The tournament was won by Benjamin "Problem X" Simon, scoring a 3–2 win over Olivier "Luffy" Hay and defeating Arman "Phenom" Hanjani 3–1 in the grand finals.
[4] The tournament was won by Tokido, playing using the character Akuma, defeating Li-Wei "Oil King" Lin in the grand finals.
While DidimoKOF only finished ninth on the Latin American leaderboards, he was added to top 8 bracket (along with eighth-ranked Moisés "Moise" Berrios) when the region's two top-seed players both withdrew.
Saul "MenaRD" Mena and Thomas "Brolynho" Proença had already secured a Capcom Cup placing and had little to gain by competing in a tournament with no prize pot.
[6] The North American finals were hosted by Red Bull GmbH and held on November 18–19 at The Castle at Park Plaza in Boston, Massachusetts.
The Cool Kid93 was defeated by Victor "Punk" Woodley in the winner's quarterfinals and knocked out by Gustavo "801 Strider" Romero in the loser's bracket.
[9][10] Capcom teased the inclusion of the character Sakura in Street Fighter V by releasing cherry blossom-like confetti during the closing ceremony of Red Bull Battlegrounds.