Koshien Stadium was completed on August 1, 1924, the year of Koshi, and was named Koshien Grand Stadium.

In the same year, the 10th National Junior High School Baseball Tournament was relocated to the area, and it was also called Koshien Field Field.

Another renovation was carried out in 2009.

Koshien Stadium is the home of the Hanshin Tigers of the Japan Professional League Baseball. It is also the venue for the annual Koshien competition.

On the day of August 7th, Haoqiang from all over the country gathered together and lined up in a neat queue, waiting for the leaders to speak.

To be honest, the nonsense of the leaders, it's really a lot.

Under the scorching sun, even if you don't do anything, just standing there, ordinary people will definitely not be able to stand it.

What's more, there are more than a thousand people crowded here!

"It's hot, there's too much nonsense, isn't it?"

At the beginning, maybe it was a relationship that I hadn't seen before, but Jun Izagi was still looking forward to it.

After waiting for the leader above to talk nonsense for an hour, he couldn't stand it anymore. He really couldn't understand what these leaders were trying to do, wouldn't it be good to start the game right away?

Talking so much nonsense, there's a fart.

Isn't there only one team that can win the Koshien championship in the end?

"Shut up!"

Although he is just as impatient, the attitude formed is obviously much better than that of Izzo.

He stared at the rostrum with blazing eyes.

"It's too hot in here, too!"

Kuramochi kept wiping the sweat from his forehead.

Summer in Tokyo is annoying enough, but I didn't expect summer in Hyogo Prefecture to be even hotter than Tokyo.

The thought of competing here makes Kuramochi shudder.

There is no activity, just standing, it is already so hot, and there is still to guard and strike on the playing field.

It's chilling to think about.

"When you actually play, it's a lot better."

Sawamura put his body and hid behind Masuko's thick body.

Take the body of the increase as a shade.

Once the Koshien competition really starts, the players don't care about the heat.

Sawamura, who has had experience in this, has a deep understanding of this!

Don't look at it now, the players of Qingdao High School are hot like soft-footed shrimp, as if they are going to faint in the next second.

But when it comes to the actual game, they will definitely be like a living warrior.

"Let's start the game!"

"I can't wait."

"Let's get over and start playing."

The grievances of all the contestants of Qingdao High School have condensed.

This time, the grouping of Qingdao High School was not good.

First of all, because the total number of participating teams is less than 50.

In this way, it is inevitable that many teams will have byes in the first round.

It's a pity that Qingdao High School didn't get a bye, not only did they not get a bye, but it was also the opening game of the entire competition.

In the first game of the opening game of Koshien, Seido High School played against Konan High School in Okinawa.

Here I have to explain the rules of Koshien to everyone.

There are a total of 49 teams participating in Koshien in the summer. They represent their respective districts, the strongest schools.

Three or four days before the start of the summer Koshien season, the 49 teams will have their first draw to determine the first three rounds, and after three rounds, the quarterfinals will be determined, and then the second draw will be held.

In the first round of the draw, there will be 15 teams with byes and direct access to the second round.

Whether you have a bye or not depends entirely on luck.

Of course, just because you have a bye doesn't mean you're lucky.

After a bye, your opponent will be chosen from the teams participating in the match, so you won't know which of the two sides you are playing against.

By the time you know it, the second round will begin.

On the contrary, those teams that participated directly in the first round probably know who the bye opponent is?

They knew three or four days in advance, who was the opponent? Of course, you can also prepare three or four days in advance.

In this day and age, information warfare is becoming more and more important.

It's very advantageous to know in advance who you're playing against.

Just like Qingdao High School, although they played one more round than those 15 teams, correspondingly, they knew in advance who they were playing against in the second round.

But in fact, that school did not suffer, because Seongdo High School was the first competition, so after the competition, they would also know whether it would be Seongdo High School or Hungnam High School that would compete with them.

"It's really bad luck to play one more game than other teams and play against Heingnam."

Yukiichi also said with a smile.

Listening to the meaning of his words, it seems to be very unhappy.

Qingdao High School, there are indeed reasons to be unhappy.

One more game, and it's the opening game.

The opening battle means that you don't have time to gather information about your opponent.

At the same time, your opponents in the second round will find out your information first, and they will not know their opponents later.

Sincerity isn't the worst.

The worst is Seido High School's opponent, Okinawa Konan High School.

This is also a top national giant, having just won the Koshien championship two years ago and dominating the country.

The strength is very strong!

Qingdao High School met such a top national powerhouse in the first round, and of course it was unlucky.

"It is estimated that the current Xingnan University is in a similar mood to us."

Chris said behind Miyuki.

This point, Miyuki does not deny it.

The situation of Heongnam High School and Qingdao High School can be said to be exactly the same, and even more unlucky than Qingdao High School.

It was two years ago that Xingnan University dominated the country, and that batch of star players had already graduated.

How many catties and taels are there in this batch of Xingnan players now, it is still unknown?

But Seido High School is different.

In the past few years, Seido High School has not been able to enter Koshien, and it can be regarded as a trough.

But this year, Seido High School won the Kanto championship in the Kanto Conference.

Their strength is obvious to all.

And it's not the seniors who won the Kanto championship, not the history, but the players in front of them.

In contrast, Xingnan University is naturally a little worse.

Finally, the leaders on the rostrum exhausted all their enthusiasm for speeches, and the Koshien competition officially began.

In the opening battle, Seido High School in Nishitokyo played against Konan High School.

Before the start of the game, everyone left the court.

in the lounge area.

Superintendent Kataoka squatted there, and the 18 members of the first army of Seido High School formed a semicircle and wrapped him in righteousness.

"We don't know anything about the opponent."

Superintendent Kataoka does not deny this.

"In the same way, our information, the other party did not prepare it. Then you don't have to be polite, give full play to your strengths, and use your strength to crush your opponent. ”

"Yes!"

"Before the game starts, let's do it once as we agreed!"

"Yes!!"