Well-known Street Fighter player Yusuke Momochi lost around $ 46,000 after winning a tournament during the Tokyo Game Show 2019 due to incompatibility with Japanese eSports laws. Pro Tour Asia Premier, a Street Fighter V tournament, in which more than 1,000 players participated.

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Momochi, having won each of his battles, won the first prize, consisting of 5 million yen ($ 46,000). However, Japanese laws only allowed him to take a house 100.00 yen, or what is the same, 900 dollars. All this is due to the Asian country created an organization that issues licenses for professional electronic sports players, which gives permission to take all the monetary prizes won. However, Momochi has been at odds with this measure since its implementation, since it is unfair that it is a license that decides who is a professional player and who is not.

Therefore, the player gave up one of the 22 licenses that were handed over last year as an act of protest, which has led him to lose most of his prize in this tournament and in many others in which he has participated. Terrible case, should not be so, a law that prevents someone's achievements are not benefited, just for not having a license as such, that stupidity. I don't agree with that either.

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