Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Grand Finals tournament brackets finalized

Vangief!

wow ae will be really hype

Well my pants just got a little shorter...

YOOOOO!!!! MAGO VS WOLFKRONE!! This is going to be nuts!!!

3 skoe mov will win =)

Look at Brackets B and H on the AE12 slide. Talk about a test of your knowledge of matchups!!! HYPE

Competition's kind of stiff.

Are we sure Poongko is going to show up?

tokido why so hungry

Lets go Jibboooooooooooooo!!!!!!!

AE stacked as hell.

Ought to be good.

http://challonge.com/user/profile/310258 should have a link to each bracket

Dat AE bracket!

Why did they give Vangief a spot over any other third placers? Why not give it to Ryan Hart. It's absolute bollocks.

@14 probably because they don't want to deal with the controversy surrounding ryan hart at the moment

why jibbo is in the bracket did he replace someone or they made an error?

@16 Jibbo is replacing Breno for SFxT (couldn't make it due to visa issues)

@15 That still doesn't tell us why Vangief got the spot rather than any other third place members.

Breno_Fighters had his visa denied.

Sad about Breno.

Why is poongko not in AE? Didn't he win Korea's other spot?

That AE bracket is a nightmare for anyone to be in. I'm hype just from looking at it!!! Let's Go USA!!!

vangief got the spot cuz he lives close to the venue. not that hard to come to terms with. the tournament is this weekend.

and it looks like everybody's favorite guile is in losers after the first round

Jibbo what lucky a bastard lmao anyways good for him.

They should have like, a side-tournament for UMVC3...

Maybe they don't want to ruin the hype for the rest of the games...

Two wins each to see Daigo - Justin.

thats just f****** great!!!! mago has to go against wolfkrone for his first match. He'll definitely lose!!! what about infiltration?? he gets vangief!!!!!! such rubbish honestly :(

Why did Momochi bother entering the UK qualifer for AE as he already had a place. Don't get me wrong, love his in it, just feels a bit redundant.

@27 it's a 16-man tournament, what did you expect?

lets go momochi! win another major with cody please :D

"let's go justin!"

i feel bad for happymedicine and vangief

Can't wait!!

No! I really wanted Breno in there. I knew something was going to happen with him where he wouldn't be able to attend.

Dieminion vs Gamerbee is gonna be really good!

All these matches are siiiiiiiiiiiicccccccckkkkk

Lets go Tokido. Its your time!!!!

AE > my finals

It's a damn shame that Breno couldn't make it and represent our country.... I was rooting for him so hard. Unfortunately the US Consulate agent denied him his visa claiming that he didn't "know of any such company called Capcom" inspite of being shown a hotel reservation, tickets, and the letter from Capcom which stated the purpose of the trip. Damn ignorant racist idiots ruined it for us. Oh welll. hope Daigo wins. Or Van. Anyone really but not Tokido and Infiltration's cheap Akumas

nice to see sfxt has the same amount of players in their bracket!! these matches gon' be hype!!

Can't wait to see Happy Medicine get stomped, stupid easy ass Bison.

Gamerbee goin up against Dieminion must see! ^_^

I think these matches should all be 3 out of 5 and the grand finals should be first to 10. That would make this day amazing!

cheap akuma? have u been hitting the crack pipe? (-_-)

Poor Jacob. He's pretty much screwed, having to face Daigo, then the loser of Dieminion/GamerBee.

My pick to win is Daigo, but this really is a tournament of killers. Happy Medicine and Problem X are the only ones that are out of place. I would have loved to see Kazunoko in here, but oh well. Also, those matchups look amazing, these are gonna be held up as example matches for a long time to come. Anyone playing any of these characters needs to watch this, the level of play doesn't get any higher.

Haha, jibbo did get incredibly lucky.

I do wonder if they'll explain how they selected vangief and jibbo.

Seems that the criteria is 3rd place in any qualifier and not already qualified for anything.

Wow AE is going to be nuts.

@ 38

The nerve! That is disappointing to hear. He was repping the Cammy pad players, watching him perfect Tokido's Akuma a couple of times was so great.

@38
That consulate needs to educated. Letter writing time!

Mester is gonna wipe the floor with Justin Wong on OE.

He whupped my ass in LA and he took finals.

Wow, Justin could not be in a better spot right now! I think he has the best draw of any American, for sure. Daigo and Gamerbee will have to face each other before they see him and Infiltration, Mago, and Fuudo will all have to battle it out as well with Wolfkrone and Ricky in there for good measure.

Good God, this is looking ridiculous.

I hope Alioune destroys people, Viva La France! xD

why vangief gets free spot? they should have last day qualifier.

Anyone in that bottom EFGH bracket just really got shafted. Guys like Ricky or Alouine will have to face probably the two of the top 3 players in the game right now just to get to Grand Finals.

@23, that's a stupid explanation. I'm sure that's not the reason why. Who would seriously think "Oh its not that you played better than the other people who made third place, its just that you live closer". And what about Jibbo?

I don't know how anyone can talk crap about any of these Absolute Killers!

These dudes are the best of the best in our Esport. Can't we just show them all some respect for making to the Show!

Instead of Sh!t talking them from your couches like you have the first clue wtf you're talking about! It's sad, and laughable.

Most of us could only dream of main eventing something like this.

I wish all of these amazing players good luck. Especially WolfKrone and Sethlolol (our Michigan guys)!

My friend list bros! Infiltration,Krone and Seth! Good luck guys!

And the best Ryu of all time, the Michael Jordan of SF Daigo "The Best" Umehara!

You guys all kick a$$!

@55 whats stupid is you. the tournament is less than a week and capcom has to pay for the trip as well as schedule flights and hotel reservations. why in the hell would they get somebody from europe or korea or japan when they held a qualifier 2 hours away from the grand finals venue. just think for a second. and try breathing out of your nose once in a while.

I don't think you should count out Happy Medicine guys. I like Daigo too, but I've played Happy Medicine with Ryu (granted, my Ryu is nowhere near Daigo's level), and he knows the matchup well. He won the ft 10 against Alex Valle in the "Pandagon" and I don't think he'll win, but I foresee a first round upset at least. You heard it here first.

Vangief? WTF? Why not Poongko?

A lot of people is getting raped in this first round: Happy Medicine, Problem X, Alioune, Vangief...

Yo that ae bracket

#60

Its ok Poongko in SfxT :)

@ 59

I agree Happy Medicine is good and he may have beat Alex Valle's Ryu. But lets be clear and honest - Daigo's Ryu is like no other Ryu, his skillset with Ryu is way superior to any other Ryu I've ever seen (that's the reason that only Daigo can win tournaments with Ryu, and Ryu is not top tear by any means). I'm going for Daigo to win this after his win in Japan.

This tournument is stacked, no easy matches for anyone. Really looking forward to this.

Looking at the AE bracket is making me nervous :)

@55 LOL are you angry? I'm asking a serious question here and you're giving me an illogical answer and getting upset? It isn't fair for the rest of the third placers OR second placers that Vangief is going. And they don't even have to get anyone, they can just ask Poongko. He IS in the tournament and he was second place in Taiwan. Maybe YOU should think.

But that's not the question I'm proposing. My question is about fairness. If anything, since Brenofighter was from Brazil, they should have gotten the third placer from there. That's more logical if anything than to send out Vangief.

Besides, Capcom already spent so much money on the all year tournament, I don't think they'll be unhappy to pay for a ticket, but, regardless, it doesn't matter since they could've just asked ANYONE ELSE IN THE TOURNAMENT.

Learn to research.

When is this again?

Vangief is another Zangief player right, like Snake Eyez? This is less thna ideal, having a hard character to play and being subtop (dont get me wrong, very good skill but not at the top) playing against the world's best these matches will be over quikcly.

I wonder why they didnt ask PoongKO to enter, sicne he's already there. Maybe they did and he didnt want, being focused on that SFxT money.

So Vangief gets the nod? So technically that's like 3 US qualifiers + 1 whereas every other region gets one qualifier? Lame.

7 Americans in 8 matches and none of them happen to face each other in the first round. Coincidence? I think not.

Where's Ryan Hart? Oh wait...

@65
Poongko got 3rd in SSF4 at the Taiwanese qualifier.

man poongko should ve been in ae

@28 : Momochi didn't have a spot for AE. Japanese qualifiers were Daigo and Fuudo.

Hahaha, people still counting on daigo? OMFG he is just too old, his reaction time isn't that fast anymore, he's the michael schumacher of street fighter :D

pretty nice. i agree that it would have been great to have a quick last minute qualifier for the two games on that Friday but the turnout would not be hi - USA is too big and too far for many.

i don't know how they chose the replacements, but it is what it is- i think it's fine. However, it would've been nice to see Poongko in AE since he's already there anyways. I'm sure they have their reasons.

AE = unpredictable. SFxT = unpredictable. Third = MOV vs Mester. SuperTurbo = Tokido vs Afro

Need to start a petition for 3 of 5 rounds for AE all the way thru! C'mon Capcom- this is a MUST!

Couple of interesting notes I heard from topanga league:
Momochi mentioned that the cody vs Seth matchup he doesn't like and thinks it's in Seth's favor.
Even though he is in all four, Tokido is focusing and practicing on SFvT and is going to try hard to win it.
Mago was disappointed by his play in London area qualifiers. He knew he was going to have trouble prior to playing because he over warmed up. He was nervous and stayed up til 4am playing which, he said, was his problem. He won't do it again this time.

For once, I think SFxT might be hype! (can't believe i just said that)

Mago only had rough matches against Momochi and Ryan, right? Did had to play a lot of Fei mirrors, that seemed as if they were students of him trying to copy their master :)

Mago had rough match against Guile he said. Against Momochi, he thought he was going to go with Cody and was caught unexpectedly. He said that Momochi had very loud button clicks (empty buttons?) which bothered him the first match he lost. But he's confident against Akuma.
Momochi was the one who had a close call with Ryan they said.
Mago also said he doesn't lose to Gouken. 95% win. lol

Hahaha, are people still writing off Daigo? What a tw@

Lot of American entries in AE. How (why) the hell did that happen?

Someone know how they end up having that bracket....7 player from us and 5 from japan and none of them are facing each other in the first round..!!Akward....

um.. i would think they did that on purpose so that we see different matchups than we always see. What- you want to see ricky vs wong first round?? lol

@71, you're right. My mistake. Still, I don't get WHY Vangief? I'm not trying to hate on him, but I still don't get why he would be any more or less of a reason than any other third pacers. And location is just a stupid reason.

To be fair, they should have just given the spots to the 3rd place finishers in Brazil. I can understand them giving it to Vangief, but think about how cool it would have been if they gave the spot to Aquasilk since he got 3rd in NY.

cause Van is really good?

Damn, there's killers in every bracket. I'm expecting a lot from these finals.

Early predictions:

Daigo advances past Happy Medicine.
GamerBee advances past Dieminion. (runback from EVO)
Momochi over ProblemX.
Justin Wong over Tokido.
Fuudo over SnakeEyez.
Ricky over Alioune.
Wolfkrone over Mago.
Infiltration over Vangief.

2nd Round:
Daigo over Gamerbee. (runback from EVO)
Justin Wong over Momochi.
Fuudo over Ricky.
Infiltration over Wolfkrone. (hard choice)

3rd Round:
Daigo over Justin.
Fuudo vs Infiltration or Wolfkrone.

Finals:
Daigo vs. Infiltration or Wolfkrone. (if Infiltration, gonna be so hype)

Just speculation. Could be way different. :p

Jabronees! How can we petition for best of 5 tourney? Is it too late? I'm sure it doesn't really matter to Capcom - and i'm sure the players would agree to it - and more entertainment value for the viewers.
Someone take the reigns and get it going! Start a link or whatever you internet savvy ladies do. c'mon- let's go! it's for $25K plus!

A longer set format would be an effective measure to ensure the cream rises. Still, I don't think Capcom sees mitigating the randomness of short frames as a worthwhile trade-off; those cats are gonna wanna limit play time, resources and streaming. Timetables to maintain and all that nonsense.

Double elim, right?

3/5 is a must, but they will screw it up as usual.

This is going to be EPIC!

Can't wait!

Yo ,poongko made 3rd taiwan qualifer , if the brasilians can do it , we must have the machine Cmon Capcom.We want to see the machine in AE.Vangief is cool , but Poongko is an entertainement by himself.

and coincidently they set it up where daigo faces infiltration last if they both make it

Hype ON!

It seems Rockman isn't in HDR anymore and has been replaced by the second place finisher from that event: Kenpachi. Could Rockman not make the finals (for whatever reason) either? :(

My prediction for SF 4:

A mirror Fei in the grand final Ha ha...