Update: This story is being updated with live results as they occur.
The Red Bull Kumite is back again for Street Fighter 6 and it will be in New York, U.S.A. this time.
The players invited to the main event are Yesports|Chris Wong, RB|Gachikun, DRX|Leshar, Bandits|MenaRD, FLY|Punk, NASR|BigBird, Rohto|Tokido, SR|NuckleDu, RB|Bonchan, TM|OilKing, XSET|iDom, Falcons|Mister Crimson, Broski and SBI|Hibiki.
On the Saturday, there are two different qualification methods to make it into the main event. There is an open bracket Last Chance Qualifier as usual where the winner will make it in to the Red Bull Kumite, but there is also a separate bracket called the Red Bull Kumite Play-In where players have qualified from different areas of the world and will fight it out for one qualification spot.
The Red Bull Kumite Play-In will be fought between Zhen, NoahTheProdigy, Shine, Liquid|Nephew, 4TW|SpaceBoy, FAV|Ryukichi, SYG|Garnet and Kusanagi (the French player, not the Mexican player).
As has become customary for the event, the matches for the main tournament will be drawn on the day of and will be first-to-5 in a single elimination bracket.
Streaming is being done at Red Bull.
Winners bracket
Prophet
Julio Fuentes (JP)
DualKevin (Rashid, Luke) vs. Zaferino (Dhalsim)
Wetkunai
ChrisCCH
Chat|JB (Rashid) vs. ONi|Naji (Juri)
Losers bracket
Winners bracket
Shine (Kimberly)
NoahTheProdigy (Luke)
Kusanagi (Luke)
Liquid|Nephew (Juri) vs. SYG|Garnet (Dhalsim)
Losers bracket
Ryukichi (Ken) vs. Zhen (Dee Jay)
4TW|SpaceBoy (Luke)
• First Round Match: Kusanagi (Luke) beat 4TW|SpaceBoy (Luke) 3-1.
• First Round Match: NoahTheProdigy (Luke) beat Zhen (Dee Jay) 3-2.
• First Round Match: Shine (Kimberly) beat Ryukichi (Ken) 3-0.
View battle log
Saturday, March 16th
11:00 A.M. — Last Chance Qualifier Pools begin
12:30 P.M. — Red Bull Kumite Play-In Bracket begins
3:00 P.M. — Last Chance Qualifier Top 48 begins
6:00 P.M. — Last Chance Qualifier Top 16 begins
Sunday, March 17th
1:00 P.M. — Opening Ceremony
1:20 P.M. — Round 1 Matches
6:00 P.M. — Quarter Finals
8:00 P.M. — Semi Finals
9:00 P.M. — Finals
All times listed are EST.
Time Zone Conversion:
PST: Subtract 3 hours.
UTC: Add 4 hours.
CEST: Add 5 hours.
JST: Add 13 hours.