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The Evo 2024 Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising tournament is quite important for the community. Not only is it proof that the game is thriving after being substantially enhanced, but it's also a top-tier qualifier for the official global league, Arc World Tour 2024. The best players in the world gather in Las Vegas to demonstrate what the improved mechanics and new characters are capable of. The Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising tournament winner at Evo 2024 earns a direct invite to the Global Finals event.
Everything about GBVS Rising Evo 2024 is here.
Where to watch Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising Evo 2024
Like the other games in the main lineup of Evo 2024, GBVS Rising is streamed on two Twitch channels.
- Twitch/evo5 — For the starting rounds. You can follow the path of players here up to the final brackets.
- Twitch/evo — For the top 6 brackets.
The GBVS Rising Evo 2024 stream is also embedded below.
Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising results at Evo 2024
The top 6 brackets before the final stage of the GBVS Rising tournament is on the image below.
Evo 2024 GBVS Rising schedule
More than 1,380 players registered for the tournament. A total of 64 initial pools and five rounds will determine the winner.
- Round 1: 64 pools. In this and the following pool rounds, 6 players per pool qualify for the next tournament stage.
- Round 2: 16 pools
- Round 3: 4 pools
- Top 24
- Top 6
The full schedule of the Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising tournament at Evo 2024 is in the table below.
Tournament Stage | Date | PT Start Time | ET Start Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round 1 | Friday, July 19 | 6 p.m. | 9 p.m. |
| Round 1, Part 2 | Saturday, July 20 | 10 a.m. | 1 p.m. |
| Round 2 | Saturday, July 20 | 12 p.m. | 3 p.m. |
| Round 3 | Saturday, July 20 | 5 p.m. | 8 p.m. |
| Top 24 to top 6 | Saturday, July 20 | 7 p.m. | 10 p.m. |
| Top 6 | Sunday, July 21 | 10 a.m. | 1 p.m. |
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GBVS Rising: Arc World Tour Platinum
While having Guilty Gear Strive as the main title of the Arc World Tour is no surprise, as the game is an internal product of Arc System Works, the same status for GBVSR feels like a wonderful achievement. Arc System Works participates in the development of many other fighting games based on someone else's franchise, like DNF Duel or Dragon Ball FighterZ, but they don't make it to the official league.
GBVS Rising is based on a mobile multiplayer RPG Granblue Fantasy. It's super popular in Japan and was released for the West as Granblue Fantasy Relink in 2024 on PC and consoles.
The original fighting game is Granblue Fantasy Versus. The community considers it somewhat basic, without the usual Arc System Works depth. The developers rebooted the project and named the improved version Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising. It's really good! The gameplay is as accessible as in the first release, featuring a simplified input scheme. But GBVS Rising also offers many new fighting options for advanced players, making it a great competitive title.
At Evo 2024, GBVSR has a Platinum Arc World Tour qualifier. This means more standing points for top placements and a direct invite to the Global Finals for the winner. There are only five such events in the Arc Word Tour 2024.
- Evo Japan 2024: The winner is Rookies
- Evo 2024
- VSFighting XII: Aug. 16 to Aug. 18 in the U.K.
- Ultimate Fighting Arena 2024: Sept. 13 to Sept. 15 in France
- Frosty Faustings XVII: Jan. 23 to Jan. 26 in the U.S.
Unlike UNI2, GBVS Rising has Gold qualifiers as well. These tournaments bring points to the best players, so they can hope to reach the top 10 placements in the global leaderboard and also qualify for the Arc World Tour 2024 Global Finals. The Gold events may still be pretty big, like Combo Breaker or CEO.
New characters for Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising
Four DLC characters have been released for GBVS Rising in addition to the main roster:
- Lucilius
- 2B
- Vane
- Beatrix
Versusia in Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising
The first DLC character in the GBVS Rising Character Pass 2 is Versusia, which is playable at Evo.
Granblue Fantasy Versus at previous Evo events
It is the first Evo tournament for the Rising version, but the original game Granblue Fantasy Versus had its Evo champion: Gamera won Evo 2022.
In fact, Gamera won a GBVS Rising tournament at Evo as well. But that was a side event and for the beta version of the game in 2023.
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