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[​IMG] Last week, in [​IMG]Level|Up's Wednesday Night Fight 2.3 Stream, Alex Valle celebrated his birthday with the guest appearance of L_A. Both respected players went through some old photos reminiscing about the Spot 21 Arcade, the fighting game scene before Daigo, and when AOL was still the hot thing.

Around the 13 minute mark, they talked about Virtua Fighter and the invitation-only VF5FS Pre-Launch Party on May 19th, 2012. Guests at the event includes Fuudo, Chibita, Myke, and other members of the VFDC community. In the stream, Alex mentioned that L_A will be helping him out with the Pre-launch event. Check the archived stream link if you want to go down memory lane or get a glimpse of the fighting game community in the 1990s. Original information came from IGN Blog Entry (Live stream tip form Sudden_Death).
[​IMG] Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown is making its way around the United States! VF fans in the Midwest be happy as Keits from Shoryuken have announced that VF5FS will be demoed at the UFGT8 event in Chicago, IL from May 25th-27th.

Similar to the NorCal Regionals 10 event in San Francisco, there will be a side tournament (64 player limit) with prizes given to the Top 8. If you live in the Midwest area and want to get a taste of VF5FS before it is officially released this might be the best event to go to!
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Only two players in Japan have the rank of 天翔神 (Tenshoushin) - Itoshun (BR) and Joseph (AK). Tenshoushin is roughly translated as "Heavenly Soaring God." Itoshun was the first person to receive this rank by fighting against Joseph during a "Flame God" ranking battle in late 2011. Joseph got promoted to the Tenshoushin rank last month. Now both players will face each other again to determine who is the best! Who will get demoted!?

Check out the Newton Ooyama ustream archive video for this highly anticipated match (starts ~12min30s into video)! Ohsu Akira and Kamaage are the commentators. The match occurred at the end of the 2012 Tokyo Bay Area Cup, Volume 3 team tournament. Don't have time to watch the video and only want the results? Click on this news headline for the spoiler!

VF5FS First Tenshoushin (Skylord) Battle - Joseph (AK) v Itoshun (BR)

[​IMG]The third volume of the 2012 Tokyo Bay Area Cup season will be held and streamed on April 15th, ~ 1PM JST start time on: Newton Live. Team Satani Fantastic Circus (ä½è°·å¤§ã‚µãƒ¼ã‚«ã‚¹) almost won their second straight Tokyo Bay Area Cup; however, Team Doramachikku (ドラマãƒãƒƒã‚¯) defeated their team in the finals. Doramachikku Team consist of: Koedo (JN) / Senningiri (KA) / Auru (AO) / Matarou (VA, LA).

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 past tournament summaries and other information, please check the Virtua Fighter Relationship 2011-2012 Season thread. The second post in the thread have a list of teams and team members participating in the Bay Area Cups (not comprehensive).

Update: Stream has ended! Embedded is the final portion of the tournament (F2).
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[​IMG] The fifth Tokai Bay Area Cup, a 3on3 tournament within the 13th VFR Season, will take place April 14th, 2012 at 8 PM JST. The event will likely be streamed on Chinobrad's Ustream Channel. This tournament replaces the 5on5 Seed Trial Battle that was originally planned for the Tokai region on April 15th, 2012. Team Family Gyouza for 3 (ファミリー餃å­3人å‰) [Mukku (TA) / Keisuta (SH) / Kanzen Nitaku (WO)] have won 2 of the 4 Tokai Bay Area tournaments so far. Will they remain the dominant team?

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 past tournament summaries and other information, please check the Virtua Fighter Relationship 2011-2012 Season thread. The second post in the thread have a list of teams and team members participating in the Bay Area Cups (not comprehensive).

Update: Stream is over. Embedded is the Final Match of the Tournament.
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[​IMG]Sega seems to be collaborating with everyone these days! The Nintendo 3DS project between Capcom, Namco, and Sega has been know for a while now; however, it was recently revealed through Famitsu Magazine (check out the page for tons of footage from the game) that it will be a single player strategy RPG featuring characters from the three companies. Why is this on the front page of VFDC? For VF fans, Akira and Pai will be two of many characters representing Sega!

Check out the original Sega vs Capcom vs Namco thread in which people were speculating on the game and its character lineup.
For all aspiring Aoi players out there, this video is a definite must-see. Resident Aoi expert, kingo, has been hard at work in the background with not only updating the Aoi Combo List and Aoi Strategy page, but has recently put together this great video showcase of Aoi's combos in Version C.

For a more indepth discussion on these combos, please refer to kingo's original post Aoi VF5 vers. C combos video in the Aoi forum.
[​IMG] Shidosha streamed live from Pax East, courtesy of SEGA, Twitch TV, and Beyond Gaming! Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown is being demoed at the Boston event!

Check out his stream embedded below or at http://www.twitch.tv/shidosha

Update: Sunday Stream is over. Any additional information from the event will be posted in this news topic thread. Links to past streams [​IMG] <a href="http://www.twitch.tv/shidosha
/b/314107575" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Friday</a> / Saturday / Sunday

For summary or answers to common questions related to the console of the game, please check the VF5 Final Showdown Console FAQ.

Embedded below is Shidosha's interview with Frank Hom. All VF5FS videos from the Pax East event were uploaded to Shidosha's Beyond Gaming Page: youtube.com/beyondgamingNET

[​IMG] The second half of the 13th VFR Season begins with a 3on3 Railway tournament April 5th 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.

Stream is over. Embedded is Part 2 of the Tourney!
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[​IMG] Famitsu story previewing VF5FS for console! The article starts off with bits of information related to the Xbox 360 version including some background on Jean and Taka. More interesting was an interview of the console port team: Toru Murayama (Director, Left) and Yusaku Egami (Game Designer, Right). Both of them had previously worked on the Daytona USA port.

Update: Click on the news headline (or go to the second post of this topic) for Reno's translation/summary of the interview.
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