Puyopuyo" e-sports championship, schedule and regulations announced!

SEGA announced the schedule and regulations for the "National eSports Championship 2020" and "National eSports Championship 2020 KAGOSHIMA" competitions for the action puzzle game "Puyo Puyo" series, which is a Japan eSports Pro License certified title. The schedule and regulations for the "National Prefectural eSports Championship 2020" and "National eSports Championship 2020 KAGOSHIMA" were announced.

The e-sports tournaments are open to players residing in Japan who meet the requirements, with representatives from each regional block competing to become the best in Japan.

The "National eSports Championship 2020 Puyopuyo" will be held from November 28 (Saturday) to determine the representative players of each block. The representative players from each block will advance to the "National eSports Championship 2020 KAGOSHIMA Puyopuyo Division" to be held on December 26 (Sat.) and 27 (Sun.).

About the National eSports Championship 2020 Puyopuyo Division
This tournament will be held online sequentially from November 28 (Sat) to determine the representative of each regional block.
The winners of this tournament will be selected to participate in the "National eSports Championship 2020 KAGOSHIMA Puyopuyo Division" online tournament to be held on December 26 (Sat.) and 27 (Sun.), 2020, as representatives of their respective blocks.

Period: Saturday, November 28, 2020 - Saturday, December 19, 2020
Format: Online

Tournament Flow:
Each prefecture will be divided into the following 7 blocks, and matches will be held online to determine the block representatives. The finalists for the tournament will be decided in the preliminary round for each block, and the final tournament will be held to decide the representative player for each block.

The number of players in each prefectural block and the number of players representing that block are as follows.

Block name: Hokkaido/Tohoku
Prefectures: Hokkaido, Aomori, Iwate, Akita, Miyagi, Yamagata, Fukushima
Number of block representatives: 1

Bloc name: Kanto
Prefectures: Gunma, Tochigi, Saitama, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, Ibaraki, Yamanashi
Bloc : 4

Bloc : Hoku-shin-etsu/Tokai
Prefectures: Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Nagano, Gifu, Aichi, Mie, Shizuoka
Bloc : 2

Bloc name: Kinki
Prefectures: Hyogo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nara, Wakayama, Shiga
Bloc : 2

Chugoku/Shikoku
Prefectures: Okayama, Hiroshima, Tottori, Shimane, Yamaguchi, Ehime, Kagawa, Tokushima, Kochi
Number of block representatives: 1

Bloc name: Kyushu/Okinawa
Prefectures: Nagasaki, Saga, Fukuoka, Oita, Kumamoto, Miyazaki, Kagoshima, Okinawa
Bloc : 1

Bloc name: Kagoshima (*)
Pref: Kagoshima
Bloc representation: 1

Bloc representatives: 12 in total
Kagoshima prefecture will be given a special quota to select one representative from Kagoshima prefecture.

＜Tournament Schedule
*From left to right: Block name / Preliminary round / Final tournament

Kagoshima Prefecture (*) / Saturday, November 28, 2020, 13:00- / -----
Hokkaido, Tohoku / Saturday, November 28, 2020, 15:00~ / Saturday, December 12, 2020
Hoku-Shinetsu and Tokai / November 29, 2020 (Sun) 13:00 - / December 12, 2020 (Sat)
Chugoku and Shikoku / Sunday, November 29, 2020 from 15:00 / Sunday, December 13, 2020
Kyushu and Okinawa: Saturday, December 5, 2020 from 13:00 - Saturday, December 19, 2020
Kinki / Saturday, December 5, 2020 from 15:00 / Sunday, December 13, 2020
Kanto / December 6, 2020 (Sun) 13:00 - / December 19, 2020 (Sat)

About the "National eSports Championship 2020 KAGOSHIMA Puyopuyo Division
This tournament will be held online, based in Kagoshima Prefecture, for representative players from each block determined in the above-mentioned block representative preliminary "National Inter-Prefectural eSports Championship 2020 Puyopuyo Division".
Details regarding the time, regulations, and management of the tournament will be announced on the entry page when tournament entry opens on Friday, October 23.

Dates:
Saturday, December 26, 2020: Preliminary Round
Sunday, December 27, 2020: Semifinals and Finals
Tournament format: Online

■Changes due to the impact of the spread of the new coronavirus infection
The "National eSports Championship 2020 Puyopuyo Division", originally scheduled to be held in April 2020, has been postponed due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection.

The offline tournament has been cancelled and the online tournament will be held.
The "Elementary School Division," in which only elementary school students can compete, has been cancelled due to the online format.
　However, elementary school players who meet the eligibility requirements may compete in the "General Division.
Prefectural qualifying rounds will be cancelled and block qualifying rounds will be held.

In addition, due to the cancellation of the Kagoshima 2020 National Athletic Meet Cultural Program, the event became its own e-sports tournament as the "National Prefectural e-Sports Championship 2020 KAGOSHIMA.

■Outlines of both tournaments
0Adopted software and rules
PuyoPuyo eSports" for PS4: PuyoPuyoDori rules

Version to be used
The latest version at the time of the tournament will be used.

Categories
General division: Elementary school students and up
*Because of the spread of the new coronavirus infection, the "Elementary School Division," in which only elementary school students can compete, has been cancelled due to the online competition.
However, elementary school students who meet the eligibility requirements may compete in the "General Division.

0 Entry fee
Free of charge
All expenses related to the competition, including software, charges for game platforms necessary for online competition, communication fees, etc., are to be borne by each contestant.

■Contestant Entry
Entry for the competition will begin on October 23, 2020 (Fri.) on "esports port," an e-sports portal site operated by JTB Communication Design, Inc.
Entries can be made for the block to which your prefecture belongs, so please feel free to apply.

esports port
#: "esports port" (in Japanese only)

The entry page will open after the start of entries on October 23 (Fri.).

＜What is "e-sports"?
The term "e-sports" is an abbreviation for "electronic sports," and in a broad sense, it refers to entertainment, competition, and sports in general that are played using electronic devices.