On August 4, 2010, at the Hyogo Prefectural Art and Culture Center, the drawing lots ceremony for the 92nd National High School Baseball Tournament began as scheduled. Forty-nine champion high schools from all over Japan gathered here, where they would be paired up into eight brackets; a redraw would occur after the quarterfinals.
The players from each school had already donned their uniforms and, led by their school leaders and team coaches, entered the auditorium neatly and orderly, taking their seats in pre-assigned areas.
TV station staff were adjusting equipment to ensure the complete recording of the event and its presentation to the audience; the reporters from various news magazines and weeklies also streamed in to ensure the drawing results could be published immediately and to interview relevant players.
