The fighting games esports year traditionally starts with the tournaments of Frosty Faustings XVII, a big event in Chicago, Illinois.
It may be cold outside, but the hot matches definitely can warm your spirit — because “that is b***t, blazing”, you know. The main focus of Frosty Faustings XVII is Guilty Gear Strive, but the event goes far beyond this anime title.
With all the excitement happening in Chicago from Jan. 23 to Jan. 26, it is possible to highlight five aspects that make Frosty Faustings XVII such a great gathering of the fighting games community (FGC). Also, you’ll find here the detailed schedule, streams, and the final results.
Where to watch the tournaments of Frosty Faustings XVII?
The Frosty Faustings XVII tournaments are streamed via a variety of partnering Twitch channels.
Here is a list of channels to watch the final top 8 brackets for different games.
- TampaNeverSleeps — Guilty Gear Strive, Street Fighter 6
- JuicyGameNight — GBVS Rising
- lowkickesports — UNI2
- FunkyP — The King of Fighters XV, TEKKEN 8
- IFCYipeS — Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O.
The TampaNeverSleeps stream is embedded below, so watch Frosty Faustings XVII here when the matches are live.
The schedule
The detailed stream schedule of Frosty Faustings XVII 2025 is shown in the images below.
Also, the event has a section of community tournaments: Vortex Gallery. The schedule for these smaller games is here.
The results of Frosty Faustings XVII 2025
Check out the results of the main Frosty Faustings XVII tournaments in this section. We will add the info when the matches are over.
Five reasons not to miss the event (in-person and on streams)
Like all the other fighting games esports events, Frosty Faustings XVII 2025 is a chance to dive into the community of enthusiastic players and learn a lot of helpful tricks from top professionals. In addition to that, the wow effect of lighting reactions and well-elaborated combos is always wonderful.
As for specific things that make Frosty Faustings XVII great, five of them are listed in this section.
The last Platinum qualifiers of the Arc World Tour 2024
After a few months of competition, the Arc World Tour 2024 comes to an end. Frosty Faustings XVII is a powerful culmination! All three games of this official league have Platinum qualifiers: with direct invitations to the AWT 2024 Finals for the winners.
- Guilty Gear Strive is the main game of the Arc World Tour 2024, and it’s the front title of Frosty Faustings XVII. It’s the last Platinum qualifier for GGST.
- Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising became part of this league thanks to releasing the enhanced version of the original game. It’s a pretty unique title, visually and gameplay-wise.
- Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes] has only Platinum qualifiers, and this event is the last one.
After Frosty Faustings XVII, only Kayane Cup 2025 in Paris, France, remains for the competitors to try and earn standing points. It’s a smaller event: a Gold qualifier for GGST and Platinum for GBVSR. Then, there will be the Last Chance Qualifier (LCQ) and the AWT 2024 Finals event — to crown the ultimate champions.
One more exciting thing to add to our set of Arc System Works games is that the newest GBVS Rising character, Sandalphon, is playable at Frosty Faustings XVII. It’s quite a treat!
To feel the hype, check out the official trailer of Sandalphon in Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising.
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The latest build of Hunter x Hunter Nen Impact
It’s one of the main fighting games releases of 2025 (alongside Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves). In fact, it could be in our hands already, but the developers decided to postpone the release of Hunter x Hunter Nen Impact — for good, to make the game absolutely perfect.
It was officially confirmed that Hunter x Hunter Nen Impact is playable at Frosty Faustings XVII. Moreover, it’s the latest build of the game, with a bigger variety of available characters than at Evo 2024.
Sure, you need to be there to play Hunter x Hunter Nen Impact. Still, the feedback from content creators should be all over the Internet.
The KOF XV and SAMSHO SNK World Championship 2025 qualifier
The King of Fighters XV tournament at Frosty Faustings XVII is another big qualifier for the SNK World Championship 2025.
The game traditionally has super-powerful players in specific regions, and Mexico is one of them — they should visit the event, and it’s a show to witness. In fact, only two qualifiers remain after Frosty Faustings XVII 2025.
Also, SNK treats its community to an extra surprise. The Samurai Shodown tournament from the Vortex Gallery is also a World Championship qualifier. It was officially confirmed that both SAMSHO and Fatal Fury COTW join KOF XV at the Finals event.
A big Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. tournament
The title from 2006 is suddenly alive: Virtua Fighter 5 got an enhanced remaster on Steam, and the fuss around this game and the whole VF series is real now.
Frosty Faustings XVII hosts a tournament for Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. The organizers had to increase the participants cap and the prize pool due to somewhat unexpected demand among the players.
Could some info about Virtua Fighter 6 be revealed at the event?
Clive Rosfield at a big TEKKEN 8 tournament
Most players should be happy about the most recent TEKKEN 8 update as it has nerfed Clive Rosfield. His broken era is over, but the guest character is still a power to reckon with.
Frosty Faustings XVII is a chance to see what Clive is capable of in the offline environment of a top-level tournament. Can he even reach the top 8 now? For the esports community, it’s a nice preparation for TWT 2025.
There will be a pretty big break before the next huge multi-title event hits the scene. Meanwhile, we can enjoy some dedicated tournaments, such as the start of MK1 Pro Kompetition 2025 from Feb. 22 to Feb. 23 in Mexico.
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