It’s week nine of the STREET FIGHTER LEAGUE: Pro-US 2019 competition and each team is fighting hard for the coveted top spots before the mid-season finals to be held at CEO on June 28th. This week’s team battle match-ups were INFERNO versus SPIRIT, GALE versus PSYCHO and STORM facing off against FROST. Here’s a recap of this week’s episode!
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TEAM INFERNO DEFEATS TEAM SPIRIT 3-2
Result from Battle in Week 4: INFERNO defeats SPIRIT 3-2, character bans: Rashid and Menat
Character Bans: Rashid and Menat
Punk’s Team INFERNO took its second loss of the season last week against Team STORM and dropped to 2nd place on the standings for the first time. This week INFERNO earned another win, this time on the back of Punk’s Karin. Justin Wong’s Team SPIRIT started strong by winning the first two rounds. Brian_F defeated BrolyLegs in round one and Psycho won against JB in round two. Round 3 saw the two team captains face off in a tense Karin mirror match and Punk came out on top with a very close 2-1. Punk went on to eliminate Brian_F (2-0) and Psycho (2-0) in the final two rounds to complete the team battle win.
| Team | Player | Character | Team | Player | Character | Score | |
| SPIRIT | Brian_F | Balrog | defeated | INFERNO | BrolyLegs | Chun-Li | 2-0 |
| SPIRIT | Psycho | Necalli | defeated | INFERNO | JB | Birdie | 2-0 |
| INFERNO | Punk | Karin | defeated | SPIRIT | Justin Wong | Karin | 2-1 |
| INFERNO | Punk | Karin | defeated | SPIRIT | Brian_F | Balrog | 2-0 |
| INFERNO | Punk | Karin | defeated | SPIRIT | Psycho | Necalli | 2-0 |
TEAM GALE DEFEATS TEAM PSYCHO 3-1
Result from Battle in Week 4: GALE defeats PSYCHO 3-0, character bans: M.Bison and Ibuki
Character Bans: M.Bison and Ibuki
With Ibuki banned once again this week, Team GALE’s Shine used Juri as his secondary character. In the first round he faced Team PSYCHO’s JustAKid, resulting in an exciting Juri mirror match! The set between these two players was fast and furious with many momentum swings but JustAKid defeated Shine 2-1. That was the sole bright spot for Team PSYCHO as GALE team captain NuckleDu started a sweep in round two, defeating El Chakotay 2-0. GALE’s RobTV defeated PSYCHO team captain Toi 2-0 in round three and NuckleDu eliminated JustAKid in round four.
| Team | Player | Character | Team | Player | Character | Score | |
| PSYCHO | JustAKid | Juri | defeated | GALE | Shine | Juri | 2-1 |
| GALE | NuckleDu | Cammy | defeated | PSYCHO | El Chakotay | R.Mika | 2-0 |
| GALE | RobTV | Karin | defeated | PSYCHO | Toi | Birdie | 2-0 |
| GALE | NuckleDu | Cammy | defeated | PSYCHO | JustAKid | Juri | 2-0 |
TEAM STORM DEFEATS TEAM FROST 3-2
Result from Battle in Week 4: STORM defeats FROST 3-2, character bans: Kolin and Laura
Character Bans: Akuma and Rashid
iDom’s Team STORM is looking incredibly strong right now. Opposing teams have to choose between banning iDom’s Laura or Samurai’s Akuma and it’s not an easy one. Nephew’s Team FROST elected to ban Akuma, once again unleashing iDom’s Laura. This team battle was an intense, back and forth affair ending with a thrilling match between iDOM’s Laura and UpToSnuff’s Necalli. Team STORM took the win 3-2 and iDOM, who has struggled to win with Birdie as a secondary character, is undefeated with his Laura. Even though they came up short, Team FROST put on an impressive performance with UpToSnuff with his Necalli coming close to eliminating all of STORM.
| Team | Player | Character | Team | Player | Character | Score | |
| STORM | Classico | Urien | defeated | FROST | Dual Kevin | G | 2-0 |
| FROST | UpToSnuff | Necalli | defeated | STORM | Samurai | Sagat | 2-1 |
| STORM | iDom | Laura | defeated | FROST | Nephew | Kolin | 2-0 |
| FROST | UpToSnuff | Necalli | defeated | STORM | Clasico | Urien | 2-1 |
| STORM | iDom | Laura | defeated | FROST | UpToSnuff | Necallli | 2-1 |
TEAM STANDINGS
Team STORM remains on top of the standings this week at first place with a 6-2 score. This is Team STORM’s sixth straight win. Team INFERNO bounced back from their loss last week to keep second place after tie-breakers also with a 6-2 score. Team GALE holds third place with a score of 5-3 and FROST hold fourth place at 4-4. Team SPIRIT holds fifth place with a 2-6 score and Team PSYCHO holds 6th place with a 1-7 score.
TUNE IN NEXT WEEK!
Tune in next Thursday to watch the next exciting episode featuring the hosting talents of Rip and play-by-play commentary by Tasty Steve, Rynge and Vicious.