On March 26, a panoramic view of Taipan Village before the start of the "Village BA" final (drone photo).
Since the successful "out of the circle" last year, in the past few days, the "Taipan Village" located in Taijiang County, southeast of Guizhou, has become popular again.
On the afternoon of March 27, the championship of the first "Beautiful Country" basketball league finals in Guizhou Province, which was postponed due to yesterday's rain, started hot in Taipan Village, Taijiang County, Qiandongnan Prefecture. In the end, the host Qiandongnan Prefecture won a big victory, defeating the Zunyi representative team 68:65 to win the championship. At the award ceremony, the champion team received trophies, medals, Taijiang carp kissing fragrant rice and silver hats and took a group photo. The prizes for the second and third runners-up were: sturgeon and duck. Netizens shouted: Too grounded!
On March 27, the award ceremony of the first "Beautiful Country" basketball league finals in Guizhou Province. @广东台触电新闻 figure
On March 27, the champion Qiandongnan State team won prizes such as fragrant rice and silver hats. @广东台触电新闻 figure
On March 27, the runner-up Zunyi City team won prizes such as sturgeon. @广东台触电新闻 figure
On March 27, the third-runner-up Tongren City team won prizes such as hemp duck. @广东台触电新闻 figure
On March 25, the first "Beautiful Village" basketball league finals in Guizhou Province opened in Taipan Village, Taijiang County, Qiandongnan Prefecture. The teams participating in the finals were Qiandongnan Prefecture, Tongren City, Bijie City and Zunyi City, and these four teams were formed by the local public spontaneously and then selected in the competitions in each division. The players on each team are farmers and there are no professional basketball players involved.
On March 25, the match between Tongren and Qiandongnan was full.
On March 25, the live competition was intense. Qiandongnan player Xie Tao (right) and Tongren player Wang Lianbo jump the ball during the game.
Although the audience seats in the arena have expanded from 10,000 last year to more than 20,000, the venue is still difficult to find.
According to reports, five hours before the start of the game, the seats were almost full, and there were even 80-year-olds in the audience. In order to pass the waiting time before the start of the battle, the audience brought chess, poker, rice wine, and some villagers simply picked up the soles of their shoes at the scene.
On March 26, Yang, an 80-year-old villager from Taipan Village, entered the final venue of the "Village BA" to watch the competition.
On March 26, before the start of the game, spectators played chess while waiting for the game to begin.
On March 26, on the stands of the "Village BA" final venue, the villagers of Taipan Village, who came to the stadium seven hours in advance, played poker while waiting for the start of the game.
On March 26, a villager in Taipan Village waited for the start of the competition while receiving insoles in the stands of the "Village BA" final venue.
On March 26, before the start of the "Village BA" final, a staff member cleaned the stadium and a local spectator gave a live video broadcast on the sidelines.
On March 25, an elderly man with his child on his back waited to watch the game at the "village BA" site.
On March 26, a spectator in the stands knocked on the basin to cheer on.
Spectators who did not grab seats could only carry benches and even carry ladders to watch the battle. There is news that the ladders in the town have bought out the goods. And the spectators who could not reach the scene tried to watch the game through various "tricks".
On March 26, local spectators took a ladder to watch the game on the sidelines of the "Village BA" finals.
On March 26, outside the "Village BA" finals arena, local spectators watched the game from residential buildings.
On March 26, outside the "Village BA" finals arena, a man climbed into a tree to watch the game.
On March 26, outside the "Village BA" Grand Finals, local spectators watched the game on the hillside.
According to @Xinhua News Agency Weibo news, on the evening of March 26, in the third-place battle, the Tongren team won the third place with a 57-50 victory over Bijie team. Due to the rainy weather in the area, the "Village BA" players tied non-slip cloth strips to their shoes, and the championship match originally planned for the night was postponed by one day.
Tongren players shake hands in the rain on March 26.
On March 26, the Tongren players tied non-slip cloth strips to their sneakers to continue the game.
On March 26, despite the rain, the audience was enthusiastic.
Spectators watch the game in the rain on March 26.
Spectators watch the game in the rain on March 26.
Grab a position, stand on the roof, climb the ladder... With the influx of tens of thousands of fans, the Taipan Village basketball game has become a local cultural and sports tourism business card. According to statistics, as of March 25, the demand for fans searching for restaurants, hotels and supermarkets on platforms such as Dianping and Meituan increased by 11 times compared with last week.
As can be seen from the on-site drone pictures, the basketball court in Taipan Village is brightly lit, the audience is crowded, cars are parked around the arena, and many red greenhouses have been built on site, and the crowd is crowded.
On March 26, before the start of the "Village BA" competition, the scene was packed.
On March 26, a panoramic view of Taipan Village before the start of the "Village BA" competition.
According to the statistics of Guizhou Provincial Sports Bureau, up to now, the first "Beautiful Country" basketball league in Guizhou Province has carried out more than 5,000 games, which not only drives the exponential growth of local consumer demand for catering, accommodation, supermarkets, etc., but also effectively drives the tourism, culture and economic development of the host area.
On March 25, before the finals began, two local villagers selling snacks exchanged views on the spot.
On March 25, a villager walked through an audience to sell food.
On March 26, in a restaurant in Taipan Village, Taijiang County, local villagers watched the third place battle for the "Village BA" finals in front of a TV.
This event, developed from the "June 6" New Festival Basketball Tournament in Taipan Village, will be "popular on the whole network" in 2022 because of its hot on-site atmosphere and "down-to-earth" style of running the game, and is affectionately called "Village BA" by netizens. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian once shared video footage of the game on Twitter, with the caption: "Guizhou Rural Basketball Game Starts!" The atmosphere is so good! ”
On March 26, local elementary school student Li Wenwen won ducks as a prize in a pre-game shooting game.
On March 25, the actors performed before the match between the Tongren team and the Qiandongnan team. At halftime in the finals of Guizhou "Village BA", the cheerleaders danced in national costumes, and their movements were neat, performing the "most dazzling national style" on the field.
Before the game, the local cultural and sports departments introduced in an interview with the media that in order to make the stadium of the game more standardized and safe, Taipan Village renovated and expanded the "village BA" stadium, not only the on-site seating capacity from 10,000 people last year to more than 20,000 people, but also built supporting media interview reception rooms, guest rest, athlete changing rooms, renovated public toilets, widened the existing parking lot and redivided parking spaces.
Staff adjust baskets before the start of the game on March 25.
On March 25, the staff was in the "Village BA Official Offline Experience Hall".
On March 25, two children took photos in the "Village BA Official Offline Experience Hall".
The "Village BA" finals ended perfectly in the attention. This game not only showed the level and style of basketball in Guizhou villages, but also pushed the folk sports event to a boom again. Behind the popularity of "village BA" is the common yearning of the people for a better life. Its emergence has improved the happiness of villagers, met the strong demand for cultural life in rural areas, and is a vivid and beautiful successful practice on the road of rural revitalization.
A child practices shooting on the "Village BA" court on March 25.
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Source: The Paper