The next day, the opening ceremony of the Jade Dragon Flag National Contest was held at the Fukuoka Budokan Museum. As a landmark building in Fukuoka Prefecture, the Fukuoka Budokan is the largest martial arts hall in Fukuoka Prefecture, with a capacity of 23,000 people, and a variety of events are held here every year.

Today, the tiny city of Fukuoka is home to tourists from all over the country, as well as many foreign tourists.

Fortunately for the locals, foreigners were even more excited than the locals when they learned that they were going to report the annual Jade Dragon Flag National Competition. As foreign tourists, they are naturally in high spirits to catch up with this kind of national competition.

So today's Fukuoka Budokan seats have been packed, and in addition to the many reporters, the scene is full of clicks. Everyone was excited.

"It is an honor for you to come to the Jade Dragon Banner National Competition. On behalf of the Kyushu Kendo Federation, I welcome everyone. "The president of the Kyushu Kendo Alliance, Shu Nakajima, was wearing a formal suit at this time, with gray hair, but it made him look energetic and with a warm smile, "According to statistics, in addition to the schools that gave up unexpectedly, a total of 145 high schools across the country have advanced to the Jade Dragon Banner National Competition this year. There are 470 players who advanced to the Yulongqi National Individual Competition. Let's give a round of applause to these schools and players who have made the cut. ”

Although Nakajima's tone was not hurried, the sudden high voice at the end made the audience involuntarily set off a roaring applause.

Seeing this, Nakajima Xiu was satisfied, in the past few years, hundreds of schools participated in the Jade Dragon Banner National Competition, and there were many more participating schools and players than now.

But since the reform, the reputation of the Jade Dragon Banner has gone up.

Because after the regional selection competition, the schools that can be promoted are the seed schools in each region. The members of the kendo department of these schools have all been tempered by a lot of hard work before they can be promoted. They have an inhuman attachment to the national championship.

Every year, you can see the jubilant players and the tearful players, both in the same frame, and it is a shocking image.

In the first two years, there was no regional selection competition in the Jade Dragon Banner, as long as it was a high school, it could be registered, so the level of the contestants was uneven.

Compared with the crushing duel, in fact, the audience wants to see the-for-tat competition in their hearts, and that kind of competition can make the blood in people's hearts surge. Cheer for the two contestants!

Therefore, since the reform, the popularity of the Jade Dragon Banner National Competition has long been different from what it used to be, and the gold content is much higher.

"Because of the tight schedule, it's contemptible to make a long story short." After Osamu Nakajima took the microphone and spoke, the audience fell silent and respectful. After Nakajima Shu read the rules and conventions of the Jade Dragon Flag National Competition, everyone found that this year's team competition is still a deathmatch system, and the individual competition is still a three-book win-loss system, which is no different from the rules of the regional selection competition.

"In addition, according to the online voting and the internal voting of the Kyushu Kendo Federation, according to the rules of the Jade Dragon Banner National Competition, these twelve high schools will automatically become seeded teams and automatically advance to the top 64." After Nakajima finished speaking, he couldn't help but be relieved to see that the audience had no objections this time. He took out the paper, looked at the school above, and said with a slight smile, "Below, is the list of the twelve seeded teams in the men's group. I will read it in the order of the prefectures, and there is no distinction between strong and weak. ”

Hearing this, the audience held their breath. In particular, schools with little difference in strength in each region hope to become automatically qualified for the round of 64. This is not only a way to observe the combat power of other schools on the day, but also a symbol of honor.

"First place, Tokyo, Sakuraku Private High School Boys' Division!"

As soon as the words fell, the audience seat set off a warm atmosphere, and the audience sitting in the eastern district stood up one after another, waving their arms, and shouting excitedly.

"Minister Kimura, the strongest in Japan!"

"Minister Kimura, the strongest in Japan!"

After shouting several times in a row, he finally shouted a high-pitched 'Oh! The ending is shocking.

It would have been embarrassing if it were just a few spectators shouting, but there were at least a few thousand people sitting there in the Eastern District, and the shouting in unison was quite earth-shattering, enough to shock people's hearts.

Some experienced people know that the audience who sits in the East Ward according to the unspoken rules are all people from Tokyo. This is a deliberate official assignment of position, in fact, to provoke a sense of regional pride. Of course, it is also for different regions to sit in the same position, if there is a difference of opinion, there is a fight, which was very common in the past, until the allocation of places, this situation is less.

It's just that this year's audience in the East End shouted inexplicably. Generally speaking, isn't it to cheer for the school... How to listen to this, it seems to be cheering for someone in Sakurakuchi High School. However, listening to these audience shouting 'Minister Kimura', the audience thought that the head of the kendo department of Sakuraku High School was very strong!

And the director also understands people's hearts, and puts the camera on Kitajima He.

Kitajima He saw his figure on the screen, and couldn't help covering his face, he didn't have a face to see people. Scolding in my heart, stupid director!

All of a sudden, there was a lot of boos from people in the East End. It baffled everyone, but soon the camera flickered and fixed on Kimura and the tree.

Kazuki Kimura was sitting in the contestant position at this time, which was also the rest area of Sakurakuchi High School, which was assigned. When Kazuki Kimura's appearance is shown on the screen, the audience sees a high school student with a helpless look in his eyes.

Obviously, Kazuki Kimura was quite uncomfortable with the shouting of the audience in the East Ward. And when the camera shows, the audience in the East End began to cheer again. The mood shift is very real.

If you are not from Tokyo, you naturally don't know about Kazuki Kimura's wonderful performance in the Tokyo Prefecture Qualifiers. Kazuki Kimura conquered them with their strength.

After waiting for a full minute, and after the atmosphere calmed down, President Nakajima Shushu began to read the second seeded team.

Every time he went to a school, Nakajima would stop and wait. This is also a traditional program for the opening ceremony of the Jade Dragon Flag, because the seed team represents the strength, and the strong team can get a lot of support in the local area, so there will be a lot of support.

However, the most sensational seed team is Meiki High School in Hiroshima Prefecture!

I don't know how many spectators in white samurai uniforms, when Nakajima Shunian Meihui High School, they all stood up and waved the school flag of Minghui High School with both hands.

They did not speak and cheer, but waved their flags silently, but they were shocking.

Mizunao Tsukahara, who was in the rest area, nodded with satisfaction, and if he wanted to be eye-catching, he naturally wanted to be different.

However, he still set his sights on Kimura and Shu, he has watched the video of Kimura and Shu's game, so he naturally will not underestimate it. Although he studied in Hiroshima Prefecture, he was a native of Tokyo, and he naturally hoped that he could beat Kazuki Kimura in front of an audience in Tokyo, which must have been very comfortable.

After the seeding of the men's division was announced, President Osamu Nakajima began to announce the seeding team for the women's division.

And Sakura Nine High School is among them.