U.A. Sports Festival


 * Please note that this is the My Hero Academia Wikia's article on the event. If you are looking for the article on the story arc then you should head to U.A. Sports Festival Arc.

The U.A. Sports Festival is an annual event in which U.A. High School students from all grades and courses have the opportunity to showcase their abilities in different competitions in order to be scouted by pro heroes.

Description
In the days before Quirks, sports fans obsessed over the Olympic Games, but when powers became apart of the equation, the U.A. Sports Festival became the most watched sporting event. The festival takes place at U.A.'s Sports Festival Stadium, and is one of the biggest events in Japan. Students from each grade and every course compete among each other in their respective age groups. The event begins with preliminary elimination rounds, those who pass moving up to compete in the main event. Each stage has a teacher as chief referee, with the principal usually overseeing the senior stage.

Once the festival is over, pro heroes can nominate the students they were interested in, as an expression of interest in their future potential. However, these nominations can be dropped by the time the student reaches graduation, should the hero lose interest in them.

First Year Stage
During the current year in the series, the first year stage had Midnight as chief referee. Present Mic and Shota Aizawa were also present as commentators, and Cementoss oversaw the main tournament, in order to interrupt matches when necessary. All Might conferred the medals to the overall winners.

Obstacle Race
The first preliminary round was the Obstacle Race. In this event, all eleven first year classes are made to run along a four kilometer long obstacle course around the Festival Stadium. Participants were allowed to use their Quirk's freely to try and win, as long as they do not leave the race course.


 * The first obstacle of the race was a blockade of villain robots from the Entrance Exam.
 * The second obstacle was The Fall, a canyon that must be trekked across by walking along tightropes. If a student were to fall, they would be eliminated.


 * The third and final leg of the course was a Mine Field.

The first forty-two students to finish the race earned the right to advance and participate in the next event: the Calvary Battle.

Cavalry Battle
In the second event, participants were to form teams with a maximum of 4 people, and then get in a horse configuration. The objective was to earn points by swiping other teams' headbands while protecting their own. The value of a team's headband would be the sum of the points each person on the team had received based on their performance in the previous competition. The person who ranked last would be worth 5 points, and each rank above that would be worth 5 more points than the previous one, with the exception of 1st place, which was worth 10 million points.

The one to wear the headband must be the rider, and they were not allowed to wear it below their neck. Should the team lose their headband or crumble as a horse configuration, they would still not be eliminated. Participants were allowed to use their Quirks, but, should they attack with the malicious intention of harming another participant, they'd be forced out of the game.

Fighting Tournament
The final event is a tournament, with participants being pitted against each other in one-on-one battles. The match-ups were decided by lottery. Despite being part of the team that ranked third in the previous event, Mashirao Ojiro and Nirengeki Shoda resigned, so Ibara Shiozaki and Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu took their place.

The conditions for winning a match were: knocking out the opponent, rendering them unable to move or getting them to step out of bounds/surrender. The matches were as follows: (winner in bold)

Obstacle Race

 * 1st Place: Izuku Midoriya
 * 2nd Place: Shoto Todoroki
 * 3rd Place: Katsuki Bakugo
 * 4th Place: Ibara Shiozaki
 * 5th Place: Juzo Honenuki
 * 6th Place: Tenya Iida
 * 7th Place: Fumikage Tokoyami
 * 8th Place: Hanta Sero
 * 9th Place: Eijiro Kirishima
 * 10th Place: Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu
 * 11th Place: Mashirao Ojiro
 * 12th Place: Yosetsu Awase
 * 13th Place: Tsuyu Asui
 * 14th Place: Mezo Shoji
 * 15th Place: Rikido Sato
 * 16th Place: Ochaco Uraraka
 * 17th Place: Momo Yaoyorozu
 * 18th Place: Minoru Mineta
 * 19th Place: Mina Ashido
 * 20th Place: Koji Koda
 * 21st Place: Kyoka Jiro
 * 22th Place: Sen Kaibara
 * 23rd Place: Kosei Tsuburaba
 * 24th Place: Denki Kaminari
 * 25th Place: Kojiro Bondo
 * 26th Place: Reiko Yanagi
 * 27th Place: Hitoshi Shinso
 * 28th Place: Itsuka Kendo
 * 29th Place: Jurota Shishida
 * 30th Place: Shihai Kuroiro
 * 31st Place: Yui Kodai
 * 32th Place: Hiryu Rin
 * 33rd Place: Nirengeki Shoda
 * 34th Place: Kinoko Komori
 * 35th Place: Togaru Kamakiri
 * 36th Place: Neito Monoma
 * 37th Place: Pony Tsunotori
 * 38th Place: Toru Hagakure
 * 39th Place: Setsuna Tokage
 * 40th Place: Manga Fukidashi
 * 41st Place: Mei Hatsume
 * 42nd Place: Yuga Aoyama

Cavalry Battle

 * 1st Place: Team Todoroki
 * 2nd Place: Team Bakugo
 * 3rd Place: Team Shinso
 * 4th Place: Team Midoriya

Fighting Tournament

 * Katsuki Bakugo

Overall

 * 1st Place: Katsuki Bakugo
 * 2nd Place: Shoto Todoroki
 * 3rd Place: Fumikage Tokoyami

Note: Tenya Iida would have been tied for 3rd place but he withdrew from the Fighting Tournament due to the emergency situation involving his brother.

Trivia

 * Suphe Minefield in the Preliminary Obstacle Course is from the movie Rambo 3.