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May 9, 2025. For your convenience, 19th VFR Beat-Tribe Cup Schedule listed in 4 different time zones. BT Cup up to Wild Cards Stage (EVO Japan Day 2) takes place on Sub Stage J. BT Cup Final 16 (EVO Japan Day 3) takes place on Sub Stage JP. Links to streams in the thread.

Lots of VF activity at Day 1 of EVO Japan 2025. SEGA's booth, Tetsuko's VF Party with a 3on3 Random Team Battle, and Isamu Yamagishi of VFR/Beat-Tribe fame received the Cannon Award.

Last Updated: April 17, 2025: Not only is VF5 REVO a main tournament for Combo Breaker 2025, it is also the first qualifier for the Virtua Fighter Open Championship. Just announced is the prize pool for top 8 at Combo Breaker. Winner of this event qualifies for a chance to win $100,000 (Date for Grand Finale TBD).

VF Lives Tournament, a collaboration between Maximillian, SEGA, and TNS is the largest online event for Virtua Fighter with over 300 participants, over $4,000 dollars prize pool, and plenty of VF memorabilia given out to top 8.

Virtua Wars is a team battle event featuring a variety of veteran VFers, popular streamers, and professional players. This is a collaboration between SEGA and G-Star Gaming, a women eSports team. The two teams will be led by well-know VF veterans Ohsu Akira and Bunbunmaru.

SEGA just announced the grand prize for winning the Virtua Fighter Open Championship (VFOC) is $100,000! Qualifiers will be held in North America, Europe, Asia (all Asian regions except Japan), and Japan. The first qualifier to start the VFOC will be at Combo Breaker.

To help usher a new era of VF and also to promote fans to use the Official Virtua Fighter Discord channel, SEGA has asked several members of the community to help out.

Kurita interviews Aoki for Dengeki Online, asking a lot of questions that I think many VF fans would want to hear his replies to. It is a long interview and you should check out the original Dengeki Online article! I also wrote my notes from the article in this thread.

Last Updated: January 26, 2025 - The Pre-launch VF5REVO tournament has ended with HIMAJEAN crowned the winner! If you missed the Top 8 stream, here is the link to the Twitch archive - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2363824588.

Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.0. will be part of the new extended lineup of EVO 2025 Las Vegas (August 1-3). Some might be more surprised by this announcement as the main events were leaked last week. "There are too many great games in the FGC to fit in the time limitations of EVO's arena; but these games and their communities still deserve to have an official tournament. Tournaments run by EVO and takes place on EVO stages...are showcase on EVO streams and earn EVO metals for top 8." - Rynge