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Look out for Kodansha Gekisaka FC with its star player Mayageka, a consistently top PES player in the past few years, at the Winning Eleven tournament.Team SunSister are frontrunners for the online multiplayer battle royale, PUBG. They were PUBG Japan Series champions in Season 4, Phase 2, and Season 5 and 6, Phase 1.For Clash Royale, JACK will be the one to look out for. The 20-year-old has 8,475 trophies to his name, and managed to finish in second runner-up positions last year at the 2019 Clash Royale League World Finals.Street Fighter V (SFV) will prove to be one of the most promising and competitive tournaments at this weekend\u2019s event. The competition will see some of esports\u2019 biggest gaming names, include 2019 Evo campion Masato \u201cBonchan\u201d Takahashi, 2018 Capcom Cup champion Tsunehiro \u201cgachikun\u201d Kanamori, and legends Daigo \u201cThe Beast\u201d Umehara and Hajime \u201cTokido\u201d Taniguchi.Catching the action \u2018live\u2019 and on repeatWith COVID-19 limiting the gathering of large crowds, the tournament venue has been closed off to spectators. Fans, however, can still catch the action as they will be streamed on Twitch, YouTube, and OpenRec. ‘Live’ broadcasts will be uploaded once the tournaments are over.The game to catch will be the SFV tournaments. Qualifiers will take place today (25 September) from 3 to 7 p.m. (GMT+8), and the finals are scheduled for Sunday (27 September) from 5 to 8 p.m. (GMT +8)."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"International","item":"https:\/\/thehomeground.asia\/international\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"What\u2019s on at the Japan Esports Grand Prix and How to Catch it","item":"https:\/\/thehomeground.asia\/international\/whats-on-at-the-japan-esports-grand-prix-and-how-to-catch-it\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]