What this is
How places at TPC's Champions League card tournaments in Japan are allotted: by an advance lottery when applicants exceed places, weighted towards players who have lost more recent lotteries.
How it’s built
- Read from TPC's own entry notice for the February 2024 Champions League in Fukuoka, which sets out the lottery and its weighting rule.
- The weighting rule refers back to lotteries held at Champions League events from February 2023, so the lottery was already in use the season before.
What we assumed
- The same entry method applies to the other Champions League events of the period.The weighting rule counts losses across all Champions League lotteries, which only makes sense if they all use one.
Sanity check
TPC's notices for the larger 2025 Tokyo event also raised seats citing the previous season's entries, consistent with demand exceeding places.
The values
- Entry method: 事前エントリー方式（抽選方式）
- Priority rule window: February 2023 to December 2023 CL and PJCS2023 TCG
Where it comes from
Japanese-language document, 2024 The Pokémon Company (pokemon-card.com) · 12 January 2024 Open the original ↗
The line in the source
参加希望者が多数となり抽選となった場合、2023年2月から2023年12月に開催された「ポケモンカードゲーム チャンピオンズリーグ」および「『ポケモンジャパンチャンピオンシップス2023』カードゲーム部門」において、最後に当選された大会以降の落選回数の多い方の当選確率を高く設定したうえで、抽選を行います。 Related figures
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