Last Updated: October 7th, 2012. After 60-plus team tournaments in the past 9 months, the Virtua Fighter Relationship 2011-2012 season reaches its climax with the 5on5 Beat-Tribe Cup team tournament (October 7th, 2012)! This is a massive event, in which VF players all over Japan gather together for an entire day of gaming. Last year, over 700 players participated!

13th Beat-Tribe Cup Promotional Video​

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A rough summary from the main website of Virtua Fighter Relationship (VFR) description of Beat-Tribe: The Grand Final of the 13th season of VFR ends with the Beat-Tribe Cup. With next year being the 20th Anniversary of Virtua Fighter, it is not an over exaggeration to say that the VFR events (which started two years after the released of the original Virtua Fighter) is an essential part of VF history and culture. Throughout the series, many iconic players have appeared with miraculous feats of battles in the events. Anyone can join in this event, and everyone have a chance of winning!

Picture on Front Page: Taken by Ohsu Akira

Last Year's Beat-Tribe Cup Event​

Archive of 2011 BT-Cup Top 16 Matches (Local Star Beat-Tribe Cup Archive - Lots of good information)
Summary of 2011 BT-Cup (Links to Archive of 2011 BT-Cup Stream) (Due to change in forums, the page format is not optimal)

Pre-Tournament Activities​

Mock Beat-Tribe Tournaments on September 29th-30th (Nagoya area and Tokyo area)
Nagoya Practice/Mock BT Cup Event - September 29th
Preliminary League to Playoff Stage
Final Tournament Stage

Tokyo Practice/Mock BT Cup Event (Newton Cup) - September 30th
Casuals and Preliminary League
Preliminary League Stage (1st Half)
Preliminary League Stage (2nd Half)
Playoff Stage
Final Tournament Stage

Outline of the Tournament (October 7th)​

144 Team Entries (720 players)​

Archive of tournament is not complete (missing a lot of the actual event that was streamed). Note: People are having issues with viewing of these videos. Will update if the issues are resolved.​

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1st Stage - Preliminary Selection Stage - Single Elimination Tournament Brackets for Non-ranked teams (94 teams). 10 brackets, with the 10 winning teams advancing to the Preliminary League. 84 teams eliminated at the end of this stage.
Preliminary Selection Archive 1
Preliminary Selection Archive 2

2nd Stage - Preliminary League Stage - 60 teams - 20 Blocks with 3 Team Each Round Robins - 10 first place teams in Seeded Block advance to Final Tournament Stage, 10 first place teams of non-Seeded Block advance to Playoff. 20 second place teams advance to Wild Card. 20 teams eliminated at the end of this stage (104 total teams eliminated / 40 teams remain).
Preliminary League Archive 1
Preliminary League Archive 2
Preliminary League Archive 3

3rd Stage - Wild Card Stage - 20 teams - two single elimination brackets - a representative from each team fights in the tournament with 2 teams advancing to the Playoff Stage. 18 teams eliminated at the end of this stage (122 total teams eliminated / 22 teams remain)
Wild Card Archive

4th Stage - Playoff Stage - 12 teams - 6 matches with the 6 winners advancing to the Final Stage. 6 teams eliminated at the end of this stage (128 total teams eliminated / 16 teams remain)
Playoff Archive

5th Stage - Final Tournament Stage - 16 teams - Single Elimination.
13th BT Cup Final Tournament Stage Promotional Video

Note that Ustream version of Final Tournament Stage have different video feeds than the Nico Nico.
Final Tournament Archive 1 (Ustream)
Final Tournament Archive 2 (Ustream)
Final Tournament Stage (Nico Nico - How to Register on Nico Nico Video)

Winners were given the titles: 五虎将 (Gokoshou - 5 Tiger Generals)

Spoiler results summary (highlight below)

1st.Team Ireizaa - Fuudo (SH) / Paidaman(Sarudera) (JA) / Gorgeous Eileen (GO) / Masukudo (LI) / Magnum (JE)

2nd. Shimantogawa Ryouri Gakuen - YOU (SA) / Terazoo (LA) / Tane (AK) / Maichi (EI) / Jin (KA)

Spoiler results summary (highlight above)

Last Updated: October 10th, 2012