Chapter 47: The Situation
After the Akagi Middle School competition, they didn't leave, but all of them stayed to watch the game at Tenryuji Temple.
The game in Tenryu Temple went very quickly, but it was over in just over fifty minutes.
7:0!
Tenryuji crushed the opponent.
There is no suspense in the process, and it is not exciting. It doesn't feel like Tianlong Temple is strong, it's just that their opponents are too weak.
"Didn't you use all your strength?"
Feng Xiangao frowned and looked at Nanami Haruka.
Tianlong Temple as a whole aside, just Nanami Haruka's pitching, as a former partner, Feng Xiang can clearly feel that he has left his hand. Even though he only threw three rounds in total!
Tenryu Temple is consciously retaining its strength, why is this?
Sawamura was puzzled, and then when he looked up, a strange thought popped into him.
It's weird, will there be more cameras in the media.
The two semi-finals in Nagano Prefecture are undoubtedly the match between Akagi Junior High School and Nagano Metropolitan High School, and the attention is even higher.
Even if the momentum of Tenryuji Temple is the strongest in the entire Nagano Prefecture, there is no way to change this.
After all, there is almost no suspense in the semi-finals of Tianlong Temple, and their opponents are not at the same level as Tianlong Temple.
The audience's eyes are not blind, except for the die-hard supporters of Tianlong Temple, other fans are probably rarely interested in watching Tianlong Temple's abuse.
The number of fans at the scene also confirmed this. When Akagi Middle School had just competed, there were at least six or seven thousand spectators. And now the audience has been reduced by at least half.
There were half fewer fans, but there were several more cameras on the scene. The kind of small DV that I bring with me is not counted, and there are enough of eight high-definition cameras that can be used for the model.
That's weird!
You must know that the competition in middle school cannot be compared with high school. In high school, the regional semifinals began to be broadcast live on regional television, and the full video was even available for download online. With that kind of publicity, it is understandable that there are five or six or even seven or eight high-definition photography equipment.
The middle school is different, and the semi-finals and finals of the middle school are not fully broadcast. At most, it's just a matter of showing some clips on TV and announcing the rankings. It's also hard to find full footage of the game online.
In the semi-finals in Nagano Prefecture, there were very few companies that would bring such professional cameras. As far as Sawamura himself knows, apart from the TV stations in Nagano, there are probably only two that can bring them. One is "Baseball Boy", and the other is Nagano's online self-media.
The sum of the three is only enough for three pieces of equipment, at most plus Tianlong Temple's own shooting. (Some teams with deep pockets also record videos of their games.) )
There are four in total! What's going on with the remaining four?
"Detective?"
Almost instantly, Sawamura thought of the answer. After all, he has been in baseball for more than ten years, and some things, even if he has not seen them, have heard of them. Not to mention that in his previous life, he had seen this kind of reconnaissance many times. He was in his third year of high school, and when he participated in the West Tokyo Tournament, there were more than a dozen high schools, carrying long guns and short cannons, and came from all over the country to investigate.
Sawamura originally thought that only high school, Koshien's alternate school, would face such an opponent. I didn't expect that ordinary middle schools, soft ball league games, would also have people do this.
Haruka Nanami, a second-year student, almost single-handedly led Tenryu Temple last year and climbed to the top four positions in the country. The small team in the non-fierce battle zone, with such results, naturally made Nanami Haruka and Tianryu Temple famous. Even compared to last year's national champion, Tenryuji is not weak in terms of fame.
After a major tournament is held, in addition to their championship, the one that has attracted the most attention is naturally the strength of the dark horse team. And last year's Tianlongsi Middle School played this role.
Haruka Nanami, who led Tenryu Temple that year, was promoted from the second grade to the third grade, and also became a strong candidate for this year's national victory. In this case, it is not surprising that Tenryu Temple is facing such a reconnaissance.
"No wonder the old fox's personality would choose to preserve his strength!"
Sawamura Eijun nodded secretly, already thinking through everything. In this way, it seems that tomorrow's finals between Tenryuji and Akagi Middle School will probably have more opponents to scout.
They didn't even want to let go of the semi-finals of Tianlong Temple, and naturally they wouldn't let go of the finals between Tianlong Temple and his Akagi Middle School.
Such a result gave Sawamura a headache.
Entering the Kanto Tournament and having a much higher chance of advancing to the whole country is much higher than that of Nagano Metropolitan and Daihoku High Schools before. Akagi Middle School, under the leadership of Sawamura, is stronger than two schools on the one hand. Another very important aspect is that Akagi Middle School is a dark horse team, and other schools don't know anything about Akagi at all.
The dark horse team, in the big game, is undoubtedly much cheaper than those teams whose strength is exposed.
It's like a known enemy and an unknown enemy, and even if the two enemies are similar, the unknown enemy is far more threatening than the known enemy.
If there weren't so many investigations, Sawamura would definitely want to have a fight with Tenryuji Masako.
On the one hand, a serious game can increase the competition experience of Akagi Middle School, and on the other hand, if it wins, it can also make Akagi Middle School face a more favorable situation in the Kanto Conference in the future.
Participating in the Kanto Convention, one prefecture sends two teams, so naturally there is a championship group and a second place group. For the sake of fairness, two teams from the same county will not be arranged together before the Final Four. Under the premise of following this rule, the opponent in the first round of the championship group is generally the second place from the other prefecture.
In order to compete for this favorable situation, Akagi Middle School also has the significance of fighting with Tenryuji.
Of course, this was just Sawamura's previous thoughts, and now Sawamura's thinking has changed a little. What changed Sawamura was that these people who came to scout Tenryu Temple, and what were their identities?
Sawamura is almost certain that these people should not be Tenryuji Middle School's opponents in the country. If it is an opponent in the whole country, if you want to understand the strength of Tianlongji Middle School, you don't need to be so troublesome at all. The Kanto Convention will be broadcast live on TV and online, and if they want to understand the strength of Tenryuji, it is very simple, just organize the video of Tenryuji Middle School at the Kanto Conference. The information in it is far more detailed than what they photographed and investigated themselves.
Since it is not an opponent of the whole country, it must be an opponent of the Kanto Congress.
In the Kanto Conference, Tenryuji Junior High School was used as their team to advance to the national handicap. Only these teams have a reason to target Tianlongsi Middle School so much. The most terrifying thing is that these people are picking grass and beating rabbits, and they are likely to be brought to Akagi Middle School by the way.
You must know that these teams that regard Tenryuji Middle School as an opponent are also an obstacle to Akagi's promotion to the country. Exposing strength too early is also detrimental to the Akagi Middle School baseball team.
After exposing their strength, they will no longer be able to play the role of a dark horse.
Sawamura smiled wryly.
It's better to be a player who doesn't want to do anything and does what he is told. If you think about it from the perspective of a coach, you are tired!