After finally falling asleep, when Sawamura and the others finished washing up, life in the new semester has already begun.
The members of the baseball club had no formal classes to attend on the first day of school, which was a good arrangement for the school.
Classes in the morning, club recruitment, opening ceremony...
In the afternoon, the players of the baseball club are about to start adaptive training.
It's not that Superintendent Kataoka of the baseball club is unfriendly, but that time does not allow them to continue to relax.
The school starts on April 1st, and at this time, the grouping for Spring University has already come down.
The official start date of the Tokyo Spring Competition is set for April 9th.
That is, in a week, the Tokyo Spring Games will start hot.
The Spring Split may seem irrelevant, but it really isn't. Even though the team that finally made it to the finals in the spring competition was only able to participate in the Kanto Tournament, not Koshien.
But often people's attitude towards the spring competition is much more important than the autumn competition, which is related to the number of places in Jiaziyuan.
The number of places in the Kanto Conference is nothing to be rare. None of the famous giants in Tokyo will do their best for this game.
But the Spring Competition is different.
The top 16 teams from the Spring Tournament are directly selected as seeded teams for the Summer Tournament.
What is a seeded team?
That means you won't meet another seed until you reach the quarterfinals in the Summer Regionals.
The setting of this group is very important for a fierce battle area like West Tokyo.
In the Tokyo competition, especially in the West Tokyo competition, the so-called death group is simply a prehistoric pit.
Just like the autumn competition that ended earlier, if Qingdo High School hadn't been assigned to the death group, it wouldn't necessarily have been eliminated.
The same is true for Jiaziyuan in the spring. If Daocheng Industrial High School was not in the death group, who would win the crown of Jiaziyuan in the spring? Probably still unknown.
Under such circumstances, even Qingdo High School had to be careful. Who put them in the worst group of death before?
If they lose their seed position in the spring competition, maybe in the summer competition three months later, they will encounter the pharmacist, the third high school student and Daocheng in a row...
That would be so unlucky!
In order to prevent this unfortunate possibility from actually appearing, Qingdo High School must make every effort to form a fighting force as soon as possible. And in the following spring competition, won the seed spot.
In this way, the time they can really rest is only the morning of the first day of school.
As soon as school started, the heads of the various clubs of Qingdao High School wore simple clothes to the club's activity area and started their recruiting journey.
Strive to complete the task of recruiting new students when they enter the school.
Beautiful posters, soft words...
For a time, the freshmen who just entered the school seemed to be in heaven.
It looks very lively, but there is no figure of the Qingdo High School baseball club in it.
The most powerful department in Qingdao High School didn't even bother to put up a poster, and they weren't worried about the shortage of staff anyway.
In the admissions brochure of Qingdao High School, they will see detailed admission rules.
First of all, you need to submit your application before the semester starts. If it is too late, you should submit your application in the activity room of the Baseball Club of Qingdao High School before 12 noon on the day of the semester.
After attending the opening ceremony, they were divided into their respective classes.
All students who submit applications will be subject to a unified assessment.
In principle, the Qingdo High School baseball team will not voluntarily ask players to retire.
Except for some really inappropriate, the coaches of Qingdao High School will take the method of persuading them to quit.
Others, as long as you want, you can participate in baseball club training.
But participating does not mean that you are a member of the Qingdo High School baseball team.
In the baseball club of Qingdo High School, there is a strict hierarchy.
It is said that after this class of freshmen enters, the number of regular members of Qingdao High School will exceed 100.
How will these 100 people be classified?
Then let's talk about it. First of all, in the baseball club of Qingdo High School, players are divided into regular members and apprentice members.
In the general sense, the baseball club of Qingdo High School only refers to the regular members, not the apprentice members.
If trainee members work hard enough in the training process, they can also be promoted to full-time members.
Some beginners, whose strength is really not up to the standard, are generally classified as trainee members.
In addition, only those who have experience and certain strength will be selected as regular members.
The treatment of regular members is completely different from that of trainee members. First of all you will enjoy the dormitory, that is to say, only the official members have the dormitory.
Those geniuses who were specially recruited by Takashima Rei, crossed the rank of apprentice club members as soon as they entered the school, and became full-fledged members of the baseball club directly. (In the original book, Sawamura was originally a full-time member, but he descended by himself.)
This is where players will be divided into three levels.
Also known as the first army, the second army and the third army.
Theoretically, there are 20 people in the first team of the Qingdo High School baseball club.
The Second Army had 20 men.
The number of the Third Army is not fixed, just like the previous Qingdao High School Third Army only had 19 players.
But with the admission of freshmen, the ranks of the three armed forces have been greatly expanded.
These people all have dormitories allocated by the school and can enjoy the stipend of the baseball club's dedicated cafeteria.
To put it bluntly, that is, if you eat at school, there will be a certain level of subsidies. Even for specially invited students, the entire meal fee is free.
For example, Sawamura is a specially invited student.
The second army has better conditions than the third army. First of all, as long as you enter the second army, you can represent Qingdao High School in the practice competition.
Needless to say, the first army, in this huge baseball club, belongs to a group of existences standing at the top of the pyramid.
The total number of the first, second and third armies should not exceed one hundred and twenty.
what about this?
In fact, it is very simple, because the current Qingdao High School baseball club has a total of forty dormitories.
If the number of people is too large, the dormitory arranged by the school cannot be recruited at all.
Otherwise, there would not be two new members squeezed into an old dormitory.
certainly. As Qingdo High School's reputation grows, it is unlikely that such a housing shortage will last forever.
The school has decided to spend money to increase the number of dormitories. The initial budget is to increase the number of dormitories by 20 and increase the number of places by 60.
There are 180 regular members!
Other schools have heard that the most members are only 150 or 60.
In contrast, Qingdao High School is much more high-end and atmospheric.
This is the school's plan, and it's not that troublesome for the time being.
So how do you assess the level of a player?
It's up to the draft.
The draft at Qingdo High School is different from the draft at other schools.
First of all, the students who have passed the special recruitment, the so-called draft is just a transition. As long as your performance is not too embarrassing, you can usually be rated as a regular member.
Secondly, the students who enroll themselves are the school's own situation, which decides whether to be a regular member or a trainee member.
If there is a particularly outstanding, there is a second round of playoffs.
The school will arrange the seedlings who have performed well in the draft to be trained in the second army or the first army, and secretly grade them.
If your score reaches the standard by then, it is very likely that you will be directly promoted to the Second Army or even the First Army.
From apprentice to the third army to the second army, and finally to the first army.
Players in the baseball club of Qingdao High School jokingly called this road "climbing"!
Only those who really persevere can climb all the way.
Eijun Sawamura has never experienced this process, whether in his past or present life. Although I have occasionally heard of some, but I do not understand the process.
It never occurred to him that he would be involved in these things.
But things are so unexpected, things that had nothing to do with him at first ended up in Sawamura's hands.
Of course, these are later stories, and the current Sawamura Eijun does not know.
He honestly washed his face and brushed his teeth, then had breakfast and attended the opening ceremony of the school.
A group of people from the baseball club was pulled directly to the rostrum. As excellent school representatives, they received the admiration of all the younger brothers and sisters.
in this process. These seniors, who have just been promoted to the third grade, are particularly calm.
It seems that privately they have practiced many times.
There is still one year left in the school the time to stay in the baseball club, that is, four months to six months.
In the last period of time, they probably didn't want to leave any regrets for themselves.
In contrast, a few players in the second grade were much more lazy. They don't have the personal feeling of the seniors in the third grade.
Like Akatsuki Fukugu, who had been burned to the ground in Koshien before, even more directly dozed off.
Sawamura kicked him hard with his other foot.
"It's the opening ceremony now, so be normal for me."
After Sawamura Eijun's rude reminder, Furuya finally came back to his senses.
Opening his hazy eyes, he looked at the elementary school brothers and elementary school girls who were excitedly applauding in front of them.
Bewildered.
For a moment, Sawamura even suspected that this kid probably forgot what he was doing now?
It's not that Sawamura Eijun was suspicious, but Akatsuki Fukugu proved it.
He was really dumbfounded!
After attending the opening ceremony, for Sawamura Eijun and the others, the next task was to divide the class.
At the end of each academic year in the island nation, students readjust their classes. (In fact, many of our schools are like this now.)
This year, Sawamura Eijun and the others have adjusted their classes. Sawamura Eijun looked over and saw that they were all acquaintances.
Kominato, Tojo, Kanamaru, Akatsuki Kogu...
The few who were able to make the main force in the second grade, not a single one appeared in this class.
If the school didn't do it on purpose, I wouldn't believe it would be such a coincidence to kill Sawamura.
Even the manager of the team, that confused little beauty, is also in this class.
Acquaintances sit together and naturally talk about everything.
A group of classmates around are all envious.
These few in front of them are the main force for the school to win the Spring League Championship.
To put it bluntly, they are half the main lineup.