Sega's first e-sports tournament "Puyo Puyo Championship in Sega Fest 2018" will be held! Regular tournament & ranking system will be introduced.

On April 15 (Sun.), Sega's first e-sports tournament "Puyo Puyo Championship in Sega Fest 2018" was held at the "Sega Fest 2018" event at Bellesalle Akihabara.

PuyoPuyo Championship in SEGA FES 2018" is the first official tournament in the popular action puzzle game "PuyoPuyo" series for players who have acquired Japan eSports Pro License. A total of 15 players, including 11 players who obtained professional licenses based on prior recommendations and 4 players who obtained licenses by winning top prizes in the Japan eSports Pro License recognition tournament "Puyo Puyo Cup in SegaFest 2018" held yesterday, Saturday, 14th. The tournament was played by 15 players.

The tournament was a great success from the first round, as the players were all super experts who had obtained their professional licenses. With their fluent Puyo moves, the players quickly built up a large chain of more than 10 chains, while repeating 2 or 3 chains in between to destroy their opponents' detonation points, or to induce their opponents to detonate their chains and make a big comeback with a larger chain. The audience was enveloped in a whirlpool of excitement.


Kamestry and Machyomu won the fierce battle and advanced to the finals. Both players had been playing in tournaments for more than 20 years, and were sworn rivals in the Puyo-Puyo world. In the end, it was Machyomu's stable play in both offense and defense that won the match, and she was crowned the first champion of the "PuyoPuyo Championship.


At the award ceremony that followed, Mr. Hiroyuki Miyazaki, Chairman of the eSports Executive Committee of SEGA Games, Inc. presented the first place winner, Chi Machyomu, with a prize money of 1,000,000 yen, the second place winner, Kamestry, with 500,000 yen, and the third place winner, Tom, and the fourth place winner, live, with 100,000 yen.


After the awards ceremony, Mr. Miyazaki announced the "Puyopuyo" series e-sports tournament: "Future Prospects. The "Puyo Puyo Championship," a regular tournament for professional players (with a prize money of 250,000 yen) will be held every other month starting in June, and a special "Puyo Puyo Championship" tournament with a prize money of 1 million yen will be held in September. In addition, the annual player ranking system will be adopted, and the "2018 Strongest Puyo Puyo Player Championship" will be held in March 2019 for the top ranked players to be recognized by the Japan eSports Pro License. Details of the ranking system will be announced at a later date.

A mixed tournament for professional and general players, "Puyo Puyo Cup," will also be held every other month starting in June. General players who finish in fourth place in the tournament will be given the right to be issued a professional license. Entries for general players are being accepted on the entry site ( # ) from today, April 15 (Sun.).



In closing, Miyazaki said, "Next year, I would like to add the word 'world' to the name of the tournament," and the "Puyo Puyo Championship in SegaFest 2018" closed with loud applause.


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