Qualifying rounds for the national high school rugby tournament (scheduled to start on December 27 at the Osaka Hanazono rugby stadium) in 2 prefectures and 4 prefectures in Kinki ended on the 8th. Two schools (Osaka is undecided. There is a possibility of up to three schools) that have won the Hanazono championship were listed in the Kinki’s block representative decisive match (1 frame) which was set to commemorate the 100th.

This year’s national high school tournament will be held in 63 schools, including 12 schools in addition to the existing 51 schools. The breakdown is the total scores for prefectures 91 to 99, and Aichi, Saitama and Fukuoka, which have a large number of participating schools, increased by one square. In addition, one space will be awarded to each of the nine blocks nationwide (Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto, Kita Shinetsu, Tokai, Kinki, Chugoku, Shikoku, Kyushu).

A bloc representative who decides the match in which the second-place schools participate in each prefectural qualifying round. In Kinki, Tenri (Nara), who won the Hanazono 6 times, and the Kyoto Institute of Engineering (ex Fushimi Kogyo), who won 4 times will participate. Osaka, where qualification takes place in districts 1-3, will hold tournaments in 3 schools, and there is a chance that Osaka Kirikage, who won the flower garden in 2018, will advance the pieces.

◆ Round 1

<1> Tenri (second place in Nara) -Wakayama Ko (second place in Wakayama)

<2> Hotoku Gakuen (second place in Hyogo) -Shiga Gakuen (second place in Shiga)

◆ Semifinals

<3> Osaka 2nd place- <1> winner

<4> Kyoto Institute of Engineering (2nd place in Kyoto) -Winner of <2>

◆ Final

Winner of <3> -Winner of <4>

The results of each prefecture ranking finals in Kinki are as follows.

◆ Osaka (November 1)

Tokai University Osaka Hosei 19-8 Osaka Kirikage

Osaka Chosun High Fabric Construction Division 78-0

Josho Gakuen 47-7 Doshisha Kaori

◆ Hyogo (seventh)

Kansai Gakuin 34-10 Hotoku Gakuen

◆ Kyoto (eighth)

Kyoto Seisho 28-0 Kyoto Institute of Engineering

◆ Nara (eighth)

Gosho Minoru 19-14 Tenri

◆ Wakayama (eighth)

Kumano 27-0 Wakayama

◆ Shiga (eighth)

Koizumi 26-19 Shiga Gakuen