Simran Joshi
To the delight of fans, Bandai Namco has announced plans for the very first-ever *Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero* World Tournament, marking the first major step in this game’s competitive esports journey.
The tournament would then conclude in the grand finals that would take place at the Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour in Los Angeles in January 2025. With Sparking Zero coming out just a month ago in October of 2024, this announcement shows Bandai Namco’s expectations for establishing the game within the competitive fighting game realm since the popularity of the first game that was released is expected to run similarly with the newly released game.
A promising tournament with unique gameplay mechanisms and international competition-players from nine regions were engaged in a struggle for placement at the finals.
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero World Tournament Details
Tournament organizer Bandai Namco has announced a new chapter in the esports landscape-a first-ever global competition for its latest fighting game, Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero. This iteration of the series will feature both online and on-site qualifiers, culminating in the finalists competing at the highly prestigious Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour 2022 in Los Angeles next year.
The competition will start with national tournaments online held across nine regions: the United States’ East and West, Mexico, Japan, France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Spain. Contestants here would be competing for the prized opportunity to be a part of the grand final. The fact that PlayStation 5 was used as the qualifying platform ensures that the players here have an easy and straight passage to the end result.
Not like any other tournament that will happen in the FGC, this will uniquely challenge contestants because instead of traditional matchups, every contestant will have their representative character from the Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero roster.
This will add an interesting layer of strategy and unpredictability. The game featured a grand final with 16 characters of choice, and the player could have another fighter out of 40 different characters. Jun Furutani, the producer of the game, also presented in game items that guarantee fair play and equal opportunities for competitors, which can be used to demonstrate balanced character matchups.
Qualification and Tournament Structure
Qualification to the *Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero World Tournament* will happen, with qualification coming from the nine regional online tournaments. This is how the best of the best, in each regional online tournament, will receive qualification to the grand final.
Online tournaments are now lined up for November and December 2024-thus an orderly competitive pathway to suit all on this planet. The online national qualifiers will determine the strongest hopefuls within each region and, from that group, those hopefuls will attempt to capture their chance to represent their country at the Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour.
Subsequent to the completion of the online qualification, the first nine players selected for each region will advance to participate in an on-site qualifier on January 18, 2025 against further top competition.
It will be taking place on January 19, 2025, at the Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour happening in Los Angeles; the grand final will feature 16 qualified players, each representing a different character from the game. It will come to feature a diverse pool of skilled players from different countries for their abilities in a very competitive setting.
Character representation is pretty distinctive in this game and evenly matched matches promise to be action-packed yet unpredictable: thrilling games and strategic depth fans are waiting for from *Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero*.
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