The 2023 TCL Yijianlian Cup Three player Basketball Tournament will start in Shanghai, and the champion team has the opportunity to directly enter the global finals open group | team | finals
Over the past weekend, the 2023 TCL Yi Jianlian Cup Triple Basketball Tournament Shanghai Station kicked off at the Maicui Sports Center in Minhang District, with 104 teams participating in the men's and women's open groups and men's youth groups. This is the second time in four years that the Yi Cup has been held in Shanghai, and the hot competition has made participants truly feel the basketball atmosphere of Shanghai's super fiery atmosphere.
Despite the recent storm in Shanghai, the players of the Yi Cup are fearless and rush to the Yi Cup with fiery enthusiasm to face every game. In addition to local basketball experts in Shanghai actively registering for the competition, there are also elites from other regions who come to challenge. The deep blue, domineering side leakage, and Nirvana teams are all male youth teams from Jiangsu Province. They have already registered to participate in the Yi Cup at the Suzhou station, and the deep blue team has also won the championship of the men's youth group at the Yi Cup Suzhou station. These three teams have come to the Shanghai Station of the E-Cup to face higher difficulty challenges.
In two days of intense and exciting matches, with intense confrontations and brave struggles, the players at the Shanghai station of the Yi Cup responded to the outside world with practical actions: Shanghai's basketball heritage has never dissipated. In the final of the women's open group, the team members played with a highly efficient rhythm. Both teams bravely took the ball upon receiving it, and in the middle of the game, their shooting rates were exceptionally high, with both inside and outside blooming. The cheers from the spectators on the sidelines kept coming one after another.
In the last minute of the game, the Zong'en Slamble team made a long-range shot, followed by a layup in the next round after grabbing rebounds, widening the gap and winning the championship trophy. The team members of Zong'en Slamble said, "In the two-day schedule, we encountered opponents from all over the country. The Yi Cup is really popular! The overall strength of the opponents is very strong, which makes us very much looking forward to participating in the national finals!"
It is reported that the Yi Jianlian Cup was initiated by Chinese sports leader Yi Jianlian in 2014, aiming to promote the development of basketball and provide a stage for basketball enthusiasts to exchange skills and showcase their strength. Over the past decade, under the careful cultivation of the firewood camp, the "Yi Jianlian Cup" has been highly sought after by basketball enthusiasts due to its strong confrontation, strong participation, and high viewing value. And under the inspiration of Yi Jianlian, there was a basketball craze everywhere he went.
Since its establishment, the Yi Jianlian Cup has been continuously polished, expanded, and upgraded for ten years, committed to providing basketball enthusiasts with a high standard and high-quality competition platform, with the pursuit of promoting the development of domestic three player basketball, and striving to build the "Yi Jianlian Cup" into a widely influential Chinese three player basketball brand competition.
This year, the TCL Yi Jianlian Cup Triple Basketball Tournament officially became a FIBA OPEN 3x3 certified event. This means that participating in the TCL Yi Jian Lian Cup can earn FIBA 3 x 3 competition points, and participants can use the competition points to reach higher levels of competition! In addition, the men's open group champion team in the final of the competition will have the opportunity to qualify for the FIBA OPEN 3x3 finals. This is the second time that the competition has achieved brand upgrading, following becoming a FIBA 3x3 certified satellite tournament in 2016 and an annual management tournament of the Chinese Basketball Association in 2019.
