NARUTO CARD GAME at PAX Aus 2026: TCG+ sign-up, playmat by raffle

Bandai has changed how its NARUTO CARD GAME stop at PAX Aus 2026 works. The show runs October 9 to 11 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Between our September 2 and October 5 checks of Bandai's page, registration moved from the booth to the BANDAI TCG+ app, and the Official Playmat went from a listed item to a raffle. The page still shows its original date, August 7, 2026, so it does not say when the edit was made.

Registration: from the booth to the app

On September 2 the page read: "Registration for the Tutorial Sessions is planned to take place on-site on the day of the event. Please stay tuned for further details."

That sentence is gone. In its place: "Registration will take place on TCG+, and the registration page can be accessed via the button below. Tutorial Sessions will open for registration on a first-come, first-served basis at 11:00 AM AEST on Sunday, September 20."

The opening time has passed. Registration has been open for fifteen days, and neither Bandai's page nor the registration page shows how many places are left. We do not know.

A new rule comes with it: "Players may register for a maximum of one event. Any attempts to circumvent this limit will result in exclusion from all demo events."

What the registration page shows

The Registration Page button on Bandai's page opens a page on the TAK Games site. TAK Games, not Bandai, gives the session detail: sessions "run every hour, with a total of 45 minutes play time during each session". It lists eight start times on Friday and on Saturday, 10:30am to 5:30pm, and six on Sunday, 10:30am to 3:30pm, each with its own TCG+ event link.

The playmat: now a raffle

On September 2 the page listed the playmat at $35 (+tax), one per person, in limited quantities each day, and said nothing about how it would be sold. It now says participants who attend a Tutorial Session "will be entered into a raffle for the opportunity to purchase a Playmat".

The raffle is held after the final Tutorial Session each day, and each winning opportunity is valid only for that day. Winners have until the close of the booth at approximately 9pm on Friday and Saturday, and until show close at 6pm on Sunday, to buy. The page describes no other way to buy one in Melbourne.

The gifts are unchanged: the CP-001 Chakra Card and a Logo Sticker, for participants registered to the NARUTO TCG UPDATES CHANNEL on TCG+ who complete a survey. That channel is a separate registration from the session itself, and our TCG+ walkthrough covers it. The sticker alone is still free to anyone who follows a Bandai social channel or registers the channel, with no session needed.

How New York handles the same things

New York Comic Con runs October 8 to 11, and Bandai's page for it changed over the same period, in a different direction. There, a tutorial session ticket is required, and tickets are distributed first-come, first-served each morning when the venue opens at BANDAI Namco Naruto Booth #3001. The sessions themselves take place at BANDAI CARD GAMES Booth #2705. The playmat needs a retail ticket, handed out each morning at Booth #2705.

So New York is tickets handed out each morning, first-come, first-served, for both the session and the playmat, and Melbourne is an app booking made in advance and a draw. The gifts, the gift conditions, the one-session limit and the $35 price are the same at both. The New York arrangements are covered in our NYCC report.

What Bandai has not said

• A booth number. The Location field reads Booth, then the venue, with no number.
• How many places a session has, or how many remain.
• Whether walk-ups are possible for anyone who did not register on TCG+.
• How many playmats are available each day, and how raffle winners are told.
• An Australian dollar price, or whether the mat, named Arriving in 2027, is handed over at the show.

The full schedule of stops is on the events page, and the versions of the promo card are tracked in the CP-001 guide.