The official of the 2025 Jones Cup International Basketball Invitational Tournament is suspected of using emoticons to hint at the participating teams, causing dissatisfaction among fans

The 2025 Jones Cup International Basketball Invitational will debut in July, and the current Chinese Taipei team list and foreign participating teams have not yet been announced.

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Jones Cup "Threads" posted on social media, writing "It seems that someone accidentally pressed the keyboard to type this string, can someone help the editor solve the puzzle", and attached 6 sets of emoticons, allowing the outside world to speculate that it may be hinting at the participating teams, but this operation triggered polar reactions from fans, and most of them did not buy it.

Some fans questioned, if there is news, don't let everyone guess, when everyone is idle? Some fans questioned whether the national flag (regional flag) could not be directly released? Some fans were even dissatisfied, asking "Is it difficult to speak Chinese". However, some fans also paid for it, speculating that these emoticons may represent Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, China, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines.

The women's group of the Jones Cup will be held from July 2 to 6 at the Taipei Peace Basketball Stadium, and the men's group will be held at the Xinzhuang Stadium from July 12 to 20.