{"id":42642,"date":"2023-12-06T10:46:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T18:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=42642"},"modified":"2023-12-06T10:47:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T18:47:38","slug":"womens-mens-wbsc-softball-world-rankings-to-qualify-six-national-teams-for-the-world-games-chengdu-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=42642","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s, Men&#8217;s WBSC Softball World Rankings to qualify six national teams for The World Games Chengdu 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbsc.org\/en\/news\/womens-mens-softball-world-rankings-to-qualify-six-national-teams-for-the-world-games-chengdu-2025\">From the WBSC<\/a> 2023.1123<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of eight teams will compete in each discipline. The top six teams in the WBSC Women&#8217;s and Men&#8217;s Softball World Rankings at 31st December 2024 will earn an automatic berth in The World Games 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Executive Board,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbsc.org\/en\/news\/wbsc-executive-board-celebrates-tremendous-growth-and-innovation-for-international-baseball-and-softball\"><strong>on Saturday<\/strong><\/a>, confirmed the qualification system for The World Games Chengdu 2025 softball competitions, both for women and men. The WBSC Executive Board approved the qualification system during their meeting this past weekend at WBSC&#8217;s headquarters in Pully, Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of eight teams will compete in each discipline. The top six teams in the WBSC Women&#8217;s and Men&#8217;s Softball World Rankings at 31st December 2024 will earn an automatic berth in The World Games 2025. As hosts of the competition, China get an automatic spot for both disciplines. The final berth will be awarded by WBSC as a wild card, no later than 31 January, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chengdu (CHN) - Host city of The World Games 2025!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wxt3kjAbkfw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wxt3kjAbkfw\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wxt3kjAbkfw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Games 2025 will be hosted in Chengdu, China,&nbsp;a city of 20 million people&nbsp;located&nbsp;in the south-west of&nbsp;the country. The multi-sports competition will take place&nbsp;from 7 to 17 August.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the WBSC 2023.1123 A total of eight teams will compete in each discipline. The top six teams in the WBSC Women&#8217;s and Men&#8217;s Softball World Rankings at 31st December 2024 will earn an automatic berth in The World Games 2025. The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Executive Board,&nbsp;on Saturday, confirmed the qualification system for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,9,82],"tags":[1065,401,829,1411,125,73,562],"class_list":{"0":"post-42642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-international","9":"category-wbsc","10":"tag-softballcanada2021","11":"tag-softballnewzealand","12":"tag-softballoz","13":"tag-twg2025","14":"tag-usasoftball","15":"tag-wbsc","16":"tag-wbscsoftball","17":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42645,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42642\/revisions\/42645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}