EWC Street Fighter 6 Preview – Format, Streams, and More

The EWC Street Fighter 6 tournament is going to start very soon! Later this week, the Esports World Cup will be host to this major SF tournament. This event gets a player their slot at the Capcom Cup, along with a $1,000,000 prize pool of its own. What can we expect at the EWC Street Fighter 6 tournament?

EWC Street Fighter 6 Format

The Esports World Cup is home to tons of the biggest fighting games, we’ve already seen a major event for Tekken. But they do end up taking a bit of a different format. It’s an invitational, so there’s no big pools stage. There are multiple rounds though. It begins with a Group stage, in a double elimination bracket. There are 12 groups of four players, winners go forward to the third phase. Runners up get a second shot at the next stage.

Stage 2 is round-robin. There are only four groups this time with three players. Winners again go forward, for everyone else it’s the end of the round. The third and final phase is a single elimination bracket. Played as first to five. At the end of the bracket, we’ll find our winner for EWC SF 6.

EWC Street Fighter 6 Players

As an invitational tournament, we’re expecting only the top Street Fighter players at the Esports World Cup. There are major competitors from across fighting game esports showing up. Including Kakeru, the and MenaRD. It’ll be an early look at how the top players are performing ahead of the Capcom Cup. These are the groups and players taking part:

Group A

• Latif
• NoahTheProdigy
• NARIKUN
• AngryBird

Group B

• Riddles
• MenaRD
• Momochi
• Kawano

Group C

• EndingWalker
• Shuto
• Dual Kevin
• BigBird

Group D

• Matsu56
• Juicyjoe
• Zhen
• Psycho

Group E

• Tachikawa
• Kakeru
• Xiaohai
• Punk

Group F

• Jr
• Torimeshi
• Moke
• Gachikun

Group G

• Hikaru
• Tokido
• Nephew
• YHC-Mochi

Group H

• GO1
• Blaz
• Crime
• Phenom

Group I

• Hurricane
• NL
• Itabashi Zangief
• Shine

Group J

• Kintyo
• Leshar
• Higuchi
• Veggey

Group K

• DCQ
• Ryukichi
• Kusanagi
• Fuudo

Group L

• vWsym
• Micky
• Bonchan
• Pugera

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— Riddles (@RiddlesMK) August 16, 2025

EWC Street Fighter 6 Prize Pool

For the EWC SF 6 esports tournament, we’re getting one of the biggest prize pools of the year. There’s a total of $1,00,000 on offer. The winner will also qualify to the Capcom Cup, which is one of the biggest prizes at stake here. This is how the prize pool breaks down at the tournament:

• 1st – $250,000
• 2nd – $130,000
• 3rd – $75,000
• 4th – $45,000
• 5-8th – $32,500
• 9-16th – $22,500
• 17-20th – $15,000
• 21-24th – $10,000
• 25-36th – $5,000
• 37-48th – $2,500

How to Watch

How can you follow along with the EWC Street Fighter 6 tournament? It’s going to be broadcast the same as every other Esports World Cup event. This one will be on the Esports World Cup Twitch streams. Taking place over August 20th to 23rd.