It’s the end of another weekend, which means we’ve got more big fighting game events going down for the community to compete in and enjoy.
Now that all of the action has basically wrapped up, we’ve gone back for two of the Street Fighter 6 majors between First Attack 2023 and the Capcom Pro Tour 2023 Europe North/East tournaments to see which characters showed up to play the most.
Overall, there was a pretty nice spread of fighters brought to the big stage for both events though there was a bit more going on.
JP was the most popular pick among the upper brackets for the CPT qualifier at three in the top 16, and even though he didn’t win, the villain still made up two of the top three finishers.
Beyond that, however, we ended up seeing seven different characters mained in the top 8 and 12 in the top 16 including Rashid.
With around 80 players signed up for this tournament, that makes these statistics represent the top 20% of competitors fighting for a spot at Capcom Cup next year.
• JP – 3
• Dee Jay – 2
• Ken – 2
• Blanka – 1
• Chun-Li – 1
• Dhalsim – 1
• E. Honda – 1
• Guile – 1
• Juri – 1
• Luke – 1
• Rashid – 1
• Zangief – 1
• A.K.I. – 0 (1)
• Cammy – 0 (1)
• Jamie – 0
• Kimberly – 0
• Lily – 0
• Manon – 0
• Marisa – 0
• Ryu – 0
As for our brethren down in Puerto Rico, there were some similar trends at first attack with JP once again being the most popular for the top 16 where there was no Kens.
Breaking it out further to the top 32, however, shows that JP wasn’t even in the top three being beaten out by Chun-Li, E. Honda and Juri while also being tied up with Zangief.
Similarly to the CPT event, there were 7 main picks in top 8 for First Attack and 12 in the top 16 including both A.K.I. and Rashid.
As for the top 32, we saw 18 main characters in total, which means the only ones left completely sidelined were Kimberly and Manon.
With just over 160 entrants for First Attack, the top 16 represents the top 10% of competitors while the top 32 obviously covers the top 20%.
• JP – 2 (1)
• Chun-Li – 2
• Juri – 2
• Marisa – 2
• A.K.I. – 1 (1)
• Dee Jay – 1
• Dhalsim – 1
• E. Honda – 1
• Guile – 1
• Jamie – 1
• Luke – 1
• Rashid – 1
• Zangief – 0 (1)
• Blanka – 0
• Cammy – 0
• Ken – 0
• Kimberly – 0
• Lily – 0
• Manon – 0
• Ryu – 0
• Chun-Li – 3
• E. Honda – 3
• Juri – 3
• JP – 2 (1)
• Zangief – 2 (1)
• Cammy – 2
• Dee Jay – 2
• Dhalsim – 2
• Guile – 2
• Marisa – 2
• Rashid – 2
• A.K.I. – 1 (1)
• Blanka – 1
• Jamie – 1
• Ken – 1
• Lily – 1
• Luke – 1
• Ryu – 1
• Kimberly – 0
• Manon – 0
Note: Numbers in parenthesis represent secondary / side character choices.