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All Nations, Qualifying Schedules Revealed for Olympic SFV World Open

Regional groupings and more details released as well

By Eli Horowitz • October 10, 2019

Today, Capcom released a large amount of new information about next year’s Intel World Open, the $250,000 Street Fighter V tournament that will be held in the run-up to the Tokyo Olympic Games. For starters, it appears that the 12 competing pre-qualified nations will be:

  • USA
  • China
  • Hong Kong
  • UK
  • France
  • Brazil
  • South Korea
  • Taiwan
  • Dominican Republic
  • Russia
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Singapore

Japan will also be pre-qualified but will not have to compete for its place in the finals.

These nations can be sorted into four distinct qualification schedules. The US and Japan will each have eight qualifying tournaments for individual competitors, taking place weekly from 3/21 through 5/9. China, Hong Kong, the UK, France, and Brazil all have six online qualifiers, which will use the following schedule:

  • 3/21
  • 3/28
  • 4/4
  • 4/18
  • 4/25
  • 5/2

South Korea and Taiwan have four qualifiers apiece:

  • 3/28
  • 4/11
  • 4/25
  • 5/9

And the Dominican Republic, Russia, the UAE, and Singapore have only the following two dates for their qualifiers:

  • 4/4
  • 4/25

All national-qualifier finals will take place on 5/16.

We also learned today that the regional qualifiers will mostly take place one day after each national qualifier from a given region. For example, the US is in the North America region and has weekly qualifiers from 3/21 through 5/9. As such, all other North American countries have their qualifying tournaments every week from 3/22 through 5/10. Similarly, the Asian, Oceanic, Middle Eastern, African, and Central American qualifiers will take place on 4/5 and 4/26; and the South American and eastern European (a.k.a. Europe 2) qualifiers will take place on 3/29, 4/12, 4/26, and 5/10. Only the western European (a.k.a. Europe 1) qualifiers depart from this pattern. They will occur on the same dates as the North American qualifiers.

Further, we now know that the regional stage of competition will be a round-robin format, not a strict bracket. Only the top finishers in the round robin (top 4 for the Americas and Europe-Middle East-Africa; top 3 for Asia and Oceania) will advance. The top round-robin performer from each region will go directly to the eight-nation final, whereas the others (3 from the Americas and EMEA; 2 from APAC) will play in a double-elimination bracket from which the top four will also advance.

Suffice it to say that this will be a long, arduous, and even labyrinthine process. It remains to be seen how many of these events will be broadcast and how players can sign up to compete. Still, the lines of battle have now been drawn. Potential competitors should begin to prepare appropriately.

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