[2] NorCal Regionals 2016 was held in the Capital Plaza Inn in Sacramento, California, and had a prize pool of over $25,000 USD, $15,000 of which was sponsored by Capcom.
A week before NCR, Capcom took down the Street Fighter V servers for seven hours, possibly to prepare the game for the March update.
Chung-gon "Poongko" Lee and Ryan "Filipino Champ" Ramirez announced that they would register at the door, and the winner of the Pool of Death elimination rounds would match off against the winner of Pool 15, which included Brentt "Brenttiscool" Franks, Ryan "Gootecks" Gutierrez, and Final Round 19 champion Seon-woo "Infiltration" Lee.
[6] Other high-level participants at NCR 2016 included Eduardo "PR Balrog" Perez and Anton "Filipinoman" Herrera in Pool 5, two of the three highest-placing American players at EVO 2015.
Ricki Ortiz also made it out of the Pool of Death to enter the Top 8, defeating former Evo champion Kun Xian Ho while doing so.