Property manager and granite shop owner Lap Chi Duong organizes the Canada Cup fighting game event once a year.
The tournament was rebranded as the Canada Cup the following year as top Street Fighter players like Daigo Umehara and Justin Wong flew in to compete in the competition.
In 2011, Duong decided to charge Twitch viewers of the tournaments $8.95 USD for commercial-free, high-definition livestreams, which became a running gag among the fighting game community.
Duong invited high-level Super Smash Bros. players Armada, Hungrybox, and Mang0 through a publicity stunt, donating a large amount of money to their Twitch streams in order to contact them.
The Canada Cup was again the final Street Fighter tournament of the Capcom Pro Tour, and became the first Premier Event in two years to have an American champion: Du "NuckleDu" Dang.
Aldape was initially eliminated from the tournament after losing during the "Battle for the Stones" qualifying round, but he reinserted himself in the competition the next day after a friend offered him her spot.
Canada Cup organizers said they were experiencing "major growing pains", and Chi Duong stated that "working in a convention space for the first year, it became quickly obvious that the trade off for a bigger production is losing the leniency you enjoy in a hotel conference setting."