What this is
Seats in the adult (Masters) division of TPC's Tokyo Champions League card tournament: 1,500 when the 2020 event was announced, raised to 1,800 before it was held, and 5,000 for the 2025 event. On the raised figure that is about 2.8 times in under five years, roughly 23% a year.
How it’s built
- Seat counts read from TPC's own entry notices for each event: August 2019 for the 2020 event and July 2024 for the 2025 event.
- Growth = 5,000 ÷ 1,800, annualised over the 4.9 years between the two notices.
What we assumed
- Seats are capacity, not players or entrants.TPC sets the number of places and fills them by lottery, so seats show what it chooses to supply rather than how many want to play.
- Tokyo against Tokyo is a fair comparison.Comparing the same event city avoids mixing in differences between venues; other cities had fewer seats.
Sanity check
TPC states each raise was made because entries had grown, and Western Regional rosters grew at a similar rate over the same years.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:
- ReportedCL2020 Tokyo seats, Senior League (Standard), raised from 360, CL2020 Tokyo
- ReportedCL2020 Tokyo seats, Master League (Standard), raised from 1,500, CL2020 Tokyo
- ReportedCL2025 Tokyo seats, Master League, CL2025 Tokyo
- ReportedCL2025 Tokyo seats, Senior League and Junior League each, CL2025 Tokyo
- ReportedChampions League 2025 Tokyo seats, 22 September 2024/23
- ReportedChampions League Master League seats (Standard), Fukuoka, 17 February 2024/18
Show the working
- 1,800/1,500 = 1.20
- 5,000/1,800 = 2.78
- 5,000/1,500 = 3.33
- 5,000/3,200 = 1.56
- 2.78^(1/4.89) − 1 = 23.3%/yr
- 300/1,800 = 16.7%
- 432/360 = 1.20
- 1,400/432 = 3.24
- 700/432 = 1.62
- 1,800 + 528 = 2,328
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