This weekend will play host to one of the more prestigious tournament events in Canadian Esports gaming, and my first time attending a Fighting Game Community event. Canada Cup brings out many participants, fans, and the Capcom Pro Tour for Street Fighter V. Lap Chi Doung has done a great job making this a mainstay FGC event of game tournaments; which is highlighted as a Premier event in the CPT as it has been, for the last 3 years, the final event before the Capcom Cup in december. For a brief history of Canada Cup, last year NuckleDu broke a long-standing drought of 2 years that left America without a win in a premier event SFV tournament. For insight, there is typically 11-13 premier events each year, this then led him to also winning the 2016 Capcom Cup with an automatic qualification to the 2017 Cup as one of the top-32. Canada Cup, now in Toronto, once resided in Calgary as the Calgary cup for the first few years of its organization; now a much bigger brand and staple in the FGC it has grown into its new National title and plays host to many game tournaments notably Smash Bros. Tekken 7, and even Super Turbo SF II. This year with 11 games included over the weekend, there will be many close matches, upsets and numerous "pop-offs" (Think NFL TD celebration, but very very personal).
A premier event for SFV, top performing players earn a large amount of points towards their standing leading to the Capcom Cup. There are also Regional and Ranking events that happen alongside these premier FGC events at a lower scale but these too are crucial to players seeding high for the Top-32 in December. With exciting matches like video below, a classic match-up from Combo Breaker earlier this year, I am highly anticipating a great weekend ahead. Although I'll only be able to attend Saturday and Sunday events, you will catch me in my GamerzUnited gear throughout the weekend within the crowd cheering and probably jumping through the matches. What is also pretty cool is the After Party that concludes the event on the Sunday at one of Toronto's few Gaming pubs Raiders Esports, with a menu I can't wait to get into after a full day of sporting (I have a football game in the early afternoon) what can really beat this line up. With over 300 participants at this years Canada Cup, I look forward to seeing Snake Eyes compete, someone who has always been my favourite to watch; Punk currently ranked #1 is always going to be a highlight showcase and Fuudo will also be around to shake things up. Among many other top players, don't dismiss the unknowns either, there have been many upsets in many contests which always makes the Pools matches exciting in itself (video example). Though Tokido isn't in attendance, after his long overdue win at EVO this year, that is surely a loss for the fans this time around. There are still ReckGear designs avaliable online to check out.
Snake Eyes vs Justin Won: Combo Breaker 2017 Top 8
Esports? it's a GamerzUnited thing.
With EVO(Evolution Fighting Championship) being the unofficial biggest FGC event in the year held in stadiums, The Capcom Pro Tour has a wide-reaching spread of events all around the world at many FGC events. Starting in March with "Final Round" and of course capped up with Canada Cup at the end, CPT is a series of SFV tournaments that culminates into the single day Capcom Cup tournament in December. I could go on about how ESport brackets work, namely, it's "resets" that makes for an exciting Grand Finals, or how the Pro Tour points system Works and other FGC events but I'm surprised you even made it this far........and more so that I am still typing. Even if you aren't here, this one is for the Google Bot that's reading this, Hi little guy. By the end of all the Premier, Regional and Ranking events, all 30 players are decided based on the points standing, the 31st decided from the previous years Cup winner. While the 32nd player gets in via the Last Chance event the day before the Capcom Cup which in itself is an event because imagine the excitement if the 32nd seed goes deep in the bracket. This is what embodies GamerzUnited the coming together of players, fans, organizers and supporters for the sport of Gaming as we love it today.
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