July 31, in Beijing United University field, just after 9 o'clock, under the arrangement of the staff, to KFC various restaurants as a unit of the team began to double round robin game. A member of the team said in an interview with reporters, this is his second time to participate in this competition, the previous time he and his teammates managed to kill the Beijing regional league, but due to the conflict with the study time, and finally gave up to continue the game. And this year, they hope to have a bigger breakthrough.
It is understood that this year's KFC National Youth Three-Person Basketball Championship Challenge in Beijing reached more than 1,600 teams and the number of participants reached an unprecedented 9,600 people, which is currently the largest basketball tournament in Beijing. The finals will be held in Beijing at the end of September. There will be 30 provinces, cities and autonomous regions to determine the champion team and two wild card teams gathered in Beijing, directly into the semi-finals, to compete for the finals of the four tickets.
The tournament is co-organized by the Chinese Basketball Association and KFC***, a subsidiary of Yum Brands China. This year's tournament utilizes a new double round-robin system and features a larger field with twice as many teams as last year. There were 262 cities participating in the tournament nationwide, with more than 13,200 registered teams and nearly 65,000 school-age youth participating. At the same time, this year's tournament also has a new feature different from previous years: in the arrangement of the field, a change from last year's single-course centralized competition, "into the community, so that more people to participate in and experience the passion for sports" has become the biggest feature of this year's tournament.
According to one of the organizers of the tournament, the Beijing Basketball Association's deputy secretary-general Hai Zhenwen, KFC three-player basketball tournament of the fire is from KFC's unique advantages, "last year's participation in the registration of the region as a unit, and this year, one of the biggest changes is to change the KFC stores as a unit, so that we can give full play to the advantages of the wide range of KFC stores, which is unmatched by other tournaments," said Hai. point is unmatched by other tournaments."
"With youth three-player basketball as the medium, the China Basketball Association and Yum China have found a ****ing point of convergence in ****ing with the concern for the healthy growth of youth. KFC can enhance their popularity through this tournament; the youth who participate in the tournament can better participate in basketball through this tournament and cultivate healthy habits; and we can better promote basketball through this tournament and lay a good foundation for the development of basketball in Beijing province. It should be said that the KFC Three-Person Basketball Tournament is a multi-party ****win event. We are determined to run this tournament for a long time and make it better every year.