Well I believe that if you buy the tickets online, you will either print out the tickets o keep the picture on your phone. I will be buying tickets at the font door, so i cannot confirm the way that online tickets are going to be accepted

REGISTRATION NOTE
Hello everyone! Tomorrow's the big day. I just wanted to remind everyone that in order to participate in the tournament you will need to check-in at our tournament desk in the Heritage Court before 11:30AM. And have your WBO account open on your phone if possible!

If you arrive after that, you will not be able to enter the tournament (but are welcome to participate in free play).

Doors open at 10:00AM. This is going to be a massive tournament, which means registration will take some time. So, I would like to kindly ask that everyone planning to play in the tournament arrives as early as possible.

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The pre-registration has recently been re-opened until January 16th at midnight. In addition to this, tickets should be available for $25 at the door on the day of the convention.

It should be $20

Thanks! I was able to purchase the tickets online, but don't have anything different than the receipt to prove the transaction. Can the tickets be emailed, so we can print them?

REGISTRATION NOTE
Hello everyone! Tomorrow's the big day. I just wanted to remind everyone that in order to participate in the tournament you will need to check-in at our tournament desk in the Heritage Court before 11:30AM. And have your WBO account open on your phone if possible!

If you arrive after that, you will not be able to enter the tournament (but are welcome to participate in free play).

Doors open at 10:00AM. This is going to be a massive tournament, which means registration will take some time. So, I would like to kindly ask that everyone planning to play in the tournament arrives as early as possible.

Would there be a break so we can have time to eat or drink or go to the washroom

Would there be a break so we can have time to eat or drink or go to the washroom

I will explain this before the tournament, but if you ever need to go to the washroom just let a judge know. And when you return let a judge know as well. Don't go away for too long, though.

We will have a food break after we've completed the first stage of the tournament before we start the finals. You'll also likely have a decent amount of time between some of your matches because of how large the tournament is, so you can consider bringing some snacks with you as you'd have time to eat them.

Thanks! I was able to purchase the tickets online, but don't have anything different than the receipt to prove the transaction. Can the tickets be emailed, so we can print them?

I'm not exactly sure how their ticketing system works, but I would imagine you should have received some sort of confirmation of the purchase. You should try e-mailing them: http://animeshogatsu.com/contact-us/

Worst case, I'm sure being able to prove the transaction with the receipt will be enough.

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Is there a place to sit down

unfortunately i have to withdraw from the event because of the storm....i live in hamilton and wont be able to come

I also can't make it due to the weather making it risky to go. I'll get em next time.

I live in London and due to the weather, I have to withdraw.

what time does the entry to the shogatsu close?

Hope everyone has a good time today!

For any one who wants to see the final stage here: https://challonge.com/beybladeshogatsu2019_finals

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For any one who wants to see the 1st stage here: https://challonge.com/beybladeshogatsu2019

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Wow! Yesterday's tournament took forever.
My son waited just over 6 hours before he got to play his first round( 6:10 pm). Meanwhile, some other players had already played 4 rounds and were in the finals.
Very disappointed at how it was run. No prizes were randomly given away like was stated. A long day of waiting.

Next time you should have only online registration! I was one of the 1st people to the center at 945am & left at 615 and my son only had 2 battles. not to mention that I pre registered. so hope you are happy knowing that kid are upset because they didn't even get a chance to win a prize. Hopefully if you have another it's more organized. thanks for making me waste my time and money

It's not fair for you to be complaining about it being their fault! You can't going around complaining about how people can't control how many people showed up to the tournament and it's " All their fault". I'm sorry if your son won both his maches and still didn't get into the finals, but it's also determined who get's into the finals by who they win or lose against. The top bladers that got into the finals earned their way into the finals by choosing stratigacly and calculating correctly. Plus this all about having fun and bonding together and learning how to loose. Please understand me when I say we tried our absolute best to make sure you had a good time.

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Hey all, professional noob blader here. I enjoyed participating in the fighting of exploding spinning tops while pretending I know how inertia works. I will generally partake in gatherings of people with a similar interest of these rotating objects around the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). My favourite combos are essentially anything purple, gold, and sometimes a nice purl white. I don’t know how to make a cool banner so who those who actually know how this site works please feel free to message me about how I should know how to at this point lol.  

I'm sorry if parents or children are upset with how their tournament day went, but there's some unreasonable expectations happening here. There were 176 entrants, or something along those lines. Anyone at the convention was free to enter. Anyone at the convention was also free to play as much Beyblade with each other in between rounds and before the tournament as they wanted. If your child only got to play in two tournament rounds, well, you can't really have a Round Robin tournament with 176 people. And tournaments with 176 people take a long time to run.

Asking for tournament entries to be restricted to online pre-registrants only is completely unreasonable and also incredibly hostile and frustrating to the other attendees of the convention; that's just a rude thing to request. I sure love it when I go to a convention, hear about a tournament or event I'm interested, and find out I can't go because I didn't pre-register on some website I've never heard of.

If you went to a tournament that had 176 Beybladers and somehow didn't have a good time playing Beyblade, that's on you. Go to smaller tournaments or smaller events. Heck, you had access to an entire anime convention. If you somehow didn't have a good time that day, that's on you.

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Hey, parents! Here are all the answers to any questions about WBO Tournaments you might have! Thread-Guide-Hey-Parents-Answers-to-your-WBO-Tournament-questions

Please consult this guide linked below on how to arrive at tournaments before they start! https://worldbeyblade.org/Thread-How-to-arrive-at-tournaments-and-other-events-on-time

I see that everone is frustrated and angry with how the tournament was run and how kids didn't get to play rounds. I agree that it took along time and that they wasted your money , but I think to them it was hard to register and accomodate 176 people in a small place.
Hopefully they improve organize tournaments.

I think we all need to calm down a little. It is certainly unfortunate that event did not go as well as some might have hoped. I am sure the volunteers did their very best. I am about to host my first tournament in 6 days. I won’t have 176 participants but it will be hectic for me too. I will do my best.

I am a parent too . I would be upset if I waited that long for 1-2 battles. But I do see the difficulties and delimmas a WBO tournament organizer can face. Let’s not forget WBO is a volunteer run organization. People run these on their own time and dime. It’s not an excuse but it is a reality. Sure we can put a cap on number of participants. But kids want to go to a tournament. For many, tournaments are hard to come by. I think we want as many kids to have the opportunity to play. It’s not so simple to juggle that sometimes.

Respectfully, I think understanding on both sides will help us going forward. To other parents, I encourage you to consider learning more about beyblades and consider taking the test to become a tournament organizer. To me, having more tournaments is the best way to control the number of participants. To non-parents, I guess just understand it is hard to see your child dissappointed.

Thanks @[Shindog], @[abidjkhan7], @[DeceasedCrab], @[henwooja1] for your understanding.

And thank you for your feedback @[Whiterose] and @[Oliver Rain]; I've responded to your posts below.

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Here’s my take on things:

Yesterday was a day of many firsts:

• First time trying Challonge online registration and providing the Challonge tournament bracket page publicly in an effort to help players better understand where we are at, to understand when they're matches are available and upcoming, and to reduce questions to organizers so we can continue with the tournament as quickly as possible.
  
• First time trying Battle Cards in an effort to allow players to more easily remember how many matches they have won and lost. We often have players asking if they are still in the tournament, so this idea was implemented to try and help alleviate this so we can continue with the tournament as quickly as possible.
  
• First time trying the distribution of a Need-to-Know Information Sheet in Toronto. There are many rules associated with WBO tournaments in order to keep them fair, competitive, and consistent from region-to-region. The sheet we distributed at this event contained some of the most core important things for people to remember such as the division of the tournament space, listening carefully, not losing your battle card, picking your Beys quickly, tournament length (unfortunately the estimate here was a bit short as this had to be printed in advance and we had approximately 70 more participants than expected), and so forth. Again, this was in an effort to keep everyone informed and understand how they can help to keep the tournament running smoothly. Tournament flow is as much about organizers being organized as it is about players cooperating with the rules outlined and working together with organizers to create an enjoyable event.
  
• First time using Stadium Number Cards in Toronto. Normally we just number the stadiums but don't have any visual indicator for judges to hold showing which stadium they are when matches are called for it. We implemented this idea to help make it easier for players to understand where to go when called.
  
• First time trying the Challonge Stations feature. This was a really promising feature from our eyes prior to the event which would allow us to have matches automatically assigned by Challonge instead of us having to manually look through the bracket, which adds unnecessary length to the tournament where every minute counts. There was ultimately some issues with the way Challonge has set this up as it caused some players to go hours before playing their first match. This wasn't something we had foreseen, and we certainly understand the frustration of those players who did have to wait. We've learned from this experience and know now how to avoid it moving forward. Nevertheless, everyone did eventually have the opportunity to play their matches.
  
• First time trying Judges reporting their own results in Challonge. The idea was that it would avoid judges having to run back and forth between their assigned stadiums and the tournament desk which would create less movement in the tournament match area. At previous large events like Beytuber Brawl there was a lot of this and it caused a potential for confusion. This didn't quite work out, but I do think the idea still has merit for the future.
  
• First time trying 32 finalists with the new rules we recently announced which allow it. This was in an effort to make extremely large events like this one fairer to players. More people should have a chance at making the finals in a large event. Normally we only do 8.
  
• First time trying out distributing a free registration gift for the first 50 participants (exclusive Japanese Beyblade Shogatsu sticker) that signed up on both WBO and Challonge.
  
• Finally, this event is now I believe first or maybe a very close second on our all-time list of most tournament participants with approximately 172 total players. This was also our largest event by far of all-time in Toronto over the past ten years, eclipsing the record of 77 players set by BEYBLADE NORTH 2018 last year. To provide some context: at BEYBLADE SHOGATSU 2018 we had 31 players. Needless to say, this was a huge jump up for us. The 172 total itself was even about 30-40 more than were registered on-site before the event. And considering the bad weather yesterday, it's amazing how many of you came! However as a result, the space we were given initially was not sufficient for the amount of people we had. Thankfully they moved us to the gym later, but for the first part of the day we had to do our best with what we were given.
  

So, all of this is to say that: while the event yesterday did not run as smoothly as we had all hoped, we spent months planning for this event in advance trying to account for all possible situations and to try new ideas to make the event organization and experience better.

Some ideas worked, and some didn't. Some it's a mix between the two. We heard the complaints regarding some aspects from players/parents loud and clear and will be taking them seriously moving forward so that we can create a better experience at large-scale events. We've only had two events over 100 participants in our ten year history, so we are still actively learning and always looking for ways to improve events like these. We deeply appreciate all of your feedback.

For years many regions that host Beyblade tournaments had trouble hitting the minimum required for ranked events (8), and we've had countless years to improve our skills and management for events on that scale up to 30, 40, 50 participants. But now we have a new challenge on our hands: how to manage Beyblade tournaments with upwards of 200 participants. And I'm glad we have this challenge to face because it means Beyblade is popular! And ultimately what we all want as Beyblade fans is to have the best, most awesome tournaments which everyone can enjoy. That's why we're all here.

Beyblade is unique in some sense compared to other competitive games because it typically skews towards the younger end of the spectrum in terms of the players who participate. As a result, perhaps there is certain aspects we need to pay more attention to. This is something we will be evaluating moving forward.

I think it is also important to acknowledge the countless volunteers–many of which who had never volunteered for such a massive event–who helped to make this event a reality yesterday:

1. All nine of our judges: @[1234beyblade], @[OldSchool™], @[Justin TC], @[Newtype], @[SUGOI-KONICHEWA], @[MDK Shady], @[Ardmore Bladers], @[bladekid], @[henwooja1] (and also his Dad who helped with crowd control and answering questions!).

2. @[JesseObre] who helped run the tournament bracket and announce matches throughout the day. You were an invaluable help, as always.

3. All Anime Shogatsu staff who actively worked with us to help run the event, improve the experience where possible by moving us to a bigger space later on, prove the speaker and microphone, and work to keep everyone safe. Shout out specifically to James Bade and Lucas Le. There is some others but I don't know all of your names!

4. Thank you to @[originalzankye] for his incredibly generous prize donation as well as @[MDK Shady] for his donation of Buster Xcalibur and Archer Hercules!

I'd also like to thank voice actor of Tsubasa and Kai–David Reale–for stopping by towards the end of the tournament. It was awesome to meet you!

And it goes without saying, but I need to thank each and everyone of the players and parents who came to the tournament. The passion for Beyblade, patience, and understanding many of you demonstrated was deeply appreciated. We couldn’t have done it without you!

And the link to the finals bracket was posted, but I’d also like to congratulate and acknowledge the winners of the event and Top 16 finalists! It’s no small feat being able to make the finals of such a huge tournament:

1st: Kei
2nd: @[OldSchool™]
3rd: @[Justin TC]
4th: @[jamie]
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5th-8th: @[bladekid], @[henrychoi], @[henwooja1], @[Minion]
9th-16th: @[Ardmore Bladers], @[Toxic Cheeto], @[Starshadow], @[kaylasmiles], @[oof], @[BladerBeast], @[FafinarGsw], @[Salmon]

I’ve been playing Beyblade since 2003 and ever since attending my first tournament back then have always wanted to participate in more and eventually as I’ve gotten older, wanted to see kids enjoy them in the same way that I have growing up.

We’re all here because we want to make new friendships, compete seriously, and have fun.

With this as the goal, I consider every piece of feedback very carefully and will do my best moving forward to keep improving the way we do things and keep creating new opportunities for us all to meet.



All 32 finalists and David Reale, VA of Tsubasa and Kai!

Wow! Yesterday's tournament took forever.
My son waited just over 6 hours before he got to play his first round( 6:10 pm).  Meanwhile,  some other players had already played 4 rounds and were in the finals.
Very disappointed at how it was run.  No prizes were randomly given away like was stated.  A long day of waiting.

Definitely understand your disappointment with regards to the length of time it took for your son to play his first match. As I mentioned above, this was due to the way the software was automatically assigning matches. Early on in the event it wasn’t possible for us to manually choose matches without fear of breaking the bracket.

Everyone eventually had the opportunity to play their minimum of two matches, but regrettably it did take a long time for some players. We apologize for this and will be evaluating seriously how to avoid this in the future.

That being said, we did encourage players to participate in free play during the event as the wait between matches at such a massive event with over 300 matches to be completed would inevitably be long (although it was certainly longer than it should have been for some players). At the end of the day, the tournament is just one component of the experience; we also do this because it allows kids to meet and bond with others over their love of Beyblade. Free play is one of the best avenues for that.

Regarding the giveaway: we decided to giveaway the prizes we had to the Top 32 finalists ‘randomly’ (based on the order of the list provided by Challonge) as we were under pressure towards the end of the day to finish as quickly as possible. This had to remain our top priority. It also would have been difficult to do the random giveaway at the end of the first stage as we originally planned as many participants had headed home after they were eliminated and it would have taken sometime to find people to give prizes do if we were to put in the full 172 participant list into random.org. We would have ended up saying “Blader X wins! Oh, he’s left? Blader X2 you win instead! Oh, he’s left as well? Okay then Blader X3 wins!” And so forth.

We did giveaway exclusive stickers to the first 50 players who signed up on both the WBO and Challonge at the start of the day as well. However, I’m sorry we weren’t able to do the random giveaway.

Thank you very much for your feedback.

Next time you should have only online registration! I was one of the 1st people to the center at 945am & left at 615 and my son only had 2 battles. not to mention that I pre registered. so hope you are happy knowing that kid are upset because they didn't even get a chance to win a prize. Hopefully if you have another it's more organized. thanks for making me waste my time and money

Yes, that is definitely something we will consider for the future.

One aspect of that to consider however is that often the way it works out is that some players may register online but don’t show up on the day of the event. And many players also find out about our tournaments via our ads on Kijiji. While we encourage them to register on-site, many show up without having done that.

The WBO’s policy has always been "All-ages Beyblade tournaments. All around the world” because we want to be as inclusive and open as possible to all Beyblade fans. We don’t like turning people away who take the time come to the tournament but might not have realized they needed to register online beforehand. Most of our regional communities around the world have trouble hitting the minimum number of participants to have an official ranked tournament, so hopefully you can understand why this policy has been important to us thus far. It’s been a matter of life-and-death for the ability for certain communities to actually even exist for the WBO.

However, now that the attendance of our tournaments has been growing over the past year, we are certainly considering the implementation of a Participant Cap feature for the site in order to better control the experience at events and allow judges to better plan in advance.

At this event for example, we had 30-40 more players than we had anticipated, which is a huge deal. As it stands currently, the ability to register online is merely for organizers to be able to have a rough idea of what to expect at their event; the order in which you register and time at which you arrive unfortunately do not have an effect on when your matches will be played. It would add one too many variables for us to consider if we were to try and also demarcate when certain players registered and when they arrived and give them priority to play their matches first.

Also, as mentioned before we began the tournament: it was running using the Double Elimination Format. This means that every player was guaranteed a minimum of 2 matches. Even if you lost one match, you still had the opportunity to make it to the finals until you lost your second match and were eliminated.

Nevertheless, as I’ve mentioned above I do absolutely understand any frustration you had with the long wait between matches for some players. It’s something we are absolutely taking into consideration for future events.

All players did have a chance to win prizes; everyone in the Top 32 (18% of players) received a prize, all of which were kindly donated by our members. We also gave out exclusive stickers to the first 50 players (29% of players) who registered at the event having also signed up on the WBO and Challonge.

We really appreciate your feedback and hope you’ll give us another chance in the future.

I see that everone is frustrated and angry with how the tournament was run and how kids didn't get to play rounds. I agree that it took along time and that they wasted your money , but I think to them it was hard to register and accomodate 176 people in a small place.
Hopefully they improve organize tournaments.

I just wanted to add here that to be specific: kids did get to play their rounds and had the opportunity to meet and play with 171 other people who love Beyblade just like them, whether that be in their tournament matches or during free play.

Some players experienced waits between matches (or before they had their first match) that were much longer than it should have been. This was for various reasons but mostly due to the new Challonge Stations feature we were using in an effort to make match selection easier (it did make it easier, but the way it chose matches was strange because it didn’t prioritize having everyone play one round first). This is something we will certainly address moving forward!

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Congratulations to:

Kei for 1st place
OldSchool for 2nd place  
JustinTC for 3rd place 
Jamie for 4th place

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Thanks to everyone who was able to make it! Especially with the weather the way it was. I hope you all made it home safely!
172 Bladers? pfft. Let's see 300+ at Anime North! 

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If you need to contact me regarding an event, phoning is best. If you are running late for a tournament, call me. Ask for my phone number via PM or in person at any tournament  ^_^

Looking for
NIB 1st Gen Hasbro Plastics not in list below

Plastic Bey Collection Hasbro

Spoiler (Click to View)

New In Box NFS/NFT
x2 Brand new Clear Hasbro Stadium 2001
Dragoon S
Dragoon S (green stickers) Rare? PM me if you know
Starter Dragoon
Dranzer S
Black Dranzer
Master Dranzer
Ultimate Frostic Dranzer
Draciel S
Master Draciel
Metal Draciel
Dragoon Fighter
Guardian Driger
Gekiryu-Oh
Manta Diver
Orca Diver
Spark Knight x2
HMS Hopper Attacker
HMS Phantom Fox MS
HMS Advance Avenger
EG Zeus
EG Driger G
BBA CS Dranzer V2
more still missing in storage = (

Loose
Black Dranzer
Seaborg x3
Master Draciel x3
EG Dragoon GT
lots more still missing in storage = (

Spring Launcher Silver
Spring Launcher Red x3
Custom Grip Dranzer
Custom Grip Dragoon

Fav Plastic - Spark Knight (I had 4, attack ring kept breaking)
Fav Limited - Burn Cancer 230BWD & Duo Cancer 160WD (now banned)
Fav Standard - cookie-cutter wyvang :( & Duo Aquario SP230EWD :)
Fav Burst - Odin Heavy Revolve (laugh all you want)
Fav Animes - One Piece, Dot Hack (all), Sword Art Online, Speed Grapher
Fav RPG/Adventure/Racer - Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete/Zelda OOT/Hydro Thunder

Hey guys, thanks for letting me judge at the tournament yesterday. I hope I can help at any other tournament soon if you need me.

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Hey all, professional noob blader here. I enjoyed participating in the fighting of exploding spinning tops while pretending I know how inertia works. I will generally partake in gatherings of people with a similar interest of these rotating objects around the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). My favourite combos are essentially anything purple, gold, and sometimes a nice purl white. I don’t know how to make a cool banner so who those who actually know how this site works please feel free to message me about how I should know how to at this point lol.  

172 Bladers? pfft. Let's see 300+ at Anime North! 

Haha maybe let's iron out the wrinkles of a 172 person tournament before we go for higher than that.

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Hey, parents! Here are all the answers to any questions about WBO Tournaments you might have! Thread-Guide-Hey-Parents-Answers-to-your-WBO-Tournament-questions

Please consult this guide linked below on how to arrive at tournaments before they start! https://worldbeyblade.org/Thread-How-to-arrive-at-tournaments-and-other-events-on-time

172 Bladers? pfft. Let's see 300+ at Anime North! 

Haha maybe let's iron out the wrinkles of a 172 person tournament before we go for higher than that.

We will.
Although that's not going to stop Bladers from rushing the door lol

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If you need to contact me regarding an event, phoning is best. If you are running late for a tournament, call me. Ask for my phone number via PM or in person at any tournament  ^_^

Looking for
NIB 1st Gen Hasbro Plastics not in list below

Plastic Bey Collection Hasbro

Spoiler (Click to View)

New In Box NFS/NFT
x2 Brand new Clear Hasbro Stadium 2001
Dragoon S
Dragoon S (green stickers) Rare? PM me if you know
Starter Dragoon
Dranzer S
Black Dranzer
Master Dranzer
Ultimate Frostic Dranzer
Draciel S
Master Draciel
Metal Draciel
Dragoon Fighter
Guardian Driger
Gekiryu-Oh
Manta Diver
Orca Diver
Spark Knight x2
HMS Hopper Attacker
HMS Phantom Fox MS
HMS Advance Avenger
EG Zeus
EG Driger G
BBA CS Dranzer V2
more still missing in storage = (

Loose
Black Dranzer
Seaborg x3
Master Draciel x3
EG Dragoon GT
lots more still missing in storage = (

Spring Launcher Silver
Spring Launcher Red x3
Custom Grip Dranzer
Custom Grip Dragoon

Fav Plastic - Spark Knight (I had 4, attack ring kept breaking)
Fav Limited - Burn Cancer 230BWD & Duo Cancer 160WD (now banned)
Fav Standard - cookie-cutter wyvang :( & Duo Aquario SP230EWD :)
Fav Burst - Odin Heavy Revolve (laugh all you want)
Fav Animes - One Piece, Dot Hack (all), Sword Art Online, Speed Grapher
Fav RPG/Adventure/Racer - Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete/Zelda OOT/Hydro Thunder

This is BladerBeast's mom. I just wanted to say "Thank you" to Kei, Old School and all of the other organizers. BladerBeast looks forward so much to these tournaments, not only to compete but to mix with other Bladers, many of whom he counts as among his friend now, engage in free play, and just to be part of a BeyBlade event. Without your efforts this would not be possible. He is looking forward to when he is old enough to judge and help organize!