Nana Fujita won AKB48 Janken Tournament 2015
AKB48 hold The 6th Janken Tournament at Yokohama Alena on September 16 and 108 members joined the tournament. Nana Fujita (18), a ten-generation member who have never been chosen for a senbatsu member, won the tournament for the first time and got a solo debut.
The opponent in the final was Chiyori Nakanishi, who has also never been chosen for a senbatsu member since her transfer from HKT48 to AKB48 last February, which made a confrontation between non-selected members.
Fujita won the first round as the 3rd queen Haruka Shimazaki's default. From the second round, Fujita kept winning with rock for the rest of round.
Nakanishi made the top 16 by winning three times using rock, and also won the quarter-finals and semi-finals with rock as well. During the finals, both girls kept using rock, and after six tiebreakers, Fujita fell down crying in relief after changing to paper and winning for the first time on the seventh try.
Fujita, who joined the group in 2010 as a ten-generation member along with Iriyama Anna and others, has never been selected to be part of a CD single or never got ranked in the annual election contests which she has participated five times. And she lost all the past 5-times Janken Tournament by the second round. Generally unknown, the first thing Fujita said while carrying the first place trophy and crying was, "I've done something amazing..."
The victory of the non-selected member has happened for the first time since Mayumi Uchida, a winner of the first Tournament. Coupling tracks are sung by members who won from the 2nd to 16th places, and Nakanishi, the second winner, will perform in the center.
