On August 6, 2011, at precisely 9 a.m.
The 93rd National High School Baseball Championship tournament grandly opened at Koshien Stadium.
The day after the previous draw, Takano Ren specially organized the 49 participating schools in this tournament to rehearse for the entrance—after all, on the official opening day, with the audience, journalists, media, related staff, and players from each school present, a conservative estimate puts the entire Koshien Stadium attendance at over 50,000 people. If any issues arise, it would be Takano Ren's face that gets lost, so a pre-event trial run is very important.
Since this year is an odd-numbered tournament, the school entrance order was arranged from north to south geographically, with North Hokkaido's Shirakaba Gakuen leading, and the last to enter being Okinawa's representative, Itoman High School.
