tabletop.me Dubai opens Nov 6 with a One Piece tournament

tabletop.me, Dubai's convention for board games, trading card games, miniatures and role-playing games, opens its second edition on Friday 6 November 2026 and runs for three days at The Concourse Convention Center, Dubai Outlet Mall . The event includes a One Piece Card Game tournament, listed as an add-on on the official ticket page .

When and where is tabletop.me Dubai 2026, and is One Piece Card Game part of it?

tabletop.me Dubai 2026 runs from Friday 6 to Sunday 8 November 2026 at The Concourse Convention Center, Dubai Outlet Mall, on the Dubai–Al Ain Road. ONE PIECE Card Game is on the schedule. The dates and venue appear on the official tabletop.me site, on the Platinumlist ticket page and in Tbreak's event guide . One Piece Card Game is sold as a tournament add-on on Platinumlist . Tbreak names the event a One Piece Treasure Cup .

Quick Answer: tabletop.me Dubai runs 6–8 November 2026 at The Concourse Convention Center, Dubai Outlet Mall. A One Piece Card Game tournament is sold as a ticket add-on, and Tbreak calls it a One Piece Treasure Cup. According to the official Platinumlist page, the show covers 8,500 sqm and has more than 20 tournaments.

Bandai's One Piece Card Game also has a booth on the floor. Arab News lists it among the featured booths, next to Asmodee Group, Warhammer, Magic: The Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh!.

The organiser is Gameinox, and the official contact address uses a gameinox.com email . The founder, Mark Azzam, also runs the Back to Games store chain in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, according to BoardGameWire . The first edition ran 7–9 November 2025 at the same venue, as reported by Arab News and Visit Dubai .

The figures in the table come from the official ticket page, which lists the venue as "8500 SQM", 58 artists, 18 game designers and more than 20 tournaments . Arab News reports the same 8,500-square-meter hall size.

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What are the opening hours and ticket prices?

On Friday, 6 November 2026, tabletop.me Dubai is open from 4:00 PM to 10:00 PM Dubai time, according to the official tabletop.me site . On Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 November it is open from 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM, according to Tbreak and the Platinumlist guide . A one-day adult ticket costs AED 99 and a three-day pass costs AED 199 .

You can only buy tickets through Platinumlist. The official site and the event's Platinumlist ticket page both name it as the only seller . The ticket page lists these entry tiers:

Tournament entry costs extra, and the entry ticket alone does not get you into a tournament. Each tournament add-on, including the One Piece Card Game event, costs between AED 30 and AED 50. Each add-on only works with an entry ticket for the same day . If you are playing on Saturday, for example, you need a Saturday or three-day ticket on top of the add-on.

What a player spends depends on how many days they attend and how many events they enter:

• One day, one tournament: AED 99 entry plus one add-on (AED 30–50), so AED 129–149 in total.
• All weekend, several tournaments: AED 199 for the three-day pass, plus AED 30–50 for each add-on.
• Junior players (8–12): AED 49 for one day or AED 99 for three days, plus any add-ons.

Tbreak and the Platinumlist guide list a few things that are new this year. The event web app at tabletopme.app has maps and schedules, which helps players check tournament start times against the opening hours. There is also a 10% discount at the Games Market on board games featured on the show floor .

Which trading card game tournaments are on the schedule?

tabletop.me Dubai 2026 has tournaments for eight trading card games. They are sold as add-ons on the official Platinumlist ticket page: Magic: The Gathering, Grand Archive, One Piece Card Game, Cyberpunk TCG, Riftbound, Star Wars: Unlimited, Yu-Gi-Oh! and GUNDAM Card Game . The same page lists more than 20 tournaments in total across the three days, from 6 to 8 November 2026 . To enter any of them, you need an entry ticket for the same day as well as the add-on.

Here are the TCG add-ons listed on Platinumlist :

• Magic: The Gathering: several formats, each sold as its own add-on
• Grand Archive
• One Piece Card Game (Bandai)
• Cyberpunk TCG
• Riftbound
• Star Wars: Unlimited
• Yu-Gi-Oh! WCQ Open UAE
• GUNDAM Card Game

Two of these events have more specific names in Tbreak's preview. The One Piece Card Game event is called a One Piece Treasure Cup, and the Yu-Gi-Oh! event is a UAE World Championship Qualifier Open . The Yu-Gi-Oh! event is the only TCG tournament on the schedule that is officially tied to a world championship qualification path.

As of 5 November 2026, no format, prize pool or start time has been published for the One Piece Treasure Cup. That means there is no confirmed deck format, round structure or prize list for players to plan around yet. One Piece players should check the One Piece Card Game add-on on the tabletop.me Platinumlist page for registration details and the event's time slot. They should also look at the schedule in the tabletopme.app web app on the day, because how many players can enter on site may depend on capacity.

There are also competitive events outside card games. According to Tbreak, five Warhammer Golden Tickets will be awarded at the show. Each one qualifies the winner for the 2027 World Championships . Platinumlist also lists Warhammer 40K, board-game tournaments for Root, Catan, Splendor, Dune Imperium: Uprising, Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride: Europe, Unmatched and Terraforming Mars, plus a Hokm Cup and speed puzzling .

There is no NARUTO Card Game tournament among the add-ons. The fan site NarutoReca reports that the organiser's 21 tournament add-ons include One Piece and GUNDAM but not NARUTO. NARUTO at the show is limited to tutorials ahead of the game's 2027 launch .

What else can TCG players do at the show besides tournaments?

Outside the tournament tables, TCG players at tabletop.me 2026 can visit publisher booths, buy cards and collectibles in a vendor marketplace, and take learn-to-play demos for card games that are new or not yet released. Arab News reports that more than 40 publishers will be represented. It also reports a marketplace of about 30 vendors selling trading card game products, collectibles and pop-culture merchandise .

According to Arab News, the featured booths include Asmodee Group, Warhammer, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Bandai TCG's One Piece Card Game . If you play One Piece Card Game, the Bandai booth is the place to go for brand activity, separate from the One Piece tournament add-on.

The same Arab News report says visitors can learn the newly launched Cyberpunk Trading Card Game. They can also try the Naruto Trading Card Game, which launches in 2027 . The fan site NarutoReca gives more detail on the NARUTO Card Game sessions :

• It describes the sessions as the Middle East's first NARUTO Card Game event.
• Tutorials are free and use demo decks. Players hand the decks back afterwards.
• You register on site.
• Starter decks and the "Enter: Naruto Uzumaki!" booster are due in Summer 2027.
• The event page lists no participant gifts or merchandise for the NARUTO sessions.

Anyone hoping to take home NARUTO product from Dubai should expect a demo only. The game is not on sale yet, and the event page lists no giveaways.

The organiser has also added three new features this year. Tbreak and the Platinumlist guide list them (source: Tbreak; Platinumlist guide) :

• TTM Prize Wall: attendees collect tokens during the weekend and redeem them for prizes.
• Event web app (tabletopme.app): maps of the hall and event schedules.
• Games Market discount: 10% off board games featured on the convention floor .

The 10% discount covers featured board games. Neither source says it applies to trading card products. Arab News also reported, as an exclusive from founder Mark Azzam, a collectible badge-trading activity that runs across the whole convention . Card players who are used to trading at events can take part in it between matches.

How did the 2025 debut compare, and what is the 2026 attendance target?

The first tabletop.me drew about 3,000 attendees in 2025. For the second edition, the organiser expects 4,000 to 5,000 visitors. The 2025 show ran 7 to 9 November at the same Dubai Outlet Mall venue and was billed as the Middle East's first major tabletop gaming convention . The 3,000 figure comes from BoardGameWire, which also counted 55 exhibiting publishers at the debut . Arab News also reports the 3,000 figure.

Before the 2025 edition, Visit Dubai described a 7,300 sqm venue with 250+ games and 26 tournaments . Most visitors were local. Arab News reported that about 80% of 2025 attendees came from the UAE and 20% travelled from abroad . Arab News is the only outlet that reports this split.

The 2026 target varies a little by source. Tbreak and Arab News give a range of 4,000 to 5,000 visitors . In August 2026, BoardGameWire reported an aim of at least 5,000 . Even the low end of the range would mean about 1,000 more visitors than in 2025. The official ticket page lists the 2026 hall at 8,500 sqm, up from the 7,300 sqm Visit Dubai cited a year earlier .

Sources also count the 2026 games differently. Tbreak and Arab News say more than 200 tabletop games, with more than 100 bilingual Arabic–English titles . Platinumlist and its event guide say 250+ games, including 100+ in Arabic . The difference probably comes down to what each source counts, so treat 200 as the conservative figure.

Is the regional security situation affecting exhibitors?

Yes. Safety concerns have made it harder to bring overseas exhibitors to tabletop.me 2026. According to BoardGameWire, the organiser had trouble persuading foreign publishers to travel to Dubai because of safety concerns linked to the US-Iran war . The show is still going ahead with confirmed exhibitors, including the TCG brands that attended in 2025.

Founder Mark Azzam told BoardGameWire that the problem comes from company travel rules, not from a lack of interest in the event:

"Several publishers have told us that, because of the current situation, their companies are simply not allowing employees to travel to the region for the time being," — Mark Azzam, founder of tabletop.me and Back to Games (source: BoardGameWire, 2026-08)

Azzam also said many publishers are "focusing on their established convention schedule, such as Gen Con and Essen." Those are long-running fixtures on the international calendar, and a two-year-old Dubai show has to compete with them for budget and staff .

As of BoardGameWire's 21 August 2026 report, the confirmed exhibitors were :

• Asmodee
• Allplay
• Dice Throne
• Oink Games
• Blue Orange Games
• The trading card game brands that attended the 2025 edition
• Seven publishers that were not at the first event

To help the publishers who do attend, the organiser has added a rewards programme meant to steer visitors toward publishers they don't already know. In practice, attendees get an incentive to visit smaller or newer booths instead of only the large brands .

For card game players, the practical picture is unchanged. The official Platinumlist ticket page still lists tournament add-ons for One Piece Card Game, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Magic: The Gathering, GUNDAM Card Game, Star Wars: Unlimited and Riftbound for 6 to 8 November 2026 . The shortfall in overseas exhibitors mainly affects board game publishers. Visitors planning to buy or play TCGs should check the event web app, tabletopme.app, for the final booth map before they arrive.

Frequently asked questions

When is tabletop.me Dubai 2026?

tabletop.me Dubai 2026 runs from Friday 6 to Sunday 8 November 2026 at The Concourse Convention Center, Dubai Outlet Mall, on the Dubai–Al Ain Road . The official tabletop.me site lists Friday hours as 4:00 PM to 10:00 PM Dubai time . Tbreak gives Saturday and Sunday hours as 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM .

How much are tabletop.me tickets and where do I buy them?

Tickets are sold only through Platinumlist. General admission costs AED 99 for one day or AED 199 for all three days. Junior tickets for ages 8 to 12 cost AED 49 for one day or AED 99 for three days, and children aged 7 and under get in free . Tournament add-ons cost AED 30 to AED 50, and you need an entry ticket for the same day to use one .

Is there a One Piece Card Game tournament at tabletop.me?

Yes. A One Piece Card Game tournament is listed among the paid add-ons on the Platinumlist ticket page . Tbreak calls it the One Piece Treasure Cup . As of 5 November 2026, the organiser has not published the format, prize support or start time.

Is there a Naruto Card Game tournament?

No. The Naruto Trading Card Game is at the show for demos and tutorials only, because the game does not launch until 2027. According to NarutoReca, the tutorials are free, use demo decks that players do not keep, and take on-site registration. The organiser's 21 tournament add-ons include no Naruto tournament .

How many people are expected?

The organiser expects 4,000 to 5,000 visitors in 2026, according to Tbreak and Arab News . BoardGameWire reported an aim of at least 5,000. The first edition in November 2025 drew about 3,000 attendees .

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Sources: tabletopme.app · Platinumlist · Tbreak · BoardGameWire · Arab News · Visit Dubai · View on Google Maps · event guide · NarutoReca