LLIWS Photos - Little League Intermediate World Series

05/09/2026

Best Slides in 2025. Dirt flying got extra credit here!

04/09/2026

Closest Plays of the 2025 LLIWS.
There are some repeats from the Acrobatics post!
There is one that was called Safe that I think would have been overturned if it had been challenged.

04/07/2026

Best Acrobatic plays of 2025
These are a selection of the best photos in the Acrobatics section of the Top 10 albums from the Photo Site: https://elivermore.smugmug.com/LLIWS/2025

03/30/2026

The 2026 Websites for the 7 Little League World Series have gone live. This includes the schecules and locations of the Regional Tournaments. See them here:

Over the course of 30 days, the Little League World Series tournaments will be held from July 27 to August 25, 2019. Approximately 935 Little Leaguers® ages 10 to 16 from 78 different baseball and softball teams around the world will compete

02/25/2026

Little League has announced the 2026 Umpires for all 7 of the Worlds Series. The list below is the LLIWS umpires in Region order.
We have what I believe is the first female umpire at the LLIWS.
* after name indicated Crew Chief.
See the LL press release here: https://www.littleleague.org/news/nearly-100-umpires-selected-to-serve-at-2026-little-league-world-series-events/
See my LLIWS website here: www.lliws.info

01/28/2026

The 2026 World Series Logos have been released by Little League International. Below is the LLIWS logo.
See the press release at: https://www.littleleague.org/news/2026-little-league-world-series-llws-event-logos-revealed/ which shows all 7 logos, and a description of the colors, etc.

01/16/2026

Little League did announce the 2026 rule updates on 1/14/2026. The summary is here: https://www.littleleague.org/playing-rules/rule-changes/
The Rule Book App had the updated included at some point in December. For some reason, Facebook shows it as 2025 in the image below, but that web address has been updated for 2026.

View a list of regulation and rule changes that have been approved by the Little League International Board of Directors during the 27th Little League International Congress in New Orleans on January 19-22, 2018.

12/29/2025

2026 Rules Updates: I have not seen an official announcement of this on the LL website, but the LL Rulebook app now has the 2026 rules updated.
The "Significant Updates for 2026" is the 2nd item on the table of contents in the Rulebook app.

Updates are fairly minor compared to recent years.
Thumb protectors are permitted.
Pine tar is allowed on the handle or grip of the bat at all levels.
There are a number of wording updates, most of which are clarifications and not actual changes.

12/25/2025

12/24/2025

I just added a page with the Head Shot photos of all of the players, coaches, and umpires of the 2025 LLIWS to my website at: https://www.elivermore.com/photos/intermediate_ws_team_photos_2025.htm.
These are the same photos that were on the Jumbotron during the World Series, and were also used by ESPN. Most of the photos were taken by APVisions on the day that the teams arrived. APVisions does a fantastic job every year photographing the teams. The versions shown here and on the website are very low resolution to keep the file size small.
Previous years back to 2016 will be added soon.

11/27/2025

Filip Havlik was named the 2025 Umpire of the Year by Baseball Czech. Filip was an umpire here in Livermore at the 2022 LLIWS, and had Plate duty for the Championship game. Congratulations to Filip on this well deserved honor!! If I did my math correctly, he is currently about 25. That puts him at the same age as the players from the very first LLIWS which was held in 2013.

The first photo is from Baseball Czech. The remaining are from the 2022 LLIWS. Thanks to Gerard Takiguchi for alerting us about this honor.