Street Fighter Announces 30th Anniversary Tournament Series

Today, the official Street Fighter Twitter account announced the Street Fighter 30th Tournament Anniversary Tournament Series. The 30th Anniversary Tournament Series will consist of three events that will have a different retro games in the franchise as the main competitive title that players will be battling each other in. 

The first event of the tournament series will be the Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo Grand Master Challenge taking place June 29th through July 1st at CEO 2018 at Daytona Beach, Florida. Players looking to show their mastery of the retro fighting game can register for the Grand Master Challenge on CEO's official website. 

Street Fighter Alpha 3 will the game of choice for the second tournament of the 30th Anniversary tournament series, which will be the Dramatic Battle taking place at the Southern California Regionals 2018 in Ontario, California. The event will be taking place September 14th through September 16th. Players can register for the SoCal Regionals on the tournament's website. 

The 30th Anniversary Tournament Series will wrap up with the Street Fighter 3: Third Strike Fight for the Future event at the Canada Cup in Toronto, Canada. It will be taking place between October 26th and October 28th. Aspiring players can sign up for the event on the official website for the Canada Cup.

With a $7,000 prize pool up for grabs at each event, there will be a good chunk of change at stake for the competing players at each of the 30th Anniversary Tournament Series events. These players will also be looking to show that they are the very best fighters in the historic entries of the legendary fight game franchise.

Full details and rules for each tournament can be found on the tournament series' official website. 

Interested in more fighting game content? Check out our latest Low-Tier Hero article focusing on the top-heavy meta of Street Fighter V. 

(cover photo courtesy of Street Fighter)