+ At Nationwide Handshake event for Manatsu no Sounds Good! held on 24th June, AKB48 announced that they will hold this year's "Janken tournament" on 18th September at The Nippon Budokan. Members who won the tournament will be Senbatsu for AKB's 29th Single released in December.
This time, HKT48 including it's new member Sashihara Rino will join the tournament for the first time. Total 66 of AKB48's regular members plus Matsui Jurina of SKE48 and Watanabe Miyukifrom NMB48 can go straight to the final tournament while AKB48's KKS (held on July 4), members of SKE48(July 5), NMB48(June 30) and HKT48(July 6) will join the preliminary contest to advance to The Nippon Budokan
Participating Members:
The total number of participants are 86 members of the 48 Family:
♦69 AKB48 members (All 66 Full members + Matsui Jurina and Watanabe Miyuki. 1 AKB Kenkyuusei, selected through prelims:Saeed-Yokota Erena)
♦8 SKE48 members, selected through prelims: Nakanishi Yuka; Kobayashi Ami; Hiramatsu Kanako; Ueno Kasumi; Kimoto Kanon; Sato Seira; Takagi Yumana; Sato Mieko
♦6 NMB48 members, selected through prelims: Yamagishi Natsumi; Shinohara Kanna; Hikawa Ayame; Kawakami Rena; Takano Yui; Kotani Riho
♦3 HKT48 members, selected through prelims: Shimono Yuki; Moriyasu Madoka; Nakanishi Chiyori
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Bracket:
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Note: Mayuyu(#11) needs only ONE WIN to enter Senbatsu [Masuda Yuka(#10) withdrew to focus on Miyamoto Amon's "THE WIZ" muscial play]
Note 2: Due to a prelim tournament held on September 16th, it has been decided that Shimono Yuki will replace Eto Sayaka's spot (Eto Sayaka withdrew from HKT48)