[Roboccia® Japan Cup 2025] Kyoto's GKC Karasuma Nijo: All 5 Participating Teams Advance to Finals, 4th Grade Team Wins Poster Award

Operated by Seiki Co., Ltd. (headquartered in Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto), which develops educational businesses centered on cram schools, the next-generation after-school "GKC (Global Kids Club) Karasuma Nijo" participated in the robot competition "Roboccia Japan Cup 2025" held in 2025. With 80 carefully selected teams from all over the country participating, **all 5 teams from our classroom broke through the qualifiers and advanced to the final tournament**, achieving an extremely high track record.

In addition, our 4th-grade team "Fujibakama" received the "Poster Award," which is given to the team that made the most outstanding research presentation among all participating teams.

## What is "Roboccia® Japan Cup 2025"
"Roboccia" is a competition that reproduces the para-sport "Boccia" with robots. It requires not only moving the robot but also a "high strategic nature" to analyze the constantly changing situation on the court and place the ball reading several moves ahead, and "precise operation technology" to accurately throw to the targeted location.

This tournament is a "generation-blind" national tournament where elementary school students to high school students, as well as vocational school students, university students, and working adults, compete under the same rules. Even in the final match of this tournament, a "high school physics club" and a "4th-grade elementary school team" competed, and the 4th graders who exhausted their intellect won the championship. It is truly a stage that can be called martial arts of intellect, where differences in age and physique can be overturned by "technology" and "strategy."

In such a serious match where strong players gather, the elementary school students who participated from GKC Karasuma Nijo made a breakthrough that is comparable to the older generation!

## Tournament Result Track Record
Surviving the severe qualifiers, all 5 participating teams advanced to the final tournament (top 32 teams).

- Advancing to the Best 8: 1 team (2nd-grade elementary school pair)
- Advancing to the Round of 16: 1 team (4th-grade elementary school pair)
- Advancing to the Round of 32: 3 teams (6th and 4th-grade mixed, 4th-grade team, 2nd-grade pair)
- ★Poster Award Winner: Team "Fujibakama" (three 4th-grade students)

The achievement of logically verbalizing the structure and strategy of the robot was evaluated as the top of all 80 teams.