Slam Dunk for the Community: Akita Northern Happinets Launches Thrilling BI League to Unite the Region

Basketball Infra League (BI League), a participatory competition (game) where clubs, fans and citizens come together to support and enliven basketball and the regions where B.LEAGUE clubs are located, will start in November 2024. I did.

The “Basketball Infra League (BI League)” consists of two parts: the “Basketball League Division (B.LEAGUE)” and the “Infrastructure League Division”, and the rankings of both divisions are combined to form the “Basketball Infra League (BI League)”. The overall winning club will be determined.
The overall winning club will receive a prize of 3 million yen. In addition, the person with the most posting points (MVP) and the fans/citizens (MIP) who made impressive posts will receive wonderful individual prizes.

This season, we will use the information posted by everyone to ascertain the number of basketball goals in your city and visualize basketball-related infrastructure, thereby increasing the number of basketball-related people in the region and improving the local community. This will lead to the activation of

This initiative is positioned as a stepping stone toward “regional revitalization centered on basketball and infrastructure,” which we aim to achieve through collaborative creation with B.LEAGUE’s innovation partner Infronia Holdings. In the future, through initiatives such as this that utilize citizen participation and digital technology, we aim to quickly identify and resolve social issues in each region, such as aging infrastructure, not just basketball facilities, and to build a system that increases the attractiveness of the region. I’m coming.

■Basketball Infra League (BI League) Implementation Overview
Basketball Infra League (BI League) Club Award

Overall winner: Prize money 3 million yen
Overall 2nd place: Prize money 1.5 million yen
3rd place overall: 500,000 yen prize

Implementation period

The Basketball Infrastructure League (BI League) will be held as follows from November 1, 2024 (Friday) until the end of the B.LEAGUE regular season (2024-25 season Resona Group B1/B2 league match).

Basketball league division: During the B.LEAGUE regular season (2024-25 season Resona Group B1/B2 league match)
Infrastructure League Division: November 1, 2024 (Friday) 0:00 to December 31, 2024 (Tuesday) 23:59

Evaluation method

Basketball league division: Clubs with fewer goals conceded in the regular season are ranked higher.
Infrastructure league category: Ranking based on posts in X
(Details are listed in “Infrastructure League Division Implementation Details” below)

■Infrastructure league implementation overview
Individual club awards

Target audience: Most Post Points Earner (MVP), Impressive Poster (MIP)
Present contents: Basketball autographed by all supporting club players

What to post

・Indoor and outdoor public basketball hoops
Excludes facilities within educational facilities such as elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools, universities, and vocational schools.
Limited to public facilities. Commercial facilities are not included.
Excludes venues where official B.LEAGUE matches will be held during the period. Please check the special website for venues that are not eligible.

Posting rules

1.Up to 1 post per day per person
Each participant is only allowed to post once per day.
You cannot earn points even if you post more than 2 times.
Only one account per person can participate.
Points will not be earned if there are posts from multiple accounts and posts that are questionable.
It is possible to post the same “subject” multiple times as long as the images are taken on different days.
Please post your daily life with basketball.

2. Hashtag content
Please remember to use the following four hashtags when posting.

#basketball infrastructure league
#Infronia
#Akita Northern Happinets
#Name of the facility where the basketball goal was photographed

Special site

Please see the special website for other details on posting rules.

The special site isClick here