Event

Global Showdown is an international community-organized event by Blessy (Europe), Harponeer (America), and Tetsuko Yamada (Japan) to gather VF players around the world for a 2-day event. After multiple setbacks, the event finally took place on December 9-10 at LevelTap in Liverpool, UK. On day 1, players participated in a single elimination tournament and team battle exhibition. The main event, a double elimination tournament, took place on day 2, with Shiwa winning it all!

Two content creators within the fighting game community, Curiousjoi and Maximilian, received an envelope from SEGA with this message: "New Era New Energy Make sure to tune in to The Game Awards December 7th"

Summer Jam 2023 took place In the greater Philadelphia region (Cherry Hii, New Jersey) on September 1st to 3rd. Taking 1st place is VFnumbers (LE) with KDQ players Assassin (BR) and Bushido (TA) taking 2nd and 3rd place respectively. No stream was available, but matches from the tourney were recorded. Will post in thread when available online.

The EVO Community Showcase tournament for VF5US was held on August 4th. Top 3 Results: 1) Kurita (TA); 2) GentlemanThief (JN); 3) Phoxx (BL). Kurita lost to the 2022 defending champion GentlemanThief in the Winners Final, but was able to reset the tournament in the Grand Finals and defeat GentlemanThief. Links to archive of the tournament within this thread - Akai

VFR Tokyo Bay Area Cup is a monthly 3on3 Team Tournament using the Final Showdown arcade cabinet. In the 7th volume, on July 30th, Tetsuko no Heya Team - Homestay Akira (AK), Babukichi (AK), YOU (SA) - wins. They are the third team to have won a Tokyo Bay Area Cup monthy in 2023. They trailed behind Team Jump Kingdom and Team Shibuya. Both those teams having won three times each. Next monthly, Volume 8, takes place on August 27th.

Tokai Cup 10 is the first 5on5 team battle for the new VFR season. These 5on5 team tournaments give one player on the victorious team seeding rights for the next Beat-Tribe Cup. The Tokai Cup is held at the Tomei Bowl within the Nagoya region. The central location of the venue, is covenient for both players from eastern and western Japan to converge. Tokai Cup 10 will take place on July 16, 2023, 12 pm Japan time.

VF5US is an official tournament of Combo Breaker 2023. Since VF5US was released, it is the largest offline VF5US tournament in the United States with more than 60 players registered for the tournament. The Top 16 will be streamed on Sunday, May 28th. Stream info and brackets are listed in this post.

This weekend,125 teams, 600+ players will compete at the Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall in Chiba, Japan. Schedule for the 18th VFR Beat-Tribe Cup. Note that the event starts morning of May 14th in Japan, but for some viewers around the world the event will start in the evening of May 13th.

After a 4 year absence, the Beat-Tribe Cup is coming back on May 14th, 2023. One of the most revered event for Virtua Fighter, VFR's 18th Beat-Tribe Cup is a 5on5 team tournament.

EVO Japan 2023 will be starting soon! This ongoing thread will be updated with the stream and results for the Virtua Fighter portion of the event.