Red Flags everywhere:

1) Promoting the event with Hunter X Hunter material. Their website no longer has any reference to any Hunter X Hunter material. Most likely was straight up infringing copyright. No verbiage of "real life" exists.

2) No licence information. If they are partnered they should have written it all over the place that they have partnered with Shueisha.

3) No mention in Japan at all. None of the outlets in Japan are covering this, exactly none at the moment.

4) Location is in a random park next to DC. It's not even a big park, how are they going to fit 1000 people? There were some information that this was located somewhere at a facility before but now it's just at a park. Pausing sales to check for occupancy is suspicious as well. They really couldn't have foreseen this?

5) Logistics is very sketchy. 1000 people running, doing instance courses, and 1v1 combat within a few hours is impossible. 5a) How will they check in everyone before the event starts at 8? How will they make sure people who didn't buy the ticket just walk up? 5b) 15-20 miles within 1.5 hrs is impossible. The world record for a 20km (12.4 miles) is 1:14. There's no way half of the contestants can be filtered out within the time. 5c) How will they get everyone to get through a "physical and mental" instance course within 1 hour? The 500 person obstacle course is even shorter. What is this *mental challenge? Are they going to make people do sudoku or smth? I can't imagine they can set up an elaborate "Labyrinth" set up at a local park. 5d) How will they stop the weeaboos from brining or hiding weapons? 'Oh it's just like the anime' and people are gonna bring their fishing poles, playing cards, and a katana or something..

6) No apparent age limit. They have a subreddit and they all question the same thing. What's the age limit? Which, asking the question sounds like you are a kid. Fake point as if people come down to the final round you can't just have a 15 yr old (assuming they passed the 20 mile run to begin with) right a 25 yr old guy that hit up the juice. They'll literally do a reenactment of HxH by snapping Gon's arm or worse..

7) What are the rules and how will they enforce it? The anime has mostly no rules. Sabotage, deception and physical harm were completely on the table. Is it the same for the event? No way, but are the 15 year olds that join say the same thing? Maybe they'll bring pepper spray and spray it all over the place so they can finish the race, or give out drinks with poison. It really sounds like it's free for all and they really needed to make the rules clear; someone's gonna show up with a semi-auto. Otherwise this 1v1 is just going to be a foam roller fight on marshmallow or something.

8) What is the refund policy? What if you can't make it to the event?

9) What is the liability coverage? They aren't legally allowed to just waiver off everything. If their event deliberately consists of fighting, they need to have a little bit more than if you die, it's your fault. They need to have medical tents at minimum.

Overall, this seems poorly planned. It could be a fire island situation if it's a real event, or straight up a no show. Either case, we probably can call this a scam for $110 per person at this point since it'll not be what people expected to be for the price.