SoCal Regionals 2015 (October 9th-11th) Preview + Capcom Pro Tour October & EVO moment 37 interview!
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It's finally here, SoCal Regionals, for real this time!
SoCal Regionals 2015 Preview
We live in a post-EVO 2015 world! And yet the road to December's Capcom Cup continues. SCR 2015 was originally slated for May (before EVO 2015) but due to venue issues it's been bumped to October. Its premier event status for the Capcom Pro Tour is still active so its USFIV tournament still has a spot in the Capcom Cup for its winner, as well as Capcom Cup seeding points and $15,000 bonus for the top 8.
SoCal Regionals is run by one of the original world class fighting game players Alex Valle and his production company/group, Level|Up Series. They are also known for Wednesday Night Fights, the primary West Coast fighting game weekly, which just yesterday announced its new venue at the brand new eSports Arena in Santa Ana, California.
Wednesday Nights is scheduled to return on October 21st. So it's a very busy month for Valle and Level|Up!
Streams and Schedule
http://www.twitch.tv/leveluplive
http://www.twitch.tv/leveluplive2
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Guilty Gear Accent Core Plus R
10AM-12PM
Finals Top 8: 12PM-2PM
Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme: Vs Full Boost
Pools 1-2: 10AM-2PM
Finals Top 8: 2PM-4PM
The SCR schedule page on its websites says that any of these could change and that the Sunday line-up has yet to be finalised.
Capcom Pro Tour October Calendar
| Name | Location | Dates (Oct) | Seeding |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amsterdam, Netherlands | 3rd-4th | Ranking | |
| Chengdu, China | 3rd-4th | Ranking | |
| Ontario, CA, USA | 9th-11th | Premier | |
| São Paulo, Brazil | 10th-12th | Premier | |
| Tokyo, Japan | 17th | Premier | |
| Milan, Italy | 23rd-25th | Premier | |
| New York, USA | 24th-25th | Ranking | |
| Costa Rica | 24th-25th | Ranking | |
| Calgary, AB, Canada | 30th-1st Nov | Premier |
The EVO 2015 top 8 received four times as many seeding points as premier events and the premier events top 8 receive(d) twice as many seeding points as ranking events.
Capcom have the full standings here
News
Kotaku interviews Daigo Umehara, Justin Wong and Seth Killian about EVO moment 37
"I wanted to show Justin that this wasn't going to be an ordinary fight."
A well put together video by Kotaku (minus them mistaking Daigo for Raoh). I especially like the description of their mindsets during the match.
Full list of Street Fighter V reveals since EVO 2015
The King of Fighters XIV was unveiled and everyone hates its graphics
An extremely early version of KOFXIV was shown at TGS and it hasn't gone down well! I will reserve judgement of their decision to drop their graphical style for polygons until a version much closer to release is shown. Also I hope the online is good, or just better than XIII. May give this a try myself when it releases.
Thanks for reading and enjoy watching!
I'm glad to finally get this blog up, it's been delayed several times, but now that it's up I'm going to be watching as much fighting game events as I can. Hope you will too!