Chapter 495

Time passed silently while Hanamiya Makoto and Haizaki were "in love."

Soon, the flames of the Winter Cup are about to be rekindled.

The purpose of this tournament is to select outstanding talents from all over the country.

Those selected talents will participate in the subsequent national basketball training camp.

To put it bluntly, it is to train the next generation and reserve talents for JP basketball.

This is the reason for the full name of the Winter Cup, the Winter Selection Tournament.

It is worth mentioning that although it is also an annual tournament, compared to the national tournament, the scale of the Winter Cup is smaller.

There are 47 prefectures in total in the country, each with only one spot, and the host automatically adds one spot, forming a total of 48 teams.

Then, the champion and runner-up of the IH, which is the champion and runner-up of the national tournament, will automatically get a spot, making a total of 50 participating teams, 10 fewer than the national tournament.

This year's Winter Cup is still held in Tokyo (in the anime, Shutoku and Seirin qualified at the same time, without even playing overtime, so the Winter Cup should be held in Tokyo).

So this year, there are a full three teams from Tokyo that can participate.

Kirisaki Daichi occupies one spot, and the remaining two spots need to be fought for by other teams.

But having said that, after the baptism of the national tournament, fans automatically locked the battle for spots onto three teams: Too, Shutoku, and Seirin.

And then there's the knockout tournament, which is conducted by random lottery.

Referring to Seirin and Too from the same district in the anime, they met in the first round of the Winter Cup.

I guess the author himself knew that such an arrangement was unreasonable, and used Hyuga Junpei's mouth to complain about the tournament system.

As the national tournament champion, Kirisaki Daichi naturally doesn't need to play in the qualifiers.

They have plenty of time to prepare for the Winter Cup knockout tournament.

However, Haizaki is a newly joined player and needs to cultivate a certain tacit understanding with the team.

It doesn't need to be much, just enough.

Tiandao always firmly believes that when a player's strength is strong enough, the problem of compatibility doesn't exist at all.

When Tiandao was thinking about who to play a practice match with, Too took the initiative to contact Tiandao.

Kirisaki Daichi has already determined to qualify for the Winter Cup, so there is no need to worry about becoming opponents in the qualifiers; Harasawa Katsunori, adhering to the principle of finding the strongest, arranged a match with Kirisaki Daichi through Satsuki.

And when the people from Too came to the Kirisaki Daichi basketball club and saw Haizaki warming up, they were all stunned.

"Haizaki Shogo?!"

"Isn't he from Fukuda Sogo? How did he run to Kirisaki Daichi?"