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The MLG Summer Championship will feature an exhibition tournament in Virtual Fighter 5, powered by PlayStation3!

• The expo tournament will be held all day Friday and Saturday (August 24-25)
• There's $2,000 on the line
• Anyone with a Raleigh Spectator Pass or Competitor Pass can participate
• Play in B-o-3 matches, winner stays at the station till they're defeated. Re-enter as often as you like
• On Saturday, the players with the two longest streaks will play in the Finals on the Fighting Games Main Stage
• The Finals will be broadcast live!

Here's the thread.

On the 3rd of August, Guinness World Record's officially tweeted their congratulations to Empire Arcadia for "Most tournament wins for a gaming team".

Guinness World Record awards Empire Arcadia as "The most documented tournament wins for a gaming team is 1,111 achieved by Empire Arcadia." Rodney John (aka Konjou Akira / Rodnutz) and Dennis Sockwell (aka Denkai) have contributed wins to the organization helping it becoming the all time tournament winning gaming team in competitive gaming world wide.

The following Guinness World Records tweet is a link to facebook page of the picture that they will place in the Guinness Book of World Records 2013 "Gamers Edition" along with Rodney and Dennis names.

OK! Got the same challenges to overcome. This week it's Persona 4 Arena and then an even greater challenge looms with TTT2. The key to victory over these upstarts is a bunch of entries to the VF5:FS tournament!

This is the time to show up and play all the games you love. This is really important if you love VF5:Final Showdown. Continued support from Level|Up requires continued support for the VF community. We've got the spot as long as we want it. Wanting it means showing up and entering the tournament every week. That being said...

IT'S COMBO TIME!

Last week, L_A, DRE and Phillip S took the top spots. Turns out that Phillip S also earned $50 of IndustryVFX money by winning the WNF Weekly Rising Star Player Award. Don't sit on your ass at home and let that happen again. Come and do some BIG DAMAGE!

The extra cash incentive continues!

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. Now we've seen huge numbers for post EVO action: 16 one week, 19 the next, and even more this last week. Looking for 40+ for 4.5. Let's do this!

This week, well have our own stream running at Twitch.TV/VFSocal

For past summaries of the previous events, please check the Wednesday Night Fights - Weekly VF5FS Tournaments Summary...

According to Sega's AM port team, VF5FS will be getting a patch on August 7. There is no word on when the patch will hit other markets.

The biggest update will be to the player matches. Before there was a mandatory 30 second wait between matches, with the option of pausing the timer to let other players join your lobby. With the patch, after the wait option, you can now press either Square (PS3) or X (360) again to skip the timer completely and immediately start the match.

The team wanted to address other requests that fans had, such as player intro movies that are in the arcade version. Unfortunately due to the amount of voice and graphic data involved with these intros, not to mention that they are not especially important to the online experience, they decided that they would not be adding them to the game.

This also goes for real-time commentary, not to mention they'd have to do English voice tracks for all of the new lines added during 5R and Final Showdown. In addition, they noted that the English commentary wasn't well-received overseas, so they didn't see the point of recording additional lines. Because of these reasons, realistically it wasn't feasible for them to pull it off, and they apologize for not being able to do it.

Lastly, the team stated that while they wanted to say something earlier, they didn't want to release a vague statement like "we're looking into it", etc. They wanted to flatout say "we're taking care of this issue" so that fans knew what was coming. The team responsible for the update actually has to approve all of the comments posted on their Japanese blog before they're visible, so they actually read every single comment made, and they wanted to let the fans know that they are keeping track of everything posted.

Other updates coming with the patch include:

- If you don't end a game properly with a low amount of matches played, your...

This Saturday, August 4th is Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown - Tougeki (or Super Battle Opera) 2012 3on3 Tournament! VF5FS tournament begins at 11:40 AM JST with the Finals at 5:10 PM JST.

Discuss about it in the SBO 2012 Qualified VF5FS Teams Thread.

Portions of the Nico Nico Stream are free, but other portions are not. Check out Iplaywinner's Article about the details of the pay-per-view stream and how to navigate the site to pay/watch the stream.

Update: Check the following post for the Tougeki VF5FS Results. The winners were awarded with the 【闘劇三闘士】 (Tougeki Santoushi, the 3 fighters)

Music from the original Virtua Fighter 5, R, and Final Showdown are available for download at selected countries on iTunes! You can check out which country are these soundtracks available at the Sega Blog.

For those that imported the VF5 complete soundtrack, there are a couple of music tracks that were not present in the CD set. This includes the alternate "Selector" music tracks and "New Entry" and "Continue" music tracks.

The first Russian online (PSN) VF5FS tournament will be held on the 5th of August, at 13:15 UTC!

So if you're from Russia, Ukraine, or any CIS country - feel free to join:

http://www.fighting.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&p=325921

The registration ends at 11:00 UTC, 2 hours before the start of event

Noobs and masters, pros and scrubs, newcomers and old players - we're all different, but we are all gathered here because we love VF!

VFDC Tournament Thread

The stream is provided by FightingOpera.

Every week, we will try to put up an Upcoming Events News Headline to bring more awareness of some VF events around the world.

London, England - The LTG Battle Arena League a bit short notice, but starts today at 5 PM GMT!

San Francisco, CA, USA - Iplaywinner Season 5 begins with the new No Mercy Fridays for 3D fighting games. This starts this Friday!

Northwest USA - The small but regular occurring tournaments from Seattle, WA and Portland, OR will be this Saturday, August 4th.

Russia and CIS countries (PSN Online) - double elimination free online tournament on August 5th.

To organizers of events: for more exposure of your events on VFDC check out the How to get your tournament on the News Page topic.

From last week (or weekish), here are some topics that may be of interest to you! PM one of the moderators if you see something that should be highlighted!

Punishing the Cast - Johoseph initiated a project to visually show how blocking certain moves can lead to guarantee damage against all the characters. So far, videos for over half of the character roster have been made!

Virtua Fighter GoGo Fansite - Korean VF website introduced on VFDC by Korean VF player Hades original thread.

Combo videos galore! There appears to be a growing core of members making more combo vids than possible to keep up with:

Pai Combo Vid by AzureWandering
Kage Combo Vid by Kknator95
Brad Combo Vid by tmd02
Blaze Combo Vid by ELB
Vanessa Combo Vid by ApocryphicV

Since the launch of the console port, SEGA had released short videos introducing the system of the game (Volume 1 to 3) and introductions to the 19 characters (Volume 4 to 12). That is over 2 hours of information to help VF enthusiasts get better! All the videos can be found in the Sega's Beginner Video Tutorials for Final Showdown Thread.