Ichiro appeared in the finals of the Hughan WBSC ePremier 12 2024, a tournament to determine the best baseball eSports player in the world!

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. announced that Ichiro will appear as a special guest in the finals of the Hughan WBSC ePremiere 12 2024 ("ePremiere 12"), a world baseball eSports tournament organized by the World Baseball Softball Confederation ("WBSC"). Ichiro will appear as a special guest in the final game of the "Hughan WBSC ePremiere 12 2024 (ePremiere 12). The Super Round and the Final will also be broadcasted.

Ichiro will appear in the "e-Premiere 12" final!

ヒューガン WBSC ｅプレミア12 2024公式サイト

ePremiere 12" is an e-sports world championship organized by the WBSC and using the official WBSC baseball game " WBSC eBASEBALL Powerful Pro Baseball " released by Konami as the competition title. The ePremiere 12 will be held simultaneously with the World Baseball WBSC Premier 12, which will be held at Tokyo Dome starting Thursday, November 21, 2024, and the final game of the ePremiere 12 on Saturday, November 23, 2024, will be held at the same venue as the World Baseball WBSC Premier 12. The first "e-Premiere 12" will be held at Tokyo Dome, the same venue as the World Baseball WBSC Premier 12.

To commemorate the first "e-Premiere 12," it was announced that Ichiro, a legend in the world of Japanese and U.S. baseball, will appear as a special guest! Ichiro will appear at the opening ceremony and awards ceremony to honor the players who competed for the title of the first e-Premier 12 Champion.

Also, on Wednesday, November 21, 2024, at the esports Ginza studio, the qualifiers from around the world ...

• Mexico: Ben Zen (@DarienBenz )
• Chinese Taipei: Dashu (@qwerx.dashu )
• Japan：SHORA (@hanshinjsusk )
• Japan: NEGRAY (@negray8910 )

The Super Round started with four fierce competitors! Thetop two finishers will advance to the finals on Saturday, November 23, 2024. We are very much looking forward to seeing what kind of heated competition will unfold!

The Super Round and the finals will be distributed!

It has been announced that the Super Round on Thursday, November 21, 2024 and the Final on Saturday, November 23, 2024 will be broadcasted. The guest for the distribution will be...

• Seiichi Uchikawa
• Kenshin Kawakami
• Hisashi Iwakuma
• Mr. Taiji

etc. will appear. The streaming will be on the official WBSC YouTube channel.

Super Round

e-Premier 12" Final

Be sure not to miss it to see who will be the first champion! For more information on the tournament, please check the official Hughan WBSC ePremier 12 2024 website.