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Updated: Capcom's Spring National Tournament regional qualifiers for Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition v2012

Posted by Nyoro — February 12, 2012 at 7:36 p.m. PST

Updated on Feb. 12th: Lynaken has sent in more of the participating teams. The character count representation in the tournament has also been updated.

Capcom has been holding qualifiers in Japan for their Spring National Tournament over the past several weeks. Fighters have to win at specified region-specific arcade locations and then win an encompassing area qualifier to progress to the 32-team finals.

If you've been following Japanese SF4 players for a while, you might recognize some of the names that have qualified. This is a 3v3 tournament. Current teams that have qualified for the top 32 bracket include:

Fuudo (Fei Long), Itabashi Zangief (Zangief), Dashio (Seth)
Banbaban (Cammy), a.k.a.jojo (M. Bison/Dictator), Y24 (Chun Li)
Naruo (Ryu), Haneyama (Juri), Shinochan (Oni)
Uryo (Sakura), -6- (Akuma), Wao (Oni)
MCZ|Daigo (Ryu), MCZ|Mago (Fei Long), MCZ|Tokido (Akuma)
TH|PoongKO (Seth), TWF|GamerBee (Adon), WW|Ryan Hart (?)

You can find more qualifying teams after the jump.

YHC Mochi (Dhalsim), Ajipon (Rufus), Taigi (Oni)
T-SRAI (Blanka), Vegeta (Gouken), Bon/Playerjun52 (Ken)
Akua (Cammy), Fransujin (Cody), Tsukami (Juri)
Kuroken (Dudley), Y. (Cammy), Kawaguchi (Rose)
Inco (Rufus), Keshikaran (Rose), Waike (Juri)
Lariken (Sagat), Jinetta (M. Bison), Tsuna (Juri)

Pantyjohns (Zangief), Asutabi (Cammy), Muki (Adon)
EX Mamehara (Adon), Gachimottsun (Sagat), MDR (Rufus)
Kekkonyama (Rufus), Sendaime Ryou-san (Yang), Soy Master (Sagat)
Jeppa (Rufus), Chiba (Akuma), Adlibouji (Cody)
Chichi Monda (M. Bison/Dictator), Gacha Boy (Adon), ☆Shin☆ (Juri)

Karichin (Adon), Yossan (Juri), FU★K YUN (Yun)
KOK (Evil Ryu), Pie (Sagat), Juso (Sakura)
Akimo (E. Honda), Nekojita (Abel), NISHIKIN (Blanka)
Reiketsu (Vega/Claw), Anton (Gouken), Toncotsu (Ibuki)
-R- (Balrog/Boxer), Kichijyoji Ken (Ken), Ukifune (Cody)
Shin★Chan (Balrog/Boxer), Mohamed (M. Bison/Dictator), Banuno (Akuma)

Kyabetsu (C. Viper), RF (Sagat), Kindevu (Cammy)
Hishou (Seth), Kouji KOG (T. Hawk), Meu (Makoto)
Dogura (M. Bison/Dictator), Haitani (Makoto), Eita (Akuma)
Kazunoko (Seth), Bonchan (Sagat), Nemo (Yang)
Dashimaki (C. Viper), Kamata San (Sakura), Nen (Rufus)
Shiro (Makoto), Hanamaruki (Sagat), Shungoku Neurosis (M. Bison/Dictator)

Character Count:
7 - Sagat
6 - Juri, M. Bison, Rufus
5 - Adon, Akuma, Cammy
4 - Seth
3 - Cody, Oni, Makoto, Sakura
2 - Balrog, Blanka, Fei Long, Gouken, Ken, Rose, Ryu, Zangief, Yang, C. Viper
1 - Abel, Chun-Li, Dhalsim, Dudley, E.Honda, Evil Ryu, Yun, Vega, Ibuki, T. Hawk

Capcom Japan's Spring National Tournament takes place on March 3rd. Translated by EventHubs with clarification assistance from Cross Counter's Zhi.

Comments

Vawned said on January 10, 2012 at 11:25 a.m.

Wow Sasaki got eliminated? That's sad.

jaib83 said on January 10, 2012 at 12:10 p.m.

T SRAI's Blanka, AFG's Sagat, Sasaki's Cody and ACE E IR N
are online players most of the time, i think they feel more confortable and confident playing at home, but when you face other players at the arcade or a tournament results turn different

Konstantin said on January 10, 2012 at 12:45 p.m.

Kind of sucks that there's no US qualifier. It kind of sucks that there aren't many big Japanese tournaments that US players will go to. In fact, I don't think there are any since the US will boycott SBO after after what happened last year.

Grubba said on January 10, 2012 at 3:13 p.m.

damm no nike or osugi bent?

Pig_Red said on January 10, 2012 at 5:45 p.m.

Japan's not going to miss us.

PSNmignon15 said on January 10, 2012 at 8:14 p.m.

Wow. I'm surprised Shiro's team got eliminated.

I was really hoping Sasaki would make it though. I love watching his Cody. :(

Exand said on January 11, 2012 at 3:06 p.m.

The team of Jeppa (Rufus), Chiba (Akuma), Adlib Ouji (Cody)
weren't eliminated.

SAMURAI said on January 15, 2012 at 12:06 p.m.

FU★K YUN is the real Yun, no tier whore. Atleast 1 Yun player who knows what character loyalty is.

cab1020 said on January 15, 2012 at 12:22 p.m.

I thought Itabashi switched to Hakan.

Skrekro said on January 15, 2012 at 12:46 p.m.

Not even 1 Ryu? Damn. Speaks volume on his difficulty in the pro scene.

#10

spotlesseden said on January 15, 2012 at 12:49 p.m.

US players can go there to enter those tournaments.

#11

jaihen1979 said on January 15, 2012 at 5:46 p.m.

@9 If Itabashi switched to Hakan, US would be in serious trouble. Hakan is crazy good now. He just might make an appearance @ EVO2012!!!!

#12

NvhA said on January 15, 2012 at 6:25 p.m.

FU★K YUN & Nemo are the real twins players.

#13

Grubba said on January 15, 2012 at 8:23 p.m.

"Banbaban (Cammy), a.k.a.jojo (M. Bison/Dictator), Y24 (Chun Li)"
ive seen enough hentai to know where this is going...

#14

streetman88 said on January 16, 2012 at 4:40 a.m.

Glad too see Y24's Chun-Li make it in. Hes probably the only pro Chun-Li player left (i think) glad to see him keep the spirit of Chun alive thats dediaction to who you like not who's top tier or something wish alot of pro players understood that.

#15

ShinsokuHitokiri said on January 17, 2012 at 8:36 p.m.

hmm.. i wonder who eliminated team Shiro (Makoto), Shungoku Neurosis (M. Bison), Hanamaruki (Sagat) and team Osugi (Cammy), KOK (Evil Ryu), Pie (Sagat), both of them seem pretty solid.

The only player i reconize from the qualified teams is MDR (Rufus), i guess new talents are making their appearances.

#16

Eternal said on January 23, 2012 at 7:45 a.m.

You got Kazunoko / Nemo / Bonchan listed twice.

That team and the Shiro/Neurosis/Hanamaruki team are the two I'm most surprised were elminated. Both look to have good synergy in character choices and good players as well.

T-SRAI (Blanka), Vegeta (Gouken), Bon (Ken) is a team that I'm not surprised were eliminated. While all 3 are really strong players individually their character choices don't seem to mesh well for covering bad match ups.

Michael Tan (Ken), Mizoteru (Blanka), NO NAME (Evil Ryu) same thing here.

#17

Paine said on January 23, 2012 at 7:46 a.m.

Man I'm loving the character variety. Also loving the amount of Juri players. 4 is 4 more than you would of seen in SSF4 or AE.

#18

JohnJack said on January 23, 2012 at 7:47 a.m.

Haneyama has given up on Chun-Li. Noooooo :'(

#19

Paine said on January 23, 2012 at 7:48 a.m.

And switched to Juri. Yesssss :')

#20

lorcraven said on January 23, 2012 at 7:54 a.m.

wow oni players doing surprisingly well

#21

spotlesseden said on January 23, 2012 at 8:02 a.m.

Oni is a great character for 1 or 2 games tournaments.

#22

foolly said on January 23, 2012 at 8:07 a.m.

i miss LordAborineSF4. 2010 he uploaded every single qualifier in every region! now without him all we can do is read about it

#23

SabishiiRyuu said on January 23, 2012 at 8:26 a.m.

@23: Oh man, the countless hours I wasted on his channels watching Nakano TRF/A-cho/NSB tournaments. Loved vanilla arcade videos. AE arcade didn't get nearly as much love in youtube. Have had to resort to watching them in Nico Nico.

#24

streetman88 said on January 23, 2012 at 9:06 a.m.

@#19 @#20 I gotta say im kinda disapointed he droped Chun-Li, but on the other hand he is useing my second favorite character Juri so its cool. I guess he likes the bad girl more so than the good girl lol o well, im still holding out for Y24 all the way ;)

#25

kdavis851 said on January 23, 2012 at 9:51 a.m.

Whoa. That Nemo, Bonchan, Kazunoko team. Too bad they were eliminated; that team is stack and could've done some damage.

#26

Azuregum said on January 23, 2012 at 12:14 p.m.

#12

Why would he switch to Hakan? Zangief is still the best grappler in this game.

#27

ShinsokuHitokiri said on January 23, 2012 at 1:48 p.m.

Mizoteru picked up Blanka again!

#28

TheEdoNinja said on January 23, 2012 at 3:33 p.m.

Anyone got a link to the Oni pic used in this post?

#29

SuperStraightFighter said on January 23, 2012 at 4:14 p.m.

Im surprised Kazu, bonchan and nemo's team got eliminated, they are probably considered the best of their respective characters and covers matchups petty well.

#30

TheMasterPlayer said on January 26, 2012 at 6:52 a.m.

ELIMINATED:
AC Revenger (Abel), Umeso (E. Honda), Haneyama (Juri)

QUALIFIED:
Naruo (Ryu), Haneyama (Juri), Shinochan (Oni)

Anyone care to explain as to the discrepancies in the list?

#31

NvhA said on January 30, 2012 at 7:44 a.m.

You can still try to qualify again in another regional qualifier.

Naruo was with Kim1234 before that as well and got eliminated.

#32

Grubba said on January 30, 2012 at 7:49 a.m.

@31

"It is possible for a team that was eliminated in their region to qualify in another"

#33

MrPavy said on January 30, 2012 at 9:17 a.m.

I just want a stream,if this was being streamed it would have been more exciting than evo or Godsgarden

#34

yamazaki said on January 30, 2012 at 9:36 a.m.

anyone know if kuroken is the 3s player?

lol@the question mark for ryan hart

#35

akatruthteller said on January 30, 2012 at 10:12 a.m.

that is not fair that daigo doesn't have to qualify for it... dude's seen scrubby on stream recently...

#36

okay said on January 30, 2012 at 10:23 a.m.

MCZ and the international teams are lame.

#37

Azuregum said on January 30, 2012 at 10:24 a.m.

#36

Not much different than the rigged seeding at American tournaments.

#38

WinstonChurchill said on January 30, 2012 at 11:25 a.m.

#36 & #37 typically 'lame' comments

#39

spotlesseden said on January 30, 2012 at 6:45 p.m.

@38, i think they only rigged seed for evo.

#40

TheMasterPlayer said on January 30, 2012 at 7:47 p.m.

@32 and 33;

thanks... I wasn't aware of that. But isn't that a little unfair for the other players.. I mean, that's the whole point of forming and being a team in the first place right? if a team didn't qualify... then why would one or more of the players on that team join another team just to have a chance to qualify again.. seems like there's no team loyalty and honour in that. If you lose and didn't qualify.. then that should be it.. tough luck...

but meh.. that's just my two cents on the matter anyways...

#41

Donchilio said on January 30, 2012 at 8:18 p.m.

@#40 More info please. I hope you're not taking about 2 Japanese players in the same pool again because that never happened.

#42

spotlesseden said on January 31, 2012 at 8:11 a.m.

more info? American got most of the points. There are no point for most EU, Korean, jp players unless they go to other tournaments.

Basically, the top seed player is not the best player. The top seed is the player that went to the most tournaments. And most tournaments are in US.
momochi lost to mago and tokido very early in the tournament.

Guess what American will have the top seed this year. Who ever got the top seed is clearing not the best player and everybody knows it. Basically, the system reward only the American players and sponsored players.

US, EU, JP, Korea, AU should only have 1 tournament in their area that give out point.

Not Asian has one evo tournaments then Americans have 15 tournaments.

#43

LK said on January 31, 2012 at 8:20 a.m.

@43

I doubt Americans ever want to play fair, EVO is an American tournament you know. Hometown advantage!

But it's quite hilarious that even WITH massive advantage, Americans still end up losing to foreigners and international student on visa.

#44

NvhA said on January 31, 2012 at 9:39 a.m.

Only 1 Yun & 1 Yang remains.

Nemo & F*ck Yun.

*adores*

#45

SAMURAI said on January 31, 2012 at 10:27 a.m.

This is why players like Tokido say Europe > USA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTs70N...

#46

BurningVigor said on January 31, 2012 at 10:41 a.m.

Dude that match was so sloppy on both ends. Besides US already demolished Europe multiple times already.

I think Tokido practically gave the match away. The last match when Tokido dizzied him, he did quick rise which allowed Guy to recover. All he had to do was quick rise Ultra or anything and he would of won.

tldr; Tokido didn't care and the Guy player is terrible.

#47

WinstonChurchill said on January 31, 2012 at 10:41 a.m.

Elwood's pretty sick to be fair

#48

SAMURAI said on January 31, 2012 at 10:51 a.m.

@ 47

The Guy player is terrible? Lmao you troll.
Elwood is one of the best Guy players there is.

#49

EnSabahNur said on January 31, 2012 at 10:53 a.m.

I'm backing Poongko, Gamerbee and Ryan Hart to win!!!!

#50

kakarotto said on January 31, 2012 at 12:51 p.m.

Poongko and GamerBee FTW
I didnt like ryan there but its ok

#51

foolly said on February 6, 2012 at 8:59 a.m.

Character Usage

1 - Abel, Chun-Li, Dhalsim, Dudley, E.Honda, Evil Ryu, Yang, Yun

^^^ these characters are not bad at all. i hope to see more top japanese players pick them up

#52

Aqua said on February 6, 2012 at 9:12 a.m.

there are no Gen, DeeJay, Guy, T.Hawk, Fuerte, Guile, Dan, Hakan players yet.

and more surprising: there's no Viper and Makoto either.

#53

MrPavy said on February 6, 2012 at 10:07 a.m.

1 dudley in qualifiers :(

#54

SuperStraightFighter said on February 6, 2012 at 5:07 p.m.

Character usage is really divers now, I could have never guessed that juri is the most used character, I think this is one of the most balanced version yet.

#55

BisonBetterBeGoodInSSF4 said on February 6, 2012 at 5:28 p.m.

@Juri players

im telling you right now. if a Juri player wins...get ready for some bitching/bandwagoning.

#56

Hitstick said on February 12, 2012 at 4:09 p.m.

Who got eliminated? And can we see these battles?

#57

spotlesseden said on February 12, 2012 at 8:09 p.m.

lol #57. no one gets eliminated.

#58

Hitstick said on February 12, 2012 at 8:44 p.m.

@#58 Why are some posters above saying my man playerjun52 ken got eliminated then?

#59

spotlesseden said on February 12, 2012 at 9:33 p.m.

i don't know, if his team failed the first time, they can try again.

#60

kaka said on February 12, 2012 at 10:06 p.m.

out of all the street fighter games, this is definitely the most diverse lineup. even characters that have won tourneys and are considered upper tier aren't even on the roster. you gotta be sh???in' me if this doesn't excite you as a fan

#61

JIHADJOE said on February 12, 2012 at 11:12 p.m.

There are more Cammys then Fei Longs and Ryus. Looks like the Japanese do put their tokens where their mouth is.

#62

foolly said on February 13, 2012 at 3:14 a.m.

WHERE'S Momochiiii???

#2 other than ACE. the others you mentioned are all offline players. they are just not on youtube all that much, especially afg who we call by his arcade name not xbox tag. he was also a master rank sagat from vanilla.

#63

TheGodOfPez said on February 13, 2012 at 6:11 a.m.

Very surprised at the number of Juris in this tournament. Tied for 2nd most used character? *jaw drops*

#64

ShinKen said on February 13, 2012 at 7:39 a.m.

Sagat is S tier - looking at the list of qualifiers, we've come full circle...

#65

Fivec said on February 13, 2012 at 7:52 a.m.

@65

Sagat finished 10th and 12th out of 12 in the Topanga League, and those were two of the best Sagats in the world. Not so sure about his S-tier status.

#66

ShinKen said on February 13, 2012 at 7:58 a.m.

@66 This is true, and tier lists by their very nature are based on win % rate vs the other characters. So even though there are 7 sagats through, they probably won't fair that well during the actual tournament. Maybe he's an easy choice for high health, tiger spam reliability/effectiveness.

#67

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