(The) Lee Seung-yuop Baseball Scholarship Foundation (Chairman Lee Seung-yuop) will hold the second tournament of the 'Lee Seung-yuop Foundation Invitational', which was organized to promote grassroots development of Korean baseball, at the Daegu Riverbank Student Baseball Field in November.
'Lee Seung-yuop Foundation Invitational' is the country's first national tournament where elite baseball players and club baseball players compete against each other, and it received much attention during its inaugural event last year.
Currently, Korean elementary school baseball is divided into players aged 12 and under registered with the Korea Baseball Softball Association (KBSA, President Yang Hae-young) and club players belonging to the Korea Little Baseball Association (President Kim Seung-woo), a nationwide federation under KBSA.
There have been differences in the specifications of baseball equipment and game rules, making exchanges or hosting official competitions difficult among the groups. Accordingly, (The) Lee Seung-yuop Baseball Scholarship Foundation first held the 'Lee Seung-yuop Foundation Invitational' last year to create a space for harmony and healthy competition among elementary school baseball players, who can be the foundation and future of Korean baseball.
In this Invitational, eight teams will participate in a tournament format, consisting of four elite teams affiliated with KBSA and four club teams from the Korea Little Baseball Association, based on the performance of teams that ranked high in major official competitions held over the year.
To select participating teams, the 'Lee Seung-yuop Foundation Point System' will be applied this year as well. This system scores the performance of each group's major official competitions to determine the ranking for the Invitational competition, and based on this, each group will fairly select participating teams.
The tournament regulations will be finalized through discussions by the tournament organizing committee, composed of representatives from (The) Lee Seung-yuop Baseball Scholarship Foundation, Korea Baseball Softball Association, and Korea Little Baseball Association, based on the framework established last year.
(The) Lee Seung-yuop Baseball Scholarship Foundation will host and organize the tournament, providing participation support funds to invited teams and awarding trophies and baseball equipment to the winning teams.
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