Announcement of Holding of “Official Online Test Tournament”
※Below timeframes are all in PDT

Thank you very much for your continued patronage of “DRAGON BALL FighterZ”.
We’d like to announce the rules of the “Official Online Test Tournament” to be held from July 27th 6PM (Saturday).
Sign-up will also start from July 22nd 9PM (Monday) along with the release of the rules.

■Outline of the Tournament
The “Official Online Test Tournament” is an online tournament event in the Americas.
We’ve prepared a special BGM as a prize for participation, so we look forward to your active participation.
*Please note that the prize will be handed out only to those who actually attend the Tournament.
*This is an Online Test Tournament for Americas.
*All in-game announcements made by Tournament Staff will be made in English. Please note that you must have your PS4 System Language set to English to have the announcements displayed in-game.

■Conditions for Participation
You need to sign up in advance to join this event.
The number of entries for this Tournament is 1,000 players at max.
*Entries will be closed once the number reaches the maximum. Therefore, please note in advance that not all the players who wish to join the Tournament can participate in it.
 (An additional entry will be available only when there is a cancelled entry.)
*There is no restriction on the network colors.

■Sign-up Period
July 22nd 9:00PM ~ July 27th 5:59PM

■Sign-up Method
You can sign up at the “Tournament Mode Desk” on the right side of the lobby (the same desk as in FighterZ Tenkaichi Budokai, etc.).
*You can move to the front of the desk by selecting the Tournament mode in the menu shown when performing rapid movement in the lobby.
*Please refer to the game screen below for the details of the location (the game screen is still under development).

*You can sign up only from the lobby in the “U.S. East Coast 1” area.
*You can change the area by talking to the “Gate Reception”, or by moving toward the bottom of the lobby to exit there once.

■Tournament Platform
PS4
*You can join this Tournament only on PS4.

■Tournament Schedule
Doors open at July 27th 6PM; First preliminary round starts at 6:30PM
*The Tournament is expected to take approx. three hours at the longest.

■Prizes
First prize: [Z trophy] “Victory trophy (Gold)” and 10,000,000 Zeni
Second prize: [Z trophy] “Victory trophy (Silver)” and 1,000,000 Zeni
Third prize: [Z trophy] “Victory trophy (Bronze)” and 100,000 Zeni
Participation prize: [BGM] “ [Extreme Butoden] Tenkaichi Budokai”
*The above prizes will be handed out at a later date after the Tournament.

■Procedure on the Day of the Tournament

1. After signing up, speak to the “Tournament Mode Desk” and select “Join the Official Online Tournament”. This will move you to a preliminary round lobby.
2. Participants will be automatically split into different preliminary round lobbies to start the first preliminary round matches.
   *The first preliminary round starts at 6:30PM, so we ask you to enter the lobby by then.
3. After the first preliminary round, the top 8 participants in each preliminary round lobby will move to the second preliminary round lobbies to start the second preliminary round matches.
4. After the second preliminary round, the top 8 participants in each preliminary round lobby will move to the third preliminary round lobby to start the third preliminary round matches.
5. After the third preliminary round, the top 8 participants will move to the final round lobby to start the final tournament matches.
   *The final tournament will be held at the Circle Match operated by the Tournament staff.
   *The final tournament concludes this entire Online Tournament.

Participants will randomly fight against other participants in the same preliminary round lobby for 25 minutes. They can obtain wins by winning the matches.
Their rank will be determined by the number of wins at the end of the round, and the top 8 participants will be qualified for the next round.

When you win a match, you can obtain one win if the opponent has no wins, and in other cases you can get the same number of wins as the opponent has.
*You can check the wins you currently have on the upper right corner of the screen while you are waiting for a match.
*When the number of wins is the same between two players, the one who reached that number of wins earlier will take priority.

When there are less than 8 participants in a preliminary round lobby, all the players who are in the lobby will be qualified for the next round regardless of the number of wins obtained.
*When there is only one participant, the player will be qualified for the next round after waiting for 25 minutes without playing a match.

The final round is held in a tournament style (single-elimination).
The matches in the final tournament will use the Circle Match.
The Tournament staff will announce the next opponents, so please join the Circle operated by the Tournament staff according to the instruction.
*Please note that you will lose by default if, after the announcement, you refuse to join the Circle or you spend five minutes without any preparation for the match
*Please note in advance that, if there are any participants using the same fighter name, the announcement will be made using their account IDs.

*In all the matches, the player who knocks down the opponent first wins, and the round time is 300 counts.
*Please note that, once you enter a preliminary round lobby or the final round lobby, you cannot change the party members.

■Precautions
◇For smooth operation of the Tournament, we ask you to follow the instructions of the Tournament staff.
*Any participant who is deemed by the Tournament staff to be preventing the operation of the Tournament may be disqualified.

◇In each preliminary round, you can still return to the Tournament even if you lost the connection due to network errors, etc. However, you may not be able to return depending on the progress of the Tournament.

◇If you exit the lobby while you are playing a match in the final tournament, the player who exited will be disqualified even if this is due to network errors or any other reasons.
However, rematch will be accepted only in the following cases.
(1) If both players in the match exit the lobby and reconnect within five minutes
(2) If, despite of cancellation of the match, both players still remain in the lobby.

◇If a match in the final tournament starts before the Tournament staff enters the audience seats in the Circle Match, the match will be regarded as no contest to start a rematch.

◇If a match is cancelled multiple times due to unstable connection during the match, you may be disqualified at the discretion of the Tournament team.

◇You may be disqualified if you use a fighter name that is against public policy, infringing the third party rights, or otherwise deemed inappropriate by the Tournament staff.

◇The participants will be responsible for the internet connection charges when signing up and joining the Tournament.

◇The following acts are prohibited in this Tournament. If the Tournament team confirms any of these acts, it may take certain actions such as withdrawing distribution of a prize.
・Signing up multiple times using multiple accounts
・Reselling and transferring an account used for an entry
・Disconnecting intentionally during a match
・Acts other than the above that are deemed inappropriate by the Tournament staff

We look forward to your continued support for “DRAGON BALL FighterZ”.

*The Tournament rules may change after consultation if the Tournament team deems necessary.
*The content of the change will be announced on the official website as soon as possible and will take effect once the announcement is made.
*Please note in advance that we may discontinue or cancel the Tournament in case of unexpected failures.