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December 15, 2024 4 PM PST (7 PM EST) showcase of Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. with community. Hosted by Justin Wong, KDQ Iambic, and Myke. December 16, 2024 8 PM JST is celebration on the Japan side with host Hameko.

Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. is a main title event at EVO Japan 2025! This will not be an individual tournament, but a team tournament--the first time in EVO history that a team event will be the format for a main title. This will be a 5on5 team tournament, that surprisingly will be a collaboration with Virtua Fighter Relationship (VFR) to be the 19th VFR Beat-Tribe Cup!

The 2024 Pre Beat-Tribe Cup: a 5on5 team tournament with emphasis on teams made up a single character--was held in Tokyo, Japan, at the end of September. The archive of the entire event is available on YouTube. The first post in this thread have been updated with timestamps for all tournament matches, including a bunch of interesting stats from fastest/longest match on stream, to 3 (or more) win streaks achieved on stream!

Last Updated: June 20, 2024 - EVO 2024 in Las Vegas will take place July 19th to July 21st. Mech is organizing the VF5US BYOC side tournament. Exact day and time of tournament TBD. Sign up for the VF5US tournament is now available with deadline to register July 13.

For the third straight year, Ultimate Showdown was at Combo Breaker. With over 40 participants, the side tournament was ran by Dropkick Montage with the top 4 streamed live. Gentleman Thief (JN) took first, Crazydrunk (SH) took second, Tricky (EI) third, and Tenguman (AO) took fourth. Link to the Twitch Archive of the top 4.

While Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown (aka Virtua Fighter eSports in Japan) will not be at Evo Japan, Tetsuko Yamada hosted a VF Party with a focus on the international VF community! The event took place at the BARReL in Yokohama with setups for casuals and a random 3on3 team tournament. Players representing Europe, North America, Oceania, and other parts of Asia was in attendance. Archive of additional information of the event within the thread.

While VF5US (VFeS) will not be at EV0 Japan 2024, Virtua Fighter 3 Team Battle will be returning to the event as a side tournament. VF3tb Organization will be running the side event with well known players, like Chibita and Ryan Hart, participating!

Super Choya Cup 5 tournament began in the evening of April 6 and concluded early the following day. Organized by Ifixmachine (VFHayato) and taking place at Brooklyn Games and Arcade in New York, the community was able to contribute a prize pool of over $3000 to the top finishers! Top placement - 1st Place: Denkai (JA, SH) ; 2nd Place: Rodnutz (AK, PA) ; 3rd Place: Mold Monkey (EI) ; 4th Place: Juicebox (AK) ; 5th Place: Tricky (EI). Additional links to archive, bracket, etc. in the thread.

The Special Cup is a one day offline PS4 tournament for VF5US. 152 participants registered for the February 10, 2024 event with an additional 32 spots available on the day of the event. The day is not only focused on Ultimate Showdown, but participants and spectators can also play the recently released VF3TB online. There will be two streams for the event: 1) a course on VF3TB online; and 2) the VFeS (VF5US outside of Japan) Final Tournament for the top 8 players.