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 must 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.

Second Love Live


After A-RISE won Love Live!, a second Love Live! was announced. The second tournament is much bigger than the first contest. The concert arena is several times larger and the videos will be uploaded online with a live stream. For this tournament, all idol groups are free to join and will undergo preliminaries per region. However, an idol group can only perform an unreleased song for the preliminaries.

After the first round of the preliminaries, only four groups per region may advance to the final round of the preliminaries. The final round will then be held and the winner of the final round for each region will get to compete at the nationals.