Unmatched Tournament - "Roster" Rules- Essen 2026

Welcome to the Essen 2026 Unmatched tournament! We're back with a 32-players tournament with modified "Roster" tournament rules. There'll be plenty of prizes, and the battles will be fierce! This tournament is for competitive players,we advise casual players to join the Conscript Format instead.

Location: IELLO Booth Hall 6 - 6F200
If you have any questions please contact customer.care@iello.com with the subject “Essen 2026 Unmatched Tournament”.

Registration, Format and Schedule:
We will play in English with the corresponding sets : All Official Unmatched released sets except Jurassic Park, Marvel, Deadpool, Buffy, and Hellboy.
Children are accepted but the event runners hold no responsibility for anyone under the age of 16. They remain under the responsibility of their parent.

This format, specific to Essen 2026, follows the official Roster format rules with the following exceptions due to the event’s time and space constraints. Please read it before check the points below.

Modified "Roster" rules

• Players should bring 4 unique Fighters and 2 unique Maps to the tournament.
• Both players must create two unique match-ups using their 4 characters and assign a map to each match-up.
• Players will flip a coin to decide which players match-ups will be played.
• Player A wins the coin flip. Player B then chooses one of Player A's match-ups and the character he wants to play with.
• Player A chooses position.
• The match will consist of one battle lasting a maximum of 45 minutes.
• The winner will be awarded "1 victory"
• If the game is not over when the time runs out, players finish their turn so that each of them has played the same number of times. Then, if the match is still not finished, both players get "0 victory"
• Since the game materials will be shared with your opponent, we recommend that the cards are sleeved, and painted miniatures are not recommended.
• The following sets are prohibited for characters AND maps: Jurassic Park, Marvel, Deadpool, Buffy, and Hellboy. Stars and Stripes is allowed. Yukon map is banned.

16 players
2:00 pm : Welcome, registration, heroes and map assignment
2:15 pm : Round 1
3:05 pm : Round 2
3:55 pm : Round 3
4:45 pm : Round 4 - Final round
5:30 pm – Awards and prizes

Prize pool:

• Participation prize: Unmatched Poster + Tournament card Stars and Stripes + Acrylic pack 6 + Contest Coin
• 1 win : 1xGold Sleeves + 2x Black Sleeves + Tournament card Bruce Lee
• 2 wins : TMNT Playmat + TMNT Sleeves + TMNT Collector Coin + TMNT Alt card
• 3 wins : Unmatched Stars and Stripes + Shredder vs Krang + 1 golden mini (Cobble and Fog or Witcher) + Unmatched Totebag
• 4 wins : Trophee + Unmatched Hellboy + TMNT Extra topping + 1 TMNT golden mini + 1 TMNT golden mini sidekick + 30 foot soldiers golden minis
  

Prizes are cumulative.