Spyro Speedruns Cup (2019)

The Spyro Speedruns Cup was a tournament promoted by the International Spyro Grand Prix (co-chaired by CrystalFissure and Nintendogen64). The tournament, which began in April 2019, was a 32-person single-elimination tournament.

Current Progress

 * The tournament was officially announced on March 26, 2018 by CrystalFissure and Nintendogen64.


 * Round 1 begun on April 15, 2019 and ended on May 14, 2019


 * Round 2 begun concurrently during Round 1 once enough competitors qualified around May 10, 2019, first match uploaded on May 15.
 * Round 2 lasted over three months, mostly due to waiting on video submissions and hosts being very lax about it.
 * Round 3 finally begun on August 1, 2019, with the first two matches uploaded.
 * Like Round 2, this Round has gone on for an exceptionally long time. Round 3 finally ended on October 3, 2019.
 * Round 4 began around early November 2019, with the first match uploaded on November 20.
 * The last Round 4 match was uploaded publically on January 1, 2020. According to CrystalFissure, he had the footage for some time and mistook it as footage for the Grand Final.
 * The Grand Final was done on December 12, 2019 and the video uploaded on January 1, 2020 (New Year's Day)

Single Elimination
In a divergence from the previous ISGP tournament, the Spyro Speedruns Cup is set to be a single elimination tournament. The tournament will feature 32 competitors resulting in a total of five (5) rounds. If a competitor loses a race they are eliminated from the tournament. Each round will see exponentially fewer competitors, i.e, 32 (Round 1), 16 (Round 2), 8 (Quarter Finals), 4 (Semi-Finals), 2 (Grand Final). At the end of the tournament, the sole remaining competitor will be crowned the new ISGP Champion.

Accepted Games
Despite the Spyro Speedruns Cup being a Spyro the Dragon tournament, exceptions have been made for the specific games that are allowed to be run. These games are as follows: After Ratchet5 and KingEurope1's race in the Crash Bash demo in Spyro 3, demos inside Spyro games are banned to be raced. You may however, race demos of these Spyro games listed on other sources.
 * Spyro the Dragon [NTSC-U/PAL]
 * Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage/Gateway to Glimmer [NTSC-U/PAL]
 * Spyro: Year of the Dragon [NTSC-U/PAL]
 * Spyro the Dragon [NTSC-J]
 * Spyro x Sparx: Tondemo Tours [NTSC-J]

Matches
* RaccoTacco dropped and was replaced by Xindictive.

** FrozenFrodo went inactive and was replaced by Cyreides.