On Lucca's final day, "Sold out" disappeared from the playmat reservation page — all 20 scheduled windows have been overwritten as `Closed`, and the fact that every one sold out can no longer be read from the page. The full 11-day record of 24 windows

Every “Sold out” is gone.

Lucca Comics & Games 2026 (October 28 – November 1, Italy), where NARUTO CARD GAME tutorial sessions are running, is on its final day.

We checked Italian organiser Play-system’s playmat reservation page today (08:13 JST / 00:13 CET on November 1 in Italy) and found that all 24 windows on the page are now Closed.

24reservation windows in total20 scheduled + 4 re-release

24windows marked `Closed`19 yesterday

0windows marked `Sold out`4 yesterday

20/20times the collection-date rule heldno exceptions among scheduled windows

The fetch time is confirmed by the HTTP header the server returned (date: Sat, 31 Oct 2026 23:13:43 GMT) — the state on the morning of the final day, before any collection had taken place.

1. Yesterday’s prediction came true exactly

In yesterday’s article (October 31) we wrote:

Sold out is expected to disappear from this page tomorrow (November 1). If the rule that has held for four days continues, the last four windows will be overwritten as Closed — at which point the fact that all 20 scheduled windows sold out will no longer be readable from the page

That is what happened.

The remaining four were the windows opened on October 25 (for collection today, November 1, at 10:00, 12:00, 14:00 and 16:00). Those four changed from Sold out to Closed, leaving zero Sold out.

The reading that a window turns Closed once its collection date arrives now holds for all 20 scheduled windows (four per day across October 21–25), five days running, without exception. The count of scheduled windows marked Closed went 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 on October 28, 29, 30, 31 and today — four more each day, with no drift.

2. Eleven days, 24 windows — the full record

We have checked the same page every day since October 22, in the same window of time (just after midnight, Italian local time). Here is that record in one place.

October 28 (opening day) total 20, Closed 416windows

October 29 total 21, Closed 912windows

October 30 total 22, Closed 148windows

October 31 total 23, Closed 194windows

November 1 (final day) total 24, Closed 240windows

The arithmetic is identical every day.

• Sold out drops by exactly 4 each day (the four windows whose collection date arrives turn Closed)
• Closed rises by exactly 5 each day (those four, plus the previous day’s 17:00 re-release window)
• The total rises by exactly 1 each day (one re-release window is added)

Today’s 24 windows split into scheduled and re-release windows.

The re-release windows are implemented as “reservation date = collection date = same time,” and four of them — October 28, 29, 30 and 31 — are now present. Today’s (November 1, 17:00) has not appeared yet; each of the previous four first showed up only in a check made after that time had passed.

3. “Everything sold out” can no longer be read from the page

This is the most important point for the record.

On October 22 we noted that the page’s CSS defines five status displays (notyet / coming / closed / soldout / available), that Closed — which signals expiry — was not used on any window, and that every window showed Sold out. Because the organiser’s system can distinguish “the time passed and it closed” from “it sold out,” Sold out could be read as a genuine sell-out rather than a timeout.

After that, Closed began overwriting each window as its collection date arrived. Today the overwrite is complete.

So from today, opening this page tells you nothing about all 20 scheduled windows having sold out. All 24 simply read Closed, with no way to distinguish a sell-out from a window that expired with nobody booking it.

Only two traces of the evidence remain:

• The day-by-day series of statuses we have recorded since October 22 (Oct 22, including its October 24 update, Oct 26, Oct 28, Oct 29, Oct 31, and this article)
• Wayback Machine snapshots

There is nothing unusual about a sales page flattening its statuses once an event is over. But when it happens to a venue-exclusive product with undisclosed quantities, the means of verifying after the fact how much demand there was simply vanishes. For readers waiting on the 2027 general release (the official playmat’s recommended price is MSRP: $35 (+tax) on the official page), the way this record disappears is itself a worked example.

4. The only route left is today’s 17:00 re-release

The page body has not changed by a single character since October 28. Here are the purchase routes available during the event, from the original text.

• The scheduled releases are finished — Reservations will open progressively from October 21 to October 25, 2026, with four reservation windows opening each day at: 10:00 · 12:00 · 14:00 · 16:00. They finished on October 25, so no more will be added
• What remains is the re-release — 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.

Today’s roughly 17:00 re-release (around 01:00 JST on November 2) is the last chance to buy during the event. Note the subject to availability clause: if there are no cancellations or no-shows, the quantity is zero.

The bottom of the page still reads There are no available windows at the moment.

The purchase conditions are unchanged too.

Item	As written on the page
Price	The playmat costs €42.90, VAT included.
Purchase limit	A maximum of one playmat per person during the entire event may be purchased.
Enforcement	Checks will be carried out to enforce this limit and prevent the same person from purchasing or collecting multiple playmats.
Collection	Purchase and collection will take place exclusively on site, with a confirmed reservation, on the date and during the time slot selected when booking.
Admission	A valid Lucca Comics & Games admission ticket for the selected day is required
Payment	Electronic payments only.
Shipping	Reservations do not include shipping.

5. The waiting list will not move on the final day either

We also checked the tutorial session waiting list page today. The wording is unchanged.

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

That announced final update date (Friday, October 30) has passed, so positions will not move on the final day. Checking requires a Bandai ID (Bandai Membership Number), and the page notes Positions are updated when staff import a new list. Recent registrations, cancellations or changes of demo may not be visible yet. (how this works is covered in our October 26 article).

6. The official site never wrote a single line about it

One more thing to set down for the record.

On the NARUTO CARD GAME official Lucca page, only two statements concern the playmat (as of today, as written):

Playmat purchase tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis, with reservations opening one week before each event day.

Players may reserve a maximum of one playmat during the event.

So the mechanism — reservations opening one week before each event day — is stated. But for the entire event there was not one line about any of the following:

• The status of each reservation window (Sold out / Closed) and when each filled
• The existence of the roughly 17:00 re-release on each event day
• The existence of the tutorial session waiting list and its update days
• The number of playmats per window, per day, or across the event
• That the on-site price is €42.90 (incl. VAT) — the official page states only MSRP: $35 (+tax); this discrepancy is covered in our October 18 and October 21 articles

In other words, the only page where the reservation process could be tracked day by day was the Italian organiser’s, not the official site’s. The venue is Piazza Santa Maria on the official page, and Play-system calls it the “Naruto Pavilion” (visitors will have the exclusive opportunity to try the game for the first time at the Naruto Pavilion in Piazza Santa Maria).

7. Still unfilled on the final day

Even today, as the event ends, none of these figures has been published by either the publisher or the organiser.

• Playmats per window (20 windows × ?)
• Playmats per day (the page says only A limited number of Official NARUTO CARD GAME Playmats will be available each day.)
• Playmats released in the re-releases (all four days show Closed, so zero cannot be ruled out)
• The total across the event
• Tutorial session capacity (the 63-session timetable is known, but not the capacity per session)

As of today there is no indication that any of these will be published later. The full month’s schedule is in our November schedule. If the state changes at today’s 17:00 re-release, we will add to this article.

8. [Updated November 2, 2026] The last re-release window appeared, and all 25 windows read Closed

The event is over. And as flagged, one last window had been added.

Following the close of Lucca Comics & Games 2026 on November 1, we fetched the playmat reservation page again on November 2, 2026 at 08:17 JST (HTTP header date: Sun, 01 Nov 2026 23:17:27 GMT, i.e. 00:17 CET on November 2 in Italy).

• The total went from 24 windows to 25. The new one reads 17:00 / 01 November 2026 / Collection: 01 Nov 17:00 / Closed — precisely the November 1 17:00 re-release window this article recorded as “not yet appeared”
• By HTML class name, class="closed" is now 25 and class="soldout" is 0. All 25 windows are Closed
• Re-release windows therefore ran five days in a row — October 28, 29, 30, 31 and November 1. All five follow the same rule, with the reservation date, collection date and hour identical (17:00 each day), which means the page’s re-release clause (starting at approximately 17:00 each event day, subject to availability) was implemented as an actual window on every one of the five event days

25Total windows for the event (final)20 scheduled + 5 re-release

25`Closed` count`Sold out`: 0

5 daysConsecutive re-release windowsOctober 28 – November 1

0Quantities officially publishedPer window, per day and in total: never stated

The page body (€42.90 VAT included, one playmat per person for the whole event, electronic payments only, a valid same-day admission ticket required, checks against the purchase limit) is unchanged from October 28, and the foot of the page still reads There are no available windows at the moment. The waiting-list lookup page has likewise not changed since the announced final update on Friday, October 30.

With that, the record of Lucca’s playmat reservations is final. The reading recorded up to section 2 — that a window turns Closed once its collection date arrives — held without exception across all 20 scheduled windows, and all five re-release windows showed Closed from the moment they appeared. How many playmats each release held, or whether a single one was sold, cannot be read from the page at any point. The official site’s Lucca page has added no line about reservation windows, re-releases or the waiting list even now, after the event.

The next venue where the NARUTO Card Game can be played is Tabletop.me in Dubai, UAE on November 6–8 — today’s article sets out the entry tickets and opening hours.