The 2020 TEPPEN World Champion is Crowned!

The celebration includes the announcement of a new Hero – Oichi

TOKYO, Japan – Dec 28, 2020 – A contender emerges victorious! Kuran is crowned the winner of the TEPPEN World Championship 2020. To close out the year, GungHo Online Entertainment (GOE) also announced the next Hero coming to TEPPEN – the Demon Queen, Oichi from the Sengoku BASARA series – and various updates planned for 2021.

As a reward for his achievement, kuran from Japan took home 3M Yen (~$29K USD) of the 5M Yen (~$48K USD) prize pool, along with the opportunity to redesign an existing card to create a custom secret card. Second through fourth place winners and their prizes are listed below:

• 2nd Place – tarakoman: 1M Yen (~$9.6K USD)
• 3rd Place – Raia: 600K Yen (~$5.7K USD)
• 4th Place – Hai: 200K Yen (~$1.9K USD)

All 32 finalists will be published in the TEPPEN app. GOE would like to congratulate all winners and participants, and thank BookLive, Lion, Meiji, MSI, Toyo Suisan, Yonex, and ZONe Energy for sponsoring the Championships.

A New Hero Arrives!

Along with crowning a World Champion, GOE also announced the next Hero coming to TEPPEN. The Demon Queen, Oichi from the Sengoku BASARA series, is a Black element Hero who will join TEPPEN in the latest expansion -’The Battle of Amatsu no Kuni’. 

After losing everything dear to her and trying to forget her past, Oichi wanders as an amnesiac through Amatsu no Kuni. With the lingering memory of her lost love and the false priestess at her side, she forges into battle with three mythical Hero Arts:

• Dancing Dead deals damage to an enemy unit equal to the number of Unit Cards in your Graveyard. If an opponent’s unit dies from this damage, your Hero gains +3 Life.
• Despair, Wail, and Perish! takes 3 units from your Graveyard with an MP cost of 4 or less and places them onto the field. All friendly units also receive +1/+1.
• Dark Invitation activates the Death abilities of a friendly unit.

Updates planned for 2021

• New Friend Invite and deck gifting features
• More single player content
• Rule changes to matches
  • Standard: Certain cards cannot be used in Ranked Matches
  • Unlimited: All cards can be used
• Characters brand new to TEPPEN!

Fans can replay the World Championship live stream on the TEPPEN Twitch channel here. Assets can be found here.

For more information on WC2020, visit the tournament’s official website.

For more information about TEPPEN, visit the official website, Twitch, Youtube, and Twitter.

Download TEPPEN on the App Store, Google Play, and the Amazon Appstore.

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