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Street Fighter 6 is well into its second competitive season, and it’s time to see who is going to make the final cut for Capcom Cup 11.

Most of the qualifying spots in the Capcom Pro Tour 2024 are coming through the World Warrior regional finals, which are now officially underway with the first week of action already complete and tickets punched to the main event.

As such, we’re going to track the character statistics of who players are using to try and reach Capcom Cup for a shot at the $1 million prize — along with the picks for those who are part of the last 48 qualifiers in the world.

This first week contained four regional finals throughout the Americas with each made up of 8-player brackets, so that’s 24 fighters we’ve gotten to see already with 20 more regions still to go.

From the initial round of finals tournaments, we can already see some patterns appear for character representation.

Some of them are what we’ve come to expect in Season 2, but others are a bit more out of the ordinary.

It probably comes as little surprise to see Ken up at the very top after the first week with 4 players maining him across the four brackets plus one more using the fiery Shoto as a secondary.

That’s followed up with some other strong picks from throughout the past few months like Cammy, Ed and M. Bison.

One interesting thing that stood out, however, was three out of the four regions featuring a Dhalsim, who has certainly been on the rarer side of picks, along with Guile, Dee Jay and Luke showing up as trios too. They’ve all certainly seen use this year, but not usually at the among to put them among the most popular choices.

Overall, we’ve seen 15 of SF6’s 24 characters in these top 8s with 8 repeats while some other strong fighters like Akuma and Rashid have been used more as sub picks so far.

That leaves Chun-Li, E. Honda, Jamie, JP, Ryu, Terry and Zangief currently sitting on the sidelines for the World Warrior finals.

You can see how the character breakdown sits after this first round of qualifier action below.

As for Capcom Cup 11, it appears we’re now up to 21 of 48 slots confirmed between the World Warrior regional finals, super region auto-qualifiers and offline Premier qualifiers

There’s currently 12 characters mained by those going to the big finale judging by who they picked when winning their qualifying event or used in their most recent major — though that obviously doesn’t confirm those are the fighters they’ll stick with at the end.

It seems FLY|Punk may have kicked off a trend at Evo 2024 because Cammy’s at the top of the list in terms of usage so far.

Yes, Ken and Guile also have 3 players entered, but the Killer Bee also has a couple more that have pulled her out as a backup choice too this season.

We also have Luke, Zangief and Ed up there with multiple mains at this point too.

You can check out the Capcom Cup qualified players before the regional finals began as well as the World Warrior tournament schedule in our previous breakdown of the Capcom Pro Tour 2024.

• U.S. / Canada East

• South America East

• Central America West

• Central America East

Note: Numbers in parenthesis represent secondary / side character choices.

Much has changed since TheMainManSWE released his Summer 2024 tier list for Tekken 8. For example, Lidia Sobieska and Heihachi Mishima were only recently able to join the Tekken 8 roster.

However, it turns out that Lidia and Heihachi both aren’t incredibly relevant in the Tekken 8 meta right now as they both ranked poorly on TheMainManSWE’s new Fall 2024 tier list. In fact, the other DLC character, Eddie, has continued to be near the bottom since he was nerfed from his top tier status, resulting in all of the DLC being weak so far.

The strongest characters in the game according to TheMainManSWE are Dragunov, Law, Nina, Jin, Yoshimitsu, Alisa, and King. They’ve all been labeled as S+ tier combatants as a result.

Feng, Claudio, Bryan, Reina, Victor, Xiaoyu, Kazuya, and Shaheen are also said to be very strong right now, though not quite to the degree as the aforementioned seven. Regardless, these characters are viable at the highest level.

Panda is said to be the overall weakest character in Tekken 8. However, it’s interesting to note just how significantly Kuma outshines her in his A+ position.

Evidently, the addition of the Electric Wind God Fist has proven to be an incredibly useful tool for Kuma. As such, Panda has been labeled as being “redundant” since her unique attacks don’t compare all that well.

Check it all out below:

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Does it have rollback netcode though?

Just when we thought we’ve already seen the most out of pocket fighting game merchandise out there, these companies always come out with something new and even more out of left field.

Tanita recently revealed a new King of Fighters-themed line of health measuring machines and products, but you’d have to be Geese Howard to be able to afford the most expensive one that actually lets you play the game.

The MC-980A-Nplus-KOF is a multi-frequency body composition monitor that claims to use “4C Technology” to measure much more than just your weight.

It offers analysis of things like metabolism, muscle mass, water weight, body fat and information on individual body parts on a 10.4-inch LCD touchscreen display.

What’s even more important than that, however, is the Tanita machine also lets you play The King of Fighters ’98 out the box while doing that.

There doesn’t appear to be any other games built in, though, and it looks like it may just be the original version of KOF’98 too — so don’t go expecting any online play with rollback netcode either.

The body of the monitor also is covered with the KOF cast and branding, which comes at a steep price.

Tanita is listing the KOF machine for pre-order at 2 million Yen or around a whopping $13,000 USD plus tax.

Perhaps the strangest part of it, however, is the site clarifies you still need a separate controller to play the game, and you think something would be included for that price.

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And good luck trying to use your arcade stick standing up like that.

It might be cool if the KOF characters would interact with you and your progress or the game at all, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Looking around at similar machines, it is common for the fancier ones to cost in the thousands, but this is still the most expensive we’ve come across.

This odd crossover began when Tanita decided to present SNK the custom machine when they visited each other last year, and that led to an official partnership.

They’re making some cheaper options for KOF fitness fans as well with Tanita creating NeoGeo and KOF models of pedometers and thermo-hygrometers.

These cost 3,520 yen or $23 each.

Unsurprisingly, the machines are being marketed for only Japan right now as part of King of Fighter’s 30th anniversary.

During one of his IRL ventures to a fighting game tournament, Justin Wong put on his carnie cap and came up with a Street Fighter 6 challenge for any and all tournament attendees to try to take on.

The Evo title record holder put up $40 for anyone who could defeat a level 8 CPU M. Bison with all handicaps maxed out. Many came and many fell, but might there have been one lucky competitor to take down the overpowered dictator? Continue on to see the video and find out.

We have to appreciate exactly what this challenge entails as it’s more than just a standard fight against a very hard AI. Not only does level 8 Bison do plenty of obvious input reading, but maxing out his handicaps actually causes him to passively regenerate meters.

That’s right, leave him alone for too long after doling out some damage and he’ll heal it right back up. We also see the power of near infinite Drive Gauge as the cancels that traditionally cost 3 bars only take level 8 Bison half a bar to perform.

This means that if and when he lands standing hits, he’s able to convert them into insanely long combos that almost always spell the end of the round for contestants (especially those who try with Akuma).

Anyone who has ever been to a carnival and been lured by the apparent ease of all those games can surely identify with this challenge. Most of us feel like we’d stand a shot at taking out a CPU, but this is definitely the rigged carnival equivalent of a Street Fighter match.

See the power of the mighty (maxed out level 8 CPU) M. Bison and whether or not Justin has to fork over his cash in the full video below.

Known for his work on Death Battle as well as his brilliant Perfect Cell parodies, talented animator Devil Artemis has a knack for entertainment. We’re sharing one of his latest comical uploads as it’s not only funny, but seems to be poking fun at the latest Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero news.

As far as Steam goes, Sparking Zero has seen a precipitous 90% drop off from its peak rate of concurrent players, documented right after the game’s release some 31 days ago on October, 11. That same drop off in momentum is is woven into Devil Artemis’ animated scene as Super Saiyan Bro-er, Billy, gets a momentum-killing slap in the face.

Broly notices Cell and Kermit the Frog (Kermit is a recurring main character in these spoofs) hanging out at the Kame house and decides to come down and pummel them with some insulting words and bully energy.

Artemis includes a spot-on a nod to a Dragon Ball FighterZ meme that popped up around the time Z-Broly was released as the legendary Super Saiyan recognizably references how powerful his command grab potential is.

We get a few more quick references to some of the more notable facets of Sparking Zero’s first month, such as Yajirobe’s accidental over-tuning and the potency of ki blast spamming.

Check it all out via the video below and then head over to Artemis’ YouTube channel (linked above) for more of the comical adventures of Perfect Cell and Kermit.

The current state of Sparking Zero. pic.twitter.com/OwywN1HEMm

— Devil Artemis Animation (@DevilArtemisX) November 11, 2024

Did this lead you to a laugh or two? Please let us know what you thought in the comments now that you’ve had a chance to watch.

The second competitive season for Street Fighter 6 is already heading into the home stretch, but it can admittedly be a bit difficult to keep up with what’s going on in the Capcom Pro Tour this year in the different structure.

With Blink Respawn 2024 just wrapping up, there’s just one more CPT Premier event coming, so let’s look at who all is qualified for Capcom Cup 11 now — and the large amount of spots still up for grabs.

Capcom Cup next year is opening up to more combatants than usual with 48 total qualifiers, but only 10 are coming from offline Premiers.

That means the only open bracket place remaining to make it into the finals for the $1 million cash prize will be through Kings of the World in the United Kingdom running from December 13—15.

There is no world leaderboard for points, so only the winner of Premiers qualified while Super Premiers gave spots to the top two.

TM|NoahTheProdigy is the latest to clinch a spot from taking Blink Respawn with his impressive Luke.

The remaining 38 slots are comprised of World Warrior online qualifiers, which can be determined one of two ways depending on the region.

Super Regions make up most of the larger countries / communities like Japan, the United States, China, the Middle East and others with each of them receiving two qualifying spots.

The first spot goes to the player with the most points across all five initial World Warrior tournaments like SR|NuckleDu for U.S. / Canada East, so he’s already in the main event.

As for the second, the next top 8 players with the most points based on their best three finishes to compete in a regional final bracket.

Normal World Warrior regions will pit the top 8 point-holders split between a winners and losers bracket to determine their qualifier through a final tournament.

World Warrior regional finals are kicking off this week with US / Canada East, South America East, Central America West and Central America East.

These regional finals will continue through mid-January 2025 where we’ll finally get the full lineup of competitors though most besides Japan will be determined by mid-December.

There’s also no last chance qualifier at Capcom Cup 11, so Premiers or winning regions is the only way to get into the main event next year.

Currently the United States has the most players qualified at five followed by Japan at three.

Things will be different next season, however, with the developers announcing today that the winner of Capcom Cup 11 and winning team of the Street Fighter League world championship will automatically qualify for Capcom Cup 12 in 2026.

Capcom Cup 11 is slated to take place from March 5–8, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan.

You can check out the full breakdown below of qualified players through the Premiers and World Warrior events plus the schedule for the remaining regional finals.

More information can be found on the Capcom Pro Tour website.

• FLY|Punk (United States) – Cammy

• Falcons|MenaRD (Dominican Republic) – Zangief, Akuma, Blanka

• Kusanagi (France) – Ryu

• DFM|Itabashi Zangief (Japan) – Zangief

• CR|Shuto (Japan) – Akuma

• Liquid|Nephew (United States) – Juri

• Rohto|Tokido (Japan) – Ken

• DRX|Leshar (South Korea) – Ed

• TM|NoahTheProdigy (United States) – Luke

• NP|Phenom (Norway / Europe North-East) – Ken, Cammy

• 2GE|Juninho-Ras (Brazil) – Luke

• Takamura (Belgium / Europe West) – Ken

• SR|NuckleDu (United States / US-Canada East) – Guile, Cammy

• C9|Lexx (UK / Ireland) – Guile

• BE|Blaz (Chile / South America East) – Ed, Ryu

• NASR|BigBird (United Arab Emirates / Middle East) – Rashid

• Bravery (Singapore / Asia South East) – Cammy

U.S. / Canada East (Super Region) – November 14


South America East – November 16


Central America East – November 16


Central America West – November 16

Brazil (Super Region) – November 21


South Africa – November 23


Asia South East (Super Region) – November 24


Asia South – November 24


Oceania – November 24


South America West – November 24

South Korea – November 29




UK / Ireland (Super Region) – November 30



Germany – December 1

U.S. / Canada West (Super Region) – December 4

U.S. Midwest (Super Region) – December 7


Middle East (Super Region) – December 7


Spain / Portugal – December 7


Mexico – December 7

Europe North / East (Super Region) – December 7


China (Super Region) – December 7


Asia East (Super Region) – December 7

France / Monaco (Super Region) – December 8



Europe West (Super Region) – December 8

Japan (Super Region) – January 19, 2025

NetherRealm Studios and Warner Bros. Games are gearing up for a big week as they continue their reveals for the next DLC character coming to Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns. Iconic horror movie slasher, Ghostface, is joining the fight this month and it won’t be much longer before the curtain is fully pulled back on what this upcoming combatant has to offer.

Earlier today, the folks behind Mortal Kombat 1 released another quick look at Ghostface with a new teaser clip. However, they later followed that up by revealing a handful of what appear to be Ghostface’s alternate color palettes, as well as announced the time and date we can expect to see the fighter’s official gameplay trailer.

The official Mortal Kombat 1 Twitter account sent out a tweet this morning that shared a new image featuring a look at some of Ghostface’s customization options in Mortal Kombat 1. With one of the recent teaser trailers, we learned that Ghostface’s changeable gear item is very likely their mask, with several different variations being shown already.

This image goes a step further, though, and while it does showcase a handful of the masks we’ve already seen again, it also gives us our first look at what appears to be some of the alternate color palettes you can unlock for Ghostface.

We see an aged and worn out Ghostface mask coupled with a robe that has a skeleton painted on it with white paint, the devil variation of the mask with a dark brown and red robe, and lastly the chrome mask with a very elegant cloak on.

In addition to the new colors, we also received confirmation on when exactly we’ll be seeing Ghostface’s official gameplay trailer. Apparently, this showcase is set to air during the Kombat Kast that is taking place on Wednesday.

“Spotted in the Netherrealm. The Ghostface trailer is coming this week during the Kombat Kast this Wednesday at 10am PT/12pm CT. #MK1” writes the game’s official Twitter page.

The upcoming Kombat Kast will focus mainly on Ghostface and is set to detail much of what the character is capable of in Mortal Kombat 1. We’ll likely be seeing a breakdown of all of their normals, special moves, Fatal Blow, and at least one Fatality during the show.

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As far as when we’ll actually be able to play as Ghostface in MK1, the upcoming DLC fighter is set for release via early access on November 19 and will fully launch on November 26.