The KOF Fighting Conference, in the setting of the game, was originally a street fighting competition held in South Town by Keith Howard, the character from "The Legend of the Wolf". It was originally due to the tradition of street fighting. , there is almost no round robin, and there is no referee to signal the start of the game or declare the KO, and it is basically conducted in the wild.

However, the KOF fighting competition in the KOF series has different settings from the original "Legend of the Hungry Wolf" and "Fist of the Dragon and Tiger 2" (KOF's setting is 'With the support of sponsors, it has developed into A world-wide fighting competition that is being broadcasted by various TV stations, it is set as a parallel world and uses the name KOF.

The global fighting competition, which has attracted much attention because of the huge prize money for the winning team and the highest honor given to the fighters, "never ends without incident". This competition is almost to achieve a certain purpose. There are, for example, the rulers of the dark world like Lucar Bernstein, the OROCHI clan, the Far Beyond clan, or secret societies like NESTS.

Therefore, before or after the finals, a death match different from the fighting competition will be held in a place provided by the organizer of the conference or an individual (such as an aircraft carrier, a secret base on a space station, etc.).

Unlike the "Hungry Wolf" series, the death of Keith, the organizer of the conference, was publicly reported, while the death of Guliza Lili was not known to the world.

If the fighter himself does not have an invitation letter, he can ask the fighter who holds the invitation letter to invite him to join the team, or he can substitute him because he is unable to participate with the invitation letter. Show up.

In addition, invitations snatched from others are also valid.

There are also cases where the organizer of the tournament has malicious intentions, leaving the invitation letter in order to allow specific people to participate, or letting them enter the finals unconditionally or participate in the competition midway, etc. The invitation letter is also used. .

Teams or individuals who are qualified to participate need to contact the KOF Operations Committee for final certification.

Regarding the rules of the conference, the use of swords and weapons of mass destruction is basically a foul.

Blunt weapons such as whips and sticks, as well as superpowers (fire and ice attacks, or the use of spiritual power or knives to pierce the body, etc.) are recognized.

But earring bombs, or sticks (Billy) which are crafts that emit flames, huge iron balls (Chen) and gauntlets with sharp claws (Cai), kunai (Kisaragi), etc., hidden weapons and daggers (Yamazaki Ryuji.

The instant foul used in the novel version loses) and the knife, and even the android (MAXIMA) whose whole body is full of powerful firepower are not specifically stated, so they can participate. of.

The KOF series is basically a team battle. However, there are also orthodox works (console version) where you can choose between team battles or individual battles. Expanded information

"The King of Fighters" is a famous battle-type fighting arcade game released on the MVS game console in 1994 under the Japanese company SNK, referred to as "KOF". It is also a world-scale fighting game held in the plot. The name of the fighting competition.

It was originally a fighting competition held on the stage of Nan Town in the company's other two works, the "Hungry Wolf" series and "Fist of the Dragon and Tiger 2".

KOF is the official abbreviation, taken from the first letter of each word.

The trademark is registered under the name of SNK Corporation.

Mainland China and Hong Kong are called "King of Fighters".

The officially recognized Chinese translation of the game is "King of Fighters" (it can be known from the SNK Playmore Hong Kong official website or some background text in some series).

Taiwan's translation is "King of Fighting", which is the translation of the move stickers on the original game console.