SonicSol Gets Banned From Twitch Over Capcom Cap Co-streaming Rules

Locking the finale of the biggest Street Fighter 6 tournament behind a paid subscription got some people resorting to desperate measures. Discord screen sharing, pirate streams on platforms people never even heard before, and some roundabout ways to get at least a little snippet of the action.

However, the bootleg award goes out to SonicSol, handed over officialy by Twitch in the form of a two day ban.

On his stream, he pulled out the old school tech of putting on the extra large shades and letting the PPV action reflect off of them. 

This is arguably one of the worst ways to try and watch something, but it hasn't stopped countless people who have done so in the past for various pay-per-view sports streams, either as a joke, a protest, or a genuine attempt to share the broadcast with others.

More broadly, the lack of discussion, hype, or any sort of buzz around such a monumental event seems to suggest that Capcom's effort to have their cake and eat it too has not been especially successful.

We can't make any definitive conclusions without having the actual numbers for how many people purchased the tickets, but it's safe to say that most people in the FGC are not paying 10 bucks to watch a fighting game tournament, and nobody is buying the game after being inspired by the action at the tournament that they could not watch.

The company already announced the next Capcom Cup with the million USD grand prize, so there are still huge incentives to compete for the players, but the prestige of the event will never be the same if PPV is the norm going forward.