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Vanessa fans and players, here is something special for you! This weekend will start with a Vanessa Off event organized by ペコラ (Pekora). The event features a singles tournament, HC team tournament, and exhibition matches of players only using Vanessa (38 players pre-registered).

The Vanessa Off event is expected to start 1 PM JST on May 4. This event is expected to be streamed on Nistel Jacky's Channel. For anybody planning to play Vanessa in VF5FS, this event will likely be highly beneficial to you!

May 5th Update: Links to the archive of the event: Singles Tournament / 3on3 Team Tournament

On May 5th, starting approximately 11 AM JST - VFR will hold its popular Pre Beat Tribe Cup Tournament. This is a 5on5 Seed Ranking Team Tournament with one major rule exception: all five members of a team can use the same character! This event is expected to be streamed on VFRTV.

So far, there are 66 teams (330 players) registered for this event. 47 of those teams consist of the same character. All 19 characters have at least one team representing them! The day long event will be divided into Qualifiers (Early/Late),　Wildcard, Playoffs, and Final Tournament Stage.

For past tournament summaries and other information, please check the Virtua Fighter Relationship 2011-2012 Season thread.

Update: Archive of portions of the event are posted below. Check the above link or following posts for more information.
Prelim - Part 1 / Prelim - Part 2 / Wildcard and Playoff / Final Tournament

The big announcement promised by Frank Hom has been finally revealed via Shoryuken! VF5FS is coming to this year's EVO!

For those interested in attending Evo, please check the
VF5FS at Evo 2012: Event Details and Trip Planning for the most up-to-date information.

While this is wonderful news, we still don't know the exact date of when the console version of the game is being released! For more information on what is known about the console version, please check out the VF5: Final Showdown Console FAQ.

The third out of five VF5FS tournaments to be held at San Francisco's Southtown Arcade (STA) will be streamed on Iplaywinner, April 27, 2012. The tournament and stream is expected to start around 7 PM PST.

In this third tournament, the top three will receive autographed VF5FS cards from AM2! For more details to this series of events, please check the South Town Arcade VF5FS Tournament Series Thread. According to Frank, expect big announcement on Monday pertaining to the console version.

Challonge Bracket Part 1 / Part 2

Thanks to SEGA, a Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown tournament will be held as part of Shadowloo Showdown 2012 on May 5 and 6, 2012!

This is a major international tournament with many guest pro players across all games. For Virtua Fighter two prominent Japanese names will be attending, Fuudo and Itazan (pictured), and are revealed in the latest trailer below!

Australia's best will all be at Shadowloo Showdown to face the challenge of a host of international talent. VFDC's own webmaster and Battle Arena Melbourne 2009-10 Champ Myke will be attending, as will last year's winner AlexMD.

Are you ready for the showdown?

» SS2K12: April Player Reveal Trailer
» VF5:FS @ SHADOWLOO SHOWDOWN May 4-5 tournament info thread

Special thanks to Berzerk for organising!

Itabashi Zangief and Fuudo have officially been signed by Razer to represent the professional gaming hardware company and also to help with the development of the Razer Arcade Stick!

Both players are well known for their skills within both the Virtua Fighter and Street Fighter series. Their accomplishments combined includes winning fighting game tournaments such as Tougeki, WCG, and Evo. Congratulations to these two great players and hopefully this sponsorship means more opportunity to see them play in international events!

Source: Famitsu (Tips from Zero-chan and Shou)

As part of a series of trailers to promote the console release of Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown, Sega interviewed the star player Fuudo. Fuudo is well known for his accomplishments not only in Virtua Fighter, but also in Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition. He will be participating in exhibition matches with Chibita at the VF5FS Pre-Launch Party on May 19th.

In the interview, Fuudo talks about the origins of his nickname and how he got started by playing Virtua Fighter 4 on console. He also goes briefly in his play style and the reasoning for him to use different characters. Check out the video below for more interesting tidbits!

Original Source: Sega World Italia (shoutbox tip shinybrentford)

Fuudo Interview

Kansai Bay Area Cup Vol. 5 event is expected to be streamed live on the Kansai Bay Channel on April 22nd, 2 PM JST tournament start time. At the current Kansai Bay Cup standings, Team Family Gyouza (ファミリー餃å­) [Kozou (TA)/ Kanzen Nitaku (WO)/ Chinobrad (BR)/ Mukku (TA)/ Keisuta (SH)] have a slight lead over Team Bikkuriman (ビックリマン) [Anaguma (JA)/ Tsussan (SH)/ Chootaro (JN)/ Dabu (VA)/ Terazoo (LA)/ Gigusu (BR)]. At third place is Team Yuunagi Kindgom (夕凪キングダム) [YOU (SA)/ Tane (AK)/ Chibisuke (EI)/ Moshige　(LA)/ Yuunagi (AK)/ Ron (KA)].

The Bay Area Cups 3on3 tournaments are unique in that teams made at the beginning of the season remains the same at the end of the season. For more information on this event series and the VFR season, please check the Virtua Fighter Relationship 2011-2012 Season. The second post in the thread have a list of teams and team members participating in the Bay Area Cups (not comprehensive).

Don't forget to check out the Post-Tournament: Gods of Thunder Ranking Battles!

Part 1 / Part 2 / Post-Tournament : Gods of Thunder Ranking Battles / Post-Tournament Part 2

A 3on3 Railway tournament is scheduled for April 21st around 6 PM JST. This event is expected to be streamed either on VFRTV channel or Nistel Jacky's Channel.

For past tournament summaries and other information, please check the Virtua Fighter Relationship 2011-2012 Season thread.

Part 1 / Final Match

Ladies and gentlemen, check your emails to see if you have received a VIP invitation to the Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown Pre-launch Party on May 19th, 2012 at Los Angeles, CA!

Many members on VFDC received their formal invitations today. Let us know if you will be attending this invitation only event in the VF5FS Attendee List thread in the Tournaments/Events Forum Section!

If you are one of the unlucky ones, you can still watch the event live on Level|Up Live. Get hype everyone!