The "6th Ryoshin Hasegawa Memorial / Chiba Mayor's Cup Wheelchair Basketball National Selection Tournament" will be held on March 2017th and 3th, 4 (Saturday and Sunday) at Chiba Port Arena (Chuo-ku, Chiba City).The tournament has been managed by student volunteers from Shukutoku University (Chuo-ku, Chiba City) since the first tournament, such as requesting sponsorship from companies and collecting sponsorship advertisements.
At the university, under the teaching of the scholar Ryoshin Hasegawa, "Practice of gratitude service and symbiosis," it is possible to deepen the volunteer spirit in order to carry out the idea of "working to develop human resources that are useful to people and the community." We have been promoting sports for people with disabilities.
This time, "Miyagi MAX", "Chiba Hawks", "NO EXCUSE (Tokyo)", "Saitama Lions", "Para Kanagawa", and "World BBC (Aichi Prefecture)" where many Japanese and U-23 national team players are gathered. Six teams are scheduled to participate, all boasting the ability of the national best four or more.In addition, the tournament is expected to be an incandescent battle, with an eye on the Japan Championships to be held in May 6 and the "Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games" in 4.
The university's student executive committee members, who support the tournament behind the scenes, are making preparations, such as sending information to sponsoring and sponsoring companies and thinking about the arena layout for the day.
In 2017, we are making various efforts so that people who "do not understand the rules" will know the appeal of the competition.First, a chick platform was set up in the spectators' seats on the first floor of the arena so that they could watch a powerful match.In addition, in order to let people know more about the competition, a test drive corner for wheelchairs for competition will be set up on the 1nd floor of the arena, and a wheelchair basketball experience event will be held on the second day of the competition.In addition, as the first attempt at the tournament, announcer Toshiyuki Saito and Katsumi Miyake of the Japan Wheelchair Basketball Federation will give a live commentary and commentary in the final match.
開会式は3月4日（土）11時30分から行われ、第1試合は13時開始。準決勝は翌5日（日）10時、決勝戦は14時30分開始を予定している。
