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The first European qualifying event for Global Showdown has been announced. This event will be the first of four events to enable participants to qualify for the offline invitational event, VF Global Showdown, happening in Scotland during Quarter 4 2022. The event is being organised by Blessy, NYCFurby and VFHarpooneer.

Which characters are being played the most? How many people are playing the game online? Those are some of the questions I tried to address by collecting and summarizing data from the in-game PSN ladders. This article is divided into three parts: 1) Survey of the characters used; 2) Survey of the player accounts; and 3) Now that free PS+ period has ended, what is next?

Summary and results of events that occurred between July 27 and August 5. I will try to find a more efficient way of summarizing events as this got posted much later than I had hoped!

For veterans of the VF series this is going down memory lane; and for a new generation of VF fans, a story worth telling. This is about the Tetsujins in the 1990s before the internet and the term "esports" was commonly known. Sega officially named Shinjuku Jacky, Kashiwa Jeffry, K.K. Yukikaze, Ikebukuro Sarah, Bunbunmaru, and Kyasao as Tetsujins. The latter 3 had a roundtable discussion with Den Faminico Gamer (in Japanese) about a week after the release of Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown (Virtua Fighter esports in Japan).

You look at the online ranking ladders in Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown and majority of the top ranking players are from Japan. For those of us who do not follow the Japan VF scene, those names might lack any meaning to you. On twitter, Hima Jean started a series to introduce the people behind those names.

For players new to the Virtua Fighter series, the game may be overwhelming or feel very different from other games they have played. WireMan, who recently finished his A-to-Z of VF5US, has started a tutorial series for new players based on Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution in-game tutorials. Evolution's tutorials was the starting point for many VF fans and is still highly regarded by many.

The good news, we have lots of organized VF events. The bad news - I can't keep up with all of them! Events with results and/or videos that occurred during July 21 - July 25, 2021 are listed in chronological order.

Thanks to everyone who previously contributed to Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown Feedback thread. Much of that feedback has already been passed onto the development team, and obviously some things have already been implemented or fixed. Now, we have another opportunity to collate some feedback to the team so please review the current list and add what you think is missing! Also, SEGA have put out a survey inviting all player to submit additional feedback. There are some very specific questions about the netcode and your online experiences with lag, so be sure to tell them what you really think!

In this final episode on Harada's Bar series with VF5US/VFes producer Seiji Aoki, Aoki-san shares his thoughts on how practicing Martial Arts gives one a different outlook on life, reveals a couple of his (many) interesting hobbies, seeing ghosts and, as teased in the opening, his favourite kusoge!

In the latest video from Sega, the first part is a look back at the Pre Season Match finals with Shiro. They had a team battle exhibition with players of different skill level. And the final portion is a look at the major Summer update to Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown.