great final in team tournament between Zagi Chunli, Max Cammy and Balcork Feilong vs Mycophobie boxer, OldSamir Guile and Milanea Honda.
UK
- Posting Sunday Face Off videos on youtube
- An event was also held at Checkpoint venue to watch Canada Cup tournament on a big screen.
Online
- There was an online tournament run mainly by French players with Mycophobie (17 years old player) taking it over Sige Blanka. Bracket
- Big announcement of Fightcade 2 beta being publicly released for accounts created in 2014/2015.