Ranking Events +- from last year to this year (including online)
Europe: -2 (0 w/online events factored in)
NA: -5 (-1 w/online events)
Asia: -9 (-5 w/online events)
LA: -4 (0 w/online events)
Premier events +- (excluding regional finals and EVO)
Europe: 0
NA: +2
Asia: +2
LA: 0
So if we include online ranking events, there are just 2 less events throughout the year in the CPT. I thought Capcom was going to trim down the CPT a little more than this. Well they did for offline events, but the online events doubled which negated that decrease in offline events. This is without taking into account NWM not being in CPT and maybe another event as it seems Capcom might have messed up.
NA players have no excuse to not get in the CPT. The region gained 2 more premier events, with only 1 less ranking event. Plus they have the CPT last chance qualifier and 10 LA ranking events which are cheap and easy to get to.