Senior League World Series


The Senior League World Series is a baseball tournament for children aged 13 to 16 years old that began in 1961. In 2017, the tournament was moved from Bangor, Maine to Easley, South Carolina. It is patterned after the Little League World Series, which was named for the World Series in Major League Baseball since 2002.
The Senior League World Series is one of sponsored by Little League International. Each of them brings baseball or softball teams from around the world together in one of four age divisions. The tournament structure for each division's World Series is similar to that used for the Little League Baseball World Series.
The Senior League World Series has been held at eight different sites.
The six United States regions are:
The six International regions are:
The teams are placed into two six-team modified-double-elimination brackets based on geography The semi-final winners play for the championship, televised on a network of ESPN. All semi-final and championship matches are single-elimination games.
From 2002 to 2014, a pool-play format was used. Beginning in 2015, each pool plays a modified double-elimination format until only 2 teams remain in each pool. The two remaining teams in their respective pools then play in a single-elimination, semi-final match, with the two winning teams playing in the championship. From 1967–2002 the tournament was straight double-elimination, from 1961–66 it was single–elimination. From 1990 to 2001, a placement bracket was used to determine third place.
Before 2017, the Senior League was the only division of Little League that did not sort teams based on geography.

Champions

Championship tally

Championships won by country/state

Country/StateChampionshipsLast
Taiwan171992
New York51968
Florida52001
Southern California31998
Venezuela32006
East Texas32015
Panama32017
Hawaii32019
Mexico21965
New Jersey22008
Curaçao22018
Pennsylvania11961
Northern California11969
Delaware11981
Ohio11987
Dominican Republic11993
Host11999
Iowa12005
Georgia12007
Aruba12010
Guatemala12012
Illinois12016
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