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The fifth volume of the 2012 Tokyo Bay Area Cup season will be held and streamed on June 24th, ~ 1PM JST start time on: Newton Live. The wealth of talented VF players in the Toyko area shows as not a single team has dominated the 2012 season so far. The first four 3on3 tournaments had a different team winning the event each time. Those teams are listed below with some of the team members listed:

Team Satani Fantastic Circus (Homestay Akira and Jin)
Team Doramachikku (Koedo and Senningiri)
Team Zenryoku Kabuppaazu (Joseph and Yuutenji)
Team Ooyama Newton (Zettoman and Kamaage)

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).

Archive of the Event:
2012 Tokyo Bay Area Cup Vol. 5 - Preliminary League
2012 Tokyo Bay Area Cup Vol. 5 - Playoff Stage
2012 Tokyo Bay Area Cup Vol. 5 - Final Stage

Most people visiting this site likely own a copy, but maybe you have a friend that might be interested in getting the game for free? Or maybe you want another copy for an extra system?

As part of Sega's promotion of the game and with several days left to register for VF5FS at Evo 2012 (June 25th Deadline), Shoryuken website have 30 free VF5FS codes to give away! All you have to do is tweet the following messages provided in the SRK article. In the coming days, SRK will be randomly announcing the winners of the codes.

Check out this excellent tutorial video put together by Dandy_J. At over 2 and half hours of footage, he covers a wide range of topics geared toward new players as well as experienced players from other Fighting Games!


Basics - 0:28, Evade - 32:09, Knockdowns - 42:46, Fuzzy guard - 1:06:23, Option selects - 1:31:34, Back and side turned - 1:45:27, Ring outs and walls - 2:01:55, General tips - 2:18:01

The third week of WNFs with VF5FS will be happening tonight! In the last two tournaments, both DRE and LA Akira finished in the Top 3. Will there be new challengers showing up to take their spots!?

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 tournament.

For past summaries of the previous events, please check the Wednesday Night Fights - Weekly VF5FS Tournaments Summary Thread. For those that don't live in the Los Angeles area, the event will be streamed at the Level|Up Live Channel.

Challonge Bracket with results / WNF 3.6 - VF5FS
1. L A
2. GoatCheese Blues
3. Plague

The series of VF5FS tournaments at San Francisco's Southtown Arcade (STA) comes to an end with the 4th tournament to be streamed on Iplaywinner, June 15, 2012. The tournament and stream is expected to start around 7 PM PST.

SEGA will be providing posters and t-shirts signed by Chibita and Fuudo for top placers and unsigned posters for participants (See Iplaywinner Original Story). For more details to this series of events, please check the South Town Arcade VF5FS Tournament Series Thread.

Update: Link to results and archive presented. Challonge Bracket with Results
Southtown Arcade VF5FS 1.4 - Part 1
Southtown Arcade VF5FS 1.4 - Part 2

Youtube Version Part 1
Youtube Version Part 2
Youtube Version Part 3

Originally reported on the AM Console Development Team's twitter, sales for VF5FS console have exceeded targets set for the Japanese market just a week after release.

This is great news for fans who can only play the game on console as commercial success may pave the way for future opportunities within the console market.

Source: andriasang.com

"Last week had a twenty-person tournament won by none other than GoatCheese Blues. Time for a thirty-person version. Come in and play to win."

- Post from Plague on this here News page.

Level|Up Live will be hosting a VF5FS tourney on their regular occurring Wednesday Night Fights (WNF) series on June 13th. This will be 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 tournament.

Note: VF5:FS is played on PS3 at WNF. Bring compatible sticks or pads.

If you live in the greater Los Angeles area, go meet fellow VF enthusiasts and celebrate having VF5:FS on console and at WNF by visiting the Super Arcade!

The event is expected to be streamed on Level|Up Series Channel
(Source of info - L_A)

Results!

Challonge Bracket with Results / WNF 3.5 - VF5FS Part 1 / WNF 3.5 - VF5FS Part 2 - Grand Finals
1. L A
2. DRE
3. Rip

This month 5on5 VFR Cup, the Hamaotsu Cup, will be in the Kansai region of Japan. 190 players (38 teams) will participate in the event. What is unique about this event is that AM2's Virtua Fighter division and Virtua Fighter Relationship (VFR) are working together in running this event! The VFTV Live team will be streaming the event. Hopefully this is a sign of better things to come with more collaborations between Sega and VFR in the future! The event will be streamed on June 10th at 11 AM JST at VFTV Live Channel.

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

Update: Stream is over. Links to archive of the event:
2012 Sega Arena Hamaotsu Cup: Preliminary League Part 1
2012 Sega Arena Hamaotsu Cup: Preliminary League Part 2
2012 Sega Arena Hamaotsu Cup: Final Tournament Stage

SoCal have been staying busy with the launch of the console game. They made a VF-specific podcast, participated in the Wednesday Night Fights, and now will have a VF5FS party to end the week! The gathering will be streamed on the VF Socal Channel with casual matches starting around 2 PM PST and a tournament at 8 PM PST.

For more details on the event, please check Plague's post in the Southern Californa VF Community Thread.

Update: Stream is over. Archive of event.
VF Socal Party Tournament
VF Socal Party Casuals

The first VFR 3on3 Arcade tournament since the launch of the console version of the game! Four of the first six Tokai Bay Cups were won by Team Family Gyouza for 3 (ファミリー餃å­3人å‰) [Mukku (TA) / Keisuta (SH) / Kanzen Nitaku (WO)]. In the seventh tournament, it appears some Tokyo VFers are in the Tokai VFers stomping grounds. Will they or other Tokai regulars be able to take down Family Gyouza!? The seventh Tokai Bay Area Cup team tournament starts on June 9th, 2012 at 6 PM JST. The event will likely be streamed on Chinobrad's Ustream Channel.

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. Links to archive of event posted below.
Tokai Bay Area Cup - Vol. 7: Part 1
Tokai Bay Area Cup - Vol. 7: Part 2