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Frank "I can't talk about it" Hom, Senior Producer on Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown at SEGA of America has blogged about The Road to Evo 2012.

"The ROAD wasn’t easy and we met a lot of great people who hooked onto our bandwagon as we made the journey. I’d like to give some highlights from my perspective now that EVO has passed."

It's an excellent account on the journey SEGA have taken, starting from 2010 with Frank's appointment of Producer, and culminating at EVO 2012. Check it out!

» Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown - The Road to Evo 2012

Y'all thought you could rest. Hah. No!

IT'S COMBO TIME!

Last week, Gamer Bee(!), L_A and GoatCheese Blues took the top spots and Rip earned $60 of IndustryVFX money by winning the WNF Weekly Rising Star Player Award. Don't sit on your ass at home and let that happen again. Come and do some BIG DAMAGE!

Now there's more money up for grabs!

Brisal73 just messaged a bit ago. He's putting his money on the line, too. He will pay players new to VF $5 every time they win a game off of him in the tournament. Send him to losers, you get $10. Meet him there later and kick him out of the tourney, BAM!, another $10 for you (or anyone else who does it).

WNFs are hosted at the Super Arcade in Walnut, California with the tourney to start ~ 9 PM PST. Casuals start at 7 PM PST. $5 to get in. $5 to enter the tournament.

Last season saw 30+ players entered two weeks in a row. Looking for 40+ for 4.2. Let's do this!

For past summaries of the previous events, please check the Wednesday Night Fights - Weekly VF5FS Tournaments Summary Thread. For those that don't live in the Los Angeles area, the event will be streamed at the Level|Up Live Channel.

Update: Results and Archive of event are up.
WNF 4.2 VF5FS Challonge Bracket
WNF 4.2 VF5FS Tournament - Part...

Due to Evo 2012 the "Weekly Roundup" for this time around is actually for two weeks: June 29th to July 12th. So here are some links that you might be unaware of, but may be of interest to you. If you think something should be highlighted for next week's roundup, PM one of the moderators about it!

Post-Evo Podcast with LA Akira - hosted by Chibiaya, first of hopefully many. Direct link to the Podcast

VF5FS DLC Review - by BloodBurger, who earlier made videos displaying the command lists of all the characters.

Apocryphic Visions 'Shihan' Akira Combo Video. - made by ApocryphicV. Not to mention there are tons of combo videos made the last two weeks by other users including DatNewCharisma, Sithlord (multiple videos!), and BolverkGTM.

Members of Team Ninja and Dengeki magazine squared off in DOA5, bringing us our first look at Sarah in action!

It looks like most of her attacks are intact from VF5, so Sarah vets will most likely be able to jump right into the game once it comes out in September.

L. A. Akira and Industry VFX are paying you to step up your game!

If you're new to Virtua Fighter, this is a no-brainer! Go to Wednesday Night Fights at Super Arcade, sign up for the VF5:FS tournament, and get the best placement of all new players. L. A. Akira of Industry VFX will then hand you a $50 check.

This Rising Star Player Award is for new players only, so people like GoatCheese Blues, DRE, and Plague are not eligible.

$10 Bonus! Win even if you lose!

Win one tournament game off of L. A. Akira and get $10. Win two and get $20. So even if you lose the battle 1-2, you get $10 whether you place well in the tourney or not.

L A. Akira is really stepping up here. Think about this: You put him in losers, then knock him out of the tournament, and get the highest placement of all new players in the tourney, you walk away with $90 of his money.

This is happening every week. Come get some.

<span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Congratulations to the EVO 2K12 VF5FS Champion Fuudo!</span>

EVO 2012 is a wrap! The top 3 results were:

1. RZR|Fuudo (Shun)
2. Shironuko (El Blaze)
3. RZR|Itabashi Zangief (Shun)

Congratulations also to the top 16 who managed to finish "in the money". Read on for full top 16 results and media links.

A massive shoutout to SEGA and the EVO crew for making this a reality! With barely a month from official release, the response and attendance was amazing and we, as a community, only hope this is just a sign of things to come! But it's up to us, the community, to make sure VF is official for EVO 2013.

Also, a huge thanks to Jaxel for streaming the event for the masses. Please show him your appreciation with a donation!

Were you at EVO this year? Did you watch the streams? If you've got a shoutout to give, sound off in here!

(image courtesy of Karaface)

Y'all thought you could rest. Hah. No!

IT'S COMBO TIME!

In the last season, L_A, GoatCheese Blues, DRE and Plague were regulars in the top spots. Don't sit on your ass at home and let that happen again. Come and do some BIG DAMAGE!

WNFs are hosted at the Super Arcade in Walnut, California with the tourney to start ~ 9 PM PST. Casuals start at 7 PM PST. $5 to get in. $5 to enter the tournament.

Last season saw 30+ players entered two weeks in a row. Looking for 40+ for Summer Edition. Let's do this!

For past summaries of the previous events, please check the
Wednesday Night Fights - Weekly VF5FS Tournaments Summary Thread. For those that don't live in the Los Angeles area, the event will be streamed at the Level|Up Live Channel.

I was at EVO. The official word is this:

If VF gets enough participation at recognized local, regional, and national events by December, 2012 - it makes the roster for Evo 2013.

SEGA is aware of this.

Now you all are, too.

Here's what to do:

Get out of the house. Share a ride if you need to. Go to ALL your local battles. Bring your friends. Enter the tournaments. If you have no local event, create one. Stream it online. Post the URL on VFDC and SRK.

If Evo organizers can see that including FS will make them some money, the game is in.

Jaxel, from 8wayrun.com, has been kind enough to stream the Final Showdown action from Evo this year through his twitch.tv channel. Help Jaxel out for providing non-stop stream the first two days of Evo by donating to 8 Way Run: http://8wayrun.com/donate

Day 1 VF5FS at Evo 2012 Archive - Pool 1 to ...
Day 1 VF5FS at Evo 2012 Archive - up to Pool 4
Day 2 VF5FS at Evo 2012 Archive - Pool 5 to ...(start ~3 hour mark)
Day 2 VF5FS at Evo 2012 Archive - Pool 6 to Top 16 (minus Top 3)

Top 3 of VF5FS was on the main Evo Channel at July 9, 2012
Day 3 VF5FS at Evo 2012 Archive - Top 3 (beginning of vid)