WBSC eBASEBALL™ Series World Finals to Be Held at Olympic Museum on March 9 to Determine the First World Champion!
- Four Players Including Two Japanese Players Will face off in Switzerland! -

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. is excited to announce that the World Finals of the WBSC eBASEBALL™ Series, organized by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), will be held at the Olympic Museum in Switzerland on Saturday, March 9 (local time).

The WBSC eBASEBALL™ Series is an esports world tournament that has been held since last fall using the WBSC official baseball game "WBSC eBASEBALL™: POWER PROS” released by KONAMI as its competition title. In the World Finals, the four winners of the preliminary round, in which more than 15,000 people participated, will meet at the Olympic Museum (Lausanne, Switzerland) to compete offline.

<WBSC eBASEBALL™ Series 2023 World Finals participants>　 (Player name in parentheses)

The WBSC eBASEBALL™ Series World Finals will be live streamed on the official WBSC YouTube channel. Don't miss the moment the first world champion of the WBSC eBASEBALL™ Series is born!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtIffeYNKUs *The live stream will begin at 10:00 p.m. (JST) on March 9 (Sat).

Also in 2024, the ePremier12™ will be held in November as a world tournament with "WBSC eBASEBALL™: POWER PROS " as the competition title. As with the WBSC Premier12™, an international baseball tournament that will be held around the same time, the eBASEBALL™ World No. 1 will be determined at the Tokyo Dome.

Konami Digital Entertainment and its partners will continue to promote the fun of esports to the world and further expand the esports fanbase.

About the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC)
Headquartered in Pully, Switzerland, in the outskirts of Lausanne, the WBSC is the world governing body for baseball and softball. At present it is made up of 207 national leagues (including full members and associate members) from 137 countries/regions in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe and Oceania. It is responsible for overseeing the baseball and softball activities of over 65 million athletes and mobilizing approximately 150 million spectators every year. The WBSC oversees all international competitions in which official national teams participate: the Premier 12, Baseball World Cup (U-12, U-15, U-18, U-23 and Women's), Softball World Cup (U-15 Women, U-18 Women, U-18 Men, U-23 Men, Women and Men), Baseball 5 (Senior and Youth World Cups), organizes the eSports World Championships and oversees the Baseball, Softball and Baseball 5 events at the Olympic Games.

[About KONAMI’s baseball-related esports initiatives]
Since 2016, KONAMI has continuously worked to expand and revitalize esports by holding national tournaments for the PAWAFURU PUROYAKYU series. In 2017, we started using esports for regional promotion by partnering with events such as the Ehime e-baseball Tournament, a cultural program of the Ehime Kokutai (Ehime National Athletic Meet). Since 2018, we have been hosting a professional esports league in collaboration with Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), and we are also working with the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) to expand the baseball fanbase around the world. In the Olympic Virtual Series 2021 and Olympic eSports Series 2023 international tournaments organized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the PAWAFURU PUROYAKYU series was used as the competition title.

" WBSC eBASEBALL™ POWER PROS " product information