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!

 

A million would be the LAST thing that I would think the tourney would be worth. I expected at least 10 or 15 thousand... or, was the price supposed to be clever in anyway?

 

Again, the event features several games with several prizes for different ranks so I think that is the amount of the prizes in total.

 

Better have a tournament in New Jersey. I HATE it here ( I won't if they have a tournament at the Madison State Exhibition Center)

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

Watch as it doesn't

 

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. :)

Me too, just wish the voice commands had"grown" has well...