2026 Nikkei Games Budo Tournament (Kendo)
Sunday, 8/9/26
Cal State Long Beach Pyramid
- application packet (xlsx)
- location: CSULB Pyramid
1250 Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach
(see pushpin)
- fees
- tournament fee: $25 non-bogu divisions, $35 bogu divisions
- no bento orders for competitors or spectators.
However, food vendors will be open and operating inside the Pyramid.
- lunch will be provided for referees and volunteers
- admission notes
- admission to the event is free for everyone
- there is a parking fee
- volunteers are needed for court duties, front desk, and other
Nikkei Games duties
- competitors and volunteers receive a Nikkei Games t-shirt;
volunteers also receive a wristband
- schedule
- 6:30am: set up
- 8-8:45am: sign in
- 8:45am: Shinpan meeting
- 9:15-9:30am: Non-bogu divisions
- 9:30am: Opening Ceremony
- tournament brackets, rev C
- tournament results
- tournament divisions
(see application file for details)
- individual divisions (only one division may be entered)
- 1 dan
- 2 dan
- 3 dan
- 4 dan and above
- women's dan (15 and older)
- youth non-bogu (17 and under)
- adult non-bogu (18 and over)
- team divisions
- 11 and under kyu
- 14 and under kyu
- 17 and under, any rank
- 18 and over kyu
- 50 and over, any rank
- tournament regulations (see application packet)
- individual dan divisions
- 4 minutes, 2-min encho, hantei (except semifinals and finals)
- team divisions
- 3 minutes, no encho
- for kyu teams: nito and jodan not allowed, tsuki not valid
- 3-player teams
- teams may be a mix of different dojos
- dojos may submit more than one team
- players may compete in up to one individual and one team division
- AJKF tsubazeriai provisional rules will be in effect, see
AJKF video
- masks and shields are optional
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