The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has big plans for the virtual baseballThe WBSC Virtual Cup returns to Seoul, August 15 and 16Four years after the inaugural edition, the WBSC held its second edition. In 2022, it attracted over 8.000 entries, with twelve teams from South Korea, Mexico, Japan, and the United States competing in Seoul for the title. The WBSC aimed to strengthen the international dimension for this second edition by bringing together... players from eight different countries.
The winners will be crowned at the Jangchung Arena, venue for the judo and taekwondo events during the Seoul Olympic Games in 1988. " With the WBSC Virtual Cup, we are creating a new competition platform that brings together fans, players and nations in a truly innovative way, thereby reinforcing our mission to develop baseball and softball on a global scale “,” confided Riccardo Fraccari, president of the WBSC, last year. The Virtual Cup is the third pillar of the WBSC’s overall eSports strategy, alongside mobile, console and PC games, as well as physical simulators.
