Pete_LeGrant April 8, 2009 Industry, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 41 views Comments Print This Post  Email This Post

WHAT: GAMESTOP, the world’s largest video game retailer, has partnered with CAPCOM and the EVO Championship Series, the largest and longest-running fighting game tournaments in the world, to host the Street Fighter IV US National Championship Finals on Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 7p.m. The event will take place at Fort Mason in San Francisco, where 16 national finalists will battle it out for the Grand Prize before advancing to represent the US in an International Exhibition featuring champions from Japan and Korea. Street Fighter fans will be able to experience the action up close and personal as the finalists will be playing live-on stage with a giant jumbo screen to show off every bit of the battle.

To coincide with the tournament, attendees are invited to join GameStop and Capcom for the Street Fighter Fights Hunger, a charity food drive in partnershi with SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK. Guests are invited to do their part by bringing gifts of canned foods or nominal donations to be collected at the event.

WHEN:

Saturday, April

18, 2009

7-11p.m.

WHERE:

Fort

Mason Center,

San Francisco

http://www.fortmason.org/directions/index.shtml