Back in March 2022, Resident Evil and Street Fighter publisher Capcom unveiled new guidelines for its fighting game tournaments. While at a glance these guidelines seemed fairly regular, including details around gameplay needing to be featured of Capcom games and promoters being unable to sell official merchandise as if it were their own, there were some other restrictions which caused outrage in the community. Namely, Capcom was decreasing the amount of prize pool money drastically, meaning that Street Fighter tournaments could not offer anywhere near the same winnings to players as other eSports and fighting games could.