Capcom Cup 2016
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| Tournament information | |
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| Sport | Street Fighter V |
| Location | Santa Ana and Anaheim, California |
| Dates | December 2–3, 2016 |
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Tournament
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Double elimination |
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eSports Arena (Day one) Anaheim Convention Center (Day two) |
| Participants | 32 |
| Purse | US$350,000 |
| Final positions | |
| Champion | Du "NuckleDu" Dang |
| Runner-up | Ricki Ortiz |
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Capcom Cup 2016 was a Street Fighter V video game tournament that was held in December 2016. 32 players qualified for the tournament by winning one of the eleven Capcom Pro Tour Global Premier Events, Evo 2016, one of the four regional events, and/or by scoring high on the game's leaderboards. Street Fighter V was released shortly before the start of the 2016 Capcom Pro Tour, replacing Ultra Street Fighter IV from the previous season.
The first day of the Capcom Cup was held at the eSports Arena in Santa Ana, California. Despite scoring highly during the Capcom Pro Tour, Infiltration and Tokido were eliminated during the preliminary rounds without a single win. The finals, held in the Anaheim Convention Center, were won by Du "NuckleDu" Dang, who defeated Ricki Ortiz in the final match.
The year 2016 featured the fourth annual Capcom Cup and the third presence of the Capcom Pro Tour. The 2015 Pro Tour featured Ultra Street Fighter IV as the played game, though Capcom released Street Fighter V shortly before the 2016 season. In an interview with Engadget, game designer Yoshinori Ono stated that the company "want[ed] to reset the entire game so that we can reset the playing field and let lots of new people jump in and start competing."Street Fighter V gained some negative attention among the fighting game community due to a poor launch and an inherent input delay discovered during the 2016 season.Xian, whose main character Gen was not yet included in the game, stated in an interview with International Business Times that he had to "relearn everything again" and that "in Street Fighter V, I am worried I can't live up to the expectations."
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