What is Shooting Star Tournament

• Shooting Star Tournament is a blitz game tounament. The players will compete with their fast thinking ability in "10-sec Shogi" games.
  
• Kanji expression of the title name is "流星", which means a shooting star in Japanese.
  

Rules

• Games will be played at 81Dojo, with 0min-10sec, non-rated.
  
• All players will be separated into nunber of preliminary groups, each of which consists of players with less time differences.
• Players of the same group gather at 81Dojo in a specific hours of a day, and try to play all games of that group.
• Preliminary league is run by a round-robin system.
• Draw game should be resolved with a rematch.
• If some players could not finish their games in the specified hours, they should then try to arrange their game withing 1week after.
• If two or more players tie as the top of the league, the winner is decided according to the results of their direct game that has been played.
  
• The winners of each groups then form a single-elimination system finals to decide the winner, the Shooting Star. Each match in the finals tournament will be 5-game match. (or 3-win match).