Finalists Selected for “Olympic Virtual Series” Baseball Event
Tournament to be Broadcast Worldwide from 6PM June 23

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Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. announces that the Olympic Virtual Series baseball event finals will be broadcast worldwide on June 23, Olympic Day.

The Olympic Virtual Series is the first virtual sports competition organized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in collaboration with five international sports federations. The baseball event will be played in a specially designed Olympic Virtual Series environment on “eBASEBALL POWERFUL PRO BASEBALL 2020”. In the finals, 11 players from the Baseball Tournament and 8 players from the Home Run Derby who won the online qualifying rounds will compete in a heated competition.

The final game will be broadcast in Japanese and English on olympics.com. Live commentary will be provided by Japanese professional baseball alumni and announcers who are active in actual baseball broadcasts, bringing the exciting battle for the title of the first ever Olympic Virtual Series champion to the world.

Overview of the "Olympic Virtual Series" Baseball Finals
Distribution schedule: Wednesday, June 23, 2021, 18:00-
Distribution URL : https://olympics.com/en/sport-events/olympic-virtual-baseball-event/
Presenters: Mitsuru Manaka, GG. Sato, Hisashi Shimizu (Japanese voice), Jim Allen, Yuji Kondo (English voice)

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language :日本語/English