Korea's First Club and Elite to Face, Lee Seung-yeop Foundation Invitational to Host in November
Apr 14, 2025
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Lee Seung-yeop Foundation Invitational is the first national competition in Korea where elite baseball players and club baseball players compete, and it received a lot of attention when it was first held last year.
Currently, Korean elementary school baseball is divided into players under the age of 12 registered in the Korea Baseball Softball Association (KBSA, President Yang Hae-young) and club players from the Korea Little Baseball Federation (Chairman Kim Seung-woo), a national federation under the KBSA.
They had differences in the specifications of baseball equipment used and the regularity of the game, making it difficult to hold exchanges or official competitions between groups. In response, the Lee Seung-yeop Foundation held its first "Lee Seung-yeop Foundation Invitational" last year to create a harmonious and healthy competition among elementary school baseball players that can be the basis and future of Korean baseball.
In this invitational, four elite teams from KBSA and four clubs from the Korea Little Baseball Federation, a total of eight teams will compete in a tournament format, among the teams that ranked high based on the results of major official tournaments held by each group over a year.
For the selection of participating teams, 'Lee Seung-yeop Foundation Point System' will be applied again this year. The system calculates the ranking of participation in the invitational tournament by scoring the results of each organization's major official competitions, and based on this, each organization will select the participating team fairly.
Based on the framework established last year, the rules of the tournament will be finally applied after discussions with the Lee Seung-yeop Foundation, the Korea Baseball Softball Association, and the Korea Little Baseball Federation.
The Lee Seung-yeop Foundation will be in charge of organizing and supervising the competition, giving subsidies to invited participating teams and awarding trophies and baseball supplies to the winning team.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
