What if Capcom/Sony did something where players qualified by country for a continental qualifier, then took the top placers at each continental qualifier for the Capcom Cup? I'm thinking something like Blizzard did for the World Championships of Starcraft in 2012 (before they fucked it up in 2013-14).
Capcom Cup: 7 from Asia Qualifier, 4 from NA, 3 from EU, 1 from SA, 1 from OCE
Asia Qualifier: 7 JPN, 3 CHN, 2 KOR, 2 SIN, 1 TPE, 1 HKG, 1 THA, 1 PHI
NA Qualifier: 8 USA, 4 CAN, 2 MEX, 2 Caribbean/Central America
EU Qualifier: 4 FRA, 3 GBR, 2 SWE, 2 GER, 2 NED, 1 NOR, 1 Rest of Europe, 1 Middle East/Africa
SA Qualifier: 3 BRA, 3 ARG, 2 VEN, 2 COL, 2 PER, 2 CHI, 1 BOL, 1 ECU, 1 URU, 1 PAR
OCE Qualifier: 6 AUS, 2 NZL
Obviously this would cost a lot of money to put on invitational qualifiers in each continent, so it almost certainly won't happen. But it's fun to speculate, and also I really don't want to have to do laundry right now.