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  1. The Arcade atmosphere is fine if you are playing with Xian, Infiltration, Daigo, Sako, etc in your lobby. Likely it is usually a bunch of mediocre players, so watching them play…much less in an online atmosphere where input lag is always somewhat of a factor, doesn’t really benefit anyone.

  2. They could allow the option of ping or bars. Plus with input based netcode, you could find people with the lowest ping and just play with them. It isn’t elitist, it is smart. Getting as close to an offline experience as possible. Something I’m sure everyone wants.

3122

You can still watch the match but while you are waiting you can make go over certain things that your opponent did to you with the training dummy.

3123

Yeah I personally dig the king of the hill style in endless. Ludo sometimes creates a room and it’s instantly filled with people hungry to beat him.

I don’t care if they add whatever blufang is suggesting, more options is always better, but it’s completely oblivious why this should be prioritized when there are more relevant issues. You could just join smaller lobbies, dunno.

3124

endless needs to be kept. I say this out of concern for PandaxGaming

3125

This was on the SRK home page and was announced today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EB0TxIXNy7o

Events on the Capcom Pro Tour will be split into premier events, independent ranking events, and online tournaments. Champions of the premier events will automatically receive entry into the Capcom Cup bracket, and the top sixteen players at every tournament will be awarded points relative to their placement and event tier. All in all, sixteen spots will be up for grabs, which is sure to provide some intense action at the tournaments chosen to take part.

The short list of events that will comprise the Capcom Pro Tour has been included below, but you can expect more to be added as the year goes on.

Premier Events

Final Round XVII (March 14-16 – Atlanta, GA, USA)
NorCal Regionals 2014 (April 18-20 – Sacramento, CA, USA)
Southeast Asia Major 2014 (June 20-22 – Singapore)
Community Effort Orlando 2014 (June 27-29 – Orlando, FL, USA)
Evolution 2014 (July 11-13 – Las Vegas, NV, USA)
The Fall Classic 2014 (October 10-12 – Raleigh, NC, USA)
DreamHack Winter 2014 (November 27-30 – Jönköping, Sweden)
Ranking Events

SoCal Regionals 2014 (February 28-March 2, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
PAX East (April 11-13 – Boston, MA, USA)
E3 (June 10-12 – Los Angeles, CA, USA)
San Diego Comic-Con (July 24-27 – San Diego, CA, USA)
Capcom has mentioned that they are set to include ten premier events in total, leaving three more as of yet unannounced. Points will be applied to SoCal Regionals 2014 finalists retroactively. Ranking points will not be awarded to top placers at DreamHack Winter 2014, leaving only the first-place invitation open to competitors at that event.

Tournaments not included in the above lists can also apply for ranking event points by visiting the tour’s About page.

A full rundown of how points will be divvied up has been included below.

Placing EVO Tier Premier (Tier 1) Ranking (Tier 2)
1 1024 256 128
2 512 128 64
3 256 64 32
4 128 32 16
5-6 64 16 8
7-8 32 8 4
9-12 16 4 2
13-16 8 2 1
Each of the premier events will have their Street Fighter tournaments broadcast through the official Capcom Fighters channel on Twitch (with the exception of Evo, during which Capcom will only handle pools), but will remain independent in all other aspects. According to the press release, their goal for the Capcom Pro Tour is to provide support for organizers of the aforementioned tournaments through additional infrastructure, higher production quality, and more.

Further details on these events and the online portion of the Capcom Pro Tour will be provided at a later date, so be sure to keep your eyes on its official website as we progress through the year.

Sounds awesome to me. Thoughts?

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I wonder why ECT isn’t on that list.

3127

Because they only listed specific events obviously.

You know, Final Round, Evo, ect. :wink:

btw they did say on twitter they would be adding more events later.

3128

This. I gave up endless early because of all those times when the only green bar host has >5 players on the room. That and those moments when it’s finally your turn and the host expels you so he can rematch the last player.

Which leads to… BETTER SEARCH FUNCTION!!! Refreshing the list only to see the same 6- 8 players whose connection has already been deemed terrible, (and four of them are overseas) is annoying as hell. This is by far the most urgent improvement on the list.

I would add:
Ability to request a rematch on ranked without having to search the opponent again.
For groups or tournaments, ability to enter a waiting room while playing ranked matches so the tournaments fires as soon as 6-8 players enroll. Otherwise those features are going to stay like ghost towns.

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I think the other 3 events will be one more in America, one in Europe and one in Japan.

Will FR have a international presence? I’m guessing Infil will be there and maybe Xian. Any Japanese going to be there? SF4 just isn’t the same without big name internationals. It’s always more hype when America is in “we must protect this house” mode. It’s fun to watch win or lose as they get very hype or very salty.

3130

you know whats annoying? when people Host a rank game or endless and go afk For hours

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Only internationals I’ve found via searching the player bracket search thing:

http://www.finalround.org/player.cfm

Were gamerbee and infiltration.

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Welcome to UFCgym

3133

ive been complaining about that dude for a year now,i wish they would just ban his ass

3134

I think if someone is afk too long in a ranked room then they should be kicked out.

3135

All i se is Demitri t-sirt.
Give me nextgen Darkstalkers for PS4

3136

They just had to add a new female character that few will care about instead of Q. Well done, Capcom.

3137

It almost always does. FR is one of the biggest tournaments outside of Evo usually.

3138

Are we going to see a change log at, or before, FR?

3139

Saving him and various others for SF5… Why throw in all the likable characters now? Then there would be nothing to look forward to in SF5 besides new characters, actually good job Capcom. ( but knowing them it was probably unintentional, but i’ll give them the benefit of the doubt)

They probably won’t even reveal the 5th character on Friday like most people are saying, maybe toward the end of Final Round 17 on saturday or sunday if it’s a 3 day event, forgot. -_-

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There will likely be a changelog at final round though you’ll probably need to hunt down a capcom representative and ask to see a specific section, that is how it was at Capcom Cup, They don’t exactly make it easy to get the info. (Think about it: At Capcom cup I think there was only 2 people who had the list on hand. Imagine 10+ people at a time trying to view the list for different characters and/or get the attention about specific issues all at one time.)
Hopefully they go the route that they did in one of the japan tests where they post all of the info on a giant board for everyone to check out.

There wont be one posted online though. Also the final change list for USF4 wont be posted until after arcade release (I asked dawgtanian about that.)