Capcom Cup's growing prize pool has reached nearly $350,000

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Capcom Cup's growing prize pool has reached nearly $350,000
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Street Fighter V players have purchased e**ugh DLC to bump up the 2016 Capcom Cup's prize pool by almost $100,000, making this year's tournament the most lucrative one yet.

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The Capcom Cup, the culmination of the 2016 Street Fighter V Capcom Pro Tour, has reached a prize pool just over $342,000, Capcom an**unced on the PlayStation Blog (http://blog.us.playstation.com/2016/09/19/capcom-cup-2016-prize-pool-increased-new-sfv-content-detailed/?adbsc=social_20160919_66062646&adbid=777900547714146306&adbpl=tw&adbpr=10671602) Monday. Capcom put up a baseline of $250,000 and took a page out of Valve's playbook (http://mashable.com/2016/07/27/dota-2-prize-pool-record/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), offering DLC to fans and putting some of the proceeds toward tournament winnings.

The Capcom Pro Tour DLC includes a stage, Ring of Destiny, player titles, a themed color option for all characters, and costumes for Chun-Li, Cammy and Necalli. Necalli's costume was chosen by the 2015 Capcom Cup winner Kazu**ko, and this year's winner will be able to choose a character to receive a new costume too. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/19/capcom-cup-2016-prize-pool/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)

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