What this is
The minimum cash prize money the organised-play circuit commits each season: about $7–10 million (¥1.0–1.6bn).
How it’s built
- Add Worlds ($2.0m), four International Championships (over $0.5m each) and 30–60 Regionals (over $0.1m each): $7–10m.
- Convert at ¥140–155 per dollar. Worlds alone, ¥280–310m, is 0.19–0.22% of the parent’s operating profit.
What we assumed
- There are 30–60 Regionals a season.The research gives no official count for this range; it is the main source of the spread.
- Stated pools are “over” amounts, taken at face value.Each source says “over” or “more than”, so the total is a floor.
- Exchange rate of ¥140–155 per dollar.A range around recent rates, used throughout the events research.
Sanity check
Each pool comes from press or company statements for the 2024–2026 seasons. Against operating profit of ¥144bn in the year to February 2026, prizes are around 1%.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes.
Show the working
- $ m: 7 to 10
- ¥ bn: 0.98 to 1.55
- Worlds prize share of parent operating profit: 0.19 to 0.22%
- Worlds $2.0m + 4 ICs × $0.5m + Regionals $0.1m × 30–60 = $7.0–10.0m
- ×140 = ¥0.98bn
- ×155 = ¥1.55bn
- Worlds alone: $2m × 140–155 = ¥280–310m ÷ ¥143,972m = 0.19–0.22%
Where it’s used
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