Love Live! (School Idol Tournament)

Love Live! is a national tournament for school idols in Japan.

First Love Live
In the first Love Live!, an idol group had to be within ranks 1 to 20 in the national idol ranking in order to be able to participate. The rankings may change during the time before the event starts. A-RISE ended up winning the first Love Live.



Second Love Live
The second Love Live! was of bigger scale than the first one. The concert arena was several times larger and the performances were be livestreamed and uploaded online. For this tournament, all idol groups were free to join and underwent preliminaries per region. Only new/unreleased songs could be performed.

After the first round of the preliminaries, only four groups per region advanced to the final round of the preliminaries. The final round was then held and the winner of the final round for each region got to compete at the nationals. Idol group μ's won the second Love Live!

Third Love Live
Not much is known about the third Love Live, though it is confirmed to have been held at Tokyo Dome.

First Love Live

 * A-RISE - Ranked 1st; winner of the First Love Live (from Tokyo)
 * Littele Tokyo - Ranked 2nd (from Tokyo)
 * girlish season - Ranked 3rd (from Hokkaido)
 * Lucky - Ranked 4th (from Okinawa)
 * Hello! Hello! - Ranked 5th (from Shizuoka)
 * Madonna - Ranked 6th (from Kyoto)
 * UC_G - Ranked 7th (from Tokyo)
 * OTEMO-YAN - Ranked 8th (from Kumamoto)
 * Dream - Ranked 9th (from Fukuoka)
 * μ's - Ranked 19th; withdrew (from Tokyo)

Second Love Live

 * A-RISE - Final Preliminaries qualifier (from Tokyo)
 * μ's - Final Preliminaries winner; winner of the Second Love Live (from Tokyo)
 * Midnight Cats - Final Preliminaries qualifier (from Tokyo)
 * East Heart - Final Preliminaries qualifier (from Tokyo)
 * Ever Never Girl - Final Preliminaries qualifier
 * Lemon Milk - Final Preliminaries qualifier
 * 9RANE - Final Preliminaries qualifier

Third Love Live
Unknown