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Akai from VFDC sent over some Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown replays from the first Kakutou Shinseiki VI (KSVI) qualifying tournament in Japan that went down over the weekend. Rather than butcher the explanation myself, check out what Akai had to say about it and what to look forward to in the future:

The weekend that just passed by officially began the preliminary qualifying tournaments (from January 14th, 2012 to March 4th, 2012 ) for Kakutou Shinseiki VI (KSVI).  KSVI is a national Japanese Virtua Fighter (VF) tournament held by Sega since the original VF4 game.  The main event will be held in March (exact dates have not been determined). 

Sega will be streaming live a total of 7 KSVI preliminary qualifying tournaments.  The first one (Tokyo A) was streamed on Jan. 14th (link to an archived video of the event http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/19751686 ).  Shiwa (Pai) won that event.  

Other links of interest:

1.  Link to the Official Japanese KSVI website: http://www.virtuafighter.jp/kaku6/index.html

2.  Link to an English version of the KSVI 64-player bracket as of Jan. 16, 2012.  Bold and non-italics font = The players that have qualified for the event; italics font are still spots in bracket that have not been determined  http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/akaiten/tournament_eng_1-16-12.jpg

3.  Link to English summary of the event on VFDC: http://virtuafighter.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/312126#Post312126