Pokémon Scramble Battle Kagawa: Entry Closes Nov 16 for Dec 26–27

Pokémon Card Game’s official site posted a new Scramble Battle on October 30, and it lands in the week between Christmas and New Year, when plenty of overseas collectors are in Japan. Scramble Battle Kagawa is free, lottery-only, and runs December 26–27, 2026 at Sun Messe Kagawa in Takamatsu. The entry window closes Monday, November 16 at 14:00 JST. Nothing in the published rules mentions residency or ID documents, but the whole event runs on a Players Club account and LINE on your own phone.

Official image © The Pokémon Company (from the linked official page).

This is a separate event from the 30th CELEBRATION Scramble Battle that ran in Chiba and Osaka this autumn, which we covered in the 30th Promo Card Pack guide. Kagawa has different prizes and a team format on day two.

Can you enter Scramble Battle Kagawa from overseas?

On the published rules, nothing stops you: no page states a nationality, residency, ID or My Number requirement. What you need is a Players Club Player ID, LINE on your own smartphone, and a win in the lottery that closes November 16 at 14:00 JST.

Here is the clock. All times are JST.

Two facts on the announcement frame everything else. It’s 事前応募制, advance application only, and the main event and the merchandise are for winners alone. And the main event needs a LINE account and a smartphone: 「タブレット端末等ではご参加いただけません」, tablets and similar devices can’t be used to take part.

Entry times are staggered. Each winner is assigned an 入場グループ (entry group) after registering, and the page warns that arriving later than your group’s meeting time can cost you your place.

How entry actually works

You don’t apply on pokemon-card.com itself. The entry page sends you to the Players Club event search, and the rest happens inside LINE.

Step 1 is the part we can’t settle for you. players.pokemon-card.com blocks automated requests, so we could not check whether the Players Club signup accepts an overseas address or a foreign phone number. The Kagawa pages themselves say nothing about either. The account layer is the same one City League uses, and our Japan tournament entry requirements piece goes through it. Under-18s also need a guardian’s consent for both the Players Club and the entry.

What the Kagawa pages leave out is worth listing, because it differs from other big events. Unlike Champions League 2027 Chiba, none of the seven pages publishes a photo ID list, a Japanese-only card rule, a Japanese-language requirement or a seat count. As of November 3, 2026 those simply are not stated, so don’t assume either way.

Solo Battle vs Trio Battle, and what the friend application really covers

The two days are different tournaments with their own entries. Both are real-time Swiss on your phone, 60-card Standard, best of one with 6 Prize cards, no time limit, up to 7 matches, and matchmaking open 9:30–18:30. You may change decks between matches.

The friend application is the detail most useful to a travel group, and it’s narrower than the announcement makes it sound. The ともだち応募 page lists the Solo Battle as its only target event. It works like this: everyone in a group of 2 to 5 enters the Solo Battle themselves, then one representative submits a form with every member’s Player ID inside the same October 30 to November 16 window. Do that and the whole group gets the same lottery result and the same entry group, so you either all go in together or none of you do.

The page lists the ways it breaks. A mistyped Player ID means that person won’t share the result. Someone already in another friend group may not share it either. Duplicate applications can void the win for everyone in the group. If you need to change the group, you resubmit, and the latest version counts.

For the Trio, the rules run the other way: only the representative enters, with all three Player IDs and every member’s agreement. The page warns that an entry missing three people’s information, or multiple entries, may be treated as not selected. The whole team checks in together on the day, and if a member drops out, you talk to reception.

Expect a bag check before entry and again on every re-entry. Alcohol and dangerous items, including sharp objects, blades and anything flammable, are not allowed in.

Prizes, merch and the ¥600 Pokéca Kuji

Set expectations here. Kagawa’s prize list is short, and it isn’t the promo-pack haul the 30th CELEBRATION event offered.

A Kuji ticket is a right to buy, not a free draw: each Pokéca Kuji (ポケカくじ) draw costs ¥600 including tax. The top prize is a 30-pack assortment of booster packs. There are two pools: Standard, with packs released in 2024 or later, and Extra, with packs from 2023 or earlier. Extra is capped at one draw per person, and you buy only after you’ve dropped from the event. Trio tickets land on the representative’s phone, so the whole team queues together.

The one piece of merchandise is a Scramble Battle deck shield, ¥889 for 64 sleeves. It’s sold only to lottery winners, at the Kuji corner after you drop, and only while stock lasts.

Both the merch and the Kuji are cashless only. The official page links to the PAYGATE list of supported methods, which includes contactless Visa, Mastercard, JCB, American Express, Diners Club, Discover and UnionPay, plus IC cards like Suica and ICOCA and QR payments including Alipay and WeChat Pay. The event page doesn’t say which of those the venue will switch on, so carry a contactless card and an IC card.

Getting to Sun Messe Kagawa

Sun Messe Kagawa is a convention center in Takamatsu, on Shikoku. Per the venue’s own access page:

• From JR Takamatsu Station: a city bus from bus terminal stop 8 (the サンメッセ・川島・西植田線 line) to the サンメッセ香川 stop, about 30 minutes, ¥530.
• Rail plus bus: Kotoden Kotohira Line from Takamatsu-Chikko to Fuseishi, then the Fuseishi–Sun Messe bus, about 22 minutes plus the transfer, ¥420 in total.
• Taxi: about 25 minutes and about ¥3,000 from Takamatsu Station, or about 30 minutes and about ¥4,000 from Takamatsu Airport.

Last entry is 15:00 and your group has its own meeting time, so plan to arrive by that time rather than the 9:30 door time. If you have a spare afternoon in town, the Pokémon Center Kagawa is in Takamatsu too.

What to do this week

The window is open now and closes in 13 days. If you’ll be in Japan over December 26–27, the order is simple: get the Players Club account working first, because it’s the step we couldn’t verify for overseas users. Then put in one entry per day you want, file the friend application if you’re a Solo group, and wait for November 19 before spending anything. If you win, the LINE registration deadline is December 25 at 14:00 JST, the day before the Solo Battle.