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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Congratulations to the EVO 2K12 VF5FS Champion Fuudo!</span>

EVO 2012 is a wrap! The top 3 results were:

1. RZR|Fuudo (Shun)
2. Shironuko (El Blaze)
3. RZR|Itabashi Zangief (Shun)

Congratulations also to the top 16 who managed to finish "in the money". Read on for full top 16 results and media links.

A massive shoutout to SEGA and the EVO crew for making this a reality! With barely a month from official release, the response and attendance was amazing and we, as a community, only hope this is just a sign of things to come! But it's up to us, the community, to make sure VF is official for EVO 2013.

Also, a huge thanks to Jaxel for streaming the event for the masses. Please show him your appreciation with a donation!

Were you at EVO this year? Did you watch the streams? If you've got a shoutout to give, sound off in here!

(image courtesy of Karaface)

Y'all thought you could rest. Hah. No!

IT'S COMBO TIME!

In the last season, L_A, GoatCheese Blues, DRE and Plague were regulars in the top spots. Don't sit on your ass at home and let that happen again. Come and do some BIG DAMAGE!

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. Looking for 40+ for Summer Edition. Let's do this!

For past summaries of the previous events, please check the
Wednesday Night Fights - Weekly VF5FS Tournaments Summary Thread. For those that don't live in the Los Angeles area, the event will be streamed at the Level|Up Live Channel.

I was at EVO. The official word is this:

If VF gets enough participation at recognized local, regional, and national events by December, 2012 - it makes the roster for Evo 2013.

SEGA is aware of this.

Now you all are, too.

Here's what to do:

Get out of the house. Share a ride if you need to. Go to ALL your local battles. Bring your friends. Enter the tournaments. If you have no local event, create one. Stream it online. Post the URL on VFDC and SRK.

If Evo organizers can see that including FS will make them some money, the game is in.

Jaxel, from 8wayrun.com, has been kind enough to stream the Final Showdown action from Evo this year through his twitch.tv channel. Help Jaxel out for providing non-stop stream the first two days of Evo by donating to 8 Way Run: http://8wayrun.com/donate

Day 1 VF5FS at Evo 2012 Archive - Pool 1 to ...
Day 1 VF5FS at Evo 2012 Archive - up to Pool 4
Day 2 VF5FS at Evo 2012 Archive - Pool 5 to ...(start ~3 hour mark)
Day 2 VF5FS at Evo 2012 Archive - Pool 6 to Top 16 (minus Top 3)

Top 3 of VF5FS was on the main Evo Channel at July 9, 2012
Day 3 VF5FS at Evo 2012 Archive - Top 3 (beginning of vid)

This is it! There are 193 people in total registered for the VF5FS tournament at EVO this year! Thanks to all for the great turnout!

Bracket schedules and challonge brackets are available in the next post!

VFDC wishes everyone the best of luck, hope that you all stay safe and enjoy a fantastic event!

The fifth week of WNFs with VF5FS will be happening when that clock reaches zero! In the last tournament, L A, GoatCheese Blues and DRE finished in the Top 3. Let's see if new challengers step up to take their spots!

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 week saw 30 players entered. Looking for 40+. Let's do this!

For past summaries of the previous events, please check the
Wednesday Night Fights - Weekly VF5FS Tournaments Summary Thread. For those that don't live in the Los Angeles area, the event will be streamed at the Level|Up Live Channel.

Update: The tournament was a five-person Round Robin (everyone plays everyone twice) followed by a Three out of Five Grand Finals between first and second place.

M-Type had the most wins in Round Robin followed by DRE. They battled it out with a best 3 out of 5 in the Grand Finals. DRE reset the bracket and came back to win first place.

Since the release of Final Showdown, the community have been showing their creativity and/or providing useful information. Since it is highly unlikely that each person browse through every single thread on VFDC, we want to highlight some of these contributions by a weekly roundup! So here is a short list of links that you might be unaware of, but may be of interest to you. If you think something should be highlighted for next week's roundup, PM one of the moderators about it!

VF5FS Online Warrior Videos - by Archangel, interesting commentaries accompanying his online matches.

Virtua Fighter Final Showdown - Fight Choreography - A wonderfully staged fight between Jacky and Lau by LunarDeity.

VF5FS Item Win Pose List - initiated by Feck and specific details on how to choose each unique item win pose by DRE.

VFDC presents the first public draft of The VF Circuit - the free region-based online events mentioned in the VFDC Online Events Feedback Thread in early April! There will be more details about the VF Circuit after Evo 2012, but for now please view the document and provide any feedback (everything is subject to change).

VF Circuit: Season One Public Draft (Version 0.9) - requires free Adobe Reader to view.

Finally, I want to say thank you very much to those that have preregistered for these events. Early registration helps immensely to the organization of these events and also in determining the prizes. As an incentive to get people to register for the season before the first tournament is announced, you will be given 1 bonus point for either the PS3 League or Xbox 360 League. As a token of appreciation to those that have registered before the first public draft, there will also be a "small gift" for you at the end of the season.

A long interview (written by Hameko, photographs by Ohsu Akira) was posted at 4 Gamer Website (Japanese) that highlights Dead or Alive (Page 1), the collaboration between Tecmo Koei and Sega (Page 2), and Virtua Fighter (Page 3).

Members of the Virtua Fighter AM2 arcade team - Daichi Katagiri and Takeyuki Haneda (aka Shinjuku Jacky) - represented the Sega portion of the interview. While a complete translation will likely take a while (any volunteers?), interesting portions from the interview--which includes VF5FS sales, the 30 second room match wait, the future outlook of Virtua Fighter, and professional players are posted in the second post of this news topic!

Update: Full Translation by Reno of Page 2 and Page 3

While, AM2's Console Port Twitter had announced earlier that sales of VF5FS has exceeded expectations in the Japanese marketplace, Sega of America and Europe Community Teams recently tweeted global download number for Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown.