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We highlight some upcoming VF events around the world. Go support your local scene or watched your fellow VFers compete!

Moscow, Russia - August 25th, 2012 (The Virtua Fighter portion) will be featured in the Moscow Fighting Arena 2012 event! This annual multi-fighting game event is its ninth year.

Telford, United Kingdom - August 26th, 2012. Insomnia 46 on Sunday with a 32 man (max cap) singles tournament.

Tokyo and Kansai region, Japan - August 26th, 2012. The Tokyo and Kansai Bay Area Cups (3on3 tournaments).

Brooklyn, NY, USA - August 28th, 2012 - The regular occurring battles at Next Level.

Seoul, Korea - September 1st, 2012 - Cafe:Id VF5FS Single Tournament.

Sydney, Australia - September 1st, 2012 - from the southern hemisphere, Ozhadou presents YSB14, which is a qualifier for EB Expo!

In 1UP's Essential 100 series (based on 1UP's staff and their readers polls), Virtua Fighter is ranked at 69th. If you are curious as to how a mainstream gaming site views the Virtua Fighter series, check out the The Essential 100, No. 69: Virtua Fighter cover story!

Location: 950 W. Sierra Madre Avenue, Azusa,CA (call me when you arrive for the apartment number)
Day: Saturday, August 25th
Time: 12pm - 12am (At least 5 Setups to play on)
Casuals: 12pm - 8pm and 10pm - 12am
Free Tournament: 8pm - 10pm, Top 3 will win Cash and 1st Place will receive an additional prize

If you don't know who DESK is, then I'll give a few snippets:

• He is a professional CMV artist.
• He usually sticks to 2-D games.
• He is most well known in the Street Fighter community.
• His technical skill is virtually unrivaled.
• etc etc etc

It seems he has taken a liking to VF5. Can't say I blame him. =)

And we're back! As you can tell, VFDC has undergone a major upgrade so please take the time to read on for important information!

Every week, we highlight some upcoming VF events around the world. Go support your local scene!

Paris, France - Fist of Legend Tournament - August 18. This event in France is attracting
quite a few players from other European countries.

Columbus, OH, USA - Just Play Games VF5FS Tournament - August 20. A new venue in the Columbus, Ohio area with $1,000 dollars to the first place finisher.

Philadelphia, PA, USA - GVN Summer Jam - August 25-26th. Hubbs supported the community for many years organizing VF tournaments since the original VF5 days.

The MLG Summer Championship will feature an exhibition tournament in Virtual Fighter 5, powered by PlayStation3!

• The expo tournament will be held all day Friday and Saturday (August 24-25)
• There's $2,000 on the line
• Anyone with a Raleigh Spectator Pass or Competitor Pass can participate
• Play in B-o-3 matches, winner stays at the station till they're defeated. Re-enter as often as you like
• On Saturday, the players with the two longest streaks will play in the Finals on the Fighting Games Main Stage
• The Finals will be broadcast live!

Here's the thread.

On the 3rd of August, Guinness World Record's officially tweeted their congratulations to Empire Arcadia for "Most tournament wins for a gaming team".

Guinness World Record awards Empire Arcadia as "The most documented tournament wins for a gaming team is 1,111 achieved by Empire Arcadia." Rodney John (aka Konjou Akira / Rodnutz) and Dennis Sockwell (aka Denkai) have contributed wins to the organization helping it becoming the all time tournament winning gaming team in competitive gaming world wide.

The following Guinness World Records tweet is a link to facebook page of the picture that they will place in the Guinness Book of World Records 2013 "Gamers Edition" along with Rodney and Dennis names.

OK! Got the same challenges to overcome. This week it's Persona 4 Arena and then an even greater challenge looms with TTT2. The key to victory over these upstarts is a bunch of entries to the VF5:FS tournament!

This is the time to show up and play all the games you love. This is really important if you love VF5:Final Showdown. Continued support from Level|Up requires continued support for the VF community. We've got the spot as long as we want it. Wanting it means showing up and entering the tournament every week. That being said...

IT'S COMBO TIME!

Last week, L_A, DRE and Phillip S took the top spots. Turns out that Phillip S also earned $50 of IndustryVFX money by winning the WNF Weekly Rising Star Player Award. Don't sit on your ass at home and let that happen again. Come and do some BIG DAMAGE!

The extra cash incentive continues!

WNFs are hosted at the Super Arcade in Walnut, California with the tourney to start ~ 9 PM PST. Casuals start at 7 PM PST. $5 to get in. $5 to enter the tournament.

Last season saw 30+ players entered two weeks in a row. Now we've seen huge numbers for post EVO action: 16 one week, 19 the next, and even more this last week. Looking for 40+ for 4.5. Let's do this!

This week, well have our own stream running at Twitch.TV/VFSocal

For past summaries of the previous events, please check the Wednesday Night Fights - Weekly VF5FS Tournaments Summary...