"Coca-Cola STAGE:0 eSPORTS High-School Championship 2020" Online!

"Coca-Cola STAGE:0 eSPORTS High-School Championship 2020", a national high school e-sports tournament, will be held in an online format.
Due to the spread of a new infectious disease, the organizing committee has given top priority to the safety of participating high school students, their parents, and the tournament management staff.
Entries for participating teams will be accepted on the tournament's official website from Monday, May 18, 2020 until 5:00 p.m. on Monday, July 13, 2020.
The champion of this year's tournament will be decided at the final competition between the winning teams from each block from Saturday, September 19 to Tuesday, 22.
As in last year's competition, the three titles will be "Clash Royale", "Fortnite", and "League of Legends".

Japan's largest high school e-sports festival

STAGE:0（ステージゼロ）｜全国高校対抗eスポーツ大会 公式サイト

STAGE:0 was launched with the aim of developing e-sports competitions and producing Japanese athletes who will be active on the world stage.
It is now one of the largest high school e-sports tournaments in Japan. In the first competition held last year, a total of 1,780 teams and 4,716 players from 1,475 high schools nationwide participated in the tournament.
The number of viewers of the streaming reached approximately 1.36 million, making it the largest "high school e-sports festival" in Japan, both in name and reality.
This year's online event was held over a two-month period to allow as many high school students as possible to enter.
In addition, there are many plans to liven up the event, such as the online distribution of contents by the gorgeous ambassadors, including Takushi Tanaka of the Angels and Miyu Ikeda, a.k.a. Michyopa.
The "Coca-Cola STAGE:0 eSPORTS High-School Championship 2020" will be broadcast as a special program on TV Tokyo.

Entries open today, May 18!

Entries will be accepted from today, Monday, May 18, 2020, until 5:00 p.m. on Friday, July 13, 2020.
Entries can be made through the official website of the tournament. The website will be updated with information and content related to the tournament and games as needed, and the latest information will also be posted on the official Twitter feed.
The following are eligible to participate in the tournament.

• Japanese high school students, regular high school students, junior high school students, adult pro-technical college students, and correspondence high school students.
• April 2nd, 2002 - April 1st, 2005
• The teams must be from the same school.

The first half of the tournament will be divided into seven blocks according to prefecture, and the "Block Representative Match (online)" will be held.
The top 16 teams from Round 1 will advance to Round 2.
The top two teams from ROUND 2 will advance to the finals, and if they make it to the finals, they will represent their block and qualify for the finals.
ROUND 1 begins on August 2, 2020, and the finals will run through August 30, 2020. The finals will be held over four days from September 19 to September 22, 2020, for each game title.