(Original title: The autumn wind blows, and baseball season begins! MLB CUP Youth Baseball Series and Autumn Season begins)
On November 9th and 10th, the MLB CUP Youth Baseball Series Autumn Tournament kicked off passionately in Chongqing and Zhengzhou, bringing different vitality and enthusiasm to this autumn.
Little player hitting the ball
As a key platform for cultivating youth baseball talents, the MLB CUP Youth Baseball Open has always implemented the advanced concept of “combination of sports and education” and is committed to providing first-class technical guidance, rich resources and high-level event experience to youth baseball enthusiasts. In order to allow more young people to participate in MLB CUP events, MLB has made innovative multi-year reforms to the event system and launched the “2024-2025 MLB CUP Youth Baseball Series”.
The new season will be divided into two main stages: city competition and finals. The city competition stage is divided into three competition modes: open competition, experience competition, and cooperative competition. The entire series will start in November 2024 and end in August 2025. The spring and autumn champions of the U10 and U8 categories of the open and cooperative competitions will be invited to participate in the finals to be held in July-August 2025 to compete for the final championship honor. Such an event structure aims to ignite more young people’s enthusiasm for baseball and provide them with a high-level stage to showcase their talents and competitive levels.
Chasing the dream of Green City, wielding the youth storm
On November 9th and 10th, the 2024 Zhengzhou “Star League Cup” Youth Baseball and Softball Open and the 2024-2025 MLB CUP Youth Baseball Series Autumn Tournament Zhengzhou Station opened grandly. This event attracts youth baseball enthusiasts of all ages, and has specially set up four age groups: U14, U10, U8, and U7 to ensure that every young player can show their talents in a competitive environment suitable for them. On the field, the young players went all out and launched exciting and fierce duels, showing their love for baseball and competitive spirit.
2024 Zhengzhou “Star League Cup” Youth Baseball and Softball Open
And the opening of the 2024-2025 MLB CUP Youth Baseball Series Autumn Tournament Zhengzhou Station
In the U14 category, the street experiment team 1 won the championship, the Kapu Baseball Tigers team won the runner-up, and the street experiment team 2 won the third place. In the U10 category, the championship honor was won by the Jingsanlu Elementary School Rattlers, the Kapu Baseball Phillies won the runner-up, and the Zhengzhou Nationals won the third runner-up. The champion of the U8 category was won by the Shuangcheng team of Jingsan Road Primary School, the runner-up honor went to the Yankees of Jingsan Road Primary School, and the third runner-up went to the Dodgers of Diehu Primary School. The U7 category was won by the Rays of Jingsan Road Primary School, the Kapu Baseball Cubs won the runner-up, and the Zhengdong Foreign Language Angels won the third runner-up.
The young players showed their passion, enthusiasm and sweat intertwined
Mountain-city showdown, another baseball craze
The 2024 Sichuan-Chongqing Youth Baseball Open and the 2024-2025 MLB CUP Youth Baseball Series Autumn Chongqing Station, held at the same time, fully demonstrated the enthusiasm and vitality of this city. The competition has two categories: U10 coach pitching group and U8 group. The young players showed their outstanding talents on the court and brought a series of exciting games.
2024 Sichuan-Chongqing Youth Baseball Open
And the opening of the 2024-2025 MLB CUP Youth Baseball Series Autumn Chongqing Station
In the U10 coach pitching group, the championship honor of the team award was won by the Kuda Hope Star team, the Yunjin Primary School Supersonics team won the runner-up, and the third place was won by the Kuda Future Star team. In the U8 category, Qicheng Bashu Primary School Cheetah Team won the championship, followed by the Quantum Bachuan Tigers Team as runner-up, and the Xiejiawan Masked Bear Team as the third runner-up.
The young players went all out on the court with high morale
Since MLB launched the “MLB Play Ball Youth Baseball League” in 2008 and officially changed its name to the “MLB CUP Youth Baseball Open” in 2021, the event has been held for 17 years and has greatly promoted the development of youth baseball in China. , its value has long transcended the purely competitive level. Today, MLB CUP has become a youth baseball event that integrates standardization, specialization and internationalization. It is not only an important platform for young people to learn advanced baseball concepts and skills, obtain rich resources and high-quality services, but also an influential platform in the industry. A center for baseball cultural and educational exchange. As the MLB CUP Youth Baseball Series expands its season and grows in scale, in the future, the event will attract more young players to participate, thereby cultivating more new generations of baseball elites.
Against the background of the country’s vigorous promotion of “double reduction” and “integration of sports and education”, baseball has gradually gained wider social recognition in China. As the softball and softball curriculum standards are officially incorporated into the student athletic ability assessment standards, it is expected that more schools will incorporate this sport into their curriculum systems. This initiative will further standardize and clarify the teaching content of softball and softball, thereby attracting more young people to devote themselves to this sport and promote its popularity and development on campus. MLB will also respond to national policies, further promote MLB CUP events and MLB FIRST PITCH baseball charity classes, and promote baseball in schools and communities, aiming to promote the popularity of baseball among young people and lay a solid foundation for the long-term development of Chinese baseball. the basis of.
This weekend, the MLB CUP Youth Baseball Series Autumn Open Qingdao Station is about to open grandly. We look forward to witnessing the Qingdao baseball youths demonstrating their baseball enthusiasm and competitive style on the field.