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To help usher a new era of VF and also to promote fans to use the Official Virtua Fighter Discord channel, SEGA has asked several members of the community to help out.

Kurita interviews Aoki for Dengeki Online, asking a lot of questions that I think many VF fans would want to hear his replies to. It is a long interview and you should check out the original Dengeki Online article! I also wrote my notes from the article in this thread.

On Friday, the Official VF Discord have summarized the Open β English and Japanese feedback from December 2024 into 3 charts: overall satisfaction of Open β, ranked matches, and room matches. Interestingly the English feedback were generally more favorable than the Japanese feedback. You can see the original charts and some excerpts of the feedback at the Official VF Discord News Section.

VFP - Virtua Fighter Prep - by WareDaKore is a browser-based app that quizzes your knowledge of in-game situations. Half of the characters are available for you to test your knowledge. Chosen 2P side character will do a move. You choose an answer (advantage, disadvantage, etc) from 1P side POV. App mostly in Japanese, but you can use browser's rough translation into your language of choice!

Over the past 5 or so days the official VF discord hosted a poll for character popularity.

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.

SuperGolden wrote a Python script that collects fighting game match data from YouTube videos efficiently. Specifically, with this script, he surveyed over 11,000 VF5US/VFeS online matches uploaded on vfans YouTube account. A variety of stats from those matches, plus a very useful filter and search tool to find specific matches, are available on his VirtuAnalytics website (works only on desktop).

An unlisted video posted on SEGA's Official YouTube channel on June 4th. "Empower the Gamers; Be a Game Changer; We are SEGA".

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.