Tutorial sign-up opens for Essen, Paris and Lucca, and a Dubai stop is added

On October 5 the three European Event Information pages each said how to join a session and how to buy the playmat "will be announced at a later date." Nine days later the later date arrived. All three pages were rewritten, and a fourth page added a stop none of Bandai's roadmaps had mentioned: Dubai.

Essen and Paris: an online shop, from 6:00 PM CET on October 14

Both pages now read: "Registration will take place over an online shop, 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 06:00 PM CET on Wednesday, October 14." The button on each page is labelled Registration Page.

Then the limit, in the same words on both: "Players may register for a maximum of one event. Any attempts to circumvent this limit will result in exclusion from all demo events."

Booth numbers, which neither page had: H5 J500 at SPIEL Essen, matching the Bandai TCG entry in the fair's exhibitor list, and Booth N° E8 at Paris Games Week.

The playmat rules differ between the two shows that share a weekend:

• Essen: "All Tutorial Session participants will receive purchase eligibility for a playmat. This eligibility is valid only on the day of their Tutorial Session."
• Paris: "Participants will be eligible to purchase a playmat on a first-come, first-served basis, subject to daily availability. This eligibility is valid only on the day of their Tutorial Session."

At both, "only Tutorial Session participants will be eligible to purchase a playmat." The price is still MSRP $35 (+tax).

Lucca: BANDAI TCG+, from 11:00 AM CEST on October 14

Lucca's method is different: "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 CEST on Wednesday, October 14." The same one-event limit and exclusion warning apply.

The Lucca page, which had no Giveaways section on October 5, now lists a Logo Sticker.

Playmat purchase at Lucca uses tickets: "Playmat purchase tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis, with reservations opening one week before each event day. Each ticket reserves a time slot to purchase one playmat on site. Players may reserve a maximum of one playmat during the event." Bandai gives the example: tickets for Wednesday October 28 release on Wednesday October 21, tickets for Thursday October 29 on Thursday October 22, and so on for each remaining day. The page has a Playmat Ticket Page button.

The per-stop details are on each event page: SPIEL Essen, Paris Games Week and Lucca Comics & Games.

Dubai: Tabletop.me, November 6 to 8

A page dated October 9, 2026 reads "NARUTO CARD GAME is coming to Tabletop.me!" and gives:

That is the whole page. No CP-001, no sticker, no playmat and no booth are listed, which makes it the sparsest stop page Bandai has posted. Bandai's retailer list already named two Middle East distributors, so the region was not a surprise; the stop was. It sits between Lucca, which ends November 1, and the Bangkok and Hong Kong Fests. The stop has its own event page.

The calendar from here

October 22 to 25 Essen and Paris, October 28 to November 1 Lucca, November 6 to 8 Dubai, then the Fest tour and, in February, the Premier Demo Events at local stores. Every stop is on the events page. The release itself is now June 2027.