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Have you ever wondered what the best throw to use is? Should you do your most damaging throw? Should you mix up your throws? Should you do the weakest throw because no one breaks it?

Fighting games are based on two players making decisions simultaneously. Different choices give different payoffs.

Dora neko akira has put together another fantastic video that showcases attacks against Oten-Ukemi (Side-Roll Recovery) that can lead into very damaging combos! For anyone wanting to sharpen up their Ukemi-zeme game, you don't want to miss this!

Cool things are afoot in the land of VF... things like Justin Wong and SEGA Cup.

Here's hoping he trains at WNF.

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For the January 19th-21st weekend, there were several major Virtua Fighter events around the world. Below are links to various videos and results from these tournaments. If we missed a tournament that happened this past weekend, let us know!

I'm pleased to announced that the VF5FS Wiki is finally available! You can access it by following the Wiki link in the main menu.

The first seeded 5on5 tournament in the Virtua Fighter Relationship's (VFR) 14th season took place this past weekend (January 13th, 2013). The seeded VFR tournaments give the most valuable player in the winning team a favorable position in the Beat Tribe Cup. The Newton Cup is unique in that it encourages the players to form teams based on the concept of "generations" - common bonds shared between players for a fighting game series in its 20th year. 160 players in 32 teams total participated in this event.

For Evo 2013, 7 games have been named on the official line-up - Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Super Street Fighter IV, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Street Fighter x Tekken, Mortal Kombat 9, King of Fighters XIII, and Persona 4 Arena. While Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown was not announced as one of the 7 games, it is still possible for it to be in the official Evo game lineup. On the Wake Up Shoryuken stream, MrWizard (An organizer of Evo) mentioned that any game from the previous Facebook poll that had more than 500 votes is eligible (Final Showdown had 800 plus votes). They have tied these games to a donation drive for the Breast Cancer Research Fund. The game with the most donations will be announced as the 8th game

Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown has made the roster for SoCal Regionals! Here's your chance to participate in something awesome! Remember to prepare by competing at Wednesday Night Fights!

On January 5th, 2013 - 9 PM JST, there will be a special nico nico stream (register for the timeshift if you can't watch the entire event at the stated time) for a 16-man online invitational tournament for Virtua Fighter 2.1. The list of players include players from other game communities. A list of the players participating and description of the event (in Japanese) can be found in the original article from Battlecore's Virtua Dojo.

Happy New Year to all Virtua Fighters! I think we can all agree that this past year has been nothing short of EPIC with the release of Final Showdown on consoles, SEGA's amazing support for the western VF scenes around the world, and fronting up $15,000 USD prize money for a tournament at Evo 2012! Who could have predicted all of that happening? What will 2013 have in store?