The only exception will be the Europe-Africa Baseball Qualifier: the schedule of the single round-robin will be determined by seeding. The different draws will happen on 29 April, 10 July and 20 November

Secretary General Beng Choo Low, who is also President of Softball Asia, met with Indonesia Baseball Softball Federation President Andika Monoarfa, The top six teams, will advance to the Asia-Oceania Olympic Qualifier

Australia aims to qualify this year for its fifth Olympic Games softball competition in Tokyo 2020 at the Asia/Oceania Softball Olympic Qualifier, to be held in Shanghai, China, from 24-29 September, 2019.

Six of the top 11 countries in the world will participate in the Asia Pacific Cup: No. 2 Japan, No. 6 Chinese Taipei, No. 7 Australia, No. 8 China, No. 9 Italy and No. 11 New Zealand. A second team from Australia will join the six National Teams in the competition.

Six Tokyo 2020 Olympic Baseball/Softball qualifying events will be staged across Canada, China, Chinese Taipei, Italy, Japan, Netherlands and USA.

WBSC Members and affiliated National Teams will have the opportunity to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games exclusively through eight WBSC international tournaments, four for baseball and four for softball.