MGS - Portable OPS Japan National Tournament announced

The Japanese dont seem to be getting enough of the MGS-Portable Ops and Konami has announced national level tournaments with preliminaries in 5 cities. The final will be conducted on the 25th of February at Roppongi

Team will be formed of 3 players who will fight it out with the other 3 over ADHOC mode (its not online battle) with a round of 5 minutes. Oh yes you cannot use stealth stuff.

The preliminaries are named after the leading game magazines (sponsored by them respectively).
Dengeki PS Cup will be in Fukuoka
Dengeki PSP Cup will be in Osaka
with Famitsu hosting the remainder 3
at nagoya , sapporo and tokyo

The winning teams will converge at Roppongi for the finals.

And yes at some places you would have Kojima himself make a guest appearance.

Participants (Includes viewers) get some special key cards with passwords.. and many other prizes to be won

The details unfortunately only in japanese are at
http://www.konami.jp/gs/game/mpo_sup.../event_01.html

This is the sort of thing that makes me want to live in Japan. How cool is this? A MGS: PO tournament. Don't see stuff like that in the states.