Final Round 20
| 2017 | |
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| Sport | Street Fighter V |
| Location | Atlanta, Georga |
| Dates | March 10–12 |
| Final positions | |
| Champion | Kun Xian Ho |
| Runner-up | Fuudo |
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Final Round 20 or Final Round XX was a fighting game event that took place in Atlanta on March 10–12, 2017. Being the first of the eleven Street Fighter V Premier Events of the 2017 Capcom Pro Tour, the winner of the tournament automatically qualified for the Capcom Cup in December 2017. The event also hosted an Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 tournament after the game was absent in 2016, and the first major For Honor tournament.
Final Round 20 took place on March 10–12 in Atlanta, Georgia and featured various fighting game tournaments. As staff and participants of Final Round 19 encountered issues regarding the size of the venue, Final Round was held in a 37,500 square foot exhibit hall, with all games being played in one room. Online registration for the event was handled by Smash.gg.
In celebration of its 20th anniversary, Final Round hosted a Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 tournament, which was absent in the previous year due to the game's lack of popularity. After a "somber" display of the game at Evo 2016, Capcom and its community of fans worked to get Marvel vs Capcom back in the spotlights, resulting the Curleh Circuit, a series of fighting game events Final Round is part of. Final Round also hosted the first tournament of the 2017 Capcom Pro Tour, and thus kicked off the second season for Street Fighter V. The tournament attracted a large variation of international talent – among which Fuudo, Yusuke Momochi, and Capcom Cup 2016 champion NuckleDu – as its winner would take a sizable advantage for the rest of the season. Final Round 20 was the first major event to hold a For Honor tournament. Competitors played Ubisoft's open world fighting game, which was released one month prior, in two-versus-two matches.
Final Round 20 continued the rivalry between Joshua "Wolfkrone" Philpot and Kenneth "KBrad" Bradley, which started at Frosty Faustings two months earlier when Wolfkrone harshly taunted KBrad after winning 2-1. Both players had won their respective pools when they met in the winner's bracket of the top 64. KBrad defeated Wolfkrone 2-0, not losing a single round during their matches, followed by KBRad literally putting his head inches in front of his opponent's face while the crowd went wild. KBrad eventually took fourth place in the finals, while, Wolfkrone came in at 13.
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