Mod Edit - Since we've got a new one of these pretty often, we've decided to just designate this as the thread to talk about all things fighting game related, such as FGC, what color of gi Ryu's wearing this week, et cetera. Have at it. Good luck, have Zangief.

It's time for the most biggest prize in fighting game history to be awarded, one of 32 fighting game players will walk away with $125,000, bought to you live from Sony's 2015 PlayStation Experience in Giant Bomb's home turf of San Francisco!

1^st: $125,000

2^nd: $60,000

3^rd: $25,000

4^th: $15,000

5^th/6^th: $10,000 (each)

7^th/8^th: $5,000 (each)

All of this year's Street Fighter action during the Capcom Pro Tour has been leading up to this point, when 32 qualified players descend to fight in the biggest tournament of its kind (EVO being the biggest open-invitational tournament event respectively), to cap off what has been a big year for fighting games.

Here is the official bracket!

UltraDavid and James Chen's World Warriors of Capcom Cup video series on the official Capcom Fighters channel has been taking a look at the competitors we can expect to see (the introductory video James Chen mentions can also be found below), a full list can be found here.

Rules confirmation on sets

Best 2 out of 3 matches - Top 32 to top 16

Best 3 out of 5 matches - Top 16 to end of tournament

Streams and schedule (all times PST)

One day, two streams, all the matches, simple!

Sunday December 6th

http://www.twitch.tv/capcomfighters

http://www.twitch.tv/capcomfighters2

• 10:00 AM – Opening Ceremony
• 10:30 AM - Round 1 and 2
• 2:00 PM - Analyst Desk
• 2:30 PM – Top 16 to Top 8
• 5:30 PM – Analyst Desk / Break
• 6:30 PM – Top 8
• 9:30 PM – Closing / Awards Ceremony

News

Divekick's final character is the Fencer/s from Nidhogg, also receives a permanent price drop

Trailer

Divekick eSports Hour episode

The Fencer's sword throw and its original divekick from Nidhogg make this an easy crowd pleaser and the full game, Divekick: Addition Edition, is only $4.99 from this day forth, not bad at all!

Assorted trailers and video coverage

Geoff Keighley's The Game Awards announce 2015 Best Fighting Game nominees

• Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-
• Mortal Kombat X
• Rise of the Incarnates
• Rising Thunder

One isn't a traditional fighting game and the other isn't out of alpha stages but at least they're still being recognised. No doubt the category will return next year for the obligatory awarding of a new Street Fighter game. Other categories can be found here. The Game Awards 2015 airs on Thursday December 3rd.

Fighting game / FGC Stories of interest from shoryuken.com

Street Fighter V

• Capcom Confirms Second Round of Post-Release Street Fighter V Characters

• Capcom’s Yoshinori Ono Hopes to Support Street Fighter V for At Least Five Years

• Ono on Street Fighter V’s Exclusivity: “We wanted to unify the community”

• Newer, Younger, eSports-ier; Capcom Talks Expanding Their Audience with Street Fighter V

Players

• ‘Cultivation’ Sees Snake Eyez Travel to Japan Ahead of Tokyo Game Show
• Infiltration Signs with Razer
• Korean e-Sports Association Recognizes Infiltration’s International Accomplishments

Fight Sticks

• Mad Catz’ Chun-Li Tournament Edition 2 Arcade Sticks Shipping Soon, Improved Base Models Restocked
• HORI Reveals Upcoming Real Arcade Pro V Hayabusa Stick, Fighting Commander 4 Controller
• HORI Fighting Stick Mini 4 Now Available Through Arcade Shock

Thanks for reading and happy watching!

On the subject of Fight Sticks I bought my first stick 2 weeks ago along with USFIV for my PS4, with the intention of becoming competent with Ryu before SFV's release, since Sagat isn't in the game at least until 2017 if at all. I bought a Venom Arcade Stick and have no complaints about it, the Amazon reviewers described it as a good place to start for people new to fighting games / sticks and easy to mod for those that aren't one or both.

Here's some strange Street Fighter related videos to finish off this blog (poor timing on the video's release, turns out Ronda's human after all)!