{"id":36153,"date":"2018-07-28T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nippon_professional_baseball_launching_splatoon_2_esports_league"},"modified":"2018-07-28T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T16:30:00","slug":"nippon-professional-baseball-launching-splatoon-2-esports-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/28\/nippon-professional-baseball-launching-splatoon-2-esports-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Nippon Professional Baseball Launching Splatoon 2 eSports League"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nippon_professional_baseball_launching_splatoon_2_esports_league\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nippon_professional_baseball_launching_splatoon_2_esports_league\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Baseball Splatoon 2.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nippon_professional_baseball_launches_splatoon_2_esports_league\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nippon_professional_baseball_launches_splatoon_2_esports_league\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Baseball Splatoon 2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;s not uncommon nowadays to hear about a domestic sports competition starting up its own eSports league. Plenty of famous clubs and teams worldwide have also jumped on the bandwagon of acquiring well-known cyber teams in the hope they can broaden their reach and earn some extra revenue on the side.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Japan, it&#8217;s no different. Nippon Professional Baseball &#8211; Japan&#8217;s pro baseball league &#8211; has now partnered with Nintendo to create a new <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_2\">Splatoon 2<\/a><\/strong> eSports league. Each of the 12 clubs will be represented in the digital league, with the start date scheduled for Spring 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u65e5\u672c\u91ce\u7403\u6a5f\u69cb\u306f\u4efb\u5929\u5802\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u306e\u5354\u529b\u3067\u3001\u30d7\u30ed\u91ce\u740312\u7403\u56e3\u304c\u53c2\u52a0\u3059\u308b\u300cNPB e\u30b9\u30dd\u30fc\u30c4\u30b7\u30ea\u30fc\u30ba \u30b9\u30d7\u30e9\u30c8\u30a5\u30fc\u30f32\u300d\u30922019\u5e74\u6625\u306b\u958b\u50ac\u3057\u307e\u3059\u3002\u5404\u7403\u56e3\u4ee3\u8868\u30c1\u30fc\u30e0\u306f\u300c\u7b2c4\u56de\u30b9\u30d7\u30e9\u30c8\u30a5\u30fc\u30f3\u7532\u5b50\u5712\u300d\uff08NPB\u5f8c\u63f4\uff09\u306e\u51fa\u5834\u30c1\u30fc\u30e0\u304b\u3089\u9078\u8003\u3092\u884c\u3044\u307e\u3059\u3002<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TS9lI4gNBh\">https:\/\/t.co\/TS9lI4gNBh<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NPB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NPB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NPBe%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%84?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NPBe\u30b9\u30dd\u30fc\u30c4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NPB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%97%E3%83%A9%E3%83%88%E3%82%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B32?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NPB\u30b9\u30d7\u30e9\u30c8\u30a5\u30fc\u30f32<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LGR5KKqFRV\">pic.twitter.com\/LGR5KKqFRV<\/a><\/span>\u2014 \u65e5\u672c\u91ce\u7403\u6a5f\u69cb\uff08NPB\uff09 (@npb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/npb\/status\/1022726195459153920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t NPB&#8217;s first venture into eSports. In 2017, it partnered with Konami to host championships for its official baseball title,\u00a0<strong>Jikky\u014d Powerful Pro Yaky\u016b<\/strong> (known as <strong>Power Pros<\/strong> in the west), and last week announced the launch of an official league. The Splatoon 2 league formation is somewhat different to a number of clubs and tournaments around the world that choose to focus on video games based on their respective sport.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For Nintendo, a partnership with a sport\u00a0team or club isn&#8217;t exactly new &#8211; with the company known throughout its history for having ties with <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2016\/08\/nintendo_confirms_usd661_million_sale_of_majority_ownership_of_seattle_mariners\">baseball teams<\/a> and sponsoring both <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kyoto_Sanga_FC\">domestic<\/a> and <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ACF_Fiorentina\">international<\/a> football clubs. This latest deal should be fantastic exposure for Nintendo, given the fact baseball is the national pastime in Japan.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not uncommon nowadays to hear about a domestic sports competition starting up its own eSports league. Plenty of famous clubs and teams worldwide have also jumped on the bandwagon of acquiring well-known cyber teams in the hope they can broaden their reach and earn some extra revenue on the side.\u00a0 In Japan, it&#8217;s no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}