The recent wildfires in California forced the cancelation of this year’s big Dragon Ball Games Batle Hour event, but the fighting spirit can’t be stopped forever.
Bandai Namco just announced the new dates and structures for the climactic tournaments of Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero and Dragon Ball FighterZ’s competitive seasons.
Both the Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour Finals and Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Dramatic Showdown Finals will apparently both take place across the same days from March 15–16, 2025.
It’s not specified where the new tournaments are taking place exactly, however, but they are going to be making some changes to the formats.
The previously controversial Dramatic Showdown Finals will be ditching its additional seven tournaments planned in favor of just running with the nine players who qualified in last year’s online tournaments.
Dragon Ball FighterZ, meanwhile, is also skipping its Last Chance Qualifier tournament.
Instead, the final bracket shall be made up of the top 15 players from the global leaderboard plus Evo 2024’s winner, Inzem.
You can find the official statement below.
Dear Players, After the cancelation of the Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour 2025, we reviewed our plans for the Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour Finals and the Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero -The Dramatic Showdown Finals!
Our priority is to create a great experience for the qualified players and to deliver exciting finals as soon as possible. We want to ensure that neither our players nor our spectators have to wait too long. Therefore, we made some changes to the tournaments format:
Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour Finals: We will not have Last Chance Qualifiers for Dragon Ball FighterZ. The Finals will now feature the top 15 players from the global leaderboard and the EVO winner.
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero – The Dramatic Showdown Finals: We will not have the additional 7 tournaments that were planned at Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour. Instead, we will perform the finals with a new Finals tree for the 9 players who qualified in the online tournaments.
Event Details:
Dates: March 15-16, 2025
Streamed on:
#DBFZ on Twitch dragonballfighterz
#DBSZ on Youtube@BandaiNarncoAmerica
We appreciate your understanding and continued support.
After the cancellation of the DRAGON BALL Games Battle Hour 2025, we reviewed our plans for the DRAGON BALL FighterZ World Tour Finals and the DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO – The Dramatic Showdown Finals!
The finals will be streamed on March 15-16, 2025.
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Source: Event Hubs
