Once again embark on the MAGIC3 dream-chasing journey! ,Tens of thousands of basketball teenagers in Shanghai
On July 1, the sports feast for Shanghai teenagers - the 6th MAGIC3 Shanghai Youth Three-on-Three Super Basketball Tournament officially opened at the Rock Park West Hall of the Everbright Convention & Exhibition Center, setting off the first wave of summer sports enthusiasm among Shanghai's teenagers.
The opening ceremony played a promotional video "Where the MAGIC3 Dream Begins" starring Li Hongquan, a member of the Chinese men's basketball training team and the main player of the Shanghai Jiushi men's basketball team. Li Hongquan stood out from the 2019 MAGIC3 event. In the promotional video, as the MVP of the MAGIC3 International Tournament, he called on more young people to go to the court and bravely pursue their dreams. The opening match after the ceremony was between the Slience team and the Stick Singles Team. The Xuhui Division Tournament and the first stop of the Pink Women's Group also started at the same time, and the youth prelude of MAGIC3 in 2024 was opened.
As a youth independent brand event jointly created by the Shanghai Sports Bureau and the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, MAGIC3 has entered its sixth year since 2019. This year's event has been completely upgraded, with the number of participants reaching a new high. Sports and education integration and innovative competitions will be held every month in the second half of the year. Young people from the Yangtze River Delta and Shigatse, Tibet will participate in the event, aiming to create a "Koshien" for youth basketball.
MAGIC3 event theme song "Icanbreakaway".
Since the registration started on June 7, the competition has attracted 13,897 young people from 3,205 teams from 368 high schools to embark on their dream-chasing journey again.
The 2024 MAGIC3 mass group competition is divided into three stages: the regional competition, the district competition and the finals. The regional competition will be held in 16 districts from July 1 to July 30; after layers of selection, the young people will compete in the regional competition from August 4 to 25 at city landmarks and bustling business districts such as Oriental Pearl City Plaza and Century Plaza on Nanjing East Road Pedestrian Street.
The finals will be held at the Shanghai Stadium on September 8, with top dunkers from home and abroad coming on site to challenge their limits and show off their special skills.
The organizer awarded commemorative plaques to the sponsors of the MAGIC3 event.
The 2024 MAGIC3 custom jerseys are released.
It is reported that there will be competitions every month after the opening of MAGIC3, and the popularity of the competitions will continue to increase.
In addition to the mass group competition, the MAGIC3 Yangtze River Delta Elite Exchange Competition, the Elite Group Competition, and the "One-stop" basketball project layout school challenge competition will also be held. At the same time, the competition exchange activities will be expanded to Shigatse youth, the Shanghai-Tibet Basketball Friendship Match will be added, and the city student sports meeting three-person basketball competition will be included in the MAGIC3 competition system.
In addition, various MAGIC3-related events will continue to be organized at different times throughout the year, including the newly added "MAGIC3 Dream Season", where all contestants can register online, enter the basketball hall, and enter the "special training camp" to participate in shooting challenges and other activities.
Based on last year's high school men's group, the MAGIC3 "One-stop" School Challenge has added a high school women's group and a junior high school men's group to further expand competition participation, build a communication and competition platform for basketball teenagers in "one-stop", "dragon head" and "dragon body" schools, further promote the three-person basketball project, and promote the development of campus basketball.
In addition, the city student sports games three-on-three basketball competition was included in MAGIC3 for the first time, further broadening MAGIC3's participation on campus and enhancing the influence of the event.
In August, we will invite elite youth basketball teams from Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui to Shanghai to carry out the Yangtze River Delta exchange competition in Shanghai with the city's elite teams, create a high-level basketball competition for young people in the Yangtze River Delta, and help cultivate reserve talents for competitive sports in threex basketball.
The competition includes individual challenges such as one-on-one competition, skill competition, shooting competition, etc., as well as individual and team groups to enhance the experience of the Yangtze River Delta team and strengthen interactive communication.
In addition, the MAGIC3 Shanghai-Tibet Basketball Friendly Match will be held, inviting young people from Shigatse, Tibet to come to Shanghai to play basketball friendly matches with the featured teams from each regional competition to promote basketball exchanges among young people in Shanghai and Tibet.
MAGIC3 Landscape Sports Creates Basketball "Koshien"
In response to the coordinated development of culture, sports, tourism and business exhibitions, MAGIC3 will hold regional competitions and exchange competitions at city landmarks and top business districts such as Oriental Pearl City Plaza and Century Plaza on Nanjing East Road Pedestrian Street, continue to create landscape sports, drive business district consumption, and increase the popularity of events and business districts. The finals will be held at Shanghai Stadium, a famous sports landmark in Shanghai, to create a basketball "Koshien" for young people.
"Passionate youth, turning the tables, magical arena, chasing dreams". MAGIC3 is not just a basketball game, but also a pursuit of dreams. Let us look forward to the young basketball players gathering youthful power and shining with vitality on the stage of MAGIC3.