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Prizes added thanks to our friends at BradyGames. Now there will be 10 winners for the contest.

Another week or so to go guys, hopefully you all have something either done since this past weekend, or preparing to get together next weekend to put something cool together.

Good luck!

 

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Introducing the Nordic Virtua Fighter community

Hi everyone! Hope you'll enjoy the following pictures representing the Nordic Virtua Fighter community!

I can start off by saying that the Nordic community consists of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. We have unfortunately not been able to get in contact with our missing friend Iceland, as you might notice. However, we are certain that the release of VF5 will bring the players! Who knows? Perhaps within a year we will be seeing the Icelandic VF players at top of Europe!

The Nordic VF scene started really small. During the VF3 days, there were absolutely no VF players at all in Norway. Sweden and Denmark did however have around 8 players, and this little community resulted in the appearance of the very first Scandinavian Virtua Fighter fansite. The site lives on today, and it has become bigger and better, hosting VF related movie and music files, as well as articles from various VF gatherings experienced by our players.

Through the community page on the site – the Virtua Daily – VF fans from each Nordic country get the ability to keep in touch as well as organize a variety of VF get-togethers.
This has resulted in numerous tournaments held in Norway and Sweden, as well as Finland.

If anyone of you has any free time to spare, please check out the site by copying and pasting the following link:

http://oguo.campus.luth.se/vf4evo/vf_meny/vf_news/index2.html


Anyway, sorry for writing such a long text! Hope you find the pictures interesting!


Team Sweden during the Norway VS Sweden Team Tournament held during the summer of 2004. From top left to right you have: FluddyFlee, KiwE, Must, Wuff, Shmolz, Lion and Nybec. At front you have the Dane 3of19 and LauVF.


Team Norway, from left to right: RAT, Wallace, JINsama, Duke, Raider and EagleJin. Sitting at front are: Chief Gutti, Netrom, Red Hawk and PKG.
Norway's Netrom beat Sweden's final player LauVF to take home the victory to Norway.




Spectators viewing the Sweden VS Norway Team Tournament


Raider and Netrom met at the airport by JINsama, RAT and Chief Gutti (taking the pic). The twins had just come home from a 6 month trip to Shanghai. That's were the twins really learnt how to play the game. They remained unbeatable on Nordic ground for a whole year.


The Norwegian heroes Duke, Raider and Netrom at a VF gathering in Sweden.



Our very first Scandinavian VF gathering held at Gothenburg, Sweden



Another VF gathering held in Sweden



Check out our Finnish Akira player Manjimaru pulling off a Rimon Chouchuu!!!



Dex, LauVF and Nybec showing us a Tachi Byakko!



The VF4 Evolution days 5 years ago. RAT playing his annoying Jacky against JINsama's newly learnt Vanessa.



Red Hawk VS JINsama facing each other in the Oslo VF Final Tuned Tournament



Some of the participants who attended the Oslo VF Final Tuned tournament


Chief Gutti playing Raider at Virtua Fighter Final Tuned. The Norwegians put money together and bought the VF FT pcb from Japan.


A picture of Wallace, Chief Gutti, Jeneric and Netrom on the final day of Versus 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden.


Wuff (MiniSpud) playing KiwE at Final Tuned during Versus 2006. On to the right you have M4Sh, a Jeffry player striving to become as good as Adam Yuki



Our Swedish LeiFei player LANman. We don't think he liked the fact that LeiFei had dropped down to a low tier character in FT, hehe.



Switching playing between VF Final Tuned and Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star). Because of button layout differences, we had to open up the Boardmaster and switch the button leads with one-another.



The winners of Versus 2006 VF Evo tournament. From left: Jide (4th London), Shmolz (3rd Sweden), Ryan Hart (1st London) and Chief Gutti (2nd Norway)


The Nordic VF Junkies at the Rautanyrrki 2006 Fighting Game Get-Together.


VF related products



Our VF4 competition kit which helped us put up the first ever VF4 tournament in Norway


Thanks to VFDC and these VF guide books, we're doing whatever we can to reach the top of the European VF community



A whole lot of VF Guide & Tournament DVDs to keep us up to date on the top players in the world. Some friends are borrowing the missing KSIII, Tougeki 05 and Tougeki 06 DVDs


Visiting abroad

Being such huge fans of the Virtua Fighter series, we took time off work to go on holiday to Japan to experience the essence of Virtua Fighter. Our Norwegian players Raider and Netrom have also visited Boston where they played in a VF tournament. Some of you attending that gathering might recognise the twins.



Visiting Enterbrain, the publisher of Famitsu and Arcadia magazine. At the bottom you have Mr. Kikutani (The Producer), Nakatsu and our VF Lion playing friend Hiroshima.



At Shibuya High Tech Land together with Muscle Sarah, Kurita, Lupin Kojima and Chibita



Meeting up with NeoTower at Shibuya Gigo. Our matches against him showed us the true skill level of Japanese VF gamers.



Chief Gutti and Yuu Suzuki at E3 2006


Chief Gutti at E3 2006 trying out VF5 for the first time


Our VF teachers

Although the following people do not directly represent the Nordic VF community, we thought we'd mention them due to the fact that they are our very own VF teachers. If we wonder about something, these are the guys we ask, so in a sense, they are a very important part of the VF community here.


Itabashi Zangief together with Mr. David (Sekaijin) at Shou's place in Ebisu. Itabashi Zangief used to be a Wolf player during the first Kakutou Shinseiki and has therefore had a huge influence on Chief Gutti's change of play for the better.


Akapan and Shou. Akapan, or Akai Pants (Red Pants), used to be one of the top Wolf players during the VF3 era. He was called Akapan due to the fact that he always selected the Red Wolf. He is still being recognised in the arcades today. Many remember him absolutely killing his opponents, and therefore still fear him. Now on to Shou. Perhaps the best Western VF player together with Maddy, Adam Yuki and Ryan Hart. Came 2nd in the Evolution 2004 VF EVO tournament, beaten by his friend Itabashi Zangief in the final. If you have a question about VF, Shou can answer it.


Our VF Master Shou has reached the top of the VF5 list during the location test stage of the game.


Unconkable, Shou, Chief Gutti and Mr. David. Unconkable is famous among the Tekken scene. He is perhaps among the best 5 players in the US. He plays a really strong Brad which will just become better and better after the release of VF5.


To get a more thorough explanation and introduction to the Nordic VF community, you can read some of the stories written from VF events if you access the fansite linked to at the top.
Some information is also written at Chief Gutti's Corner, a blog which contains information on the Norwegian VF scene, as well as his impression on Rautanyrrki 2006 in Finland and Versus 2006 in Sweden.

http://chiefgutti.blogspot.com – Nov 05, Apr 06, May 06, Aug 06 archives

Finally, we would like to thank all the helpful people at VFDC who's been more than willing to share their strategies and opinions on the series. It has kept us hanging in there despite the fact that there is no arcade scene to be found in Northern Europe (Scandinavia). With all the effort all of us put together to maintain this exciting community, we are sure that 2007 will bring the players!

 

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seems like norways got a nice scene, what ever happened to raider and netrom btw?
Shou in business attire = priceless.

btw you might want to lower some of the picture resolutions - 1024x768 killer on smaller monitors.

 

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Yes, just noticed. Going to change the pics into 800 x 600 sized tomorrow. Have to go to bed now, hehe.

 

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640x480 is pretty good too /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

 

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haha! that setup is nice!

 

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Hello people!
Good work from all, the last few posts made me jealous! kick arse setups you're got there, very nice!!! Since everyone is having such a fun time posting images, I did the same thing and made a webpage out of it to make it easier to browse through photos (yep, click on the photos for slides). I'm representing my area 'South-East' area and also 'London', since I played in both places often. Please check out the latest vids I uploaded in youtube, enjoy! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif



Link: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=155529276
...

 

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I'll be honest, the fighting game scene in the area has been lacking... and the Virtua Fighter scene on the East Coast is pretty much non-existant. Look at the American scenes already listed in this thread, most of them are on the west coast and the mid-west. NJ a few years ago was considered one of the toughest scenes for both Tekken and Soul Calibur; however, poor game design like Tekken 4 and Soul Calibur 3 greatly dimished the communities. Those still in the communities to this day are trying to bring back interest in competetive fighting games and have been thus far pretty succesful. Team Crooked Jester (the team to which I belong) currently runs one of the most stable tournament scenes for Soul Calibur 3 in the western hemisphere. We have tournaments once every 5-6 weeks and generally get from around 16-32 players to show up to said tournaments. Team Crooked Jester started with Soul Calibur, eventually introduced Narutimate Hero and more recently started running Tekken. However, even with all that, the interest for Virtua Fighter just wasnt there.

In 5 days, with the release of Virtua Fighter 5 for the PS3, I plan on doing my best to get as many people interested into the game as possible. In fact, we already have our first major tournament in April and we've decided to throw Virtua Fighter in as a main event. (April Foolishness Tournament) Since we already have a large base of players here on the east coast, garnering interest in a series as balanced as Virtua Fighter should be a relatively easy task in the light of unbalanced games in other series. One of the major drawing powers of our tournaments are the fact that matches played on our main event TV are recorded in full progressive 60fps video and then posted in high quality on our website. Of course, we also offer YouTube mirrors for the technologicaly impaired.

Here are three samples of the videos we produce...
Video: 2048bit, Audio: 128bit, 480p, 30fps - http://www.crookedjester.com/downloads/demovids/sc2.intro.StarOfDestiny.mkv
Video: 1024bit, Audio: 128bit, 480p, 60fps - http://www.crookedjester.com/downloads/matchvids/sc3.070127/sc3.070127.W2.Rekki.vs.KowTow.mkv
Video: 512bit, Audio 128bit, 240p, 30fps (OLD) - http://www.crookedjester.com/downloads/matchvids/nh3.060408/nh3.060408.W1.Lims.vs.GrayFox.avi
These videos are in H.264-x264-MKV, appropriate codecs included with CCCP or K-Lite Codec Packs
You can see more of our videos by downloading here: (registration is free) http://www.crookedjester.com/local_links.php

Now, on with the pictures... I'm not a photographer... these pictures tend to make everything look smaller than it really is. Its not as cramped as it appears.













The following pictures were taken from our July 15, 2006 tournament which had 24 people... I would have taken pictures from a more recent tournament, but I didnt have a camera.

 

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Oh yes... I forgot to add... you can see records of all of our old tournaments (except for Tekken, havent included them yet) at http://www.crookedjester.com/

Here is the record for our July 15 tourney... since those are the pics I posted above... hmm... looks like KidDisaster got 5th, not 3rd... oh well... Ohyes, and the black guy in the Team Screaming Fetus picture is Klizza, not ShadowFox.

http://www.crookedjester.com/index.php?module=results&date=sc3.060715

 

Cleveland, OH- We do exist!

Akai did his on the entire state of Ohio. I'll be going off of his to center it down to Cleveland. Hope you enjoy!

http://virtuafighter.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/148440/page/1#Post148440

I started this post with this link for a reason, because it's kind of a big deal for us in Cleveland. This has been our only VF Cleveland thread with any traffic in it, and there hasn't been one before it. It was made exactly 1 month ago to this day (the day I started writing this anyways) and it already has 74 replies. Just to give an example of how big this is for Cleveland; we've never had a VF scene to speak of, and the first post by NinjaCW says it all:

"I know it is a long shot but I was wondering if there was anyone I could play Virtua Fighter with around here. I am not sure how good or bad I am at the game but am looking to get better. If anyone is around a PM or post would be most appreciated"

It's pretty obvious by the first post that having anyone in the area reply wasn't expected. It started slowly with Maddy posting, then Srider, who lived somewhat far off, so things weren't looking too good. Then Akai posted, then myself, later on Body Mechanic, Sazabi, and Chinny... as Maddy put it:

"A VF scene in Cleveland. How great!"

Since I can't speak for the other members of my group, I'll give a short synopsis on myself. I started my fighting game "career" with Tekken 3 back when I was 16 (old enough to drive myself to the arcade). I didn't know anything about forums, frames, juggling, or anything semi-deep about fighting games as my friends and I only played it casually, but for hours on end. One day I hit my opponent in the air, and hit them again while they were in the air, and I said to myself "...you can do that?" I came up with so many juggles with every character in the game, started developing strategies, and I had yet to lay eyes on any forum.

After a while I started becoming quite good at the game (which was now Tekken Tag Tournament), so good in fact that my friends slowly stopped playing against me, but new people started showing up and we’re becoming regulars. One day, a guy I hadn't met before was at the machine and he had a win streak of 10 games. I smirked while thinking of all the scrubs he probably played against to get to that point. I popped my quarters in and lost... terribly. So, I tried again, and again... and again. Eventually, he had well over 30 wins in a row almost all completely on me. He would leave without me beating him once, and it was at this point that I realized I was a complete scrub. We did talk a bit and he told me about a website called TekkenZaibatsu.com, and that his friends played a lot and traveled to other cities for tournaments; this is where I would begin to really play fighting games. I started traveling for tournaments with my new group of friends, meeting new people, developing strategies, and having a great time doing it.

In terms of VF, it is a game I've only recently got into. I saw it for $7 a couple months ago, so I picked it up. When I first started playing it I didn't really have too much fun as it wasn't like other fighting games I had played so I got beat a lot (against the computer). I started playing more, learned (well, attempted to learn) basic stuff with all the characters, and started thoroughly enjoying the game and the depth it offered. I even bought a stick just because I found it was easier to play VF on a stick rather than a pad. Now that I have other people to play against I've really gotten hooked and, to be honest, VF5 is the first game I've really been genuinely excited about since Tekken 5 two years ago. I even got to play it back in May at the Club Sega over in Akihabara in Tokyo when I went on a trip to Japan through my college (I got thoroughly owned if you must ask).

We've already met a few times since the Cleveland thread has started. I don't really know how good or bad we are, because I've never really played anyone that I've known to be good, so I have no base for comparison. The point is, however, is that I'm very sure something is starting here. What's really great is the fact that Columbus is only about 2 and a half hours south of us, and they already have a very well established scene. Once we start playing more, it will only be a matter of time before we head down there for a gathering, or maybe even a tournament. From what I've read in another thread Cincinnati has also had a few people sprout up (http://virtuafighter.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/150651/page/2#Post150651). With VF5 coming out, all these people within the state are coming together at the same time on the website and it's really very exciting.

To get back to Cleveland, We went from a few guys here and there who've never met before, to 6 guys keeping in contact with each other to hang out, finally meet, and play some VF. To further make the point, look at how many posts we all have... Akai has 216, Mechanic has 15, Ninja has 25, Sazabi has 16, Chinny has 11 and me with 41. Almost all of us are just starting off or haven't had a reason to post, but it's a good start to go from nothing to all of us being active on the forums. As an update (as of February 22nd) I want to also say that two more new members to VFDC have recently been to our thread and have expressed interest in playing in our group, both from the Cleveland area.

Up to this point, as a group we haven't been diehards in VF by any stretch of the imagination; we haven't traveled anywhere as a group, we haven't played any tournaments together locally, hell we haven't had a gathering where all of us are present at the same time. I don't have any pictures of us in Japan, or great stories of tournaments past, or background info for any of us. So, you may be thinking "Why bother making an entry for this contest," and my answer would be something that caught my eye in a single sentence that was in the initial post:

"...based on who we feel will best benefit from receiving a free copy of Virtua Fighter 5..."

I feel that Cleveland would best benefit from this. The cities that have posted all have scenes, and they have HAD scenes for quite some time, which is awesome (and I hope to play against those scenes some day), but how do they benefit by getting VF5? Granted they could get more players into their group, but they already have something established. All we've had in Cleveland up to this point is 6 people, with 6 PS2's, 6 copies of a 4 year old VF:EVO, and no one to play it with. I feel that if Cleveland won a VF5 all 6 of us would be taken aback by the fact that the community has recognized that we're starting something here. That in itself would give us a boost of confidence to do something with it.

We've already done the hard part of making, and keeping, contact with one another. We're starting to talk and hang out more and it can only get better from here. I ask VFDC.com to help better our situation and give us, the city of Cleveland, VF5 so that we can really start something. We'll prove to you how it goes in the long run.

Now some pictures of our scene!


This is me (pay no mind to the shirt).


Up to a few weeks ago this WAS my scene...


This is my scene in action (pretty lonely)


another shot of my scene...


my scene in action... (look at the shadowing on that 3P...HARDCORE!)


Definitive proof that I did buy the game for $7. I would have easily paid $40 for it.


Yes, it's a tekken stick... it was only $30 so I bought it. As I said earlier the whole reason why I bought it was to play VF on it.

You've seen the shots of my "scene" (myself), and you see how lonely it is to not have anyone to play against (up until as of late). If VFDC chooses Cleveland, this will be the outcome...

That's one happy dude showing off his new VF5 to his new scene that's coming over for some serious gaming.

 

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If playing vf taught me something that recent posts in this topic confirm, it would be that there's much more to vfing than what you can see happening on vfdc. There's always something going on somewhere, only people are more or less aware of it. Let this be a brief look at the local vf story during the last three years.

Local vfing has to struggle mainly with two things, lack of arcade background and huge playstation Tekken tradition. Casual players who tried out the game mostly during all-fighters tourneys came and went, so just a few faithful ones carried on. Honestly, if there were 20 vfers like in Germany, we would consider this success. Similarly to what ChiefGutti and others have posted though, some international gatherings came into play eventually, so a few poor scenes, as Forty put it lately, at least set up some decent and particularly enjoyable events.

To shortly introduce some of the memorable pictures and replays, let's start with Pribram Open in July 04. That was one of the first where you could sign up for vf after a long time. Unicorn who was playing mostly tk4 back then helped with the vf set up the most, and he began playing vf as his main later. We also got to know Pacco there who kept winning most of the future vf tourneys.
<span style='font-size: 8pt'>
* The round robin group paper (part of my watch at the left bottom)
* trophies
* the clubroom, some beers, vf at the right bottom

* semifinals Pacco x Knot
</span>

A minor friendly gathering took place in the Raptor Club in Zdar in August 04 which was more of a starting point for the next tourney there in October:
<span style='font-size: 8pt'>
* the club building (it wasn't as ugly inside)
* Unicorn at Pacco's
* Pacco tries out FS2
* left to right Pacco, Roscou's head, Knot, Unicorn, Medvěd
* more warming up in Raptor</span>

Here's a replay from the finals, Knot x Pacco again, and won by Pacco again: <span style='font-size: 8pt'>
* finals</span>

We got in touch with the Austrian Team Virtual Combat in December 04 and attended - me, Unicorn and Knot - the vf part of their Winter Cup in the Shinergy dojo in Vienna. That was the first meeting with the Virtual Combat dudes and dudettes. You can see some them on the TTT top three photo - left to right Comboholic (Gregor), Quickben (Ben), Lukas, Zaubermaister (Jorgen), Cold (Dani) or DocHoliday (Igor). We met also Denis aka Jacky Chun, chief instructor of the Shinergy dojo, his sister Poison Ivy, Hamada or the shinergy kids. Since the events were held in dojo, there were people who were actually training martial arts or having work outs there, including kids from the Shinergy Young club who were taking part in the "Rookie cup" event. Now I know Polish players begin playing at early age, but that's prolly nothing compared to rookie cup contestants. Seeing such a gaming base was real astonishing.
The event was very well done. Denis and Ben provided commentary both in german and japanese and the vibe was great. Knot made it to the finals with his Aoi and ended up like a runner up after Jacky Chun's Jacky. We stayed for some friendly playing till the next day at Igors' and took the eurocity back home then. Taking part in Virual Combat tournyes was major love.
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* TTT runner up (John), champ Doc Holiday (Igor)
* Fabian x Patrick</span>

casual replay <span style='font-size: 8pt'>DocHoliday x Knot (Aoi x Aoi)</span>

Me and Knot qualified for the Virtual Combat Finals that were taking place at the end of December. Eventually I went just by myself. I lost against Igor's Aoi in the first round, but again the event was worth dropping by. Zaubermeister, Denis, Greg, Igor and Hamada had some great matches and came off respectively.
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* Austrian VF4 Evo '05 top three Comboholic (Greg), Zaubemeister (Jorgen), Jacky Chun (Denis)</span>

Some casuals from after the tourney (please bear with the gameplay)
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* Zaubemeister x me
* Zaubemeister x me</span>

Another remarkable tourney was Otrokovice in July 05. Virtual Combat team appeared for tekken and vf and for the first time some vfers showed up in the group of Polish players - as far as I can remember they were Wacha and Kuras. The semifinals came off real good so the first three places in vf took Pacco, Wacha and Denis.
<span style='font-size: 8pt'>
* left to right Gregor, Unicorn, Wacha, Igor, Kuras, behind them Knot, Denis, Ben and Dani
* Qwerty and Lojza playing Tekken, panda in the background
* Otrokovice 05 VF champs: Wacha, Pacco, Denis
* Day two: Lojza getting humped by panda</span>

some casuals: <span style='font-size: 8pt'>
* Denis (Ja) x Wacha (Je)
* Denis (Sh) x Wacha (Je)</span>

Some friendly gatherings took place in Dec 05, Feb 06 and March 06 at Unicorn's. Unicorn attended E3 in May 06 and was playing some early version of VF5 and FT on local arcades but didn't seem to be able to find any pics now. I'm still pretty much sure it happened though : ) The next all fighters event was in Jirkov in July 06. We got to know some more Polish players who were playing most of the games that were on the list. Some of them even played vf, namely the fighting brothers Matt and Devil who you might recall from Griever's post. The vf champ was Pacco again, Matt end up second.
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* some trophies
* Matt the Jirkov 06 VF4Evo runner up
* view of the hall, yours truly me at the right bottom
* Polish crew scores in TTT (Sova, Majin Gon, Matt, Devil)</span>

some casual replays:<span style='font-size: 8pt'>
* me (Li) x Matt (Aoi)
* me (Li) x Devil (Ka)
* Unicorn (Je )x Matt (Ka)
* Unicorn (Je) x Matt (Br)</span>

The last vf thing I took part in was a friendly VF4Evo good bye gathering in Warsaw in November. I met Wacha and Kuras again and took up with Forty, Di, Villain and Ruccio. There are no pics from this event (you don't miss much), but if you still didn't have enough, there are some replays.<span style='font-size: 8pt'>
* Villain (KA) x Wacha (JE)
* me (WO) x 40i4 (GO)
* 40i4 (JA) x Wacha (SA)</span>

I'm slightly optimistic towards future. VF5 will hopefully bring some new players, some will convert from tekken at least until tk6 is out, and future gatherings are already being planned. Boy my carpals hurt.

 

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In Team Crooked Jester's evergrowing support of the competetive gaming community, we have just introduced a Virtua Fighter specific style-sheet for our webpage!

http://www.crookedjester.com/?styleid=5

(We also have Tekken and Narutimate style sheets)

 

I think I deserve a copy of Virtua Fighter 5 becaues of one word LOYALTY. I have been a devout Virtua Fighter fan since the first one.

I know so is every one else on this website, but let me explain what I mean when I say I've been a since the very first Virtua Fighter game. To me this game is simple math. A three button layout that can result in a extraordinary fight match, if you put the effort into it. Now a days people aren't intrested in taking time in learning a video game. To me in this day in age video games in general are taken casually. You mite go over to a friends house and play a sports game,a shooting game, or even a adventure game. That is okay for some people, but you can have just as much fun playing a video game like Virtua Fighter 5 if you take the time to learn the proper techniques it takes to learn a game like this.

So for my scene in Columbus Ohio,I would like to educate these casul gamers how much more deeper a game like Virtua Fighter 5 can be if you put effort into it. And with that will come fun and excitement of how great a deep game like Virtua Fighter can be. So with that knowledge a game like this can be ten times more exciting than just button mashing, or knowing one, or two moves.

Since you are giving us (the fans) this great opportunity to make are scene grow, we can show gamers how awesome a game like Vertua Fighter 5 can be once you develop, and master your skills.

 

VF5 Free Giveaway Contest!!!! Dominican Republic

I got to admit it!!
Exposing the situation of our VF fighting scene it's not easy
after seeing so many good entries, but the way I see it, even
if we don’t win a copy of VF5, maybe a VF player or a group of
players could come to this beautiful island for vacations. In
other words: Beach, Sun, Beautiful Women and VF… What else
could somebody wants. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif



<span style='font-size: 20pt'>The Story</span>

Ok, Let’s start from the beginning. The first time that I saw
VF, was VF1 but it came late. I think that it was by the time
that VF2 was already out. I was somehow attracted to that new
style of fighters, but not enough to leave Street Fighter. Then
at the end of 1996, I got a Saturn and Street Fighter Alpha 2,
also got VF2. This time, I was really impress with the game.
So I decided to play the game with the “Ryu†type of character
called “Akiraâ€Â. Well, you can imagine what happened 

So I started training with Sarah and it was love at first kick.
The only problem was that I couldn’t find a single soul that
wanted to play VF2 with me. So after trying a few more times, I
stopped playing VF2.


A few years later, I saw information about VF3!! I said to
myself, I got to play this game. So I begged and got on my knees
and begged a little more to my local arcade to get this machine.
Finally after VF3TB was out, my local arcade got a VF3 board.
I remember like yesterday that I played the first match of that
machine. It was Sarah vs Lion. I also remember that I lost, but
anyway, I was so happy that even after loosing, I looked like
coming out of winning SBO.


Then something really wrong happened, nobody (and I mean nobody)
was playing VF3. The Tekken3 on the other hand, was always
packed. I began my work as a VF Evangelist, but with terrible

results. People got impressed with the graphics, but commitment
to the game was only skin deep. As terrible as it sounds, I
ended up again playing by myself alone. The only difference was
that I had to feed this “VF3 Saturn†with tokens in order to
play. I played quite a lot in that arcade. The characters that I used were:

Sarah, Pai, Aoi, Akira in that same order. I was giving Akira a
second chance, but I got to admit that my Akira sucks BigTime.

After that, the Sega DreamCast came out and I got one with
VF3TB, it was great, but I wanted a stick for playing. I even
got the chance of trying VF3TB with an Agetec stick. I remember
thinking “What’s with the lollypop?â€Â.
The DreamCast was a lifesaver, because my local arcade closed that year, so no more
VF3 for me.


Years of seeing fighting coming and going, but no VF of any sort
in my country.

VF4 was announced and I was (once more) amazed because of this
fighting series.


Asking for the possibilities of having this game in my country? ZERO

So I waited for the PS2 version. I remember preordering!!

My GOD!! What a Great Game!!


But even after all the improvements, I ended up playing VF4
again alone…
Evolution…. The same…

Then I though: “I got to get in touch with people that play this gameâ€Â

And the project “HonMaru: VideoFighting en R.D.†was born!!

My idea? Simple, create a web page and dedicated to the best of
the best in 2D and 3D fighting games. The results? In two years,
the fighting community in my country is organized and small
tourneys of supported games are carried.

But the most important part of all is:

I got a very small but dedicated fighting scene for VF.
It was really something to find people that liked this game.



<span style='font-size: 20pt'>The People</span>


<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Alucard</span>



This is our fulltime dedicated Akira player. He can hold his own again anyone of the group.
Alucard is the kind of player that loves to put pressure on his opponent.
And let me tell you that one mistake is all this guy needs to take half of your life away.

Ahh, before I forget it, he is a die hard fan of the DualShock. So no stick for this Akira.


<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Shinobi</span>



Alucard little brother must be easy for anyone to guess his character.
Shinobi takes advantage of all Kage tools and is the most technical fighter of the whole group.


<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Xtyle</span>



Manía Xtyle is Another strong player of our Dominican Team. This one is our Shun player.
Lately, he is not coming so often to gatherings, but I am very sure that that’s about to change.


<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Shadow Devil</span>



This member is not that old and he likes Goh.
He is doing a very good job learning a character like Goh.
He needs more practice, but he is doing well.


<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Katsuya</span>



After playing with Katsuya, you might think that his last name is “Machiâ€Â
or something like that. Katsuya can lead you to make mistakes that can cost you
a round or even the fight.

Amazing enough, he can get wins out of more skilled players than him.
So if you have to fight him, my advice is to stay cool.


<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Magnusum</span>



He plays with Lei Fei and Wolf. And Lion and Pai… So we call him sometimes
the MokuJin of the group (referring to the wood puppet of Tekken that changes
style in every round).

Magnusum is a Sony fan (very weird thing nowadays) and he don’t want to play VF in X360.
How strange can this get? He has a very solid Wolf and LeiFei.

In case he is winning, just show him a picture of the latest Bravia T.V. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
That will do the trick.


<span style='font-size: 14pt'>BigJoe</span>



Very well know Soul Calibur Player. He always goes for fatale women and heavy characters.
In VF he plays with Jeffry and Vanessa.


<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Heta Akira</span>




42 years old fan of fighting games and founder of HonMaru
project. For me fighting is a sport and VF happens to be the
mother of all sports. I know that I still got a long way
promoting this great game. Ahh, in case you wonder what is the
meaning of my ring name, Heta Akira = Scrub Akira (Aoi is my
main character).


<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Ranarkis</span>



That is his ring name and real name. He is the newest member of our group.
He must love this game, because he trained without anyone.
Starting from this last gathering, Ranarkis and his Lei Fei is an integral part of our VF Scene.


<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Chiqui</span>



Well if SEGA got one, why can’t we have one also?
The mascot of the league spends part of the time looking at our matches.


<span style='font-size: 20pt'>The Places</span>

These are the places where we fight!!


<span style='font-size: 14pt'>My House:</span>

I got a very small area for my use so there is a limit of people that I can take.
Nevertheless, we get good gatherings at my home.




<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Shinobi’s Home:</span>

More space, and more equipment. This place was really the home of good Evolution fight










<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Arena Cyber Games:</span>

After the VF5 comes out, we will meet in this club inside the “Plaza Central†mall.
And there is the PS3 that we will use.









<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Diamond Mall</span>

There is a VF4E machine in that Mall, but the only problem is that the game is inside a cabinet of VF1.
I hate that buttons layout.




<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Chinese Restaurant</span>



Just kidding /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
We go from time to time to have dinner.



<span style='font-size: 20pt'>The Tools</span>

What we use for fighting?

Only Shadow Devil and use sticks, all the other members use the terrible DualShock for playing.
Even Alucard do all kind of things with a pad.


<span style='font-size: 14pt'>These are my sticks</span>



<span style='font-size: 14pt'>And this baby is just waiting for VF5</span>





<span style='font-size: 20pt'>The Stuff</span>

Here I have some pictures of VF related things. It’s a small collection,
but I am very proud of every part of it.










<span style='font-size: 20pt'>The Inevitable</span>

This is an omake of my scene presentation.
In this video, you will see the last part of a fight that I was
recording. That was until something happened. See for yourself.


To understand what happened, I will give you a clue. Dominican
Republic is a third world country /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shocked.gif Still don’t get it?
Ask Sudden Death, he knows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJkNXDIqVE4


Peace and let’s keep vfighting


Heta Akira

 

Re: VF5 Free Giveaway Contest!!!! Dominican Republic

WE NEED A INTERNATIONAL GATHERING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Re: VF5 Free Giveaway Contest!!!! Dominican Republic

AND YES EVERYBODY IS SHOWING UP FOR THIS BITCH!!

 

Re: VF5 Free Giveaway Contest!!!! Dominican Republic

awsome post heta akira! so refreshing seeing I have a place to play VF in my hometown dominican republic! you guys should get a copy man, I know how it is specially in a third world country to play such an expensive hobby like playing VF. i was making the nyc scene post (at 4am and have to go to work) and I accidentaly closed the web browser (OWNED!) and im running out of time (hopefully ill get to do it before after work, OR someone else from our group will post it) /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif but if I get to post and win a copy, ill gladly give it away to you guys, we have enough people here that have the game or will buy it anyways, it would make it a little easier for you guys to continue playing.

rock on dominican republic scene! represent!

 

Re: VF5 Free Giveaway Contest!!!! Dominican Republic

Watching all this just makes you want to go out and make your own good scene,but it's very cool to see a whole lot VF players around the world sharing they're thoughs on the game,maybe this will make people around here play vf that never played vf before.

This is hottness!