Over this past weekend, the Esports World Cup 2024 Street Fighter 6 Last Chance Qualifier. This was the last chance for those that haven’t been able to qualify to get a shot at the $1,000,000 prize at the end.
Needless to say, we have a pretty massive Street Fighter 6 tournament starting this Wednesday. With this in mind, the Esports World Cup account on X (formerly known as Twitter) released the groups for Phase 1 of the event.
The competition is looking particularly fierce this time around. There are 16 players in total participating at the event being held at Riyadh Boulevard City, Saudi Arabia, and each one of them has their fair share of successes under their belts.
FLY|Punk, the winner of Evo 2024 is been placed in Group AA. One of his opponents for this first phase will have him going up against RB|Gachikun, the Capcom Cup 2018 champion for Street Fighter 5.
Meanwhile, NIP|Phenom, IBSG|Kakeru, DFM|Itabashi Zangief, and NoahTheProdigy have all been positioned together in Group CC. Yesports|Chris Wong, who made second place at Capcom Cup X, has been positioned in Group EE, which means he’ll have to face off against Hikaru, Vxbao, and DCQ.
Evidently, many top players will be eliminated very quickly into the the event. It should be interesting to see how everything unfolds on Wednesday.
Check out the Phase 1 groups below:
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