AKB48 5th Janken Taikai (Tournament) Preliminary Result

Over the weekend, the 48 Group held their first ever Summer Festival ( Natsu Matsuri ) that also coincide with the Janken Taikai Preliminary Round and the National Handshake Event.

The Janken Taikai Preliminary was to select members from AKB48 Kenkyuusei, Team 8, SKE48, NMB48 and HKT48 to decide who will proceed to the “Real” event itself that will be held in Budokan.

All AKB48 members and concurrent members of AKB48 are automatically qualified for the Janken Taikai.

Team 8 and Kenkyuusei

Team 8:
– Ota Nao ( Kyoto representative )
– Gyouten Yurina ( Kagawa representative )
– Honda Hitomi ( Tochigi representative )

AKB48 Kenkyuusei:
– Iino Miyabi

SKE48

SKE48:
– Arai Yuki
– Ishida Anna
– Uchiyama Mikoto
– Ego Yuna
– Kato Tomoko
– Goudo Saki
– Takatsuka Natsuki
– Takagi Yumana

NMB48

NMB48:
– Azuma Yuki
– Ishizuka Akari
– Okita Ayaka
– Kinoshita Haruna
– Kono Saki
– Yabushita Shu
– Watanabe Miyuki

HKT48

HKT48:
– Ueki Nao
– Umemoto Izumi
– Okada Kanna
– Kumazawa Serina
– Matsuoka Natsumi

48G, the headline makers!

After the members from the sister groups have been decided, AKB48 members & qualified members took turns to draw a random number to assign them to slots to decide who they will be up against.

Which ended up with the results as below:

Just their luck, some senbatsu members will be facing each other!

Takahashi Minami vs Yamamoto Sayaka… (*ﾟ∀ﾟ) pic.twitter.com/CpElEbB0eE

— crescentsaber (@crescentsaber) August 9, 2014

Yokoyama Yui vs 2013 Janken Queen Matsui Jurina… Nah, everyone wants to see both in Senbatsu… >∧< pic.twitter.com/Mc6DrLoLNe

— AKB48WrapUp (@AKB48WrapUp) August 9, 2014

Ikoma Rina faces Kojima Haruna in 2014 Janke first round match. Good luck! http://t.co/5tNxLCiwBS pic.twitter.com/gVGawEoejo

— AKB48WrapUp (@AKB48WrapUp) August 9, 2014

Whose luck do you think will be good enough to be able to hold the Janken Cup up high this year?
Let us know in the comments section!

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