On May 1st, the national selection competition for Japanese junior high school students officially kicked off.
Preliminary selections are held across the country on a regional basis, and the preliminary rounds are also called regional competitions.
The preliminary competition schedule lasts for the entire month of May, with 24 junior high schools and colleges as the basis for a draw. The final champion and runner-up teams will advance to the Tokyo Metropolitan Competition.
The team that attracts the most attention in Tokyo is Hyotei Academy, the number one seed in the Tokyo Johto region and the semi-finalist in the last national competition.
Because the new Ice Emperor team has just been formed and needs games to accumulate experience, there is no second team in the Ice Emperor today.
Going out to the regional competition today, all the people who came are the main candidates, and their goal is to win the regional championship first as the beginning of their conquest of the whole country.
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At this time, the Nippori Tennis Park not far from Hyotei was already crowded with people, because today’s Tokyo Johto region qualifiers were held here.
"Isn't the Ice Emperor here yet?"
The speaker was Mamoru Inoue, a reporter for Tennis Weekly. Today he came to Nippori Park alone. After all, the future intern reporter Shiba Saori was still in college, and she has not yet become a reporter for Tennis Weekly. p>
Inoue Mamoru looked around and saw students wearing campus uniforms everywhere in the park. Outside the park gate not far away, teams wearing colorful coats were entering one after another.
"These should be the teams participating in the regional competition this time, and they are also the opponents that Ice King will face."
Inoue was watching the door, waiting for the team wearing gray coats to appear. In the past ten years, his idol was Echizen Nanjiro. Now, the person he pays most attention to is the boy named Kanna Shinichi.
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"Coming."
Inoue Mamoru murmured softly, looking at the five buses stopped at the entrance of the park. Countless teenagers in gray uniforms got off the buses one after another.
"Hey, is this the most powerful Ice Emperor in the world..."
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"That man with silver hair is the strongest in the country today, Kami Nobuichi. I once watched his game..."
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"Following Kami Nobuichi are the Deputy Minister Atobe Keigo and that Akutsu..."
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Because of the Ice King's arrival, people in the park began to talk a lot.
At this time, Sakaki Taro was walking at the front of the team, Kanna Shinichi led Atobe, Akutsu and Ninzu Yushi followed closely behind, and the remaining four main candidates lined up in a row, following Kanna and others.<
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There were also nearly two hundred members of Hyokui's tennis club, who followed the main selection and all entered the park gate.
Looking at the mighty Ice Emperor team, people in the park made way for them one after another.
"Is this the Ice Emperor? He is indeed the most powerful person in the country. He looks so impressive..."
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"The four people walking in front are the ones published in Tennis Weekly. These people look so strong..."
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From time to time, there are whispers in the crowd. Although most of the main candidates for this team are first-year freshmen, the strong aura they exude puts great pressure on them.
This is the aura that belongs to kings. Although the Ice Emperors have never won the top spot in the country, they already have the prototype of kings in them.
"In this regional competition, the champion will definitely be the Ice Emperor."
As a reporter, Inoue Mamoru spoke with confidence, not only because Hyokui already had a hint of the king's aura, but also because he had personally seen Hyokui's strength during the main selection competition.
There are so many differences between other schools and Hyokui.
Faced with people's comments, the Ice Emperor main candidates remained unmoved at all. The group went straight to the registration office and handed in the competition list.
Because they are a seeded team, Ice King received a bye in the first round and only started playing in the second round.
Sakaki Taro arranged for Shishito Ryo and Yamazaki Ue to be the second doubles team, Ninzu Yushi and Mukahi Yueto to be the first doubles team, and Kanna Shinichi, Atobe Keigo and Akutsu Jin to be the first, second and third singles players respectively. For the first round of the regional competition, Ice King not only wants to win, but also wants to win beautifully.
The first round of the regional competition is over soon, and Hyokui will also appear in the second round. This time their opponent is a third-rate team in the Tokyo area, Onosaka Academy.
Although they also know that defeating the Ice King is a luxury.
But there is always a contingency.
After all, Hyokui's regular candidates are all first-year students. They will inevitably be nervous for their first competition, and this is their chance.
In competitive sports, no one is willing to give up easily, unless there is a huge gap in strength between the two sides.
And when the second doubles match ended, Onosaka felt what a huge difference it was.
Fifteen minutes later, the score was 6:0, and the second doubles match at Gonosaka Academy failed to score a single point. For the first time in tennis, the two Gonosaka doubles players knew what despair was.
This game seems to be like a mechanism. Once it starts, it cannot be stopped.
An hour later, the match between Hyotei and Onosaka was over.
Five games, five 6:0, other players from Onosaka Academy also failed to score a single point among Hyotei's main players during the game.
Because this is the first round of the Ice King, the game must last for five rounds. When these five rounds are over, everyone has begun to understand how powerful the Ice King is.
At this time, outside the court, the cheerleaders on the periphery of Ice King, seeing their main team winning the game so perfectly, also cheered loudly.
"The winner will belong to the Ice Emperor..."
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"The winner will belong to the Ice Emperor..."
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"This year's Ice Emperor will be Li Hai's biggest opponent. If Li Hai wants to dominate the country, he must defeat the Ice Emperor."
At this time, outside the stadium, a squinting boy was holding a notebook and looking at the Ice King main selection who had already walked out of the stadium.
This squinty-eyed person is none other than Ritsukai University's first-year candidate, Liu Renji.
The Kanagawa Tournament will be held later, so the people of Tatekai, who regard Hyokui as Tatekai Dai's strongest opponent for domination across the country, asked Renji Yanagi to come to Tokyo to collect information on Hyokui.
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After watching the first round of Ice Emperor's competition, although I didn't get much useful information about Ice Emperor's main selection, the power of Ice Emperor was deeply impressed by Liu Lian'er's eyes.
Especially the four young men headed by Kannashi Shinichi, their strength far exceeds that of most junior high school students.
"Renji, I didn't expect you to come to Tokyo from Kanagawa to observe Hyotei's game."
Wearing glasses and also holding a notebook, Inui Sadaharu came to Liu Renji's side.
"I just came to observe the current Hyokui's strength." Liu Renji turned and looked at his young friend: "Sadaharu, it seems that you have become Yamabuki's first choice."
Yanagi Renji got the news early in the morning that his teenage friend transferred from Seigaku to Yamabuki. Now looking at Inui Sadaharu wearing the clothes chosen by Yamabuki, Yanagi Renji is also happy for him.
After all, only in this way can the two of them have a chance to continue to complete the unfinished game in the past.
Inui Sadaharu just nodded and admitted that he had become Yamabuki's main choice, and then asked Renji Xiangyanagi: "Renji, what do you think of the Hyou Emperor's strength?"
"Very strong. Among the many teams in Tokyo, they should be the strongest."
Although Yanagi Renji's answer was somewhat firm and there was a hint of solemnity in his tone, Inui Sadaharu didn't see it that way.
"Really, but I don't think so."
Inui Sadaharu adjusted his glasses slightly, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, but his smile looked a bit wretched.
After hearing what Inui Sadaharu said, Yanagi Renji remembered that his friend was also a member of the powerful Yamabuki Middle School in Tokyo, so he asked: "Isn't your Yamabuki also participating in the Tokyo regional competition today? How come you have time to observe the ice?"
Emperor?"
Inui Sadaharu glanced at Yanagi and said in a very confident tone: "Because Yamabuki is very strong this year, so strong that he can win even without me."
***The author has something to say***
The author checked the information and found that the schedule of the national competition is the regional competition in May, the metropolitan competition in June, the Kanto competition in July, and the national competition in August.
Therefore, Tezuka won the finals of the Tokyo Metropolitan Conference. It had been three months since Tezuka was injured, and Tezuka had enough time to fully recover!!!
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