Lucca opens: the playmat booking page rewrites day one’s four windows from “Sold out” to “Closed” — our first sighting of the `closed` state, and it flipped at 00:17 Italian time, before any collection

Updated October 29, 2026: the test set out in this article has resolved, and it held. October 22’s four windows (collection October 29) flipped from Sold out to Closed, so “collection date is today or earlier → Closed” now explains nine windows across two days with no exceptions. The reservation windows had also grown from 20 to 21: the new one reads 17:00 / 28 October 2026 / Collection: 28 Oct 17:00 / Closed, our first confirmation that the re-release this article called “the only purchase route left today” is implemented as a new window whose reservation and collection times are identical — though the Closed label means we cannot read how many were released. Details are in our October 29 article.

The state that comes after a sell-out showed up on opening day.

Lucca Comics & Games 2026, the pre-release tutorial event for the NARUTO Card Game, opened today, October 28, 2026. It runs five days through November 1, and 13 tutorial sessions are scheduled today, from 09:15 to 18:15 (the full 63-session timetable is in our October 15 article).

On that opening morning we opened the Reserve Playmat page run by Play-system in Italy, and day one’s four windows had changed from yesterday’s Sold out to Closed.

4windows now reading `Closed`all for collection today, October 28

16windows still reading `Sold out`collection October 29 – November 1

00:17Italian local time at our checkbefore any collection

firstsighting of the `closed` labelunused as of October 24

What this article is based on: everything below comes from the English official site’s Lucca page and from the Reserve Playmat page linked from that page’s “Playmat Ticket Page” button (both checked by us at 08:17 JST on October 28, 2026). Play-system is the Italian operator that the official site itself designates as the booking channel. We keep statements from the official site (naruto-cardgame.com) separate from statements on Play-system’s pages. Conversions to Japan time are ours; neither page gives one. Quotations keep the original English.

What changed — all 20 windows side by side

There are 20 playmat booking windows in total. Over the five days from October 21 to 25, four opened each day at 10:00, 12:00, 14:00 and 16:00 Italian time, and each window corresponds to the same time slot on the event day exactly one week later (the October 21 10:00 window maps to collection on October 28 at 10:00).

Here is how they read today.

• Sold out (collection October 29 – November 1) 16windows（80%）
• Closed (collection today, October 28) 4windows（20%）

What changed is only the four windows whose collection day is today — and all four of them. The 10:00, 12:00, 14:00 and 16:00 windows all read Closed together.

The labels are written straight into the page’s HTML. Counting the class names in that section gives four instances of class="closed" and sixteen of class="soldout", 20 in all. The labels are not computed in the browser; they are already decided in the HTML the server returns.

Why this is a “first” — on October 24 we wrote that closed was defined but unused

Since our October 22 article we have followed these 20 windows day by day. In the October 24 update we wrote this:

The page’s CSS defines five state labels (notyet / coming / closed / soldout / available), yet Closed, which marks expiry, is used on none of the 12 — all 12 carry Sold out. Since the operator’s own system can tell “the window closed on time” apart from “it sold out”, the 12 read as genuinely sold out rather than timed out.

The point then was that a closed label existed and was going unused, which is why Sold out could be read as a real sell-out. Today that closed label is in use for the first time.

Lining up the five states against the days we have actually seen them:

Of the two we have never seen, available means “bookable right now”, so it presumably appears only in the moment a window is open. Our checks all fell in the Japanese morning, several hours after each window opened, so we never caught it. For notyet we still cannot tell how it differs from coming.

The timing matters — Closed was already there before any collection

This is the point to hold on to today.

We opened the page at 08:17 JST on October 28, 2026. In Italy (Europe/Rome, on winter time CET throughout the event) that is 00:17 on October 28.

1. 00:17our check; four windows already Closed
2. 10:00first collection slot
3. 16:00last collection slot
4. approx. 17:00re-release, subject to availability

The first collection slot today is 10:00. At 00:17, when we saw Closed, not one collection had taken place today — the Lucca Comics & Games venue was not even open.

So the rewrite from Sold out to Closed is not “because collection finished”. What we see is that once the date turned over to October 28, the four windows whose collection day is today all became Closed.

That said, the source text contains not one line explaining what the label means. The page describes the booking mechanism and nothing else; there is no definition of Closed anywhere. So we write only what we observed and how it can be tested.

• What we observed: only the four windows with collection today read Closed; the 16 with collection tomorrow or later read Sold out. The change happened before collection began
• What that suggests: the trigger sits on the “has the collection date arrived” side, not the “has collection finished” side
• How to test it: if, tomorrow (October 29), the four windows opened on October 22 (collection October 29) read Closed, that reading gains a second data point. If they do not, we look for another trigger

We will check this page every day of the event and append the results to this article.

Result, October 29, 2026: it held. Checking the same page at 00:14 Italian time on October 29, October 22’s four windows (all for collection on October 29) had all changed to Closed — again before a single one of that day’s collections had taken place (the first slot is 10:00). The re-release window (collection October 28, 17:00) read Closed too, so the split by collection date is:

Not one exception. “Collection date is today or earlier → Closed” accounts for nine windows across two days. The source text still carries no definition of the labels, though, so we do not assert it. If October 23’s four windows go Closed tomorrow (October 30), the count rises to thirteen.

The side effect — the page no longer shows that all 20 sold out

The rewrite has a consequence for the record that is easy to miss.

Closed overwrites Sold out. The four windows that read Closed today read Sold out yesterday. So anyone opening this page for the first time today cannot tell whether those four sold out or simply expired unsold.

The same will happen on each following day. As collection days pass, windows will turn Closed one group at a time, so once the event ends on November 1, all 20 will read Closed and the fact that all 20 sold out will have disappeared from the page entirely.

The daily series we have kept since October 22 exists to preserve that record. Here it is again:

• October 21: all 20 windows Coming soon
• October 22: October 21’s four windows Sold out (day one sold out the day its windows opened)
• October 24: October 22’s and 23’s also Sold out (12 gone, three days running)
• October 25: October 24’s also Sold out (16 gone, four days running)
• October 26: October 25’s also Sold out (all 20 sold out, ending a five-day run)
• October 28 (today): October 21’s four windows become Closed (the other 16 still Sold out)

The fact that four windows a day sold out on the day they opened, five days running, survives only in that series. The official page says nothing more than “A limited number of Official NARUTO CARD GAME Playmats will be available each day.”, and the number per day is still unannounced, after the sell-out and after the opening alike.

The only purchase route left today is the re-release at around 17:00

With all 20 windows gone, there is exactly one way left to buy a playmat on site: the re-release written into Play-system’s 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 every day of the event, which makes today the first one.

Every day of the event (October 28 – November 1) is on winter time (CET), so 17:00 CET is 1:00 the next morning in Japan. At our check today (00:17 CET) the page footer still read:

There are no available windows at the moment.

The subject to availability wording is a caveat. It does not say stock will appear. Coming from a state where all 20 windows sold out, anything released will be cancellations and no-shows only.

The purchase conditions themselves are unchanged: electronic payment only on site, a maximum of one playmat per person for the whole event, and a separate Lucca Comics & Games admission ticket for that day. The price still stands three ways — €42.90 (VAT incl.) on Play-system’s page, MSRP: $35 (+tax) on the official site’s Lucca page, and USD $40.00 on the BCG Fest merchandise list (set out in our October 21 article).

On the tutorial side, nothing in the text has changed today

For completeness we also read Play-system’s registration page and waiting-list lookup page in full. Neither differs from what we recorded in our October 26 article.

• The waiting list still says The list is updated on Tuesday and Friday mornings; the final update will be on 30/10/2026. — Tuesday and Friday mornings, final update on October 30, day three of the event
• On-the-day operation still says 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. Arriving late does not guarantee access
• The official site (naruto-cardgame.com) still carries no mention of a waiting list

We still cannot confirm whether all 63 sessions are full. Each session registers through its own BANDAI TCG+ page (bandai-tcg-plus.com/event/8722190 through 8722252, 63 of them), which requires JavaScript in our environment, and the API side (api.bandai-tcg-plus.com) returns 403 without authentication. We cannot say more than that a waiting list is in operation.

One other detail: the registration page calls the venue the Gametrade × Bandai Card Games Monographic Pavilion and the NARUTO CARD GAME Monographic Pavilion. The official site gives only Piazza Santa Maria, Lucca, Italy, so the pavilion’s operator naming appears on Play-system’s page alone.

Still unknown

• What Closed means — not one line of explanation in the source. We state only the observation that the four windows with collection today read Closed, and we do not assert a meaning
• The exact moment it flipped — it already read Closed at 00:17 today; we did not check any earlier point
• The notyet and available labels — defined in the CSS, but we have never seen either in use
• The number of playmats per day — still only “A limited number ... each day”, after the sell-out and after the opening
• Whether today’s re-release actually materialises — carries the “subject to availability” caveat
• Whether all 63 sessions are full — the TCG+ pages do not yield registration status in our environment
• Per-session capacity — the timetable is known for all 63 sessions, but capacity is unannounced

Summary

• Lucca Comics & Games 2026 opened today, October 28, 2026. It is day one for the NARUTO Card Game tutorial sessions, with 13 sessions from 09:15 to 18:15
• On Play-system’s Reserve Playmat page, the four windows that opened on October 21 (all for collection today) changed from Sold out to Closed, with four instances of class="closed" in the HTML
• The other 16 windows still read Sold out. Four closed and sixteen soldout labels now sit on the same page
• This is our first sighting of the closed label we recorded on October 24 as defined in the CSS but unused
• We checked at 00:17 Italian time, when none of today’s collections (the first slot is 10:00) had happened. The trigger reads as sitting on the “collection date arrived” side rather than “collection finished”, but with no explanation in the source we do not assert it; October 22’s four windows either flipping or not on October 29 will test it
• Closed overwrites Sold out. Once the event ends, all 20 will read Closed and the sell-out will have vanished from the page. Only the daily series we have kept since October 22 preserves it
• The only purchase route left today is the re-release at around 17:00 (about 1:00 on October 29 JST), with the source’s “subject to availability” caveat attached
• On the tutorial side — registration page, waiting-list lookup and official site — nothing has changed since October 26. Whether all 63 sessions are full is still unconfirmed

The latest registration status is collected on our pre-order and lottery hub, and the October–November schedule on the event calendar. We will check this page every day of the event and update it, together with the product database, the same day anything moves.

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• A waiting-list position checker appears for the Lucca demos — look up your place with a Bandai ID
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