1 Million Dollar Splatoon Tournament Announced!

All the squids and kids in Japan are getting in their freshest gear because the biggest turf war of all time is about to go down! Alongside a tournament for Puzzle & Dragons the largest tournament ever for Splatoon with over 1 Million dollars in prizes. The tournament series is being hosted by Kadokawa and Toukaihi / Nicovideo parent company Dwango.

Eight cities are set to hold forty events in this major series, the first of which start here:

• Fukuoka (September 13)
• Sapporo (September 26)
• Nagoya (October 11)
• Osaka (November 3)
• Miyagi (November 15)
• Hiroshima (November 22)
• Kagawa (December 13)
• Tokyo (January 30)

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The tournaments will feature four on four Turf War matches with no weapon limitations. If any tournament has too many entrants those playing with be decided by a lottery. The grand finals will be held on January 30th through 31st in 2016. There is no current word on if a similar tournament will be coming to Europe or North America but stay tuned Squidboards for Splatoon coverage!

 

Wow! This sounds amazing! Hopefully it's live streamed because I for one do not live anywhere near Japan! Either way, it's cool to see something like this and that the Splatoon competitive community is growing. :)

 

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Wow! This sounds amazing! Hopefully it's streamed! xP

You dream killer!

 

Uhhh guys? I'm not sure everybody quite grasps the extent of this announcement. This is HUGE, and I'm not really sure anybody saw this coming. The ruleset may not be perfect, but 1,000,000 is a hell of a lot of money, and a great way to bring attention to the community

 

The game's been out for 2 months and it's got a 1,000,000 dollar tourney.... meanwhile fighting game prize pots barely hit the 100k mark and they've been around for more than a decade... good thing I'm playing this game now!

 

Your move smash. Now can they take us seriously instead of belittling us.

If you dont know what im talking about look at TSMZeRo's twitter, makes comments/jokes about splatoon esports and then makes jokes about mario party tournaments for 1M. Thanks zero we love you too

 

1 million dollars? What? That's like more than on some "real" sports tournament series. Who is sponsoring this event? Nintendo? If so, they surely are serious about this game now...

 

1 million dollars? What? That's like more than on some "real" sports tournament series. Who is sponsoring this event? Nintendo? If so, they surely are serious about this game now...

they always have been -_-

 

Wow...A million bucks? This thing needs to go to esports....

 

Amazing. Nintendo is surely seeing the potential that Splatoon has to be big, hopefully it comes over America!

 

Who is sponsoring this event? Nintendo?

That's not entirely clear as none of the news outlets mentioned it, but the two companies running the show are Nintendo and Dwango (who own NicoNicoDouga, the Japanese equivalent of YouTube). So probably one or both of them..

 

Now we need a Tournament for the US

 

Wow...A million bucks? This thing needs to go to esports....

Erm... it technically is as of now lol.

 

<--- my face reading this.

 

This announcement comes right after I stopped paying for premium niconico service. If it's streamed I might have to resubscribe so that I can watch in full screen.

 

This is HUGE. I REALLY hope this comes to the U.S., and maybe EU.

 

"Splatoon launched too bare-bones"
"The community will be dead in a month, just like Evolve"
Where are you now haters?

 

This should be fun to watch. I hope it gets broadcast here in the states somehow.

 

This is huge. Nintendo know the potential of splatoon esports. I see this slowly coming to the states.

 

Are there any like small tournaments for north america, like for small starting out groups?