Congrats Fuudo. VF players should be proud. hopefully people will check his back ground and see the man is a legend in VF. Maybe it can open some eyes to the posibility of people wanting to play VF because of him.

Man! Great job bro! I have to get the videos to Evo 2011
I only saw half of the videos

Haha nice one, good on Fuudo!

I just watched the grand final and Fuudo dominated him! That was a very convincing victory.

Does anyone know if Gamerbee was in this tournament?

So this could be a good thing and a bad thing. Do we really want to see world class Virtua Fighter 5 tournament players crossing over and dominating the Street Fighter and Tekken tournaments at Evo or do we want to see Virtua Fighter 5 Showdown on Playstation3 at Evo 2012 tournament? I am very happy for Fuudo and our Virtua Fighter community today but at the same time I am sad Fuudo needed to play a street fighter game to get recognition at EVO = (

Excellent write up Myke! Word for word you hit everything right on the money and including his WCG 2009 quote was priceless!

SRK needs to front page your write up because I can't imagine anyone there doing a better job putting some words together that best describe the mindset of Fuudo and introduce him to the US Street Fighter community. Hehehe I'm sure a lot of people will be shocked when they find out he is Japan's best overall VF player.

Greatest moral victory for VF indeed...........

I totally agree with Fuudo on the SF thing, especially SF4. At the highest level, it's all about option selects and safe jumps after every untechable knockdown (and also option selects after poking/footsies) because they are so powerful. With VF it's all about making pure reads against people's wakeup, and the new throw system is now 100% yomi unlike the previous one.

It's weird seeing Fuudo getting recognition at Evolution for SF instead of VF, but that tells you about the state of VF outside of Japan right now. Fighting games are more popular than they used to be, and people are hoping that sega will try to get in on the action, but as usual we get nothing.

I wonder if this means Fuudo would be willing to travel to more international AE venues. Prefably the ones I'm in? Prefably Summer jam, currently the best throwdown on the EC? Maybe he'd be interested in playing VF with us? Damn I kinda wish I went.

What a great outcome for the Evo tourney. A VF legend Fuudo takes it. There was someone from my state that took 9th Infested 801 his main is Abel but he also plays Makoto and Yun.

Great stuff! I was hoping to see this here and checked in on the site again today to suggest it... good job Mike.

I was cheering for Poongko at EVO except for when he came up against Fuudo - the VF pride took precedence.

It was generally very well noted by Seth Killian on commentary that the VF master Fuudo has shown the world his skills in SF also.

The story is a great one to show skills in multiple fighters is a benefit and we see some of the sharpest players come from the VF scene in Japan.

VF Exhibition at EVO next year?

it was a good day

the end is just nuts, fuudo read latif VF style

WTF that was my place! When the hell did you record this??????

Lol you guys were glued to the screen so I recorded this bit hehe

I'd been trying so hard not to have the results spoiled. Good job vfdc for having it on the front page. Saying 'Spoiler Alert' doesn't exactly help when the spoiler's on the same line, right next to a picture of the spoiler ffs.

Well, in all fairness, VFDC posted the news on the following day (And we are now two days after Evo).

For added entertainment, here is the rematch. Latif and Fuudo are playing first to 4 here. I won't spoil the results. Entertaining match, though I miss the crowd noise and atmosphere of the Finals.

Japanese players watching Poongku vs. Fuudo at the Gods Garden Evo2k11 Party