Street Fighter 6 player will win $1M prize in next Capcom Cup

Capcom will make 2023 the year of a new era for fighting game competition. Street Fighter 6 The exclusive Capcom Pro Tour game. And the company is putting its money where its mouth is, backing the new game with a huge $2 million prize pool, a cool $1 million of which will go to the winner of the next Capcom Cup — the culminating event of the Pro Tour.

It was announced at Capcom Cup IX’s conclusion on Sunday February 19. This is the last Cup that will be fought. Street Fighter 5MenaRD (a.k.a. Saul Leonardo Mena Segundo, Dominican Republic. Capcom has taken launching Capcom seriously by releasing a prize pool of just $300,000. Street Fighter 6With a big splash in the esports world. Though not that big by global esports standards — the 2021 Dota 2 International offered an astonishing $40 million prize pool — the $2 million reward Capcom is offering is massive for fighting games.

According to fighting game site EventHubs, the 2023 Capcom Pro Tour will also be the first to integrate online events — a vote of confidence from Capcom in the reliability of Street Fighter 6’s netcode.

Street Fighter 6 launches on June 2, 2023 — and it’s not all about the pro players. Capcom has also implemented a new “dynamic” control scheme, available in local play only, which translates hapless button-mashing into something like skilled play. It won’t win you a million dollars, but it sounds like a lot of fun.