2023 U-12 Baseball World Cup Explained

Size:	300px
Country:	Taiwan
Dates:	July 28 - August 6
Num Teams:	12
Prev Year:	2022
Medal Type:	world minor
Num Championships:	5
Games:	50
Prevseason:	2022
Nextseason:	2025

The 2023 U-12 Baseball World Cup or the VII U-12 Baseball World Cup was an international baseball tournament held by the World Baseball Softball Confederation for players 12-year-old and younger. The 2023 edition was held in Tainan, Taiwan from July 28 to August 6, 2023.^[1]

Format

First round: The twelve participating nations were drawn into two groups of 6, in which single round robin will occur. The top 3 nations from each group advances to the Super Round, while the bottom 3 nations from each group advance to the consolation round.

Consolation round: The 6 nations in this round play one game against the teams they have not played yet. (example: The 4th placed team from Group A will play the bottom three teams from Group B)

Super round: The format in the super round is similar to that of the consolation round. Each team plays the top three teams from the opposing group. (example: The 1st placed team from Group B will play the top three teams from Group A) The standings for this round will include the 2 games played against the 2 other second-round qualifiers from the team's first-round group, and the 3 games played in the second round, for a total of 5 games. The 3rd and 4th-place finishers advance to the bronze-medal game, and the 1st and 2nd-place finishers advance to the gold-medal game.

Finals: The Finals consist of the Bronze Medal Game, contested by the 3rd and 4th-place finishers, and the gold-medal game, contested by the 1st and 2nd-place finishers.

Teams

The following 12 teams qualified for the tournament.^[2]

¹Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan, due to complicated relations with People's Republic of China, is recognized by the name Chinese Taipei by most of the international organizations in sports competitions. For more information, please see Cross-Strait relations.

First round

The top three teams in each pool will qualify for the second round.

width=10px bgcolor=#ccffcc		Qualified for the Super Round
width=10px bgcolor=#ffffcc

Group A

width=200px	Teams	width=50px		width=50px		width=50px	Pct.	width=50px	GB	width=50px	width=50px
align=left		5	0	1.000	—	43	9
align=left		4	1	.800	1.0	49	8
align=left		3	2	.600	2.0	46	16
align=left		2	3	.400	3.0	33	27
align=left		1	4	.200	4.0	10	53
align=left		0	5	.000	5.0	5	73

Group B

width=200px	Teams	width=50px		width=50px		width=50px	Pct.	width=50px	GB	width=50px	width=50px
align=left		4	1	.800	—	70	26
align=left		4	1	.800	—	88	19
align=left		4	1	.800	—	53	21
align=left		2	3	.400	2.0	41	28
align=left		1	4	.200	3.0	17	78
align=left		0	5	.000	4.0	11	108

Super round

width=10px bgcolor=#ccffcc		Qualified for the Final
width=10px bgcolor=#ffffcc

width=200px	Teams	width=50px		width=50px		width=50px	Pct.	width=50px	GB	width=50px	width=50px
align=left		4	1	.800	-	15	15
align=left		3	2	.600	1.0	36	28
align=left		3	2	.600	1.0	30	15
align=left		3	2	.600	1.0	26	22
align=left		1	4	.200	3.0	18	26
align=left		1	4	.200	3.0	24	43

Placement Round

width=200px	Teams	width=50px		width=50px		width=50px	Pct.	width=50px	GB	width=50px	width=50px
align=left		5	0	1.000	-	71	2
align=left		4	1	.800	1.0	53	12
align=left		3	2	.600	2.0	26	27
align=left		2	3	.400	3.0	19	38
align=left		1	4	.200	4.0	23	40
align=left		0	5	.000	5.0	11	84

Finals

Third-place game

Championship

Final standings

Lost in Final
width=25	Rk	width=170	Team	width=25	W	width=25	L
		7	2
		7	2
Failed to qualify for the Final
		7	2
Lost in 3rd Place Game
4		6	3
Failed to qualify for the finals
5		4	4
6		4	4
Failed to qualify for the super round
7		5	3
8		4	4
9		3	5
10		2	6
11		1	7
12		0	8

External links

Event Official Website at WBSC

Notes and References

Web site: Dates announced for VII WBSC U-12 Baseball World Cup 2023 in Tainan, Taiwan . 2024-09-22 . wbsc.org . en.
Web site: WBSC confirms U-12 Baseball World Cup participants and groups . 2024-09-22 . wbsc.org . en.