Daily Review
Super Round - Day -2
09.11.2019
Teams arrive in Tokyo ahead of
Super Round start on Monday
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After a thrilling Opening Round of the WBSC Premier12, the six qualified teams for the Super Round - Mexico, USA, Japan, Chinese Taipei, Korea and Australia - arrived in Tokyo, Japan on Saturday ahead of the start of the round robin matches on Monday.

Teams will play teams, which were not in their Opening Round group and will start with a win-loss record taken from the match against their fellow group team. Action will take place at the Tokyo Dome and the ZOZO Marine Stadium in Chiba from Monday to Wednesday before a practice day on Thursday and then the last of the Super Round matches take place in the Tokyo Dome on Friday and Saturday. The top teams will then go through to Sunday's final as well as the third and fourth teams playing off for bronze.

In addition to the $1.5m in prize money to the champions, the highest placed teams from the Americas and Asia/Oceania (excluding hosts Japan) will qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Sunday will see the teams have practice sessions followed by a press conference with National Team managers and starting pitcher announcements at 18:00 (local time).
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