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With a wealth of Virtua Fighter tournaments taking place around the world in the coming few months, let's take a quick look at what's happening and how to join!

Clothing store 'HardCC' or Hardcore Chocolate has launched a range of Virtua Fighter 1 themed T-shirts and hoodies.
Known for their apparel based around pink, movies and pro-wrestling, these polygonal designs fit the aesthetic nicely!

Virtua Fighter is having a great 2019, as LAG and now Big E Gaming WinterBrawl3D have shown. While attendance was on the low side, the presence of VF at an FGC major did good work towards building interest in the game. WinterBrawl was also a great test of Virtua Fighter’s ability to hang in a multi-game setting. While I am definitely biased I’d say that it passed that test, with members of other communities coming by to talk about the game, watch casuals, and even play with us. The whole weekend was a great experience, and one that I hope we will be able to repeat in the future.

Sega will be doing a 24 hour charity live stream from tomorrow until Saturday. From Saturday 5am GMT / 9pm PT / midnight ET they will be playing Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown on Xbox on stream for a few hours!
A lobby will be open online online so please jump in!

They will be live on www.twitch.tv/sega so tune in and show your love for Virtua Fighter!

On Sunday, 10th February 2019, the 2019 Pre Beat-Tribe Cup took place at Game Newton Ooyama. This 5-on-5 character-specific tournament saw a total of 52 teams (260 players!), and was streamed live via the Game Newton Ooyama channels on various platforms simultaneously. The original 12 hour archive has been dissected, timestamped and re-packaged for your enjoyment, along with some interesting stats as well!

Shizawa Corp's twitter account (https://twitter.com/SHIZAWAcorp) has been tweeting out photographs of new vending machines featuring original Virtua Fighter character models, apparently commissioned by Sega! There are a number of designs up on the twitter account so far, with most of the characters from Virtua Fighter being represented! Hit the jump to see the rest.

The tradition continues with this 5-on-5 character specific team tournament ahead of the 17th VFR Beat Tribe Cup finals scheduled the following month. There are 52 teams (260 players!) registered to compete this Sunday, 10th February 2019 and the event will be streamed via Nicovideo. Watch this thread for details and updates!

Community stalwart @IcKY99 had an unfortunate turn of events recently with a house fire. Fortunately, he and his family are safe but it'll be roughly 5-6 months before the house will be repaired. Meanwhile, there are a few things you can do to help out a fellow VFer while he deals with this situation. Read on for details as well as the full story of what actually happened.

After his inspirational beatdowns by Homestay Akira during EVO 2018, a reinvigorated @adamYUKI was driven to create a new chapter in a long standing tradition of Virtua Fighter Gatherings -- the inaugural Los Angeles Gathering (LAG). Taking place over the weekend of 18-19 January 2019, VFers gathered from near and afar to welcome, play against, and learn from the legend himself Homestay Akira who happened to be accompanied by his wife, a formidable VF player in her own right!

On Sunday, 13 January 2019 the annual Kyushu Tentai Cup VF5FS tournament took place in the southwestern island of Kyushu, Japan at the Taito Station Fukuoka Tenjin arcade. The Tentai (Celestial) Cup saw 21 teams entering, consisting of 105 players with many strong players from the north of Japan in attendance!