Following an intense nine-day event at **Alon in Hollywood, including multiple competitive events, Last Chance Qualifiers, Team Championships, and more, Capcom Cup X has come to an end with a new title for Taiwan's UMA327. While the race was impressive, one of the most striking things about Capcom Cup X was the prize money that UMA won for first place: a whopping $1,000,000.
Players from all over the world came together and even defeated some fan-favorite players like Tokido and Punk in the preliminaries, and there were many shocking and unsettling moments before and during the match.
This is the inaugural Capcom Cup for Street Fighter 6, but such a big award is new not only for Street Fighter, but also for fighting games. Never before has the first place won so many prizes or such a large prize pool (totaling more than $2,000,000). After the match, Capcom's president and chief operating officer, Haruhiro Tsujimoto, announced that UMA won't be the last "fighting game millionaire" the company will ever create. Next year's Capcom Cup Xi will also award $1,000,000 (so if you want to try to win it, I'll start practicing now).
After the win, UMA said, "I want to say thank you to the entire Taiwanese fighting game community and [my] family and friends. That's why [I] have a chance. When presenter RobTV asked UMA when she knew she could win the game, UMA's answer was incredible: "When Capcom announced the prize money of $1,000,000, [I knew I'm] going to get it." ”
Shortly after the historic victory at UMA, I sat down backstage and asked him a few questions. He sat and casually placed the huge frosted glass trophy on his lap and answered quietly while the crowd at Avalon was still cheering outside. While his calm demeanor and ability to stay focused under pressure are common to fighting game veterans who have played it for decades, UMA has been playing fighting games since the first season of Street Fighter V.
Every player in the top 16 trains for long, hard work, and UMA is no exception in this regard, playing about 12 hours a day. He also trains by playing against Japanese players, which means he gains a lot of experience playing against highly skilled players and powerful top characters, but still has "some players [I] don't want to face, especially DCQ, and we also congratulate UMA on winning the championship!"