The fighting games esports event lives up to its name this year. All of the details are here.
Big regional events, such as FV Major 2024, are interesting for two reasons. They give local players a chance to prove themselves on the international scene — as obviously, not everyone can afford trips to Evo. Also, some world-level celebrities still attend these qualifiers to harvest standing points and earn invites to the global finals. This mix creates wonderful matches, spectacular to watch and educational for the growth in a game of your choice.
FV Major 2024 is exactly such a mix of local heroes unleashing their full power and guest celebrities demonstrating the top-most skill level. The event continues for two days, July 27 and 28. It features World Tour qualifiers for five games. Everything to know about FV Major 2024 is here: the schedule, streams, and global league details. The results of FV Major 2024 will be added when the tournaments are over.
FV Major 2024 schedule
The event features six games. In the schedule for FV Major 2024, we focus on the final parts only — the top 8 brackets for each game are the most intense.
Game | Date and local start time | PT and ET start time |
|---|---|---|
| The King of Fighters XV | Sunday, July 28; 11 a.m. | July 27, 8 p.m. PT / July 27, 11 p.m. ET |
| Guilty Gear Strive | Sunday, July 28; 11 a.m. | July 27, 8 p.m. PT / July 27, 11 p.m. ET |
| Dragon Ball FighterZ | Sunday, July 28; 1 p.m. | July 27, 10 p.m. PT / July 28, 1 a.m. ET |
| Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising | Sunday, July 28; 2 p.m. | July 27, 11 p.m. PT / July 28, 2 a.m. ET |
| TEKKEN 8 | Sunday, July 28; 4 p.m. | 1 a.m. PT / 4 a.m. ET |
| Street Fighter 6 | Sunday, July 28; 5 p.m. | 2 a.m. PT / 5 a.m. ET |
FV Major 2024 stream
The official Twitch channel of FV Major streams Guilty Gear Strive, Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, and Street Fighter 6 matches. Also, the stream of the FV Major is embedded below.
As for The King of Fighters XV, Dragon Ball FighterZ, and TEKKEN 8, the channel FlashVisionTV streams these tournaments.
Global league details
Five games at FV Major 2024 have World Tour/Championship qualifiers. And one more game is part of the Road to Evo Japan 2025 series.
TEKKEN 8: World Tour 2024 Challenger
This is arguably the largest World Tour qualifier at the FV Major. The TEKKEN 8 tournament has the biggest number of registered attendees. And thanks to the close location to the strongest TEKKEN regions, some of the best players in the world get to compete at the FV Major.
The list of players to watch out for includes:
- double, the winner of The MIXUP 2024
- ATIF, the winner of CEO 2024
- AK, the Combo Breaker 2024 winner
- Mulgold, the winner of Super Tournament 2024
- Rangchu, the best Kuma/Panda player in the world
- Chikurin, the Evo Japan 2024 champion
- Knee, a legend of competitive TEKKEN
- ULSAN, the winner of DreamHack Summer 2024
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Guilty Gear Strive: Arc World Tour 2024 Gold
This game has a dedicated community all over the world, and this Gold-tier qualifier gives Southeast Asian players a chance to earn precious standing points.
Guilty Gear Strive will be played on the most recent patch 1.38, introduced right after Evo 2024. This makes the FV Major tournament especially interesting.
Many strong Japanese players are attending the event, including Tyurara, the winner of Battle Arena Melbourne 14.
Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising: Arc World Tour 2024 Gold
This is another game featured in the official league by Arc System Works. Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising at FV Major 2024 has a Gold qualifier, which means the top players will earn points for the global leaderboard.
The number of attendees is slightly smaller than for Guilty Gear Strive, but Tyurara has also registered for Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, as the player won BAM 14 for this game as well.
The King of Fighters XV: The SNK World Championship 2025
On the one hand, the current format of the SNK World Championship is weird. There are no standing points for top placements at big KOF XV tournaments. Instead, the winners of selected qualifiers got direct invites to the Finals like Xiaohai at Evo 2024. This, on the other hand, significantly increases the stakes at such events and motivates the best The King of Fighters XV players in the world to travel and fight for victory.
This tournament at FV Major 2024 is a qualifier for the SNK World Championship 2025. MadKOF, a well-known competitor from Korea, has registered for it, alongside some top-level TEKKEN players: CHANEL and THE JON.
Dragon Ball FighterZ: The DBFZ World Tour 2024-25 Power Event
The World Tour for Dragon Ball FighterZ was announced unexpectedly. For the community, it’s a wave of fresh energy in the competitive environment of their favorite game.
The tournament at FV Major 2024 has the highest tier among general qualifiers: it's a Power event. Many standing points can be won here, so top players will join the fights: Xanxus from the Philippines, Uchiha_FZ from Pakistan, and Novix from Australia, who qualified for World Tour Finals 2022-23.
Street Fighter 6: Road to Evo Japan 2025
A bit surprisingly, the Street Fighter 6 tournament at FV Major doesn’t have a global status. Still, it’s a very important event for the local Street Fighter 6 players, as part of the Road to EVO Japan 2025 for the Malaysia region only.
FV Major 2024 results
We will add the results of FV Major 2024 to this section after the tournaments end. For everything about fighting games, stick around on esports.gg!
