On the second day, the opening ceremony of the Jade Dragon Flag National Competition was held at the Fukuoka Budokan. As a landmark building in Fukuoka Prefecture, Fukuoka Budokan is the largest martial arts hall in Fukuoka Prefecture, with a capacity of 23,000 people, and various events are held here every year.
Today, tourists from all over the country gather in small Fukuoka, and there are also many foreign tourists.
The locals are fine. The foreigners are more excited than the locals to learn that they will report the annual Yulong Banner National Competition. As foreign tourists, they can catch up with this kind of national competition, and their emotions are naturally high.
So today’s Fukuoka Budokan seats are already packed, and in addition to many reporters, there are endless murmurs. Everyone whispered, all excited.
“It is an honor for the organizers of the Jade Dragon Banner to participate in the Jade Dragon Banner National Competition. I only welcome you on behalf of the Kyushu Kendo Alliance.” Osamu Nakajima, the chairman of the Kyushu Kendo Alliance, was wearing formal clothes and had a gray head. It made him look energetic and with a warm smile, “According to statistics, except for the schools that gave up unexpectedly, a total of 145 high schools across the country advanced to the Yulong Banner National Competition this year. 470 players advanced to the Yulong Banner National Individual. Let’s give these schools and players a round of applause.”
Although Osamu Nakajima’s tone was neither rushed nor slow, the sudden high voice at the end caused the audience to involuntarily set off roaring applause.
Seeing this, Nakajima Xiu is satisfied. In the past few years, there were hundreds of schools participating in the Yulong Banner National Competition, and there were many more participating schools and players than today.
But since the reform, Yulong Banner’s reputation has gone up.
Because after the regional trials, the schools that can advance are the seed schools in each region. The members of the kendo club in these schools have undergone a lot of hard work before they can advance through hard work. They have an inhuman obsession with winning the national competition.
Every year, I see elated contestants and tearful contestants, both in the same frame, which is a shocking picture.
In the first two years of the Jade Dragon Banner, because there was no regional selection competition, as long as high schools and schools can apply, the level of the contestants is uneven.
Compared with the crushing duel, the audience actually wants to see the tit-for-tat competition in their hearts, and only the kind of competition can make the blood in people’s hearts surge. Cheers to the two contestants!
So since the reform, the popularity of the Jade Dragon Banner National Competition has not been what it used to be, and the gold content has also been much higher.
“Because of the tight schedule, I will make a long story short.” After Osamu Nakajima spoke with the microphone, the audience fell silent and respected. After Osamu Nakajima read the rules and conventions of the Jade Dragon Flag National Competition, everyone found that this year’s team competition was still a deathmatch system, while the individual competition was still a three-book win-lose system, which was no different from the rules of the regional trials.
“In addition, according to the online voting and the internal voting of the Kyushu Kendo Alliance, according to the rules of the Jade Dragon Banner National Competition, these twelve high schools will automatically become seed teams and automatically advance to the top 64.” Osamu Nakajima After that, I was relieved to see that there was no objection from this audience. He took out the paper, looked at the school above, and smiled slightly, “The following is the list of the twelve seeded teams in the men’s group. I will read them in the order of prefectures, prefectures, and prefectures, regardless of the ranking.”
The audience held their breath. In particular, schools with similar strengths in different regions all hope to be automatically promoted to the top 64. This is not only to observe the combat level of other schools on the day, but also a symbol of honor.
“First place, Tokyo, Sakurajiu Private High School Boys Group!”
As soon as the words fell, the audience seat set off a warm atmosphere. The audience sitting in the East District stood up one after another, waving their arms and shouting excitedly.
“Minister Kimura, the strongest in Japan!”
“Minister Kimura, the strongest in Japan!”
After shouting several times in a row, it finally ended with a high ‘Oh! ‘ The end is shocking.
It would be embarrassing if only a few audience members were shouting, but there were at least a few thousand people sitting in the audience in the East District, and this unanimous shout was a bit earth-shattering and shocking enough.
Some seasoned people know that the audience sitting in the East End according to the unspoken rules are people from Tokyo. This is a deliberately assigned position by officials, in fact, to arouse a sense of regional honor. Of course, it is also for different regions to sit in the same position. If there are different opinions, there will be fights. This was very common in the past, and it was not until the allocation of positions.
It’s just that this year’s audience in the East End was inexplicably shouting. Generally speaking, isn’t it cheering for the school… How can I listen to this, it seems to be cheering for someone at Sakurajiu High School. But listening to these audiences shouting “Minister Kimura”, the audience thought that the head of the Kendo Department of Sakurajiu High School was very strong!
And the director is also very understanding of people’s hearts, and put the camera on Beijima He.
He Bei Dao couldn’t help covering his face when he saw his figure on the screen. I cursed in my heart, stupid director!
Suddenly, there was a lot of boos from the East End. It made everyone puzzled, but soon the camera flashed and it was fixed on Kimura Kazuki~IndoMTL.com~Kimura Kazuki was sitting in the player’s seat at this time, which was also the assigned rest area of Sakurajiu High School. When the appearance of Kimura Kazuki was displayed on the screen, the audience saw a helpless high school student.
Obviously, Kimura Kazuki was quite uncomfortable with the shouting of the audience in the East District. And when the camera showed, the audience in the East District began to cheer again. The emotional shift is very real.
Not from Tokyo, naturally I don’t know about Kimura Kazuki’s wonderful performance in the Tokyo prefecture preliminaries. Kimura Kazuki conquered them with strength.
After waiting for a full minute, after the atmosphere calmed down, President Osamu Nakajima began to read the second seed team.
Osamu Nakajima stops and waits every time he goes to a school. This is also a traditional program for the opening ceremony of the Jade Dragon Banner, because the seeded team represents a strong team, and the strong team can get a lot of support in the local area, so there will be many people supporting.
However, the most sensational of the seed team was Minghui High School in Hiroshima Prefecture!
An unknown number of spectators wearing white samurai uniforms stood up and waved the school flag of Minghui High School with both hands when Shun Nakajima was studying under Minghui High School.
They didn’t speak and cheer, they just waved the flag silently, but it was shocking.
Rui Nao Tsukahara nodded in satisfaction in the rest area. If you want to stand out, you must be different.
However, he still keeps his eyes on Kimura Kazuki. He has seen the video of Kimura Kazuki’s game, and naturally he will not underestimate it. Although he studied in Hiroshima Prefecture, he is from Tokyo, and he naturally hopes that he can beat Kimura Kazuki in front of the Tokyo audience, which must be very comfortable.
After the announcement of the men’s team’s seed team, President Osamu Nakajima began to announce the women’s team’s seed team.
And Sakurajiu High School is impressively listed again.