Capcom Cup 12 has come to its riveting conclusion. G8S|Sahara has been crowned as the champion and will be walking away with the lion’s share of the Capcom Cup 12 prize pool — $1,000,000 of $1,282,000.
Evidently, Capcom decided to “do things differently this year” and turned portions of the Capcom Cup 12 Finals into a pay-per-view model. Not surprisingly, this announcement wasn’t exactly popular with the fighting game community.
Seemingly to address the outrage, Capcom enhanced the Battle Hub of Street Fighter 6 for the purpose of allowing players to watch streams within the game itself. As such, Capcom made it possible to watch the Capcom Cup 12 Finals for free, though commentary would be excluded.
However, Capcom still warned about unauthorized co-streaming of Capcom Cup 12 through its strict guidelines. Capcom even stated that it would take actions such as issuing requests of removal against those that attempted to stream the pay-per-view elements of the event.
❌ Twitch Partner “sonic_sol” has been banned! ❌https://t.co/aPn79iFEJQ#twitch #ban #fourthban #partner #twitchpartner 🆎
— StreamerBans (@StreamerBans) March 14, 2026
It would seem that at least one fighting game community content tried to circumvent this ruling. Indeed, SonicSol was apparently quickly issued a temporary ban on Twitch for trying to stream Capcom Cup 12’s finals.
Amusingly though, SonicSol went about testing the waters of what was allowed and disallowed in a comedic and meme-worthy way. Rather than directly streaming the Capcom Cup 12 Finale broadcast, he instead streamed his own reactions as he watched the pay-per-view event unfold.
The big caveat here is that he was wearing some oversized sunglasses as he did this. Due to this, the Capcom Cup 12 pay-per-view event ended up being reflected in SonicSol’s shades.
It would seem that Capcom’s eSports department wasn’t too amused by SonicSol’s antics, however. As previously mentioned, he’s been temporarily removed from Twitch.
2 day vacation, I’ll be alright 👍 https://t.co/OH71Rz0mwp pic.twitter.com/eKTL7D0zCn
— SonicSol (@sonic_sol) March 14, 2026
SonicSol himself doesn’t seem too upset about this and was probably even expecting this outcome. He even mentions that he’ll be fine with his “two-day vacation.”
Regardless, it will be interesting to see if Capcom tries to repeat this pay-per-view model with future Capcom Cup events. This decision resulted in a lot of backlash from the community, particularly within the North American region.
We’ll just have to see how things play out next year.