This was posted by Srider in 2004 with edits to match with this year's Beat Tribe Cup.

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Preliminary Selection (White ID): 11 teams
Seeded teams (Red ID): 10 teams
Recommended teams (Orange ID): 06 teams
General entry teams (Yellow ID): 33 teams
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Here are the explanation for each teams (total of 60 to participate in the "leagues").

Preliminary Selection Teams: These are the top 11 teams from the preliminary blocks. (It will be explained later who will play in the prelims)

Seeded Teams: These are the top ranking teams from VFR team tournaments.

Recommended Teams: These are teams recommended to play.

General Entry Teams: These are teams composed of ranked players. The points each player earned so far will be added towards his teams total. The top 38 teams with the highest total will be in this category.

Since the preliminaries have not taken place, we don't know who the 11 teams there will be. So as of now 49 teams have secured a spot in the Preliminary League. (This will be explained) All other teams not in those 49 teams (92 teams) will play in the Preliminary Selection Block.

Here is the order of events of Beat Tribe Cup
Preliminary Selection (Block) Preliminary League Wild Card Selection Playoffs Finals

1st Stage: Preliminary Selection
All the preliminary teams will be split up into 11 blocks, as evenly as possible. They will play single elimination to decide the winner of each block, of whom will advance into Preliminary League.

2nd Stage: Preliminary League
Now the 60 teams will be gradually finalized and placed into the Preliminary League (divided in 3 time sections as Preliminary selection matches are ongoing still). The League will be divided into 20 blocks of 3 teams. The "seeded" teams and "recommended" teams will be placed in separate blocks while everyone else will be randomly placed. In each block, each team plays the two other teams to determine who have the best overall results.

The 10 winners of each of the blocks with seeded teams will advance to the finals unconditionally. The 10 winners of each blocks with non-seeded teams will advance to the playoffs.

The teams that finished 2nd place in the 20 league blocks will advance to the wildcard selection stage.

The teams that finished in 3rd place are eliminated.

Thus, the preliminary league stage will effectively eliminate 20 of the 60 teams. 10 (from seeded blocks) of the 40 teams remaining will advance to the finals, another 10 (from non-seeded blocks) will advance to the playoffs, and 20 other teams (2nd place finisher) will go to the wild card selection.

3rd Stage: Wild Card Selection
The 20 teams will be split up into two groups and single elimination to leave 2 teams remaining, who will advance to the playoffs.

4th Stage: Playoffs
The 12 teams, 10 from the preliminary league plus 2 from wild card selection, will play each other by random drawing. There are no brackets in this stage. They will draw two teams to play. Winner of each match will advance. So 6 teams will be eliminated in this stage and 6 will advance to the finals.

Last Stage: Finals
The 16 teams in the finals will play single elimination tournament battle to decide the winner of 12th Beat Tribe Cup!

13+ hours of non-stop VF has ended! Links to the entire archived video is listed in order of the event below. If you just want the actual results, scroll to the very last spoiler.

<span style="font-size: 20pt">Guide to watching the videos</span>
Up to four matches are simultaneously recorded at the same time. The stream switches between them occasionally - labeled 1,2,3 etc. on the lower right side of video （to determine which match you are watching). Team names are displayed below health meter and the current member position of the 5 on 5 match is based on Kendo/Judo terms (Senpou being the first member to fight and Taishou being the last member to fight). In the videos, you will see these characters below the team name. These should somewhat helped with figuring out what you are watching and how many players are left in a match to compete. Each team match takes ~ 30 minutes or so. Note: Some of the matches are poorly labeled, so hopefully below notes will be helpful to those watching the videos.

<span style="font-size: 20pt">先鋒</span>　- senpou
<span style="font-size: 20pt">次鋒</span> - jihou
<span style="font-size: 20pt">中堅</span> - chuuken
<span style="font-size: 20pt">副将</span> - fukushou
<span style="font-size: 20pt">大将</span> - taishou

<span style="font-size: 20pt">1st Stage - Preliminary Selection</span>
12th Beat Tribe Cup - Preliminary Selection Block 1In this portion of the Beat Tribe Cup event, at least 4 preliminary selection block single elimination tournaments are being played simultaneously. There are a total of 11 blocks with ~8-9 teams in each one.

0h00m00s - The matches shown in the video is mostly from Block 1, 2nd round of team matches. Unfortunately, the archived video does not start at the very beginning of the tournament. Approximately 30 minutes of the tournament have progressed and the first round of team matches has ended (I watched the matches when it was streamed live). What you are seeing is the beginning of the second round of team matches with the first game between the Senpou’s just ended. In the spoiler are the team’s playing.

0h37m00s – The Final (3rd) Round for Preliminary Selection Block 1. Winner goes to the 2nd Stage - Preliminary League.

<span style="font-size: 20pt">2nd Stage - Preliminary League</span>
Early Section (21 teams) - 4 Seeded Team Blocks / 2 Recommended Team Blocks / 1 General Team Block
Middle Section (21 teams) – 3 Seeded Team Blocks / 2 Recommended Team Blocks / 2 General Team Block
Late Section (18 teams) – 3 Seeded Team Blocks / 2 Recommended Team Blocks / 1 General Team Block
Qualified for Preliminary League (4 teams from Block 5-8)

12th Beat Tribe Cup - Preliminary League (Early Section)
Teams Shown in this Video Section

12th Beat Tribe Cup - Preliminary League (Middle Section)
Teams Shown in this Video Section

12th Beat Tribe Cup - Preliminary League (Late Section, Part 1)
Teams Shown in this Section (2 videos)

12th Beat Tribe Cup - Preliminary League (Late Section, Part 2)

<span style="font-size: 20pt">3rd Stage - Wild Card</span>
12th Beat Tribe Cup - Wild Card
Teams Shown in this Video Section

<span style="font-size: 20pt">4th Stage - Playoff</span>
12th Beat Tribe Cup - Playoff
Teams Shown in this Video Section

<span style="font-size: 20pt">5th Stage - Finals</span>
12th Beat Tribe Cup - Finals - 16 teams No matches were played in this 25 minute video. Preparation of the 16 team bracket. The spoiler below lists the 16 teams and the members in them.

12th Beat Tribe Cup - Finals #1. ~2 hours 50 minutes.
0h06m30s - Video of past events leading to an introduction of the final 16 teams as they walk down a red carpet. Ohsu Akira taking pictures of each team. The order they entered is the same as that listed in the above spoiler.

0h30m00s - 16 teams Round, part 1: 4 team matches are simultaneously played.

1h05m00s - 16 teams Round, part 2: 4 team matches are simultaneously played.

1h40m00s - Quarterfinals Round: 4 team matches are simultaneously played.

2h15m00s - Semifinals Round

12th Beat Tribe Cup - Finals #2
0h25m00s - Finals

0h56m45s - Celebration
1h03m00s - 2nd Place Award
1h06m00s - 1st Place Award

<span style="font-size: 20pt">Spoiler: Semifinalists/finalists results.</span>

Thanks to ChiefGutti for the translations and explanations in the shoutbox! More information and summary to follow when I have time.

Woah, that was awesome! Great reads by Full Swing!

The whole thing wasn't guaranteed. Even though they were close, the wall didn't play a part until the very end with the wall splat.

The entire sequence was:

1. Lion does (guaranteed) against Jacky's side -> Jacky remains side turned.
2. Lion does (not guaranteed) against Jacky's side -> Jacky remains side turned.
3. Lion does (not guaranteed) against Jacky's side and gets a counter hit -> Jacky remains side turned.
4. Lion does (guaranteed) against Jacky's side -> Jacky remains side turned.
5. Lion does the stagger throw (not guaranteed) against Jacky
6. Lion follows up with (not guaranteed) and gets a counter hit
7. Lion finishes with guaranteed wall and bounce combo

So most of Full Swing's actions were not guaranteed, and just a result of his good decision making while attacking the opponent's side. He knew when to keep attacking, and when to mix in the throw, all the while Mask's life was slowly draining away!

Yup, if people want to highlight certain things about the archived videos post them up. I am hoping to update the above posts with detailed information on each section to make it easier for people to watch the videos. I will update with some more stuff that ChiefGutti helped translate/explain later tonight.

Erdraug it should be fixed now. For some reason it keeps thinking it should be a link to VFDC instead of Ustream.

Chiefgutti - again, thanks for the translations. It makes it a lot easier to remember names when you actually understand the meaning of the name .

Update to third post - Added all the teams in which the videos at least show a portion or the entire team match. I think what I enjoyed the most from the videos is seeing a lot of familiar players that I have not heard too much about in recent years. Almost finished summarizing the videos, just need to copy and paste exact time of the matches.

Yep, the one and the same!

Maybe this deserves its own thread...anyways

Beat Tribe Cup Archives brought to you by Chihou no Hoshi(Local Star?). They have uploaded better quality videos from the October 2011, 12th Beat-Tribe Cup. Unlike the live stream, these videos do not switch back and forth between different team matches. So there are new footage from these videos that is not seen in the live feed.

Individual player names for each team can be found in the third post of this thread.

I plan to update the post with links as Local Star upload more videos.

2nd Stage - Preliminary League
Majin Ikka vs Kusshin Generation: Preliminary League (Early Section)

Majin Ikka vs Kusshin Generation vs Sekainopan Yamazaki: Preliminary League Tiebreaker

5th Stage - Finals
Majin Ikka vs Gatakure

Beikoku Byouin vs Team Shinagawa

Kagoshima vs Kawasaki A

Itabashi Newton vs Orange Line