The Professional Baseball Association (PBA, Presidential Youngsoo Kim) will hold the SK Rental Car Jeju Special Self-Governing Province PBA-LPBA World Championship 2024 (hereinafter referred to as the World Championship) at Halla Gymnasium in Jeju-si, Jeju-do, for 10 days from the 8th to the 17th.
The World Championship is a competition like the “King and the King” that takes place after a full-length tour of a season. The amount of prize money is the highest in total. The prize money alone is 200 million won for PBA and 70 million won for LPBA, with the total prize money of 550 million won. Only the top 32 players in the prize money rankings, who have maintained top-ranked performances throughout the season, are eligible to participate. If the prize money ranking is tied, ranking points will be determined in order of ranking points – number of tour participants – set difference – overall average – and overall high run.
The tournament will be held in eight groups of 32 players, and the first and second teams of the group will advance to the round of 16 and decide the winner. The PBA group stage will be held with the best-of-five (11 points in the last set), and the LPBA will be held with the best-of-three (nine points in the last set). The group stage will be decided in order of number of wins, number of games (excluding no wins), set gains and losses, overall average, and overall high run.
From the tournament of the round of 16, the final set of PBA-LPBA will be converted to 15 points and 11 points. In addition, the PBA round of 16 and quarterfinals will be held under the best-of-five format, while the semifinals will be best-of-seven format, and the final will be best-of-nine format. The LPBA round of 16 and quarterfinals will be held under the best-of-five format, while the semifinals and the final will be best-of-seven format.
The PBA-LPBA group stage will be held for six days from the 8th to the 13th, the opening day of the tournament, with the round of 16 teams on the 14th, the quarterfinals on the 15th, the semifinals on the 16th and the final on the 17th. The LPBA final will be held from 4:30 p.m., and the PBA final will be held from 8:30 p.m.
BY: 릴게임
