The Senbatsu High School Baseball Tournament, which will be held at Koshien Stadium next spring, will be the 95th anniversary tournament, so there will be an increase in the number of places to participate in the "general selection", and a total of 36 schools will participate, four more than usual. I was.
This was decided by the Takano Ren = Japan High School Baseball Federation and others on the 27th at the meeting of the tournament management committee.
According to this, the Senbatsu High
School
Baseball Tournament, which will be held at Koshien Stadium next spring, will be held as the 95th commemorative tournament. A
total of 36 schools participated , including
3 "21st century frames" for schools with good results, and 1 "Jingu tournament frame" given to the district where the school that won the autumn Meiji-Jingu tournament is located.
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Of these, the quotas for each district in the “general selection” are:
▽Hokkaido 1,
▽Tohoku 3,
▽Kanto and Tokyo combined 7,
▽Tokai 3,
▽Hokushinetsu 2,
▽Kinki 6,
▽ Chugoku and Shikoku combined are 6,
▽ Kyushu is 4.
Four districts increased their quotas:
▽Tohoku from 2 to 3,
▽Kanto from 4 to 5,
▽Tokai from 2 to 3,
▽Shikoku from 2 to 3,
each by one. .
In Tohoku, according to the minimum conditions for allocating one frame per two prefectures, the other three districts were increased based on the results of the Senbatsu tournament over the past 10 years, excluding the canceled Ototoshi.
In addition, it was decided that the tournament will start on March 18 next year and will be held over 14 days, including two rest days the day after the quarter-finals and semi-finals.
The selection committee to decide the participating schools will be held on January 27th next year, and the combination lottery will be held on March 10th.