Recently, TOPANGA announced Season 6 of their League, featuring Street Fighter V Season 2. The competition will run from Friday, February 10th, to Sunday, March 5th. This competition will feature 21 of Japan’s strongest players, separated into 3 blocks of 7 competitors each, who will battle in a series of online matches, then the top 4 players will face off, until we are down to just the final 6, who will fight an offline round robin to determine the final champion of the League. The blocks, participants and characters are as follows:

Block A:

CO|Go1 (Chun-Li)

FOX|Tokido (Akuma)

ISM|Haku (M. Bison)

AW|Nemo (Urien)

MJS|Haitani (Necalli)

BST|Daigo (Ryu)

GGP|Kazunoko (Cammy)

Block B:

ORTV|Nuki (Chun-Li)

FOX|Momochi (Ken)

Galtu (M. Bison)

Inaba (Urien)

Gachikun (Rashid)

DNG|Itabashi Zangief (Zangief)

RB|Bonchan (Nash)

Block C:

TG|MOV (Chun-Li)

Eita (Ken)

HORI|Sako (Akuma)

YHC-Mochi (Dhalsim)

Storm-Kubo (Alex)

Mago (Karin)

TG|Fuudo (R. Mika)

Though this is traditionally a character-locked event, TOPANGA has said that if there is a balance patch before or during the competition, they will allow competitors to switch characters form the one they have currently registered.

In total, we have 15 of the current 23 characters seeing some action, with, most surprisingly, Chun-Li seeing the most representation with 3 players. Considering that many Chun players from Season 1 have complained that she was over-nerfed–with some even feeling she is too weak to be competitively viable in the current season–it will be interesting to see how G01, Nuki and MOV fare in the upcoming League. We also have 2 Akumas, 2 M. Bisons, 2 Uriens and 2 Kens, showing that the four of them are on solid ground so far in the sophomoric season of the game. We also have a single Alex, Necalli, Karin, Cammy, Dhalsim, Nash, Rashid, Ryu, Zangief and even a Mika. It should also be noted that there aren’t any Birdies, Vegas, F.A.N.Gs, Ibukis, Juris, Lauras, Balrogs or even Guiles in sight.

You can catch the official trailer for the event below, which features player interviews (if you can understand Japanese), and will be able to see this event in its entirety, for free, on OPENREC.TV!

Who do you believe will come out on top? Let us all know who you’re rooting for in the comments below!

Sources: TOPANGA jpn; topanga.co.jp