Chapter 21: The Draw for the Autumn Contest (Part 1)
The work of the admissions office is currently one of the two most important tasks of the Seido High School baseball team.
Zhang Han, as the image spokesperson, helped Takashima Li receive seven or eight elementary school brothers during this time. Not only him, but also Yuki and Yuuki, but the number of people they received was not as large as Zhang Han.
In addition to his own juniors, Miyuki receives the most pitchers.
Yuki received most of the strong players, and those who were not famous, but extremely powerful.
Rei Takashima has a very clear idea of this matter. She originally thought that the team had made it to Koshien and that the recruitment work would be much easier. But the reality is that the results are not so ideal. The vast majority of talented players have already decided on the school they want to go to just after the summer competition. At that time, the Seido High School baseball team had not yet been able to make it to Koshien.
When Seido entered Koshien, it became famous all over the world. Turning back and looking for those excellent players, they had already decided on the school they were going to.
As for the players who are hesitant and have not yet decided which schools to go to, the Seido High School baseball team is not necessarily worth it.
Although it is not as good as Takashima imagined at the beginning, this year's enrollment work is still much smoother than the previous two years.
In the junior high school era alone, they recruited five or six players who had won actual results. This is at least more than double compared to previous years.
As for how many of these players can play, that's another story.
After all, the current enrollment can only see part of the talent of the players, as for their future potential and the limit of growth, it will not be until after high school, after honing, you can see it.
It's like the main players in the Qingdao High School baseball team today, not every player is in the country, and they have to be windy and rainy.
For example, Yuuki. When I first joined the team, I threatened that I could play all positions and didn't want to limit my possibilities.
Such an all-rounder naturally caught the attention of the supervisors and coaching staff.
After the results were verified, the coaching staff was surprised to find that he could indeed play all positions, and he performed equally badly in all positions.
That's it, the player who was not favored by anyone at the beginning has now become the most important core force of the Qingdao High School baseball team.
Another example is the two players who are now famous in the first grade, Zhang Han and Yu Xing. They are different from Yuuki, who was penniless in the middle school days, and they are already famous.
But at that time, they would never be able to reach the top position of players of the same age.
But right now, they are definitely the top pair of their age.
Therefore, the potential can still be seen, but the achievement is not.
The enrollment process is over, and then the fall competition begins.
The autumn competition is divided into two stages. First of all, all the teams in Tokyo, three or four teams are divided into a group and play a round-robin match.
All of Tokyo, including all high school teams in East Tokyo and West Tokyo, will need to stand out from these groups in order to qualify for the playoffs.
Of the more than 200 teams, only 62 teams were able to reach the knockout round in the end.
Together with the champions of East Tokyo and the champions of West Tokyo, there are a total of 64 teams.
Those who have been able to get this far have basically eliminated more than three-quarters of the teams. In the spring and summer, that is to say, they have already reached the third round of the official competition.
The teams are then drawn and grouped into groups, which are not seeded, so you can meet anyone. The champion of East Tokyo, the champion of West Tokyo, met the champion of West Tokyo in the first round, and two teams that had just fought fiercely in Koshien had a bloody battle.
It's not like it's not unprecedented.
The champion of the autumn tournament is eligible to participate in the Jingu Tournament and the Spring Koshien Tournament.
This is a very cherished opportunity for high school baseball players. However, the superintendent of the wealthy high school does not attach much importance to the fall competition as much as the summer competition.
There are two reasons for this, one is that the team has just gone through the run-in, and they can't have too much confidence on their own. Another piece of information about other teams, they don't say they don't know anything, and they know very little.
To put it bluntly, there are too many uncertainties in the autumn competition, and there is no way to force the results.
Of course, this is only one aspect, and there is another aspect, that is, the attention of Koshien in spring is somewhat insufficient compared to that of Koshien in summer.
Comparatively speaking, the selection of Koshien in the summer is more intense, the team is more mature, and the competition is more exciting. In addition, in the final summer of the third grade, losing the game is equivalent to retiring. Whether it is from the spectacle of the game or from the complex of the players, it is more attractive.
But no matter what, he will still compete in Koshien in the spring after all, which is still the dream of many players.
The supervisors and the players didn't want to take it too seriously, but they had to.
Therefore, the attitude of the superintendents of the wealthy families towards the autumn competition is generally to say that it is for the purpose of military training, but on the other hand, they are actively preparing for the competition.
If you win, you can say that you are lucky, and the players work hard. If they lose, it can be said that the team has not yet matured, and they will wait for the summer tournament.
Smart people are so thoughtful in their choices, they will never easily drive themselves into a dead end.
Seido High School baseball team as the champion of Nishitokyo, Koshien quarterfinals. The only perk they received was a direct entry to the round of 64, where they could directly participate in the draw.
They had the good fortune to not have too eye-catching opponents before reaching the round of 16.
Of course, this is not necessarily, after all, the autumn competition is a very famous dark horse paradise. In the case that neither of them knows the information, the possibility of an unknown dark horse team taking down the giants has also increased.
It will be until they reach the round of 16 that they will meet their first tricky opponent.
Of course, this requires that opponent to have no accidents along the way.
The opponents after the quarterfinals are very intriguing. Their opponent is the winner between Inagi Industries and East Tokyo Champion Teito High School.
If the city junior high school doesn't drop the chain in the middle of the road, they won't be able to touch it until the finals.
"Good luck!"
Seeing the results of this grouping, the friends were greatly relieved.
The results of the draw for the fall tournament basically decided a lot of things.
Seido's draw results in this round were good, and Captain Yuuki's luck did not disappoint.
Judging by the results of the draw, they are promising.
"The opponent in the first round is East Tokyo.,Kiyosenji Gakuen?"
It's a very unfamiliar name, and I've never heard of them before.
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