Breno Fighters won't be attending, due to visa issues.

speaking of seth, where the hell did poongko disappeared to

Minor mistake Afro Legends(Balrog) not (Balrgo)

Top 8 (In no order)

Daigo
Ricky Ortiz
Justin Wong
Wolfkrone
Infiltration
Tokido
Gamerbee
Fuudo

Breno_Fighters had his visa denied, two times. Capcom is working on someone else.

Top 8? there's only 16 people. And due to the bracket your prediction is wrong

wasnt there a t.hawk player?

i think daigo is winning this thing really. it would be super epic and legendary. im talkin arceus type sh1t. the dude that has been the poster kid for competitive street fighter and fighting game success. i'll be rooting for justin and the americans (ailoune gets my support as well), but believe me when i say "daigo....he finna take dis".

please Daigo vs justin

@10 i would faint.

btw to everyone look at all the characters represented for ssf4, mostly rushdown and then derpy rushdown(cammy,viper) this game so balanced right?

Tournament. so. sick.

uh like half of them aren't really rushdown.

we just had a guile mirror match at a major.

stop being dumb.

@6: maybe ryan hart?

@#15
That makes no sense. It'll be someone from the Brasil qualifier, most likely 3rd place.

Damn!! breno will not attending... fck!!

how did Poongko not qualify for SF4?

@#12 - There are 12 different characters out of 16 players. Seems pretty balanced to me.

Kinda sad Breno couldn't make it.

Wolfkrone has been in hiding as of late. I got a feeling he's about to destroy everyone.

Wow how many qualifiers were there for the US? There are 6 Americans in that list, so 3 qualifiers in America alone? That's kind of absurd isn't it? There are 5 Japanese but as far as I know, Japan only had one qualifier. Mago and Momochi got through the UK qualifier and Tokido from the Brazilian one. And why isn't there a representative from Singapore?

My Predictions from this tournament (aka who takes what):

SSFHD: America, mainly because we have the most entrants but also cause claw is not nearly as dirty in this version (yeah Tokido I'm looking at you....filthy muthaf**ker XD)
SFIII: Japan, aint no two ways about it Japan has this only thing who? Probably MOV imo.
SFxT: Korea, thinking Infiltration, but depending on how much he wants to retain his title as top SSFIV player he may switch focus weakening him in this area. Would love to see Tatsu take it though.
SSFIV: Japan, thinking either Daigo or Fuudo, but it really all depends on who faces who in the brackets. (though Daigo vs Justin would be gdlk)

@16 I doubt that the third place has a working american visa either. It will surely be some weird substitute, maybe any top ten that already have an american visa or someone from another qualifier, since it takes a long time to apply and receive an american visa in Brazil.

@21 (niggardly):
This is the highest level tournament you can wish for. Except for a few players that got second in the qualifiers, there is only the best represented here. Most qualifiers had fierce competition between those top 32 of last evo's.

I'm looking forward to this. Thanks EH for posting about it

@23
Watch out for the French Dudley he beat MOV at the French 3s tournament. The Euros will make a good showing in AE as well making upsets in early rounds.

SF4: Daigo (Infiltration, Gamerbee)
SF2: Afrolegends (Tokido, Damdai)
SF3: MOV (Momochi)
SFxTekken: PoongKo (Tatsu, Gamerbee)

That's what I would find rightful. The results will depend on matchups, brackets and focus too, beside raw skill

Just realized that Justin Wong and Momochi are participating in 3 of the games and Tokido is the only one who reps all 4. Dat Murderface.

If a Winner is not available, able or willing to travel on the dates specified by Capcom, Winner privileges will be terminated, the Trip will be forfeited and the next highest placed Player from the relevant Qualifying Tournament shall be invited to participate in the appropriate Grand Final Tournament.

So if none of them from Brazil have a visa... they might even end up pulling something that just made it to the top 16 or 32

They should just give PoongKO a chance, he's there anyway.
Or be very Christmas-like and invite Ryan Hart over

Can't wait!

Im missing for this tournament pongkoo, kazunoko, xian and sako.

Give the breno fihgters slot to one of them, or maybe to ryan he deserves it.

Devilcuco just said exactly what i was about to lol. These 4 need to be there for it to be truly epic, oh and latif instead of krone.

They could give Breno's spot to combofiend. He was at the Brazil qualifier, he will definitely make it for the grand final and he hasn't qualified for SSF4 yet.

Still bummed that breno can't make it though.

boycotting this due to madcatz fuking over UK, and capcom for making it an open tourney..

@35: Ryan, is that you?

@18 why would Poongko qualify? Ever since he looked godlike at EVO2011 he has been a lot more beatable and hasn't exactly performed that well. It's hard to be consistent in tourneys with his high risk high reward style of play.

Madcatz didn't fuk anyone over you salty jingoist.

Madcatz are merely interested in getting their best players to the tournament. To be fair Mago is one of Madcatz's poster boys and lets not forget that Ryan had the chance to go to other qualifiers.

1. "TH|Poongko (Kazuya, Ryu)" I think Poongko left TotalHeads.
2. As far as I heard Mester is not attending. Chi-Rithy will take his spot.

Go Bison! :D

Why don't Daigo Umehara plays SFxT and why he stopped playing SF3 and ST?

Guess Daigo doesn't take pride in playing at a subtop level in SF2 or SF3. And lots of people playing SFxTekken are just in it for the money, but not for the skill. That's different with SF4.

@23: they're playing classic ST, not HD Remix... More specifically, HD Remix in Classic Mode.

How sick would it be if capcom decided to make a last minute qualifier to fill breno's place? I think a lot of people would like to watch that.

Rooting for Yukimura (Snowfox435) in SFxT!

Can't wait to see tatsu on sfxt, he's just so good at this game, I hope he wins.

How come none of you think mago will make top 8 at the sf4ae2012 finals? His performance at canada cup 2012 and the qualifying 25th tournament should have proved to you guys that he can make it there.

Can't wait! all the games looks so stacked that anything could happen.

Dear Capcom, please test your stream a million times before this weekend. <3

@51,Well you have a point but he beat tokido at EVO 2012.

Not Daigo,Justin or Infiltration, Dieminion ando Momochi for the win!

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMNNNNN.
I CAN´T WAIT.

And btw, It's GR|Breno_fighters
Some love for the sponsors please :)

@51

Mago will definitly be in top 8, his biggest threat will definitely come from Dieminion (bad matchup) and maybe Daigo who is the only player, superior to him in term of skills.

There is two Feilong in the top 16, Rufus is free to both Mago and Fudo, same goes for viper, mago and fuudo know to well the matchup Cammy, and Dieminion has too much bad matchup to be a real threat.

I m pretty sure, a Fei long will be in the grand final, which i'm not pleased with, please anyone but Fuudo, he won enough.

If you ask me i want Momochi to win, as a reward for this great player.

@46 DAMN! A quick tournament with Poongko, Laugh, MOV, John Choi, Combofiend to get the spot

Agreed with #12, just by looking at the characters...you can tell right away that Happy Medicine, Dieminion and Snake Eyez won't be winning this thing just because of the characters they use...charge characters has no chance because they can't utilize FADC that well compared to non-charge characters. Offense is still better than defense in this game.

Gief is soooo many ugly matchups and is easily countered by multiple characters.

Singapore got screwed, they should fry Xian in for this one.

Lol @ the UK getting "screwed over". It is no one's fault that the UK can't even win in their own location. If they didn't suck so hard, they would be in the tourney. Ryan Hart gets demolished every time he travels outside of the UK as well.

They should have a last minute qualifier on Friday, or use WNF winner tonight as the qualifier (probably too late to announce this). Breno would have got destroyed, so anyone from Brazil who was 3rd-8th would have been a big waste of a spot from a competitive standpoint.

Valle needs to be up in this tourney for sure...

america had 3 qualifiers while other countries had 1 or 0. they really shoudlnt get the open spot...

xian would be a good choice.

Why valle ? there is already 6 american players, why not a japanese player (Bonchan, Kazunoko, etc) or a Korean player (Poongko for instance) or a europeen one, Luffy, or more legitimate, a chinese player, since there is no representative of this strong VS Fighting nation.

It is better than giving Alioune a bye. He won the easiest tourney of the entire lot to qualify and never goes to tourneys. He doesn't deserve a bye.

Why Valle? Because he would probably win the last chance qualifier, or Latif if he attended.

You have to win, or at least attend, some sort of qualifier to be even considered. I don't think Luffy attended any, and he has never done anything outside of defeating UK players (lol) anyway.

I would be fine with a last minute qualifier in China or Japan, but with travel arrangements and the tourney being so close, that isn't likely to happen. China has too many issues with citizens traveling outside of its territory that to up and leave to America in 3 days is NEVER going to happen for some random guy winning a videogame tourney. It is looked down upon in that country already.

Japan or America are the only options. America being the realistic one with plenty of A+ players having not qualified for AE.

Would be great to have China in there though. They did well enough in last EVO to deserve such a spot

There is a reason there wasn't a qualifier there in the first place. It has to do with the country and not Capcom.

I loved to see Kazunoko for sure. Theres no Yun in finals anyway. He could get far.

Weltall drivel

If no-one from Brazil can make it (which would be a shame) there should definitely be a little cheeky last minute qualifier at the tournament with 'fair' representation from each of the countries where qualifiers were held.

@#35 I'm from the UK. We didn't really get screwed over. Don't let the salt of one stop you from watching a great tournament mate :(

I would prioritize in this order

1. Someone from the Brazil qualifier
2. 3rd place from any other qualifiers
3. 4th place from any other qualifiers
3. Someone who has already qualified for the grand finals
4. No one

Last minute qualifiers would be hell to organize and has too many issues.

To be fair to everyone, no one should get the spot if they didn't prove themselves in the qualifiers.

@#70

Yeah but seeing the look on everyone's face if Poongko got a spot would be priceless lol

@71
Poongko got 3rd at the Taiwan Qualifier so he's close.

@32
@56

Nobody deserves anything, nobody is undeserving of anything. The only thing that matters is that you are the winner and winner deserves everything.

You could be the hardest working player on this earth, but if you cannot win when it matters, you don't deserve anything.

THIS IS GONNA BE AMAAAAAAAAAZING! Rooting fo da Infiltration !

@64

Yeah, I totally agree. China has way too many restrictions for international travel. I was surprised Xiao Hai and Da Kou were even able to attend EVO 2012!

Vangief was just added to the AE tournament!

Where has Poongko gone? I see he isn't on xbox live SSF4 AE 2012 leaderboard anymore?

Poongko has no money. He's trying to have a life and stuff. He'll probably be back next year though. He needs a sponsor for some money.

Red Bull should sponsor Poongko.

Go John Choi! Old guys rule!

The fgc should put money where their mouth is and sponsor players they want to see.

Hi, FYI Poongko mentioned on his twitter before that TH is not sponsor, it's just a team.

Poongko did not win many tournament recently, but many people love to watch him, not sure why no company sees this, or perhaps the deal cannot accepted by both side.

Let's go TATSU!!

Represent both mah girl and SFxT specialists!

It seems Rockman (1st place finisher from Europe, listed on the page) has been replaced by Kenpachi (1st place finisher from Europe, listed in the image). I'm assuming Rockman couldn't make it? :(

Anyone know what time AE starts?

It'd be nice if Eventhubs started translating the time-zones for the euro people...hintidy hint hint.

Justin said he had some tricks up his sleeve for this one,cant wait to see this...

I vote Combofiend to at least do Commentary

@87 18:00 - 6:00 (9th dec) middle european time

I hope Daigo takes it

I wonder who will replace Happy Medicine :(

Get well soon!

floe will replace happy medicine

daigo vs infiltration evo 2012 rematch for world championship of sf! get hype! LIVE ON PPV!!!!

UltraChen for English commentary, they should have multiple commentary booths so people from different countries can get their slice of pie. It's not going to be that costly.