The Tournament

• The event is held in a tournament fashion, with groups of competitors divided into blocks beforehand.
• The contestants must prepare material for a match, the semifinal and the final.
• The 24 competitors are split into three sets of eight blocks. The semi-finals are made up of the winners of each block. The final consists of four contestants.
• The winner is awarded a prize of 1 million Yen (equivalent to approximately 10,000 dollars).

The Survival

• Personal one-on-one matches are decided through lottery cards.

Chairpeople

• Neptune
  • Jun Nagura
  • Ken Horiuchi
  • Taizō Harada

Progress

• Hélène Hayama
• Mika Oguma (The Survival)

The Tournament

Hiroiki Ariyoshi, Ungirls, Ijiri Okada, Satoshi Onoma and Twotone Aoki, Kannazuki, Kōji Tomita, Croket, The Newspaper, Shinobu-chan, Tamiaki and Ryu, Chōshin Juku, Nakagawake, Yuki Nishio, Nobu and Fukkey, Hanawa, Akimasa Haraguchi, Vitamin S, Takashi Kanemitsu (of Plus Minus), Makita Sports, Monster Engine, Hōsei Yamasaki, Kōichi Yamadera

The Survival

Hiroiki Ariyoshi, Ungirls, Ijiri Okada, Kannazuki, Kuwabata Ohara, Kōji Tomita, Yoshio Kojima, Croket Sakurazuka Yakkun, The Touch, Zabunguru, Shinobu-chan and Megumi Fukushita and Maki Aizawa, Tamiaki and Yoppi, Chōshin Juku, Take2, Tony Hirota and Chihiro Sakurai and Kōenji Pulsar, Doburokki, Nakagawake, Yuki Nishio, Yūki Ninomiya, Nobu and Fukkey, Hanawa, Akimasa Haraguchi, Harō Ueda, Vitamin S, Takashi Kanemitsu (of Plus Minus), Hori, Ken Maeda, Mitchy, Hōsei Yamasaki, Kōichi Yamadera, Ryu and Twotone Aoki and Hazuki Pal

The Tournament

Akira Nakao, Kunikazu Katsumata, Peeko, Miyuki Itori

The Survival

Tsutomu Sekine, Suzanne, Tsunku, Aya Sugimoto, Ayana Tsubaki

First match

A Block

B Block

C Block

D Block

E Block

F Block

G Block

H Block

Semi-finals

A Block

B Block

C Block

D Block

Finals