Hide and Seek World Championship in Tokyo. The game Hazaki was promoting was a slightly different traditional Japanese game, more similar to a game of tag. Hazaki contacted "Nascondino World Championship" organizers and said that "Nascondino" rules were more appropriate to be a candidate to the Olympics. There is an episode of the sketch comedy Monty Python's Flying Circus called The Olympic Hide-and-seek Final. Hide and Seek World Championship "Nascondino World Championship" is a unique international hide-and-seek competition. The first edition was held in 2010 in the Italian city of Bergamo, it is held annually in Italy, in summer. The game is a derivative of
Hide and Seek World Championship for an hide-and-seek championship and to bring back to life an abandoned place through play. The seventh edition took place on September 3th and 4th, 2016 in a 25,000-square-meter field, with 64 teams, including teams from Italy, France, Switzerland, Belgium and the United States, with 320 players taking part in total. After a qualification round and a final round a team from Marseille, France, won the competition. The eight edition took place on September 8th, 9th, 10th, 2017. The target of 80 teams was achieved, with teams from 5 continents and 11 countries: Italy, France, Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland, Hungary, Slovenia,