74th All-Japan High School Championship 2022 (Jan 5–9)

74th Spring High (Haruko)

All-Japan High School Championship 2022 Final Round (Jan 5–9)

52 teams, 51 matches in 5 days.

• Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium (Shibuya, Tokyo)
  
• This tournament will be held without spectators. Please note that you cannot enter the venue
• Opening ceremony will not be held
  
• The final and semi-final matches will be 5 set matches. All others will be 3 set matches
  
• There will be no 3rd place deciding match

Competition Schedule

• January 5 (Wednesday) Round 1 (20 games)
• January 6 (Thursday) Round 2 (16 games)
• January 7 (Friday) Round 3, Quarterfinals (12 games)
• January 8 (Saturday) Semifinals (2 games)
• January 9 (Sunday) Final / Closing Ceremony-(ish)

All matches (except the Final ) are broadcast live on Sports Bull but they turn to paid VOD at 9:00am the morning after the match If there's a match you want to watch and you miss it , download it before it hits the pay wall

History:

Individual Awards

Participating Schools

#12 Public Schools -- (I think that's a record)

Round 1 2022.01.05 -- matches start at 9:00am JST

Watch at Sportsbull

Fan Predictions from a poll at Volleyball Monthly:

1st place Shujitsu (Okayama), 78 votes

・ Because it is a highly trained team with multiple outstanding players under excellent leaders

2nd place Shimokitazawa Seitokutu (Tokyo), 49 votes

・ My daughter's alma mater! I support you!

・ Very well-balanced and passed the Tokyo qualifying round, which is a demon gate. If you clear the qualifying, there is a high probability you reach the top

3rd place Kinrankai (Osaka Prefecture) · 38 votes ・ Local school! My daughter was also killed by Kotenpan!

4th place Higashi Kyushu Ryucoku Takashi (Oita), 28 votes

・ The team should be tightened by the return of coach Noboru Aihara

5th place Hachioji-jissen (Tokyo), 19 votes

・ Boasts overwhelming offensive power as long as the receive is not disturbed

6th place Osaka International Takii (Osaka), 11 votes

・ I am also an alumnus of the Osaka International Takii Valley Club, so I want you to win the championship.

6th place Shinai Girls (Kumamoto), 11 votes

・ Because it is a local high school, please make a wish. Good luck to all of you

8th place Kyoei Gakuen (Tokyo), 10 votes

・ Ace Tsutsumi (Arina) is good!

8th place Miyakonojo Commercial (Miyazaki) 10 votes

・ This year's capital commerce is gaining momentum!

10th place Okazaki Gakuen (Aichi), 8 votes

・ The 45th appearance will start in 2022 with a victory

It's ridiculous how much better the production values are for these HIGH SCHOOL matches than anything JVL/VTV can do, including the "prestigious"(?) Empress' Cup--which is a co-JVA

AND THEY ARE FREE (unfortunately vpn needed)

Proper floor, good lighting, proper frame rate, professional announcers, good sound overall, good camera work, good zoomers ... and they are playing at least three matches in the room so that excuse doesn't work. JVL/VTV have no shame

Really enjoying the Shiojiri v Fukui Takasaki match. Even though Shiojiri crushed the first set , Fukui Takasaki seems pretty good as well

Coach Lovebunny is on the air. A little surprising? he just returned and took over the team

The team playing against Higashi, Fujimi, is engaging in some serious middle blocker offense. Don't see that much at all in HS. They also have a tall-ish , maybe Chinese , OH doing pretty well

Meanwhile Higashi is still doing those whirlybird moves after scoring a point. Tired of those. Their Russian (I think) 184 MB looks a little out of place doing it

Higashi OH #5 Koyuki Oritate (?) is probably going to College or she's have been drafted by someone by now

You can spot the imports a mile away here. They have their hair in a bun or ponytail

There's a lot more middle blocker offense going on here than I'm used to. A lot of it is those 45 degree angle slides to 2 that YOLO used to do, and a lot of medium height sets to the MB in 3 for a quickie, and some normal HS MB hitting as OP from 2 but I'm enjoying it

Furukawa's 2nd year 195cm DOM MB has grown into her body a lot this past year. She was almost feeble a year ago. She's getting a lot of blocks and seems to hit the ball pretty well, even without jumping much

I forget who just played Higashi but their MBs reminded me a lot of the Fukasawa twin MB

My Kyoei Gakuen girls are killing it

OH #4 Arina Tsutsumi , who was part of my favorite HS squad ever as a freshman, is super punchy, and a back attacking mofo. She must also be going to college or she would have been drafted. And they have a 2nd year MB who's a HULK SMASHING machine. I'll have to figure out what her name is

I can't believe all the excellent middle blocker work going on here tonight

Another thing , it seems to me , is all the public schools have baggy uniforms with sleeves. Gym outfits. Poor girls

This is close to a middle blocker extravaganza! It's stunning. Seems like the level of volleyball this year is up. Maybe it's just that the coverage is so good. The energy of these games is non-stop forward momentum. And they do it without any galloping merry-go-round nonsense music

I'm seeing a lot of players I look forward to seeing again

Any guesses on how you'd translate this girl's name: 馬崎七星

Mazaki Seven Stars

Nansei Uzaki

I might go with : Nana Umazaki because ... I dunno

Shintoku Girls is my Cinderella Team of the night so far I think they are fairly new to this and have never gotten past the second round. Overall punchiest team of the night. Don't know any of them

This Nara Bunka team is fun. Their setter is throwing Sietoku style to the left and then super fast and low reverse sets right into the pocket for her OP. And the OP is putting them away

Round 1 Results 2022.01.05

Losers all go home crying

There was some very fine volleyball in that first round. The seeded teams will enter today

I couldn't watch them all but flopped around landing on what looked the most fun and stayed there. These four teams were my favorite. I hope they continue winning:

• Nara Bunka
• Shintoku Girls
• Kyoei Gakuen
• Shiojiri

Quote from wargirls

You should try watching without using a VPN, it's not geoblocked (for the moment)

Pretty cool that the VODs seem not to need a vpn, but the live streams did