Treta (TRT) Championship, Brazil's premiere fighting game major took place on Sept 10-11, 2022 in the city of São José dos Pinhais. TRT hosted tournaments for modern titles including Mortal Kombat, KOF XV, Street Fighter V, Guilty Gear and more, but also some of the world's favorite retro games, Super Street Fighter II Turbo and Street Fighter Alpha 2.

On September 10th, 2022, oldschoolcwb ran a 38 player Street Fighter Alpha 2 tournament which gathered some of the strongest SFA2 players from Brazil's FC2 scene. Constantly in the debates of being the strongest region of the world, we now have an opportunity to see it in an offline scene. With permission from the tournament organizers, Riz0ne mirror streams the Top 8 with English commentary and gets to learn more about the Brazilian FGC.

Bracket: https://challonge.com/uqpubnjg

Original Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/oldschoolcwb

Relevant Links: https://www.twitch.tv/trtchamp https://twitter.com/TRTChamp https://twitter.com/GirimbaTV https://twitter.com/ArcademiaFliper

Capcom Fighting Collection features legends from Capcom's competitive arcade gaming history, faithfully reproduced to play just like they did back in the arcades! The games included on the collection are Darkstalkers, Night Warriors, Vampire Savior, Vampire Hunter 2, Vampire Savior 2, Red Earth, Cyberbots, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, Hyper Street Fighter II, and Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix.

On September 18th, 2022, Riz0ne hosted a series of FT5 exhibitions in Hyper Street Fighter II, Red Earth, Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix, Cyberbots, and Vampire Savior. He could not do it himself as the community's respected commentators would join in and spread the gospel of their favorite fighting games. The winner of each FT5 also participated in interviews while game codes were raffled on the stream. Plenty of lore on this one, including a chat about the scene between Riz0ne and Hagure at the end.

Just three weeks after EVO 2022, the community is ready for another Street Fighter Alpha 2 tournament.

On August 28th, Riz0ne hosted Zero 2X, an online tournament open to USA, Canada, and Mexico. There's a twist in this one as one of the world's most talented players, D44 Bas of Japan participates during his stay in New York City. 20 players sign up for this extremely stacked bracket including ChoiBoy and Calipower, arguably two of the strongest fighters to ever touch the game.

Bracket (Swiss Only): https://challonge.com/yqvqg66z

Highlight reel: https://twitter.com/superloreboys/status/1564151550091874304

1. ChoiBoy

2. Bas

3. CaliPower

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo [known as Super Puzzle Fighter II X in Japan] is an arcade puzzle game released by Capcom in 1996. In this era, Capcom not only published some of the greatest fighting games to date, but this gem (pun intended) which featured a comical look at some of our favorite characters.

On January 21st, Riz0ne hosted a tournament for this classic, but with a twist in the rules. The players can only choose Dan, who is regarded as the weakest character in the game, although he his also the strongest due to his increased attack power. 10 players signed up, competing for $100+ to determine who has the best puzzle footsies!

Riz0ne also announced the final game to be revealed for the upcoming WNF Retro tournament series.

https://challonge.com/lsr8v5y4

1. HitboxeRu

2. LtFOXAWESOME

3. ChoiBoy

Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting, the third revision of the SF2 franchise, released in December of 1992. A classic fighting game, which paved the way for its predecessors for years to come, SF2HF is still played competitively until this day while arcade aficionados are working to preserve the lore.

On November 21st, TurboAnnihilator and Riz0ne host "Rise of the Machines". For this special event, TurboAnnihilator takes Riz0ne on a journey as he goes over the history of the arcade hardware, and shows the exciting features with dipswitch settings -- including fun things stage select, CPU in bonus stages, and the earliest in-game training mode!

A CPU tournament is run to determine who is the undisputed greatest Street Fighter.

1. Ryu

2. Ken

3. Sagat / Dictator

Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact released on September 30, 1997 and was the second iteration of the SF3 series. The game lived for about 2 years before Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike would enter the scene and be one of the fan favorites until this day. SFIII: 2I was one of the most requested games to run a tournament for so Riz0ne decided to give the people what they asked for.

On September 5th, 2021 Riz0ne ran the event with commentary by Heather, FlashG and NYCFurby. Lots of tech and OG stories were shared by the bunch, as well as surprise entrants across various game specialists including SabreAZ, Hokuto, Dr Steelhammer, LordBBH and more.

After the tournament, some exhibition matches were played under widescreen mode which gives a modern perspective of this classic gem.

https://challonge.com/eoqyrr1i

1. Hokuto

2. Dr. SteelHammer

3. LordBBH

Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 released in August of 2000, featuring the first crossover between Street Fighter and King of Fighters characters. While it was fun and competitive, the game was short-lived as Capcom vs. SNK 2 would release the very next year and steal the spotlight.

21 years later, players requested a revival for this masterpiece and a tournament was run on August 15, 2021 to celebrate this beauty of a game. Riz0ne streamed this tournament, with tobemorecrazy rocking the mics and telling us the history of the game, mechanics, and match up strategies. A whopping 17 players entered this tournament, representing both coasts of the US and two representatives from Canada, respectively.

https://challonge.com/etv4kqx

1. JWonggg

2. umthrfkr

3. OCxRiDaH

Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers released in 1993, just 6 months before the final competitive version of the series, Super Street Fighter II: Turbo. Unfortunately, as a result, there is not a lot of footage out there for high level SSF2 from the 90s. Riz0ne decided to revive this classic gem with 2X in the Past! Don't be fooled though as the skill level in California was the strongest on the planet!

On 8/8/21, 8 players from USA, Canada, and Mexico respectively competed to see who could display the strongest fundamentals in a game that truly demands it. Riz0ne streamed the tournament, with commentary by Andreas aka Deep Focus (UK) and Ultracombo.

After the tournament, exhibition matches were played joining together generations of Street Fighters with SVGL legend Insomniac getting in a few games, and sharing some lore in the stream chat.

https://challonge.com/z5mll360

1. Damdai

2. Hokuto

3. Ultracombo

Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition had its arcade release in 2003, nearly a decade after Super Turbo. This game allows you to select every version of the SF2 cast starting from World Warrior to Super Turbo.

On 5/9/2021, Riz0ne streamed a rom hack [HSF2X++] which allows you to not only do mirror matches in World Warrior, but also select the boss characters as well. These characters were banned, however, and instead a fun ratio format was introduced.

Players could build a team of up to 7 points, but could not exceed 3 characters.

https://challonge.com/etqfk405

1. H-Zero

2. Hokuto

3. x64

Street Fighter II: The World Warrior released in February of 1991 and shook the world for fans and competitors alike, spawning sequels in the genre 3 decades later.

To celebrate Street Fighter II's 30th anniversary, on February 14th, 2021, Riz0ne and friends streamed a tournament for North America. Apart from magic throws and Guile handcuffs, anything goes for these 28 fierce competitors!

There will be a runback...in 2051, I guess.

https://challonge.com/xlggud42

1. RoyBisel

2. DJ_Vanilla

3. AC | Padawand

On 12/20/2020, Riz0ne ran a surprise tournament for Street Fighter II Mix, a popular romhack of SF2 known for its jank and oddities, created by Brazil's own, Zero800. Tournament was ran on the current build of 0.98c. There was also a new character reveal after the victor was decided.

https://challonge.com/3f04vqz1

https://sf2mix.github.io/

1. Damdai

2. NerdJosh

3. Comeback386