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 referring to the story of Adam and Eve. Although it is a sporting competition, the organizers intends the hide-and-seek world championship as a moment of sociality and fun. That's why during the championships are organized music festivals, hidden concerts and other entertainment activities. The "Nascondino World Championship"'s philosophy invites people to come out and play hide-and-seek and also invites people to be themselves and stop hiding. Yasuo Hazaki, a graduate of Nippon Sport Science University, and professor of media studies at Josai University in Sakado, Japan, had set up a campaign in 2013 to promote hide-and-seek for the 2020 Olympics