A waiting-list position checker appears for the Lucca demos — enter your Bandai ID, updated Tuesday and Friday mornings, final update October 30. All 20 playmat reservation windows are now sold out

The existence of a queue became visible the moment a lookup page appeared.

The NARUTO Card Game pre-release demo at Lucca Comics & Games 2026 opens in two days.

Today (October 26, 2026) we opened the target of the “Tutorial Session Registration page” button on the English official site’s Lucca page — Italian operator Play-system’s Lucca registration page — and found an unfamiliar button added right at the top.

WAITING LIST POSITION CHECKING

Bandai IDWhat the lookup takesBandai Membership Number

Tue & Fri AMList update cadence"Tuesday and Friday mornings"

Oct 30Final list updateDay 3 of 5. Event runs to Nov 1

20 windowsPlaymat windows sold out20 of 20

What this article is based on: everything below comes from the English NARUTO Card Game official site’s Lucca page and the three Play-system pages linked from that page’s two buttons (Registration page and Playmat Ticket Page), all checked by this site on October 26, 2026. Play-system is the Italian operator, and the official site itself designates it as the registration channel. We keep statements from the official site proper (naruto-cardgame.com) separate from statements on Play-system’s pages. Conversions to Japan Standard Time are ours; none of the pages lists JST. Quotes are reproduced exactly, typos included.

What the lookup page actually says

The button points to https://www.play-system.eu/naruto-waiting-list, and the page is titled Naruto Demo - Waiting list. Its headings read:

Lucca Comics & Games · Naruto Card Game Where are you on the waiting list?

There is a single input field, described as follows.

Enter your Bandai ID to check your demo reservation and your position on the waiting list.

What you enter is a Bandai ID (Bandai Membership Number), and the page tells you where to find it.

You can find your Membership Number in your Bandai app profile. Enter the full number, including any leading zeroes.

That “including any leading zeroes” note matters in practice: type the number from the wrong digit and the lookup will not find you. We leave it here in the original wording.

Updated “Tuesday and Friday mornings”, with the final update on day three

The densest part of the lookup page is the two notes under the input field.

Positions are updated when staff import a new list. Recent registrations, cancellations or changes of demo may not be visible yet.

The list is updated on Tuesday and Friday mornings; the final update will be on 30/10/2026.

So the lookup is not real time. It runs on staff manually importing a list, twice a week, in the morning. And the stated final update falls in the middle of the event.

Lined up against the Lucca schedule:

Of the five event days, the number only moves through October 30. Anyone waiting on an October 31 or November 1 session will reach their day with a position that has not been refreshed since the Friday.

The date format in the original is 30/10/2026 — day/month/year, as you would expect from an Italian page. There is no stated hour, only the word mornings. That is an Italian morning, so the Japanese evening of the same day, but no specific time is given.

The official site says nothing about a waiting list

This is the point worth holding on to.

The English official site’s Lucca page does not mention a waiting list at all. We re-read it in full today; everything it says about the demos sits within this range:

Tutorial Sessions will open for registration on a first-come, first-served basis at 11:00 AM CEST on Wednesday, October 14. Players may register for a maximum of one event. Any attempts to circumvent this limit will result in exclusion from all demo events.

“First-come, first-served” and “one event per player” are both there. What happens to the people who did not make the cut is not. That answer exists only on the Play-system side.

Play-system’s registration page has described the on-the-day handling for a while — this text was already present when we checked the page on October 15.

Each Tutorial Session will also have a waiting list. If a registered participant is not present when the session begins, their place will be assigned to the first available person on the waiting list.

The lookup page that appeared today reads as making that waiting list checkable online, before you travel. But neither page explains how the lookup relates to the on-the-day handling. Whether the position shown in the lookup is the order you will be called in on site is not written down, so we do not assert it.

Numbers that are still blank

• Per-session capacity — our October 15 article recorded the full 63-session timetable (13 sessions each on October 28–31, 11 on November 1), but how many players fit in one session is still unannounced
• How many people are on the waiting list — the lookup returns your own position; it does not show a total
• Whether all 63 sessions filled — each session is registered through its own BANDAI TCG+ page (bandai-tcg-plus.com/event/87221xx), and our environment cannot read those because they require JavaScript. The appearance of a lookup page supports “a waiting list is in operation”, but we cannot write “all 63 sessions are full”

All 20 playmat reservation windows went to “Sold out”

One more number settled today.

Since our October 22 article we have tracked Play-system’s Reserve Playmat page window by window. Reservation windows opened four at a time, every day from October 21 to 25, at 10:00 / 12:00 / 14:00 / 16:00 Italian time, and each window corresponds to the same hour on the event day exactly one week later — 20 windows in total.

Today the last four (the October 25 batch, collection on November 1) also read Sold out.

The line at the foot of the page now reads:

There are no available windows at the moment.

That same line was also showing while no window had opened yet — it was there on October 21. The sentence has not changed; what it now means has. “None available because none has opened” has become “none available because all of them sold”.

The upshot: a five-day run of four windows selling out on the day they opened has ended. The official page says only “A limited number of Official NARUTO CARD GAME Playmats will be available each day.”, so how many mats those 20 windows represented is still unknown.

The only route left is the roughly 17:00 daily re-release

With every reservation gone, one path remains — the re-release written into Play-system’s registration page.

Any remaining playmats resulting from cancellations or no-shows will be made available for reservation on the same booking page, starting at approximately 17:00 each event day, subject to availability.

each event day reads as each day of the event (October 28 – November 1). All of those days fall in winter time (CET), so 17:00 CET is 1:00 the next morning in Japan.

But the original attaches subject to availability. It does not say any will appear. Coming off a full sell-out, anything released is cancellation and no-show stock only.

Condition	Original wording
Re-release time	starting at approximately 17:00 each event day (about 1:00 next day JST)
Where	on the same booking page
Source of stock	cancellations or no-shows
Caveat	subject to availability

The purchase conditions themselves are unchanged: electronic payment on site only, one per person, and a Lucca admission ticket for that day is required separately (as set out in our October 21 article). The price is still written three ways: €42.90 (VAT included) on Play-system’s reservation page, MSRP: $35 (+tax) on the official site’s Lucca page, and USD $40.00 on the BCG Fest merchandise listing.

One more line we found — this page alone calls Ninjutsu a “mechanic”

Since we re-read the registration page in full, one more thing is worth recording. It touches the rules.

The opening of Play-system’s Lucca registration page reads:

Ahead of its official Summer 2027 release, visitors will have the excluisve opportunity to experience the new card game for the first time through free Tutorial Session, discover its gameplay abnd learn the new NinJutsu mechanic.

And the bullet list on the same page:

• Discover the new Ninjutsu mechanic

One page, two spellings: NinJutsu and Ninjutsu (excluisve and abnd are also as printed). The spelling wobble is minor; what matters is the word “mechanic” attached to it.

Line that up against the official site and the difference is clear.

Source	How Ninjutsu is handled (original)
Official site, English (top page)	Use Chakra to activate face down support cards. Unleash Ninjutsu to stop their attacks!
Official site, English (Chakra card description)	Cards required to activate Support cards like Ninjutsu.
Official site, Japanese (Chakra card description)	「忍術などのサポート効果を発動する為に必要なカード」 (“cards required to activate support effects such as Ninjutsu”)
Play-system Lucca registration page	the new NinJutsu mechanic / the new Ninjutsu mechanic

The official site only ever frames Ninjutsu as one example of a Support card or Support effect. The Japanese “support effects such as Ninjutsu” does the same, treating Ninjutsu as one member of a larger bucket. In our July 31 article we concluded from this split that you cannot tell whether Ninjutsu is a card type or a category of effect.

Against that question, a page calling it a “mechanic” — a named piece of machinery — is a first in our records. Three caveats apply:

• This is not the official site proper; it is the operator’s page that the official site links to
• That same page writes the release window as Summer 2027, which still conflicts with the official site’s June 2027 (reported in our October 15 article)
• It is one word inside promotional copy that contains several typos

So this line does not let us say “Ninjutsu exists as a bracketed keyword like 【Ninjutsu】”. All it supports today is that the demo copy introduces Ninjutsu as a new mechanic. That is not enough to add to the keyword list, so we have opened a “Ninjutsu” entry in the glossary holding every statement so far. The formal definition goes in once the rulebook is published.

Still unknown

• How many are on the waiting list, and how the lookup relates to being called on the day — the page returns your position and nothing else
• Per-session capacity — the 63-session timetable is known; the capacity is not
• Whether all 63 sessions filled — the individual BANDAI TCG+ pages cannot be read in our environment
• What time the list updates — “Tuesday and Friday mornings”, no hour
• How positions are handled for October 31 and November 1 sessions — the final update is October 30, with no explanation of what happens after
• Playmats per day — still only “A limited number ... each day”, even with all 20 windows gone
• Whether the re-release actually yields anything — “subject to availability”
• Whether the official site will mention the waiting list — nothing as of today

Summary

• A WAITING LIST POSITION CHECKING button has appeared at the top of Play-system’s Lucca registration page, linking to a dedicated lookup page (Naruto Demo - Waiting list). By our records this is the first waiting-list position lookup for a NARUTO Card Game demo
• The lookup takes a Bandai ID (Bandai Membership Number), full number including leading zeroes, and returns your reservation and your position
• The list updates Tuesday and Friday mornings, with the final update on Friday October 30. The event runs to November 1, so the last two days are frozen
• The official site (naruto-cardgame.com) says nothing about a waiting list. Only the Play-system page does
• All 20 playmat reservation windows read Sold out, ending a five-day run of same-day sell-outs
• What remains is the roughly 17:00 daily re-release (about 1:00 next day JST), and the original attaches “subject to availability”
• The same page calls Ninjutsu “the new mechanic” (spelled NinJutsu and Ninjutsu on one page). The official site calls it only an example of a Support card, and because this is not the official site proper, it does not establish a keyword
• Per-session capacity is unannounced, and whether the 63 sessions filled cannot be confirmed from our environment

Current registration status is collected on our pre-order and lottery hub, and the October–November schedule on the event calendar. We will update same-day — alongside the product database — as things move during Lucca.

Related articles

• Lucca’s playmat reservations: all four day-one windows “Sold out”
• Lucca’s demos come to 63 sessions — the 45-minute timetable published on the registration page
• The first euro price for the “-Arriving in 2027-” playmat: €42.90 incl. VAT on Lucca’s reservation page
• Four registrations collide on October 25
• The official site says different things in different languages
• Details for three European events: demos and CP-001 at SPIEL Essen, Paris Games Week and Lucca

Sources

• Naruto Demo - Waiting list (Play-system; target of the button at the top of the Lucca registration page)
• NARUTO CARD GAME – Lucca Comics & Games 2026 (Play-system; target of the official English site’s “Registration page” button)
• Reserve Playmat (Play-system; target of the official English site’s “Playmat Ticket Page” button)
• Lucca Comics & Games Event Information (official, English)