New Street Fighter champion crowned at 2014 Capcom Cup

Yusuke Momochi has been crowned the new Street Fighter champion at the Capcom Cup Finals which was held in San Francisco, as part of the final leg of the Ultra Street Fighter IV Capcom Pro Tour.. Momochi defeated the EVO 2013 Super Street Fighter IV champion Ho Kun Xian in the final match.

The Capcom Cup fighting league started this past spring and featured the top 16 Street Fighter players from around the globe. The event also featured fan favourites like Justin Wong who was surprisingly eliminated quite early in the event after being sent to the loser’s bracket. Yusuke one the other hand came out of the loser’s bracket and went on to win the final match.

Momochi is sponsored by Evil Geniuses, which is now owned by Twitch. He went on to defeat the previous four Evolution Championship Series Street Fighter champions. In a best three out of five series, Xian was forced to change characters after Momochi took the 2-1 lead in the first set. Xian then tied the series at 2-2 but dropped the fifth match to Momochi.

Momochi then won 3-1 against Xian in the final match set, taking the first place and a prize purse worth over $36,000. So the top three Capcom Cup finalists this year are Momochi, Xian and Luffy.

Yoshinori Ono announced that announced that the prize purse for next year’s Capcom Pro Tour and Capcom Cup will be $500,000, more than double of this year’s amount. The event concluded with the premiere of an extended version of the gameplay trailer for the new Street Fighter V. The trailer revealed a brand new character for the game.