5th Official French Tournament (E and D kyu)

Information

Date: November 2026, Saturday the 14th

Location: Gymnase Elisabeth (7, avenue Paul Appell, Paris 14^e)

Participation Fee: 10€ (To pay on the day of the tournament)

Registration deadline: November 7th

To register, or if you have any questions, please contact us at: francekaruta@gmail.com

Please be sure to include your full name, your phone number, and if you will participate in any of the training sessions on the day after the tournament.

E-kyu Schedule

Arrival – 8:30 a.m. to 8:50 a.m.

Opening speech – 8:50 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.

Qualifying rounds – 9:00 a.m. to 1:15p.m.

Elimination rounds – 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Award ceremony – 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

D-kyu Schedule

Elimination rounds starting from the first match, just like a normal tournament in Japan.

1st match: 9:00 a.m.

2^nd match: 10:20 a.m.

3^rd match: 11:40 a.m.

4^th match: 1:30 p.m.

More information

Free training sessions will be held for players of all levels on day the after the tournament.

15th of November : practice from 9:30 am to 5 pm at the tournament location (7, avenue Paul Appell, Paris 14^e)

About promotion: 2 to 4 people will be able to pass 1st dan depending on the number of people entering the tournament (16-23 = 2 people, 24-29 = 3 people, 30+ = 4 people).

For D kyu, only the winner of the tournament will be promoted to C kyu.

Staff

Head referee

Romain Edelman (3^rd dan)

Reciters

Amandine Chambaron-Maillard (2^nd dan and B-kyu reciter)

Gabriel Fantuz (4^th dan and B-kyu reciter)

Referees

Thomas Chen (2^nd dan)

More referees might be added later.

We are grateful to everyone who already attempted our 4^th tournament last year. It was really a pleasure to see so many people coming from abroad and joining our tournament! Thank you all so much.

We hope that a lot of you will be able to attend this November. We will do our best to make this an unforgettable experience, so that foreign players can be introduced to competitive Karuta and prepared for more challenging tournaments in Japan.

Karuta France, on August the 14^th, 2026