Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. is excited to announce that finalists have been chosen for the eFootball™ and eBASEBALL tournaments of the Inter-Prefectural Esports Championship 2022 TOCHIGI, which will be held on October 15 (Sat) and 16 (Sun) in the Culture Program of the 77th National Sports Festival, Ichigo Ichie Tochigi Kokutai/Tochigi Taikai.
For eFootball™, individual matches were held for two divisions, including the High School Division and General Division (no age restriction), with the winners of each prefectural qualifying round advancing to the block tournament. The following 16 players will participate in the national finals: the winners of the block tournament held in September, the winners of the Tochigi Prefectural Qualifier (Tochigi is the host this year) and one additional player from the block that produced the winner last year.
| High School Division | ||
|---|---|---|
| Block Name | Participating Prefecture | Player Name |
| Hokkaido/Tohoku | Aomori Prefecture | player-Toaru_201 |
| Kanto ① | Ibaraki Prefecture | kamikami |
| Kanto ② | Kanagawa Prefecture | ふくしま |
| Hokushinetsu/Tokai | Fukui Prefecture | りくぜん |
| Kansai | Osaka Prefecture | Pankun |
| Chugoku/Shikoku | Ehime Prefecture | アユム |
| Kyushu | Kagoshima Prefecture | げーちー |
| Host Prefecture | Tochigi Prefecture | あめ |
| General Division | ||
|---|---|---|
| Block Name | Participating Prefecture | Player Name |
| Hokkaido/Tohoku | Aomori Prefecture | Tess |
| Kanto | Tokyo Metropolis | Leva |
| Hokushin'etsu/Tokai | Niigata Prefecture | koko |
| Kansai | Osaka Prefecture | あぶたろう |
| Chugoku/Shikoku | Yamaguchi Prefecture | ホワイトジョンソン |
| Kyushu ① | Kagoshima Prefecture | りっきー |
| Kyushu ② | Kumamoto Prefecture | くま |
| Host Prefecture | Tochigi Prefecture | たかはしくん |
The finals will be streamed on the official eFootball™ YouTube channel.
October 15 (Sat): https://youtu.be/xaisjcDc2XE
October 16 (Sun): https://youtu.be/sIQF4llPJRo
The eBASEBALL division, which used "Professional Baseball Spirits A" as its competition title, the top two online qualifiers in the High School and Under and General Divisions paired up and competed as teams. The seven teams that won the block qualifiers held in August and the following eight teams representing Tochigi Prefecture will advance to the national finals.
| High School and Under Division | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Block Name | Participating Prefecture | Team Name | Player Name |
| Hokkaido/Tohoku | Miyagi Prefecture | ぽてねこ | 義〆こね〆旗 |
| ぽてん | |||
| Tochigi Preliminary Round | Tochigi Prefecture | KR#鴎#燕[I'am] | K#鴎[I'am] |
| R#燕[I'am] | |||
| Kanto Block First Place | Tokyo Metropolis | ちゃんぽん | 慎ちゃん |
| ゆうぽん#竜巻 | |||
| Kanto Block Second Place | Kanagawa Prefecture | ぼむくん | ぼんこっこ |
| りむくん | |||
| Hokushin'etsu/Tokai | Aichi Prefecture | TEAM 角煮丸 | Jade |
| SoIT | |||
| Kansai | Hyogo Prefecture | レフティー | 義〆YUJIN〆旗 |
| ゆうと”wing” | |||
| Chugoku/Shikoku | Hiroshima Prefecture | 凡人なよっしー | 凡人高校生 |
| 丸よっしー | |||
| Kyushu/Okinawa | Fukuoka Prefecture | どぶりぼんっ!! | ラむ |
| よわむし | |||
| General Division | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Block Name | Participating Prefecture | Team Name | Player Name |
| Hokkaido/Tohoku | Miyagi Prefecture | ひた | ひた |
| 満月 | |||
| Tochigi Preliminary Round | Tochigi Prefecture | Horizon | 熱盛 |
| ぱっつぁん | |||
| Kanto Block First Place | Tokyo Metropolis | Proゲー | プロテイン@バルク会 |
| すんよぴ | |||
| Kanto Block Second Place | Tokyo Metropolis | 小金井オールスターズ | like |
| NeaR | |||
| Hokushin'etsu/Tokai | Aichi Prefecture | 純正移行民 | ゆうや |
| がくちゃ | |||
| Kansai | Kyoto Prefecture | はぎバター | バタチ |
| ☆★はぎ★☆ | |||
| Chugoku/Shikoku | Hiroshima Prefecture | #7 | sk |
| ななせぇぇぇ | |||
| Kyushu/Okinawa | Fukuoka Prefecture | チームバーサス | あいたん |
| やまだい | |||
| The finals will be streamed on the official Pawapuro and ProSpi YouTube channels. | |
|---|---|
| October 15 (Sat) High School and Under Division | : https://youtu.be/TpVRiikkGzQ |
| October 15 (Sat) General Division | : https://youtu.be/rG7OhcdmcrA |
| October 16 (Sun) High School and Under Division | : https://youtu.be/AtdR9WU7ujc |
| October 16 (Sun) General Division | : https://youtu.be/mDjW4BXG3ns |
For more information on the tournaments, please visit the following special websites.
eFootball™ Tournament Special Website
https://e-football.konami.net/kokutai2022/
eBASEBALL Tournament Special Website
https://e-baseball.konami.net/kokutai/2022/
Konami Digital Entertainment will continue to deliver the fun of esports to its customers through its e-sports initiatives.
[About KONAMI's esports initiatives]
The eFootball™ series of soccer games has been supported by many customers over the years since its birth in 1995 as the console title Winning Eleven. The eFootball™ series continues to gather attention as competition titles both in Japan and abroad, being featured in exhibition matches at the 18th Asian Games Jakarta-Palembang, and being included as part of the Culture Program at the 74th National Sports Festival of Japan, as well as the Iki-iki Ibaraki Yume Kokutai, Inter-Prefectural Esports Championship 2020 KAGOSHIMA and Inter-Prefectural Esports Championship 2021 MIE. We are also expanding our efforts to combine esports and real sports by bringing into the fold eFootball™ Championship Pro, in which European clubs participate, and eJ.LEAGUE, in which J.League clubs participate.
In 2021, we partnered with Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) to launch the professional baseball esports league eBASEBALL ProSpi A League, using "Professional Baseball Spirits A" as its competition title. In the same year, "Professional Baseball Spirits A" was also featured in the Inter-Prefectural Esports Championship 2021 MIE, gaining attention as an esports title.
For the Jikkyou Pawafuru Puroyakyu series, we have held a Japanese championship since 2016. The series was featured as part of the National Sports Festival of Japan's Culture Program for the first time at 2017's Egao Tsunagu Ehime Kokutai (72nd National Sports Festival). It has since appeared at both 2018's Fukui Shiawase Genki Kokutai (73rd National Sports Festival) and 2019's Iki-iki Ibaraki Yume Kokutai (74th National Sports Festival). From 2018 to 2020, we co-hosted the professional baseball esports league eBASEBALL Pro League, with Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), and in 2021, eBASEBALL Pro League was used as the baseball competition title in the Olympic Virtual Series, a virtual sports event hosted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).