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The Capcom Pro Tour 2020 season has already seen faced big changes with cancelling their first three events due to coronavirus worries, and now some apparently new restrictions have been added to the mix.

As of the end of February, Capcom updated their CPT rule set to v 24.1 which introduces an additional section that states well over a dozen different Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition costumes and specific colors are banned from use.

There are 13 entire costumes in total that can apparently no longer be used in online or offline CPT events including the immediate standout of the ever-popular Blanka-chan though it establishes a bit of a pattern.

Other outfits which appear as body suits over a character were also generally put on the list including Blanka's Nergigante crossover, Balrog's Gutsman, Rashid's Airman and Ryu's Mega Man looks.

A couple of different costumes which raised concerns among the playerbase have also been addressed here with Gill's distracting Pyron outfit and Urien's Halloween look which turns him into his brother to try and lessen some confusion I'm sure.

"From a standpoint of fairness, the following costumes are prohibited from use in the Tournament" - Capcom Pro Tour 2020 Rules Exhibit C

Beyond that though there's also a handful seemingly outside of that criteria which still got the boot including Necalli's Wolfman Halloween outfit along with Urien's Wesker attire.

Some saw specific color choices removed as options as well for what seems like a couple of identifiable reasons. Mecha Zangief and Halloween Abigail color two both can no longer be used likely because thtey are an overwhelming majority red.

Gill's looks which paint him one solid color and every EX9 and 10 shiny variants are on the list too where it seems as though Capcom is attempting to make sure character models and body parts are not obstructed or obscured in darkness.

Kanzuki Beach, The Grid, Flamenco Tavern, Skies of Honor, Field of Fate and Mysterious Cove stages are also banned from tournament play.

These changes also come with an updated Capcom Pro Tour event schedule which is now slated to kick off in April with Armor Break instead of the cancelled Brussels Challenge.

Yoshinori Ono took to social media earlier to address the status of the pro tour in 2020 where SF5's producer said they weren't sure about what to do with the schedule yet and that they're considering various ideas.

You can take a look at all of the banned CPT costumes below along with the updated rules on the tour's website.



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