June 5, 2015 (LOS ANGELES, CA) – Panini America’s Dragon Ball Z Trading Card Game will begin its first season of Organized Play this July, featuring over $40,000 in cash prizes.
Starting in July, players of all experience levels will be able to participate in Organized Play for the DBZ TCG. The season is comprised of twelve Regionals and three qualifiers, culminating in an end-of-year World Championship.
Regionals
| Date | Location | Venue |
| 7/25 | Salem, OR | Wild Things Games |
| 8/8 | Charlottesville, VA | The End Games |
| 8/15 | Avondale, AZ | Play or Draw |
| 8/22 | Lenexa, KS | Collector’s Cache |
| 9/5 | Elizabethtown, KY | Hard Knox Games |
| 9/12 | Selden, NY | Brothers Grim Games and Collectibles |
| 9/19 | Fargo, ND | Paradox Games & Comics |
| 10/10 | Jacksonville, FL | Jacksonville Game Center |
| 10/17 | Buffalo Grove, IL | Nerd Rage Gaming |
| 10/24 | Pueblo, CO | Chaos Games & More |
| 10/31 | Vacaville, CA | Forgotten Path Games |
| 11/7 | Grapevine, TX | Area 51 Gaming & Collectibles |
All participants in these events will receive a copy of P10 Saiyan Outrage, P12 Orange Possession Drill, and P4 Wall Breaker:
Players that qualify for the top cut will receive a playset of P6 Withering Fire and P8 Black Enraged Assault.
Regardless of attendance, each Regional has a guaranteed purse of $2,000.
| 1st | $1,000* |
| 2nd | $500* |
| 3rd – 4th | $150 |
| 5th – 8th | $50 |
*The finalists from each Regional will also receive an invite to Worlds. If a player would receive more than one invite, that invite is grandfathered down to the next highest performer from that event. All players that earn cash prizes must fill out a W-9 form, which is available (here).
Aside from earning invites at Regionals, players can also qualify for Worlds at these premium events:
Qualifiers
| Date | Location | Venue |
| 8/1 | Indianapolis, IN | Gen Con |
| 10/10 | Melbourne (AUS) | TAK Games |
| TBA | Toronto (CAN) | TBA |
All participants will receive an alternate art promo version of Orange Power Point, Devastating Blow, and Black Power Up! Additionally, all players that qualify for the top cut will receive promo playsets of Blue Betrayal and Red Shoulder Grab.
The top four players from Gen Con will receive invites to Worlds, and the winner will have the opportunity to design a card for future release. The finalists from Melbourne and Toronto will also receive invites to Worlds.
Worlds
The first Dragon Ball Z TCG World Championship will take place in Texas on December 5th, 2015. Though an invite is required to participate in the event, all players may attend to spectate.
All participants in the event (and a select number of top performers throughout the season) will receive alternate art playsets of Heroic Energy Sphere, Villainous Energy Sphere, Saiyan Energy Focus, Namekian Onslaught, and all five Qualifier promos! Championship trophies will be awarded to all players that advance to the second round of top cut (“Top 8”), and the tournament has a prize purse of $16,000.
| 1st | $7,000 |
| 2nd | $2,500 |
| 3rd – 4th | $1,250 |
| 5th – 8th | $500 |
| 9th – 16th | $250 |
In addition to all of these prizes, each event will also award sealed product (contact your venue for specific details). Any player attending Organized Play events will need to be fully familiar with the Tournament Guide and CRD, available (here). Players will also want to update their decks with cards from The Movie Collection, which is slated to release on June 26th.
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Looks like a lot of fun, but sadly none of these locations really work for me
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I wish there were some Canadian Regionals dates. I live in Alberta and traveling to the Toronto Worlds Qualifier won’t be possible.
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Pretty even distribution of sites for Regionals. Sucks that I’m gonna have to drive 5.5 hours to get to the nearest one, though. 😦
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Just to clarify: the alternate art promos for Worlds is listed as “…a playset of…”, so does that mean all players in attendance will recieve Heroic Energy Sphere x3, Villainous Energy Sphere x3, and so forth?
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Yes, anytime it mentions playset it would mean 3 copies of the card.
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Fantastic job Panini! I love the prize support and the cash prizes! The participation promo’s alone are worth going! My wife and I will try our best to get invites to Worlds because the alternate art for Heroic Energy Spheres and Villainous Spheres are worth the effort! I am so excited! I will continue to insist my other friends to convert from different TCG competitive play into DBZ! 🙂
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Are the alt art promos not show (The spheres, Black power up, etc) foil? And when can we expect to see images of them?
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Yes, they are foil. Images will be popping up as we get closer to their corresponding events.
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I should have asked before, but what kind of foiling will these promos have? Set 1 or 2 foiling? I’m guessing according to which set they originally came in.
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Whichever set they were printed with, not necessarily the one the original card came from.
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Got it. So they will probably have set 3 foiling… Excited to see it.
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Details on the Australian National Championships have been posted at http://www.tak-games.com.au/2015/07/2015-australian-dragon-ball-z-national-championships/.
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i was wondering if panini has given a decision if the new set will be usable in the regionals in C.A. on release day, i’m hoping not because it is usually standard to releases sets on no regional/major event weekend because it gives the players fair time to look at the new set and judge how they can change their own decks. I’m just trying to get my an understanding to see if i need to do last minute(untesed most likely) changes for regionals?
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As mentioned in the Tournament Guide, sets are legal one week after the release date. Set 4 will not be legal for the California event but will be legal for Texas.
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Someone needs to give Panini UK a kick up the backside to get them to distribute the cards in the over here.
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