On Monday, June 22, Happenstance FGC broadcast another round of its inaugural Street Fighter league. What is Happenstance FGC? It’s a fighting game community that is currently hosting its first online Street Fighter V tournament. Happenstance FGC provides esports programming and competitions online and in-person.
The following is a quick roundup of the action and results of the June 22 broadcast. That broadcast (and all future broadcasts and past recordings) can be seen on the Happenstances FGC Facebook page here.
You can watch the next event on Thursday, June 25 at 8 pm central time. The league is scheduled for three broadcasts a week: Monday, Thursday and Friday. The start time is 8 pm central time for all broadcasts.
The league is currently in its round-robin phase. All players play one another during the round-robin portion of the tournament. After the round-robin phase is complete, the top 8 players will compete in a double-elimination tournament to determine the league champion.
The match winners are determined by the first player to win two games in a best of three games format. As with other Street Figther V tournaments, only the losing payer of a game can change characters for the next game, if the match has not yet been decided. The winning player of a game must keep the same character in the next game of a match.
The June 22 broadcast featured 9 total matches.
Here’s a recap of the ninth and final match of the evening. The ninth match was chosen to highlight the play of the big winner of the night, Kusanagi. Kusanagi won three matches and lost only one game out of the seven total that he played on the night.
Kusanagi is one of the highest ranked players in the tournament as he currently is ranked as an Ultimate Grandmaster. He is the 313 ranked player in the world with a total of approximately 1,146,542 players.
In the final match of the night, Kusanagi (playing Kage) defeated Aza Belmont (playing Ibuki). Round 1 of the first game was closely contested but Kusanagi took the round with a late surge. The second round of Game 1 was even closer, as Aza Belmont had built a lead and nearly took the round as Kusanagi had only the tiniest fraction of health left at the end of the game. All Aza Belmont needed to do was land any type of attack to even the game score at one round apiece. But Kusanagi stylishly closed out the game with the Shun Goku Satsu critical art finish.
The first round of the second game was all Aza Belmont as he threw caution to the wind and attacked relentlessly, which resulted in a dominant win as his Ibuki took almost no damage in the process. Aza Belmont got off to a strong start in the second round and held onto that lead while leveling the match at one game apiece.
But Kusanagi maintained his perfect match record on the evening winning the first two rounds of Game 3 to take the match. Once again, Kusanagi closed out the game with a critical art finish, this time employing Kage’s other crtical art finish – the Metsu Shoryuken. Bravo to Kusanagi for the stylish finishing moves!
Here is a recap of the official results of all the matches on the broadcast.
Match 1
Aza Belmont (Ibuki) defeats Zeromex (Kolin) 2 games to 0.
Match 2
Kaiser (Seth) defeats Zeromex (Kolin) 2 games to 1.
Match 3
Kaiser (Seth) defeats Aza Belmont (Kolin) 2 games to 0.
Match 4
Kaiser (Seth) defeats Jefe Pilas (Urien) 2 games to 1.
Match 5
Kaiser (Seth) defeats Chano (Alex) 2 games to 1.
Match 6
Laura Asesina (Laura) defeats RASEC (M. Bison) 2 games to 0.
Match 7
Kusanagi (Kage) defeats RASEC (M. Bison) 2 games to 0.
Match 8
Kusanagi (Kage) defeats Laura Asesina (Laura) 2 games to 0.
Match 9
Kusanagi (Kage) defeats Asa Belmont (Ibuki) 2 games to 1.
