We might have moved into 2025, but the 2024 season of Street Fighter 6 is still awaiting its grand finale. The Capcom Cup XI, a chance to see the best players from across the world competing all together. In a single bracket, taking place in Japan with a million dollars in prize money at stake for the winner. Beyond that, the champion title for the biggest fighting game at the moment.
The Capcom Cup is always a highlight but they’ve been on another level since the sixth instalment of Street Fighter launched. The next one up looks set to be particularly exciting. We’ve already seen tons of tournaments over the last year as the best SF 6 players fought for their slots. Who’s taking part and what can we expect at the Capcom Cup XI?
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Capcom Cup XI Preview
The Capcom Cup is a finale to the lengthier Capcom Pro Tour. However, it’ll all be decided in a single tournament. We’ll see the tournament take place from March 5th to 8th. With these three days to see who takes home a million in prize money.
The event begins with a group stage. Players compete in matches for the first days, before we move to a bracket. This second stage is where we’ll see things heat up. Players go head-to-head in a double-elimination bracket. With the competitors gradually whittled down to the very best. It’s a common format for fighting game esports but it works.
Who’s Qualified?
That’s how the tournament will run, but what can we expect from the Capcom Cup XI? There’s already a decent number of tournaments which have locked in quite a few competitors. This is the complete list of everyone who’s playing at the Capcom Cup XI:
- Punk
- Kusanagi
- Shuto
- Tokido
- NoahTheProdigy
- MenaRD
- Itabashi Zangief
- Nephew
- Leshar
- Armperor
- Phenom
- JUNINHO-RAS
- Takamura
- NuckleDu
- Lexx
- Blaz
- Big Bird
- Bravery
- Xiahai
- iDom
- Oil King
- Salvatore
- GranTODAKAI.EX
- Caba
- ChrisCCH
- JabhiM
- Dual Kevin
- Sole
- Xian
- Limestone
- NL
- Deiver
- Broski
- Kilzyou
- Si Anik
- GGHAlibel
- Vxbao
- JAK
- Uriel Velorio
- Zangief_bolado
- AngryBird
- Juicejoe
- S4ltyKiD
- JB
- Kakeru
- Mister Crimson
Capcom Cup XI Hits Japan
The Capcom Pro Tour is a truly world-wide event. There are offline Majors and online tournaments across tons of different regions, but the finals can only be held in one place. This year, it’s going to be set in Tokyo. Specifically, the Cup will be held in the Ryōgoku Kokugikan arena.
This will make a fitting home for the Capcom Cup XI. We’ll see all the international players converging in Tokyo for this final. This arena was home to early events for some of the best games of all time, like Street Fighter 2. It’ll be great to see the highest-level tournament once again returning to this location.
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Prize Pool
Along with recently confirming the location, Capcom has confirmed the prizes for this year. There will once again be a million dollars at stake. The boost in prize money for Street Fighter 6 has done wonders to increase attention on fighting game esports. It wasn’t a one-off though. We’ll see the same prize pool represented once again in 2024.
The Capcom Cup 11 is starting up again very soon! We’re just a few months away from the first offline event. In the meantime, we’re about to start getting balancing changes for SF 6, so it’s going to be a busy month for SF players.
Capcom Cup XI Gets First Details Announced
At the conclusion of the Capcom Cup X, we got our first details for the next round of the tournament. This is going to be the 2024 Capcom Cup, resolving at around this time next year. The last Capcom Pro Tour carried a record-breaking prize pool, crossing over a million dollars for the victory. Next time, it’s going to be the same. Capcom is meeting their previous prize pool, at least to the winner of the Cup. It’s yet to be made clear if the amounts for runners-up is going up or down.
The Capcom Pro Tour is going to be running similarly to last year as a whole. It’s going to be an international competition, with events that take place across the world. The previous year’s Capcom Cup had a fair bit of online focus. We can likely still expect a decent number of these style of events this year too.
The exact qualifying tournaments are yet to be announced though. There might be some innovations with this or more events getting bumped up to qualifier status. Last year’s EVO tournament saw one player qualify, but notably the final Capcom Cup was missing quite a few of these high-ranking players. If the format is staying the same, players will have to take each of these chances to qualify very seriously to take another shot at the big prize at the end of the Capcom Cup XI.