Olympic Esports Finals 2023: WBSC eBASEBALL™: POWER PROS finalists confirmed
The 10 finalists will compete in the WBSC eBASEBALL™: POWER PROS finals on 24 June 2023 in Singapore.
All ten WBSC eBASEBALL™: POWER PROS players have been confirmed for the inaugural Olympic Esports Finals 2023 from 23–25 June in Singapore.
Eight of the nine finalists in WBSC eBASEBALL™: POWER PROS were selected through a qualifying system, with qualifiers held for both the Sony PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch systems both in Japan and internationally. Additionally, the winner of the 2021 Olympic Virtual Series baseball event was also invited. The last finalist represents host country Singapore.
Among the world's best exponents of the game, they will duke it out at the Suntec Conference and Exhibition Centre on 23 (preliminary round) and 24 (finals) June to be crowned Olympic Esports Finals winner.
WBSC eBASEBALL™: POWER PROS was put forward by the World Baseball Softball Confederation to represent baseball in the Olympic Esports Series 2023.
WBSC eBASEBALL™: POWER PROS finalists – Olympic Esports Finals 2023
The finalists are:
- Noguchi Tomoki (Daylami) from Japan
- Machida Kazutaka (antimon) from Japan
- Fujishima Takato (fujito) from Japan
- Horiike Hiroki (TAIJYU) from Japan
- Wang Chia-Ming (CMWANG) from Chinese Taipei
- Hsu Po-Yao (DoubleBass) from Chinese Taipei
- Yu Wei-Chung (Hazuremon) from Chinese Taipei
- Jacob Christian Park (KangGang) from USA
- Mori Shoma (SHORA) from Japan
- Chong Woon Hian (Woonie) from Singapore
Olympic Esports Finals 2023: WBSC eBASEBALL™: POWER PROS competition format
The 10 finalists will be split into two groups of five for the preliminary round, which will be a round-robin format competed off-stage and off-stream.
Each match-up will feature a single game of WBSC eBASEBALL™: POWER PROS. The top two players from each group will qualify for the semi-finals, with the winners moving on to the final and the losing semi-finalists playing in the third-place game.
Alongside WBSC eBASEBALL™: POWER PROS, nine other games are part of the Olympic Esports Series and Olympic Esports Finals. They are: Tic Tac Bow (archery), Chess.com (chess), Zwift (cycling), Just Dance (dance), Gran Turismo (motorsport), Virtual Regatta (sailing), Fortnite (shooting), Virtual Taekwondo (taekwondo), and Tennis Clash (tennis).