Leisure holding firm Bandai Namco has introduced the primary world championship for its preventing recreation Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero.
The Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero World Event will encompass on-line and on-site qualifiers with the finals going down at Dragon Ball Video games Battle Hour in Los Angeles subsequent 12 months.
Sparking Zero is the newest in a sequence of Dragon Ball preventing video games with the title solely launched in October 2024. Regardless of its brief life span the sport’s writer, Bandai Namco, seemingly has esports aspirations for the sport given the world event announcement.
The net nationwide tournaments will happen between November and December 2024, crowning the highest gamers throughout 9 totally different areas. The areas competing for qualification are america (East and West), Mexico, Japan, France, Italy, Germany, the UK and Spain. The platform for qualification is Ps 5.
Following the qualifiers these 9 gamers will likely be joined by seven extra opponents by way of an on-site qualifier at Dragon Ball Video games Battle Hour. That is set to happen on January 18th, the day earlier than the grand finals on January nineteenth.
Not like different esports preventing occasions, Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero World Event will undertake a singular format during which every participant/nation is represented by one of many recreation’s characters. This implies 16 distinctive characters will likely be seen within the Grand Finals, with gamers additionally getting a alternative of 40 characters for his or her second fighter.
Within the announcement video, Jun Furutani, the Producer of Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, famous that the characters will likely be balanced utilizing totally different objects within the recreation to make sure truthful match-ups. Every competitor’s represented character was additionally revealed.
The announcement has not offered any data concerning prize swimming pools for the occasion.The hit anime and manga isn’t any stranger to the esports scene with Dragon Ball FighterZ a outstanding recreation inside the preventing recreation group (generally known as the FGC). Regardless of being launched in 2018, Dragon Ball FighterZ was just lately introduced amongst different notable video games for EVO France 2025, a significant preventing recreation esports occasion.
