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Capcom Cup 2014

Capcom Cup 2014
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Sport Ultra Street Fighter IV
Location San Francisco, California
Date December 13
Tournament format(s) Double-elimination
Venue(s) The Warfield
Participants 16
Purse ~$36,000
Champions Yusuke Momochi
Runner-up Kun Xian Ho
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Capcom Cup 2014 was an Ultra Street Fighter IV tournament held at The Warfield in San Francisco, California on December 13, 2014. 32 players qualified for the tournament by winning at events at the first Capcom Pro Tour, co-sponsored by Twitch.tv. The tournament was won by Yusuke Momochi, defeating Kun Xian Ho in the finale and winning $30,000 USD.

In March 2013, Capcom partnered with livestreaming video platform Twitch.tv to create a year-long fighting game league, titled the Capcom Pro Tour. The Tour featured a large amount of tournaments, among which ten "Premier Events". Winners of the Premier Events would automatically qualify for the Capcom Cup in December, and six more players were selected based on their ranking in Capcom-sponsored tournaments. During early tournaments in the Capcom pro Tour, the 2012 version of Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition was played. Tournaments transitioned into Ultra Street Fighter 4 as it became available in June.

The Street Fighter tournament held at the Pro Tour Premier Events (except for Evo 2014) were all streamed through the "Capcom Fighters" Twitch channel. Capcom also brought smaller tournaments to well-known video game conventions such as E3 and PAX East. In April, online gaming platform Virgin Gaming (now WorldGaming) partnered with Capcom and Twitch in order to hold regional online tournaments.

The Capcom Cup was held on December 13, 2014 in The Warfield in San Francisco, a music venue usually reserved for major musical acts. Heidi Kemps of Red Bull described the venue as "close-knit and communal", though noted that The Warfield didn't afford much space for crowd control. The Capcom Cup offered live commentary not only through its online livestreams, as the commentary of James Chen and David "UltraDavid" Graham was also broadcast among the crowd. The tournament had a prize pool of over $36,000 USD, $30,000 of which went to the winner.


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