В 32 сильнейших бойца входят и три абсолютные чемпионов мира разных лет - Кунихиро Сузуки, Такаюки Цукагоши и Норичико Цукамото.
Toп 32
Блок А
Shigeru Aoyagi (09' All Japan 2nd)Yutaka Nakao
Kazuya Yamamoto
Yuki Maeda (09'&10' LW Champion)
Kunihiro Suzuki (8th World Champion)
Yoshinori Nagano (09' MW 2nd)
Yuki Takano
Tsutomu Murayama (09' HW Champion)
Блок Б
Hiraga Yutaro
Kawase Kato
Kenta Mori (10' HW Champion)
Yuichiro Osaka (8th World 2nd)
Syohei Yamano (08' LW Champion)
Tetsuya Abe
Kazufumi Shimamoto (10' MW Champion)
Блок С
Kazuhito Yamada (40th All Japan Champion)Takuya Morikawa
Taishi Watanabe (08' HW 2nd)
Yuji Shimamoto (10' HW 2nd)
Takayuki Tsukagoshi (9th World Champion)
Yuyu Kitajima
Byakuren (Kai-kan World Champion)
Tatsuya Hasegawa
Yasuki Sakamoto
Блок Д
Makoto Kameyama
Kousei Ochiai
Satoru Yasumura
Tomikazu Yoshida (09' MW Champion)
Satoshi Niiho
Kou Tanigawa (1st & 3rd World Cup LW Champion)
Joh Morishita
Norichika Tsukamoto (6th World Champion 41th All Japan Champion)
Не смогли пробиться во второй день соревнований
Hideaki Koizumi
Yoshiaki Kikuhara
Naohiro Nomoto
Shinji Sakamoto
Kenji Maegawa