Team Secret is an esports team based in Europe formed in 2014, best known for their Dota 2 team.
98-661: In March 2016, Team Secret picked up an international female Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team. In April 2016, Team Secret expanded into the world of Street Fighter with Lee "Poongko" Chung-Gon as their first World Warrior, and also signed Otto "Silent Wolf" Bisno as a Super Smash Bros. Melee player. In July 2018 Team Secret entered into competitive Age of Empires 2 after acquiring key members from Team TyRanT. In August 2018, Team Secret expanded into Rainbow Six Siege Pro League by signing Team IDK. N0tail and Fly were confirmed to leave Fnatic on July 27, 2014. On August 3, 2014, s4 left Alliance . Some rumors of
196-606: A multimedia franchise . It had an unexpectedly phenomenal impact on gaming. More than $ 10 billion in inflation-adjusted revenue as of 2017 was grossed from all versions, mostly from arcades. More than 14 million cartridges were sold for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis/Mega Drive . The first official update to the series was Street Fighter II: Champion Edition , pronounced Street Fighter II Dash in Japan, as noted by
294-558: A 3D fighting game Street Fighter EX with Arika , a company founded by Street Fighter II planner Akira Nishitani. It was developed for the PlayStation-based ZN-1 hardware. EX combined the established Street Fighter cast with original characters created and owned by Arika. It was followed by an upgraded version, Street Fighter EX Plus, in 1997, which expanded the character roster. A home version with additional features and characters, Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha ,
392-452: A choice from a variety of player characters with different moves, allowing for more varied matches. Each player character has a unique fighting style with approximately 30 or more moves, including new grappling moves and throws, and two or three special attacks. In the single-player mode, the player character is pitted sequentially against the seven other main characters before confronting the final four bosses, exclusively CPU -controlled. As in
490-410: A hero is picked, it cannot be selected by any other player that match, so teams use the draft to strategically plan ahead and deny the opponent's heroes that may be good counters or would be able to take advantage of weaknesses to their current lineup. The first pick in a match is decided by an in-game coin toss , and switches between each game in that match; the team that does not get first pick does get
588-565: A new all-star team began to rise on Reddit . Na`Vi posted on their website they released Puppey and KuroKy . On August 27, 2014, Team Secret debuted and showed their roster in a match against Alliance. After a solid second place in Star-Ladder Series 10, the team announced on their Twitter and the DAC site of the departure of Fly and BigDaddy, with zai and Arteezy taking their place as stand-ins. Team Secret got third place in
686-495: A new boss character ) in a storyline chronologically set between Street Fighter II and Street Fighter III . The gameplay, while still 2D, features cel-shaded 3D graphics inspired by Japanese sumi-e paintings . The Super Combo system, a Street Fighter mainstay since Super Turbo , returns along with new counter-attacking techniques called "Focus Attacks" ("Saving Attacks" in Japan), as well as new "Ultra Combo" moves, similar to
784-599: A results of 3–1 over Team Liquid. Latest roster transaction: 10 June 2023. Shortly before the Six Major Paris 2018, Team Secret signed Team IDK. The original roster consisted of Bryan "Elemzje" Tebessi, Ryan "Lacky" Stapley, Leon "LeonGids" Giddens, Matthew "meepeY" Sharples, David "sTiZze" de Castro and Louis "Helbee" Bureau as coach. At the Paris Major, Team Secret placed 3-4th after besting OrgLess, FaZe Clan , Team Vitality , and losing to G2 Esports ,
882-432: A roster of 16 characters including Ryu, Ken, and Chun-Li. In 2018, the game received a major update, Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition . In 2020, Street Fighter V: Champion Edition was released as downloadable content with several characters progressively added and totaling 46. Street Fighter 6 was released for Microsoft Windows , PlayStation 4 , PlayStation 5 , and Xbox Series X|S on June 2, 2023. The game
980-483: A standalone game, then included in the compilation Street Fighter Anniversary Collection for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. Gill became a playable secret character in the console versions. In 2010, Capcom announced Street Fighter III Third Strike: Online Edition . The original Street Fighter IV game concept, Street Fighter IV Flashback , never made it past the proposal stage. In 2007, more than eight years since
1078-648: A tense 2–1 series, finishing in 9th-12th place. During the following roster shuffle, KheZu and MP were replaced by Marcus "Ace" Hoelgaard and Adrian "FATA-" Trinks in September 2017. With the new roster and new season of Dota Pro Circuit 2017-2018 , they went on to win DreamLeague Season 8 . Despite the team achieved several minor tournament victories, they did not win any major tournament in 2018, placing 5th-6th in The International 2018 . With
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#17327870404381176-574: A third Marvel-licensed game, X-Men vs. Street Fighter , in 1996, a full-fledged crossover between characters from X-Men and the Street Fighter Alpha games with a two-on-two tag team -based system. It was followed by Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter in 1997, which expanded the roster to include characters from Marvel Super Heroes ; Marvel vs. Capcom in 1998, which features characters from Street Fighter and other Capcom properties; and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 in 2000, which
1274-649: A training mode similar to the Expert Challenges in Street Fighter EX . The cast includes six characters new to the Street Fighter series. Super Street Fighter IV includes ten additional characters including two characters new to the franchise: Juri and Hakan. Capcom implemented character balance adjustments and added second Ultra moves for each character. The game features an improved online experience with new modes of play. The game
1372-457: A worldwide martial arts tournament spanning five countries and 10 opponents. A second player can control Ryu's friendly American rival, Ken Masters . The player can perform three punch and kick attacks, each varying in speed and strength, and three special attacks: the Hadōken , Shōryūken , and Tatsumaki Senpūkyaku , performed by executing special joystick and button combinations. Street Fighter
1470-626: Is Capcom's third-best-selling software franchise behind Resident Evil and Monster Hunter . The best-selling game in the series is Street Fighter II , with more than $ 10 billion in total gross revenue from all versions, mostly from arcades . More than 14 million Super NES and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis cartridges were sold. As of 2017 , Street Fighter II is one of the world's top three highest-grossing Japan-made arcade blockbusters of all time, after Taito 's Space Invaders and Namco 's Pac-Man . In 1994, Capcom referred to Street Fighter as "the most successful video game series of
1568-418: Is a Japanese media franchise centered on a series of fighting games developed and published by Capcom . The first game in the series was released in 1987, followed by six other main series games, various spin-offs and crossovers , and numerous appearances in other media. Its best-selling 1991 release Street Fighter II established many of the conventions of the one-on-one fighting genre. Street Fighter
1666-453: Is a three time EVO champion and generally recognized one of the best fighters that ever played the game. Mike " BrolyLegs " Begum is also a well known "disabled" player who has been ranked as high as 378 in the world and has been featured on ESPN E:60 for operating the game controller with only his mouth. Street Fighter influenced mixed martial arts (MMA) combat sports . The first Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) MMA event. During
1764-510: Is frequently described as the most iconic and memorable moment in the history of competitive video gaming . Being at one point the most-watched competitive gaming moment of all time, it has been compared to sports moments such as Babe Ruth's called shot and the Miracle on Ice . Hajime "Tokido" Taniguchi is currently ranked as the #1 Street Fighter V eSports player in the world per SRK Data eSports player rankings. Hailing from Japan, he
1862-548: Is just a huge cultural thing that everyone experienced growing up [with] such a huge impact that it has just stayed in everyone's consciousness." According to Jake Hawkes of Soapbox, "grime was built around lyrical clashes [and] the 1v1 setup of these clashes was easily equated with Street Fighter ' s 1 on 1 battles." Grime MCs such as Dizzee Rascal were sampling Street Fighter II in 2002, and Street Fighter II has been sampled "by almost every grime MC". It became an integral part of BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ Charlie Sloth 's Fire in
1960-402: Is one of the highest-grossing video game franchises of all time and one of Capcom's flagship series, with total sales of 55 million units worldwide as of June 2024 . It is also one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. Street Fighter , designed by Takashi Nishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto, debuted in arcades in 1987. The player controls martial artist Ryu to compete in
2058-463: Is powered by the RE Engine and include multiple new features, including real-time in-game commentary and a single-player adventure mode with customizable player avatars. The main games have introduced a varied cast of around 90 characters into video game lore, plus around another 30 in spin-off games. Each of the international characters in the playable roster have a unique fighting style. Since
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#17327870404382156-514: The Street Fighter film soundtrack (1994) which is the first major film soundtrack to consist almost entirely of hip hop music. According to DJ Qbert, "I think hip-hop is a cool thing, I think Street Fighter is a cool thing". According to Vice magazine, " Street Fighter ' s mixture of competition, bravado, and individualism easily translate into the trials and travails of a rapper." Grime DJ Logan Sama saying, " Street Fighter
2254-511: The Dota 2 Asia Championships and decided to stick with their roster, going on to win 5 premier tournaments. Team Secret was widely considered to be the favorites to win The International 2015 , but after a very disappointing 7-8th-place finish, the team announced that they would have some roster changes. Despite the overall success of the team for the year, members Arteezy and KuroKy were revealed to have clashed with one another and both players left
2352-475: The Infinity Stones , which temporarily bestow players with unique abilities and stat boosts depending on the type of stone selected. Beyond Street Fighter , Capcom franchises make guest appearances in the 2014 Nintendo crossover-fighting games Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U , with protagonist Ryu appearing alongside fellow Capcom representative Mega Man. The Street Fighter content
2450-772: The Neo Geo in 2003. From 2003 to 2008, the Versus series of Capcom fighting games had no new releases, though Capcom and Namco produced the crossover tactical role-playing game Namco × Capcom for the PlayStation 2 exclusively in Japan in 2005. Ryu and Ken are playable in 2012's Project X Zone , a tactical role-playing game that draws characters from various Sega , Namco-Bandai, and Capcom franchises. Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes , released in 2008, features characters from both Tatsunoko Production and Capcom properties, including Street Fighter characters Ryu, Chun-Li , and Alex as well as characters like Ken
2548-576: The PC Engine came in 1993. That year, two home versions of Hyper Fighting were released: Street Fighter II Turbo for Super NES and Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition ( Street Fighter II Dash Plus in Japan) for Genesis. The following game, Super Street Fighter II , was also ported to the Super NES and Genesis in 1994. That year, Super Street Fighter II Turbo was released for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer and for Windows , released by
2646-512: The PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade services in 2008. The game, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix , has fully redrawn artwork, including HD sprites 4.5x the original size, drawn by artists from UDON . This is the first time the Street Fighter characters have had new sprites, drawn by Capcom, since Capcom vs. SNK 2 in 2001. The game has several changes which address character balancing issues, but also features
2744-734: The Rage Gauge seen in games from SNK Playmore . The arcade version, which runs on the Taito Type X2 hardware, was distributed in Japan in 2008, with a limited release in North America and the United Kingdom. A home version was released in 2009 for the PlayStation 3 , Xbox 360 , and Windows PC. This features an expanded character roster, as well as all-new animated segments that show each character's backstory, and
2842-536: The Shanghai Major , Team Secret went through the upper bracket beating previous Frankfurt Major winners: OG in a best of three of 2–1 in the first upper bracket round; they faced Evil Geniuses in the second upper bracket round and won 2–1. Team Secret then faced Team Liquid in the upper bracket finals in a best of 3, winning 2–0 and heading into the Major's Grand Final. On March 6, Team Secret played against
2940-693: The Street Fighter and King of Fighters series. It was followed by a minor upgrade, Capcom vs. SNK Pro , and a sequel, Capcom vs. SNK 2 , both released in 2001. All three games were produced for the NAOMI hardware as well. The SNK-produced fighting games of this crossover include the Dimps -developed portable fighting game SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium for the Neo Geo Pocket Color in 1999 and SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos for
3038-425: The prime notation on the logo. The four computer-controlled boss characters are human-playable and two players can choose the same character, leaving one character with an alternate color pattern. It has slightly improved graphics, including differently colored backgrounds and refined gameplay. A second upgrade, Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting ( Street Fighter II Dash Turbo in Japan), was produced in response to
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3136-455: The "Daigo Parry", refers to a portion of a Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike semi-final match held at Evolution Championship Series 2004 (Evo 2004) between Daigo Umehara and Justin Wong . During this match, Umehara made an unexpected comeback by parrying 15 consecutive hits of Wong's "Super Art" move while having only one pixel of vitality . Umehara subsequently won the match. "Evo Moment #37"
3234-650: The 15th anniversary of the series. As the final arcade installment, the game is a hybrid version of Super Turbo , which allows players to select between versions of characters from all five previous Street Fighter II games. Hyper was released in North America and the PAL region via its ports for the PlayStation 2 and the Xbox , released as part of the Street Fighter Anniversary Collection along with Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike . In 2005,
3332-519: The 1993 release of UFC 1 while Super Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat II were best sellers, both were initially pitched by UFC promoters as a real-life fighting video game tournament. Street Fighter II has been sampled and referenced video game in hip hop music , including The Lady of Rage , Nicki Minaj , Lupe Fiasco , Dizzee Rascal , Lil B , Sean Price , and Madlib . This started with Hi-C 's " Swing'n " (1993) and DJ Qbert 's " Track 10 " (1994) which sampled Street Fighter II , and
3430-693: The Americas were split into separate North and South America regions, and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region was split off from Europe. The International 2016 champion Wings Gaming disbanded earlier in 2017 with its members taking a break from professional Dota , marking the first time in the International's history that a defending champion or any player of its former roster did not defend their title. The rosters of two independent teams, Planet Dog and Team NP, were signed after
3528-526: The Booth freestyle segments, using samples such as "Hadouken", "Shoryuken", and the "Perfect" announcer sound. The International 2017 The International 2017 ( TI7 ) was the seventh iteration of The International , an annual Dota 2 esports world championship tournament. Hosted by Valve , the game's developer, the tournament began with the online qualifier phase in June 2017, and ended after
3626-527: The Eagle of Gatchaman and Casshern of Neo-Human Casshern on Tatsunoko's side. Initially released only in Japan, the game received an updated international release, Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars, in 2010 in response to fan demand. Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds was released in 2011 and includes Akuma, Chun-Li, Crimson Viper, and Ryu. The game features completely new visuals and audio, three-on-three gameplay, and online play. The game
3724-617: The Grand Finals in a nail-biting five-game series, where Secret were able to take a 2–1 lead but were unable to secure a final victory to take home the Major Championship. With the shuffle, the team achieved a couple major tournament wins, notably The Chongqing Major and the MDL Disneyland Paris Major. Team Secret had 14,400 points in the ranking of the professional season Dota 2 from Valve and occupy
3822-485: The PlayStation and Saturn, which includes the original Street Fighter II , Champion Edition , and Hyper Fighting . In 2000, Capcom released Super Street Fighter II X for Matching Service exclusively in Japan for the Dreamcast . This version of the game features an online two-player versus mode. In 2003, Capcom released Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition for the arcades in Japan and Asia to commemorate
3920-682: The Super Combo system from Super Turbo by extending Super Combo meter into three levels, allowing for super combos to be stored up and introducing Alpha Counters and Chain Combos, also from Darkstalkers . The plot of Alpha is set between the first two Street Fighter games and fleshes out the backstories and grudges held by many of the classic Street Fighter II characters. It has a playable roster of ten immediately playable characters and three unlockable fighters, comprising not only younger versions of established characters, but also characters from
4018-584: The Valorant competitive scene in 2021 after acquiring the roster of Bren Esports in early September, who were supposed to represent Southeast Asia in the 2021 Valorant Champions Tour: Stage 3 Masters in Berlin as the regional champions, but failed to participate due to national restrictions brought by the COVID-19 pandemic and visa issues. In the same year, they have qualified for the 2021 Valorant Champions ,
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4116-574: The boss characters for international versions of the game. The final boss , named Vega in the Japanese version, was given the M. Bison name, the talon-wielding Spanish warrior , named Balrog in the Japanese version, was renamed Vega and the boxer became Balrog. In a 2019 interview, Mike Tyson himself was asked about the "Mike Bison" character design, and revealed that he was "honored by the impersonation". ) Street Fighter II eclipsed its predecessor in popularity, eventually turning Street Fighter into
4214-501: The character roster from previous games, keeping only Ryu and Ken, introducing several new characters in their place including the grappler Alex , who was designed to be the new lead character of the game, and Gill , who replaced Bison as main antagonist. Street Fighter III introduced the "Super Arts" selection system and the ability to parry an opponent's attack. Several months after Street Fighter III: New Generation ' s release came Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact , adjusting
4312-600: The classic characters Ryu and Ken, Evil Ryu and Violent Ken, and Akuma is now playable. Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams ( Street Fighter Zero in Asia and Mexico), was released in 1995. It uses the same character designs Capcom previously employed in Darkstalkers and X-Men: Children of the Atom , with settings and character designs heavily influenced by Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie . Alpha expands on
4410-523: The competition. The remaining 16 teams moved on to the double elimination main event at the KeyArena in Seattle from August 7–12, with the top four finishing teams from both groups advancing to the upper bracket, and the bottom four advancing to the lower bracket. The first round of the lower bracket was treated as single-elimination , with the loser of each match being immediately eliminated from
4508-476: The competition. The main event featured two brackets in a double-elimination tournament format. In the upper brackets, played to best-of-three , the winning team moved on, while the losing team would then be placed in respective rounds of the lower bracket. The winner of the upper bracket moved to the Grand Finals. The first round in the lower bracket was played as a best-of-one, with the loser being immediately eliminated. All other matches were best-of-three, with
4606-511: The content from the console release, and featuring four additional characters: Yun and Yang from Street Fighter III , as well as Evil Ryu and Oni, an alternate version of Ryu and Akuma, respectively. A new update for Street Fighter IV, Ultra Street Fighter IV , was released in 2014 as an arcade game, a DLC add-on for existing console versions of Super Street Fighter IV , and as a standalone game containing DLC from previous iterations. Along with various tweaks and additional modes and stages,
4704-546: The decade" while promoting Super Street Fighter II . Daigo Umehara , known as "Daigo" or "The Beast" in the West and "Umehara" or "Ume" in Japan, is the world's most famous Street Fighter player and is often considered its greatest. He currently holds a world record of "the most successful player in major tournaments of Street Fighter " in the Guinness World Records . " Evo Moment 37 ", also known as
4802-418: The event held the esports tournament record for the largest prize pool, which finalized at US$ 24,787,916. A four-part episodic documentary television series produced by TBS regarding the event aired throughout August 2017. Known as Eleague : Road To The International Dota 2 Championships , the documentary followed compLexity Gaming 's attempt to qualify for the tournament. Other events took place during
4900-890: The eventual champions and received $ 25,000. On February 17, 2020, Joonas "jNSzki" Savolainen came out of retirement after leaving G2 and later the Mousesports /GiFu roster to replace Elemzje. On May 5, the team disbanded On May 13, Team Secret signed Team OrgLess after they qualified for the European League, ahead of their debut. Latest roster transaction: 6 June 2021. Team Secret League of Legends division acquired spot from Lowkey Esports and has been competing in Vietnam Championship Series since 2020. Võ "Naul" Thành Luân Nguyễn "Zohas" Trung Thắng Roster updated 18 January 2024. Roster updated 22 January 2021. Team Secret entered
4998-521: The faster gameplay of Hyper Fighting , a new type of special techniques known as "Super Combos" and a hidden character, Akuma . Numerous home versions of the Street Fighter II games have been produced following the release of the original game. The original version, Street Fighter II: The World Warrior , was ported to the Super NES in 1992, which is Capcom's best-selling game as of 2008 . A Japanese-only port of Street Fighter II Dash for
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#17327870404385096-591: The first round of the Kiev Major by tournament underdogs SG-esports, Team Secret replaced pieliedie with Yazied "YapzOr" Jaradat, moving Puppey to the 5 position. While their results were somewhat improved, it did not make up for a lackluster season, leading to Team Secret not being directly invited to The International 2017 . After making it through the European qualifiers, Team Secret was knocked out of The International 2017 by eventual champion Team Liquid in
5194-436: The game itself. A live 1v1 demonstration was also played during the event between professional Dota 2 player Dendi and an OpenAI -curated machine learned bot , to which Dendi lost. The grand finals of the tournament between Team Liquid and Newbee were featured in an episode of Valve's Dota documentary series, True Sight . The matches were broadcast through the game's built-in spectating client, as well as through
5292-551: The game was backported to the arcades in Japan as Street Fighter Zero 3 Upper . A version of Upper , titled Alpha 3 outside Japan, was released for the Game Boy Advance and added three characters from Capcom vs. SNK 2 . A PlayStation Portable version, Alpha 3 MAX , or Zero 3 Double Upper in Japan, contains the added characters from the GBA version and Ingrid from Capcom Fighting Jam . In 1996, Capcom co-produced
5390-426: The game. Known as the "Compendium", 25% of revenue made by it was sent directly towards the tournament's prize pool. At the time of event, Dota 2 featured 113 playable characters, called "heroes". Prior to each game in the tournament, a pre-game draft was held between the opposing team captains to select which heroes their teams will use, going back and forth until each side has selected and banned five heroes. Once
5488-467: The gameplay, adding two new characters, and returning Akuma as a playable character. Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike , released in 1999 as the third and last iteration of Street Fighter III , brings back Chun-Li and adds four new characters. The first two Street Fighter III games were ported to the Dreamcast as a compilation, Double Impact . Ports of 3rd Strike were released for the Dreamcast as
5586-428: The last two Internationals, was not invited. Instead, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament host Alex "Machine" Richardson and StarCraft personality Sean "Day[9]" Plott replaced him. The group stage events were round robin matches played before the main event that, based on results, either placed teams into the upper or lower bracket. The lowest placed team from both groups were eliminated from
5684-536: The main event at the KeyArena in Seattle in August. The Grand Finals took place between the European-based Team Liquid and Chinese-based Newbee , with Liquid defeating Newbee 3–0 in a best-of-five series , winning nearly $ 11 million in prize money. As with every International from 2013 onwards, the prize pool was crowdfunded by the Dota 2 community via its battle pass feature, with
5782-664: The new season of Dota Pro Circuit 2018-2019 , the team underwent another roster shuffle, with Ace and Fata leaving the team, replacing them would be Michał "Nisha" Jankowski and Ludwig "zai" Wåhlberg. At the KL Major, Team Secret were hailed as one of the favorites. After topping their group easily, the team went on to tear through the Upper Bracket, only dropping one game to Virtus.pro in the Upper Bracket Finals. Unfortunately for Secret, VP took their revenge in
5880-497: The now-defunct GameTek . In 1997, Capcom released the Street Fighter Collection for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn . This is a compilation including Super and Super Turbo , and Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold ( Street Fighter Zero 2′ (Dash) in Japan), an updated version of Street Fighter Alpha 2 . It was followed by Street Fighter Collection 2 ( Capcom Generation Vol. 5 in Japan), also released for
5978-463: The opponents' base, fighting any enemy hero, creep, or structure they encounter. If a hero character is killed, that character will respawn back at their base after a delay period, which gets progressively longer the farther into the match. As with previous years of the tournament, a corresponding battle pass for Dota 2 was released in May 2017, allowing the prize pool to be crowdfunded by players of
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#17327870404386076-416: The option of which side of the map to defend. The tournament initially began with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), China, Europe, North America, South America, and Southeast Asia online regional qualifiers in June 2017. Following that, two separate best-of-two round robin groups consisting of nine teams each were played from August 2–5, with lowest placed team from both being eliminated from
6174-500: The original Street Fighter and Final Fight , such as Adon and Guy . Street Fighter Alpha 2 has all-new stages, music, and endings for some characters, some of which overlap with those from the original Alpha . It also discards the Chain Combo system in favor of Custom Combos, which requires a portion of the Super Combo meter to be used. Alpha 2 retains all 13 characters from the original and adds five new characters to
6272-551: The original arcade version gameplay so that players can choose between the two. Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers is an updated version of 1994's Super Street Fighter II Turbo for the Nintendo Switch . The game features two graphical styles—classic pixel art and updated high-definition art. New gameplay mechanics and modes have been introduced and tweaks have been made to the game's balance . It has two more characters, who are classic alternate evil form of
6370-401: The original, a second player can join anytime for competitive matches. The original Japanese version of Street Fighter II introduced an African-American boxer boss character that shared the physical characteristics and likeness of real-life boxer Mike Tyson . (The character was originally named "Mike Bison". To avoid a likeness infringement lawsuit , Capcom rotated the names of three of
6468-547: The playable roster to 28 characters. Console versions of the three games, including the original Alpha 2 and Alpha 2 Gold , were released for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn, although versions of specific games in the series were also released for the Game Boy Color , Super NES, Dreamcast, and Windows. The home console versions of Alpha 3 further expands the character roster by adding the remaining "New Challengers" from Super Street Fighter II . The Dreamcast version of
6566-535: The previous game. Some of the Arika-owned characters from the series were later featured in other games developed by the company. The Namco -distributed arcade game Fighting Layer featured Allen Snider and Blair Dame from the original EX , while Skullomania would reappear in the PlayStation game Fighter Maker . A spiritual successor to Fighting Layer , featuring an initial roster consisting entirely of Arika-owned EX characters, Fighting EX Layer ,
6664-410: The qualifier stage respectively by the esports organizations HellRaisers and Cloud9 . Valve tournament rules allow for players to freely play for another organization without restrictions, as long as the rosters remain the same. As with previous years of the event, Seattle KCPQ reporter Kaci Aitchison reprised her role as co-host and interviewer. However, Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner , the desk host of
6762-511: The recent lower bracket winners Team Liquid in the Grand Finals in a best of five match for US$ 1.1 million. Team Secret won the match with a 3–1 score. On March 22, Team Secret announced that Artour "Arteezy" Babaev and Saahil "Universe" Arora would be replacing w33 and MiSeRy. On June 6, after placing last at the Manila Major , Team Secret announced that Kanishka "BuLba" Sosale would be replacing Saahil "UNiVeRsE" Arora. On August 27,
6860-469: The release of Street Fighter III 3rd Strike for the arcades, Capcom unveiled Street Fighter IV at a Capcom Gamers Day event in London. Conceived as a direct sequel to the early Street Fighter II games (particularly Super Street Fighter II Turbo ), Street Fighter IV features the return of the original twelve world warriors and recurring hidden character Akuma, along with four new characters (as well as
6958-493: The release of the first Street Fighter game in August 1987, the series had total home software sales of 35 million units by 2014, and 46 million units as of 2021 , in addition to arcade cabinet sales of over 500,000 units generating more than $ 1 billion in revenue in video game arcade cabinet sales, qualifying it for the list of best-selling video game franchises . Street Fighter has remained Capcom's second-biggest franchise behind Resident Evil as of 2014 , and
7056-530: The roster along with hidden versions of returning characters. Alpha 2 is followed by a slightly enhanced arcade release, Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha, released in Japan and Brazil, ported to home consoles as Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold and Zero 2′ Dash in Japan. The third and final Alpha game, Street Fighter Alpha 3 , was released in 1998 following the release of the original Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact and Street Fighter EX . Alpha 3 introduces three selectable fighting styles and further expands
7154-691: The roster of Erased; Roberto Lima "Sad" de Souza, Matheus "math" Gonçalves, Olímpio "nxghtt" Torres. September 19 math was removed from the starting lineup. October 8 Danilo "kv1" Michelini joined. Bruno "BRUNOVISQUII" Roschel Roster updated 25 February 2021. On January 8, 2024, Team Secret announced the formation of a new Counter-Strike 2 roster including Danish players Mikkel "Maze" Sparvath and Sebastian "Tauson" Tauson Lindelof, Serbian player Vladan "Kind0" Mandic, Israeli player Guy "anarkez" Trachtman and Polish player Paweł "innocent" Mocek. Benjamin "cube" Stabell Latest roster transaction: 8 January 2024. Street Fighter Street Fighter
7252-467: The round. The game is played from a top-down perspective, and the player sees a segment of the game's map near their character as well as mini-map that shows their allies, with any enemies revealed outside the fog of war . The game's map has three symmetric "lanes" between each base, with a number of automated defense towers protecting each side. Periodically, the team's base will spawn an army of weak non-playable "creeps" that will march down one lane towards
7350-509: The start of third and series-deciding match in a desperate attempt to save the series. However, it was in vain as Liquid had early game success and swiftly advanced towards Newbee's base, overwhelming them and winning the series and therefore the tournament, making Team Liquid the first team to have shut out the opposing team in an International grand finals. (Note: Prizes are in USD) Until being surpassed by The International 2018 ,
7448-462: The team announced a completely new roster, featuring Asian players Pyo "MP" No-a, Yeik "MidOne" Nai Zheng and Lee "Forev" Sang-don in addition to the already established European support duo Johan "pieliedie" Åström and Clement "Puppey" Ivanov . On November 6, Forev's departure was announced. His replacement for the season would be German offlaner Maurice "KheZu" Gutmann. After achieving no major tournament victories by May 2017, notably knocked out in
7546-513: The team. Arteezy went back to his previous team Evil Geniuses and KuroKy formed what would soon be the newest iteration of Team Liquid . On August 15, the team announced that Zai would take the next year off and finish school. As a result, s4 also decided to leave and rejoin his previous team Alliance . For the Frankfurt Major , the team's new roster was announced and consisted of EternalEnVy, w33, Misery, Puppey, and pieliedie. During
7644-682: The three games in Street Fighter Collection 2 were included in Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 1 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox. A version of Super Turbo , along with the original Street Fighter , was later included in the 2007 compilation Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 , also released for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. Street Fighter II and Super Street Fighter II are also available as downloadable games for select cellular phone services. An updated version of Super Street Fighter II Turbo came to
7742-477: The total being one of the largest in esports history at nearly US$ 25 million. Other relevant events took place during the tournament, including a cosplay competition and submitted short film contest with their own independent prize pools. In addition, the first demonstration game of what later became the OpenAI Five , bots trained to defeat high-skill players of the game entirely through machine learning ,
7840-416: The tournament, including an all-star match , featuring players voted in by battle pass owners, a fan cosplay competition, and a Dota 2 themed short film contest, with all of them having their own independent prize pools. Also during the event, Valve revealed a teaser trailer for Artifact , a Valve-developed digital collectible card game based on Dota 2 , as well as two new playable characters for
7938-476: The tournament. Every other round of both brackets was played in a best-of-three series, with the exception being the Grand Finals, which was played between the winners of the upper and lower brackets in a best-of-five series. Six teams were invited directly to the event, with an additional twelve qualifying teams participating. New to the event from previous years was the expansion from 16 to 18 total teams, as well as establishment of new qualifying regions;
8036-410: The update adds five additional characters, consisting of Rolento , Elena , Poison and Hugo , who previously appeared in Street Fighter x Tekken , plus an all-new character, Decapre. The game arrived on next generation consoles with a PlayStation 4 version releasing in 2015. Street Fighter V was released exclusive to the PlayStation 4 and PC, enabling cross platform gameplay, in 2016 with
8134-525: The various bootleg editions of the game. Hyper Fighting offers faster gameplay than its predecessors, different character costume colors and new special techniques. Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers , the third revision, gives the game a complete graphical and musical overhaul and introduces four new playable characters. It is also the first game for Capcom's CP System II arcade hardware. The fifth arcade installment, Super Street Fighter II Turbo , Super Street Fighter II X in Japan, brings back
8232-465: The very first place in it with Puppey being voted as the MDL MVP. They played 8 games on the last day MDL Disneyland Paris Major winning through the upper bracket and coming to win the finals in style. Zai was a major factor in making space with his Mars for Nisha and MidOne. Nisha had the most last hits at 35 min in the tournament. Team Secret would go on to win the finals in a very convincing manner with
8330-454: The winner of the lower bracket advancing to the Grand Finals, which was a best-of-five series, to face the winner of the upper bracket. The grand finals took place between Team Liquid , who advanced from the lower bracket, and Newbee, who advanced from the upper bracket, with Liquid defeating Newbee 3–0 in a best-of-five series. After losing the first two games in similar fashion, Newbee then attempted to adjust their drafting strategy at
8428-614: The world championship tournament of Valorant for the inaugural 2021 competitive season, and finished in the Top 8 of the tournament, falling to eventual champions Team Acend in the quarterfinals. In 2023, the team has been selected by Riot Games as one of the partner franchise teams for the International Leagues of the VCT Pacific. Tim "Dummy" Olson Roster updated 5 November 2023. On February 25 Team Secret acquired
8526-688: Was ported to many popular home computers, including MS-DOS . In 1987, it was released on the TurboGrafx-CD console as Fighting Street . In 2005, Street Fighter was included in Capcom Classics Collection: Remixed for the PlayStation Portable and Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox . It is in the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection for eighth-generation consoles and Windows . Street Fighter II
8624-458: Was also intended to have downloadable content, but the content was disrupted due to an earthquake and tsunami in Tōhoku and was released along with additional new content in a separate game, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 . Street Fighter X Tekken was released in 2012, featuring over 50 playable characters from both the Street Fighter and Tekken fighting franchises. Street Fighter X Tekken
8722-644: Was developed by Capcom, and Namco developed a crossover game, Tekken X Street Fighter . Akuma has a guest appearance in Tekken 7 . Street Fighter X Mega Man is an all-star platform game that was originally supposed to be a fan game developed by Seow Zong Hui, but Capcom distributed and released the game for the PC in 2012. Based on the classic Mega Man games, the free game has players control Mega Man as he battles against various Street Fighter characters and obtain their techniques. Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
8820-410: Was played live during the event. Dota 2 is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game developed by Valve , which released in 2013. In it, two teams of five players compete by selecting pre-designed in-game hero characters, each with a variety of innate skills and deploy-able powers, and cooperating together to destroy the base of the other team before their own base is destroyed as to win
8918-506: Was produced from the Dreamcast-based NAOMI hardware. Due to Marvel Licencing issues, Marvel vs. Capcom 2 was unavailable for digital purchase until the release of Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics in 2024. Capcom produced a series of similar crossover fighting games with rival fighting game developer SNK Playmore . They include Capcom vs. SNK in 2000, which features characters primarily from
9016-471: Was released as extra in-game downloadable content in 2015 and includes Ryu and Suzaku Castle, a stage inspired by Ryu's stage from the Street Fighter II series. Mega Man and Ryu returned in the following game, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate , with Ken as the latter's Echo Fighter. Street Fighter III: New Generation debuted in the arcades on the CPS3 hardware in 1997. Street Fighter III discards most of
9114-468: Was released for the PlayStation during the same year. Street fighter EX Plus Alpha was popular streamer, LowTierGod’s first game he played. A sequel was released in 1998, Street Fighter EX2 , developed for the ZN-2 hardware. Custom combos were reintroduced and the character roster was expanded upon even further. In 1999, EX2 also received an upgraded version, Street Fighter EX2 Plus . A port of EX2 Plus
9212-469: Was released for the PlayStation in 1999. The third game in the series, Street Fighter EX3 , was released as a launch game for the PlayStation 2 in 2000. This game included a tag team system, a mode that let a single player fight up to three opponents simultaneously, and another mode that allowed players to give the new character, Ace, a selection of special and super moves after purchasing them with experience points. The cast included many characters from
9310-422: Was released in 1991 following an unsuccessful attempt to brand the 1989 beat 'em up game Final Fight as the Street Fighter sequel. It is one of the earliest arcade games for Capcom's CP System hardware and was designed by Akira Nishitani and Akira Yasuda , who also made Final Fight and Forgotten Worlds . Street Fighter II: The World Warrior is the first one-on-one fighting game to give players
9408-464: Was released in 2010 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 at a discounted price point. A portable conversion of Super Street Fighter IV for the Nintendo 3DS , Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition , features 3D stereoscopic technology, multiplayer, and all 35 characters from the original Super Street Fighter IV release. Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition was released in 2010, containing all of
9506-399: Was released in 2017. Infinite features two-on-two fights, as opposed to the three-on-three format used in its preceding games. The series' traditional character assists have been removed; instead, the game incorporates a tag-based combo system, which allows players to instantly switch between their two characters to form continuous combos. It introduces a new gameplay mechanic in the form of
9604-458: Was released in 2018. Capcom produced fighting games involving licensed characters from other companies and their own properties. In 1994, Capcom released the Marvel -licensed fighting game X-Men: Children of the Atom , which features Akuma from Super Turbo as a hidden character. It was followed by Marvel Super Heroes in 1995, which features Anita from Night Warriors . Capcom released
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