Game On Taiwan - 2025 Year in Review
By TaiwanPlus
Game On Taiwan’s 2025 Year in Review counts down 10 moments that show how hard this island played all year long. It opens on baseball: a World Baseball Classic Qualifier redemption win at Taipei Dome that secured a home berth for 2026, Tung Yuan Little League’s 7 to 0 shutout of Nevada to end a 29 year wait for a Little League World Series crown, and a statement CPBL season with crowds above 3.7 million as the Rakuten Monkeys finished an underdog run with a 9 to 7 extra innings clincher over the CTBC Brothers. The story then widens to a loaded multi sport calendar. Chinese Taipei’s women’s 500 kilogram tug of war team completes a World Games 6 peat, student athletes collect 5 gold, 13 silver and 7 bronze at the Rhine Ruhr World University Games with the men’s table tennis team cutting short China’s 7 title streak, while the World Masters Games bring more than 25,000 athletes to Taipei. An under 15 Asian Baseball title defence in Tainan and a Deaflympics women’s bowling gold in Tokyo round out a year where Taiwan colours were everywhere. The final act shows how 2025 reshaped the landscape behind those results: TPBL champions New Taipei Kings, Plus League winners Taoyuan Pilots, NCCU’s UBA 5 peat and roaring HBL crowds reveal a full basketball pipeline, a new Ministry of Sports under Olympic champion Lee Yang pulls sport into cabinet, and emotional farewells from Jeremy Lin and Tai Tzu-ying close an era. 2025 stands as a statement season, with Taiwan sports hitting 2026 at full speed.
