Street Fighter V: Capcom Pro Tour online qualifier announced

Street Fighter V stream monsters can finally put their money with their mouth is with online tournaments for regional finals qualifiers.

Not every skilled gamer can make their passion a profession. Many have real life commitments, jobs, friendships, relationships or lack of access that prevent them from going pro, even if they can hang with the very best. Capcom is hoping to give the very best Street Fighter V players the opportunity to discover the limits of their abilities with online ranking events for the Capcom Pro Tour.

Capcom and Level|Up are partnering to bring two separate Street Fighter V  online tournaments per region to players around the world. Each is limited to a strict 256-player limit, with the first tournament running for the North American region on July 31. North America’s second tournament will come on October 8, a few weeks ahead of the Canada Cup on the last weekend of October.

Those who win an Online Event tournament will be flown out by Capcom and Twitch to compete in their corresponding Regional Finals Street Fighter V tournament in November.

Those wishing to compete in these online Street Fighter V tournaments must adhere to the rules, including having a wired 5Mbps+ connection, a Challonge account, only one PSN or Steam account used to compete and all standing Capcom Pro Tour guidelines.

Considering the fact that Juri is scheduled to be added to the Street Fighter V roster starting tomorrow, it will be interesting to see how the online competition will react to the sudden change to the competitive meta. When Ibuki was added last month, unintended bugs left over affected her abilities in an unfair way to the competition.

Thankfully, those bugs were fixed right before Evo 2016 just over a week ago. However, considering the stagnated release schedule of these online tournaments throughout the world, one might argue a player can get in on a Regional Finals this month that might not have otherwise had made it (due to matchups of characters) in August, September, or October.

That said, if you’re going to prove yourself in the hopes of becoming a professional Street Fighter V player, you will have to roll with the (digital) punches.

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