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The way I saw average time per round play out this year on the Capcom Pro Tour, it seemed as though the closer a player was to the tournament average, the better the player did. This year’s tournament average in Top 8s was 45.6 seconds, about one second faster than last year’s average. Of the… Read more Average time per round for the Capcom Cup qualifiers

Since not everyone plays the same tournament, opponents or amount of opponents, strength of schedule is one way we can compare two competitors facing against each other. This is important in the Capcom Pro Tour, given that the tour is broken up into four regions, and it’s quite obvious not all four regions are equally… Read more Strength of schedule for the 31 Capcom Cup qualifiers

I didn’t think of looking at these numbers until I watched the Southeast Asia Major championship. There were a lot of matches that went 13, 14 and even 15 rounds, and the visible toll it was taking on the players was obvious on stream.

It would have been awesome if all 31 Capcom Cup qualifiers had played every character, but that didn’t happen (Ryu needs upgrades!).