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Super Penguin League

2018 Chinese variety show

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ136195637 ↗
Source-derived summary

Super Penguin League (Chinese: 超级企鹅联盟) is a 2018 Chinese live competitive basketball all-star tournament featuring both sports and entertainment celebrities, including former NBA legend Tracy McGrady, Iverson Molinar, Steve Nash, Manu Ginóbili and Tony Parker, noted trainer Ganon Baker, CBA Zhejiang Lions head coach Li Chunjiang, and former Taiwanese international Yen Hsing Su. On 2 August 2018, it was released on Tencent Video. More than 50 prominent personalities from the sports and entertainment industries convened for a ‘Sports vs. Entertainment’ event held at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Centre.

Plot

It is a Chinese All-Star basketball tournament where celebrities undergo training to compete against NBA and CBA players. In this edition, the 'Ultimate Red' and 'Blue Battle' teams competed against each other in a competitive match. Throughout the game, freestyle basketball and professional cheerleading performances were presented, contributing to the overall dynamic atmosphere. The event combined sports and entertainment, enhancing fan engagement. Rocket Girls 101 were official cheerleaders, and BonBon Girls 303 gave an opening performance.

The rules, officiating, statistics, and commentary all adhered to NBA standards.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Super Penguin League” is 2018 Chinese variety show. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Super, Penguin and League, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Super, Penguin and League is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q136195637. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Super Penguin League” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.