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While VF5US (VFeS) will not be at EV0 Japan 2024, Virtua Fighter 3 Team Battle will be returning to the event as a side tournament. VF3tb Organization will be running the side event with well known players, like Chibita and Ryan Hart, participating!

While Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown (aka Virtua Fighter eSports in Japan) will not be at Evo Japan, Tetsuko Yamada will be hosting a VF Party with a focus on the international VF community! The event takes place at the BARReL in Yokohama on April 29th. The event will have setups for casuals with the highlight of the event being a random 3on3 team tournament. Players representing Europe, North America, Oceania, and other parts of Asia will be in attendance.

Super Choya Cup 5 tournament began in the evening of April 6 and concluded early the following day. Organized by Ifixmachine (VFHayato) and taking place at Brooklyn Games and Arcade in New York, the community was able to contribute a prize pool of over $3000 to the top finishers! Top placement - 1st Place: Denkai (JA, SH) ; 2nd Place: Rodnutz (AK, PA) ; 3rd Place: Mold Monkey (EI) ; 4th Place: Juicebox (AK) ; 5th Place: Tricky (EI). Additional links to archive, bracket, etc. in the thread.

The Special Cup is a one day offline PS4 tournament for VF5US. 152 participants registered for the February 10, 2024 event with an additional 32 spots available on the day of the event. The day is not only focused on Ultimate Showdown, but participants and spectators can also play the recently released VF3TB online. There will be two streams for the event: 1) a course on VF3TB online; and 2) the VFeS (VF5US outside of Japan) Final Tournament for the top 8 players.

Global Showdown is an international community-organized event by Blessy (Europe), Harponeer (America), and Tetsuko Yamada (Japan) to gather VF players around the world for a 2-day event. After multiple setbacks, the event finally took place on December 9-10 at LevelTap in Liverpool, UK. On day 1, players participated in a single elimination tournament and team battle exhibition. The main event, a double elimination tournament, took place on day 2, with Shiwa winning it all!

Two content creators within the fighting game community, Curiousjoi and Maximilian, received an envelope from SEGA with this message: "New Era New Energy Make sure to tune in to The Game Awards December 7th"

Summer Jam 2023 took place In the greater Philadelphia region (Cherry Hii, New Jersey) on September 1st to 3rd. Taking 1st place is VFnumbers (LE) with KDQ players Assassin (BR) and Bushido (TA) taking 2nd and 3rd place respectively. No stream was available, but matches from the tourney were recorded. Will post in thread when available online.

The EVO Community Showcase tournament for VF5US was held on August 4th. Top 3 Results: 1) Kurita (TA); 2) GentlemanThief (JN); 3) Phoxx (BL). Kurita lost to the 2022 defending champion GentlemanThief in the Winners Final, but was able to reset the tournament in the Grand Finals and defeat GentlemanThief. Links to archive of the tournament within this thread - Akai

VFR Tokyo Bay Area Cup is a monthly 3on3 Team Tournament using the Final Showdown arcade cabinet. In the 7th volume, on July 30th, Tetsuko no Heya Team - Homestay Akira (AK), Babukichi (AK), YOU (SA) - wins. They are the third team to have won a Tokyo Bay Area Cup monthy in 2023. They trailed behind Team Jump Kingdom and Team Shibuya. Both those teams having won three times each. Next monthly, Volume 8, takes place on August 27th.

Tokai Cup 10 is the first 5on5 team battle for the new VFR season. These 5on5 team tournaments give one player on the victorious team seeding rights for the next Beat-Tribe Cup. The Tokai Cup is held at the Tomei Bowl within the Nagoya region. The central location of the venue, is covenient for both players from eastern and western Japan to converge. Tokai Cup 10 will take place on July 16, 2023, 12 pm Japan time.