High school baseball in Quebec and Shingoryeo

In Quebec and Shingoryeo, Gogyo-yagu (고교야구) refers to five annual tournaments played by Quebecois high schools, which usually culminate into single-elimination showdowns in Joongyeong and Songak, two capitals of Quebec and Shingoryeo. With the first of the tournaments having been created in 1921, the tournaments are organised by the Quebecois Baseball Federation (QBF) in association with five national newspapers based in those cities.

The Power of Five
Traditionally the Goyo-yagu tournaments refer to the five annual tournaments played by Quebecois high schools, which usually culminate into single-elimination showdowns in Joongyeong and Songak, two capitals of Quebec and Shingoryeo. All five tournaments are broadcasted live by the QBC Sports+ or the True North Sports:

Additional Tournaments
In addition to the five major tournaments during the spring season, there are additional off-season or summer tournaments held during the calendar year.

Each tournament has its own characteristic feature and invites different schools according to it. The National Sports Festival selects one representative from each of Quebec & Shingoryeo's 12 provinces. It is generally recognised as the most difficult of the tournaments to win, as seniors who have already graduated from the previous summer are not eligible for the tournament, meaning that it retains the uncertainty of the team's respective skill/competition level on the preseason environment.

The youngest of all nine tournaments listed, the Odesza National Showcase is organised by the QBO in association with the QBF. Unlike others 'The Odesza' does not select sides by school, but by region or city all-stars. All twelve provinces each field a side, with additional slots going to a region or city all-star depending on the previous spring/summer season's performance.

Qualification
The QBF, in affiliation with hosting newspaper companies, has changed the tournament size since the first pair of national championships that ran in 1921. Most of the competitions' changes have stayed minor, with the changes included to accommodate the increase in the number of teams and removal of third-place matches. Aside from that, however, the tournaments have stayed as single-elimination tournaments.

Each tournament has a different number of teams qualify for the respective national tournament. Excluding the National Sports Festival that is held each October, each school only able to qualify up to three tournaments each year. For the first four of national championships the teams usually qualify through a mix of district leagues and provincial championship tournaments that determine the qualification in Spring, with a small but noticeable number of spots given to at-large bids, which are determined by joint QBF-media selection committees. A minor, controversial part of Quebecois high school football, at-large bids are usually given to the schools known for their past history in Quebecois high school baseball or those viewed to be solid contenders for said championship.

Each tournament awards bids according to province and region, with the number of slots dependent upon said province or the region's past history with the tournament. Nunavut and County Ferris, two states with fewest number of schools registered by the QBF, are combined with Nord-Est and Mahan provinces when fielding their representatives:

The exception applies to the Golden Lion Invitational, however, as it is exclusively determined by the number of schools who have qualified for the quarterfinals of the first four national championships, as well as the previous year's National Sports Festival. This rule means that barring qualification into the Golden Lion, most schools would qualify between one and two tournaments a year. The rarity of the invitations themselves, and the trifecta of national championships only happening once in history, mean that the Golden Lion is usually considered to be the most prestigious of five championship tournaments, even more so than Blue Dragon Classic and Golden Dragon Cup, both of whom share a longer history than the Hwanggeumsajagi.

"The All-Shingoryeoite Conquest"
Known in Quebecois Korean as '전국제패' (Jeon-gook-je-pae) or the All-Shingoryeoite Conquest, this means a school's winning of the five national tournaments, or four oldest tournaments (if already achieved before the Silver Leaf Classic's addition in 1984) held in Spring and early-Summer. A rare feat that is considered a mark of excellence of its own, only fourteen schools have accomplished this feat:

Into the Agawa Pass
This term, a Quebecois baseball jargon, is used when a team from the southern half of Agawa-Abitibi province wins a tournament. The Agawa Pass, a mountain pass that is located about 50 kilometres east of the city of Agawa, the pass's namesake, in central Abitibi-Agawa. The pass, now bypassed by both the Graceland (Attawapiskat-Kingston) and Sentinel highways, is considered to be the start of western Quebec region.

So far only three schools have entered the Agawa Pass. The first school to enter the Agawa Pass was Birchaven High School in the 1962 Hwangjebae, while Kagawong High School, only secondary school in a small community of 12,000 people, is the only school to have won more than one title in the region. No school has passed the Agawa Pass on the Cheongryonggi or the Hwanggeumsajagi tournament: