New team tournament Jhujiang(?) Cup will be held from 12/20 - 12/25 in Canton, China.
The tournament will be played at Canton Weigi Club.

Korea, China and Japan will have seed team and wild card team and Taiwan will have seed team.

They can select any player for seed team but player for wild card team must be older than 30 years old and international title holder.

Korea;
- seed team - Park Junghwan, Choi Cheolhan and Kang Dongyoon
- wild card team - Cho Hoonhyun, Yoo Changhyuk and Lee Changho
China;
- seed team - Chen Yaoye, Xie He and Zhou Ruiyang
- wild card team - Chang Hao, Gu Li and Kong Jie
Japan;
- seed team - O Meien, Ryu Shikun(Shihoon) and Mijokami Tomochika
- wild card team - Cho Chikun(Chihoon), Takemiya Masaki and Kobayashi Goichi
Taiwan;
- seed team - Lin Zhihan, Xiao Zhenghao and Wang Yuanjun

Non seed team from 15 country will play in preliminary and 9 teams from these group will be selected and advance to main tournament.

9 from non-seed, 4 from seed and 3 from wild card will play 5 round of Swiss league from 21 - 23. Top 4 teams from Swiss league will play in semi final(1st vs 4th and 2nd vs 3rd). Final will be played in 12/25/13.

*** In final game, 3 team members can talk to each other about next move and decide.

That consultation game could get violent!

Yes, not sure it was a good idea to put Takemiya and Kobayashi in the same team

Does someone know how the seed team players were chosen ?

The Japanese wild card players were certainly rivals during their careers in the last century but I don't think there was any personal animosity. As for the consultation part, Kobayashi and Cho were both territorial players and Takemiya is known for his "cosmic" style, but Takemiya has written that he "doesn't dislike territory" and both Cho and Kobayashi, at various points in their careers, chose moyo oriented openings. I agree it would be interesting to overhear the discussion, though.

Actually it is admirable that Cho, Kobayashi, and Takemiya agreed to play given their ages. They were definitely formidable players in their prime. I'm rooting for them. I think some of the younger players might underestimate them.

Report from Benjamin Teuber of the German team: http://senseis.xmp.net/?HalfAYearInChina#toc11

Well, I remember that Go World commented many times on their personal feud, e. g. that a photo of the two together was obviously posed because they were not on speaking terms.

Some pictures from Tygem.


Korean seed team - Kamg Dongyoon, Kwon Kapyoung(Team Captain, also all three team members were his students.), Choi Cheolhan and Park Junghwan


Cho Chihoon is talking to Yoo Changhyuk. Lee Changho(left side)


Cho Chihoon protecting head of Kang Dongyoon


Heroes of past year

About the tournament name, the proper Chinese Pinyin is 'Zhugang', which is an abbreviation of the tournament sponsor Zhujiang Gangguan(珠江钢管), a big company (listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange) manufacturing steel pipes. The tournament actually has a proper English name:

The PCK Cup World Go Team Championship

with PCK being the English name of the company.

I have no way of knowing proper pronunciation from Chinese character.
I've used Google translate and got that name.
Sorry about my ignorance.

Don't worry. Your posts have been very helpful for the Go community.

In the preliminary, the following team has advanced to main tournament.

Ukraine - Artem Kachanovskyi, Andrii Kravets, Dmytro Bogatskyy
Germany - Johannes Sebastian Obenaus, Benjamin Teuber, Lukas Kramer
Czechoslovakia - Lukos Podpera, Jan Hora, Ondrej Kruml
Thailand - Taechaamnuayvit Nuttakrit, Sampaukaew Pariwat, Jamkachornkiat Krit
USA - Ming Jiu Jiang, Ming Ming Yin, Zhao Nian Chen
Canada - Cao Hong Yuan, Ji Xiao Yong, Ou Zhan Hong
Australia - Sang Dae Hahn, Yi Ming Guo, Joanne Jia Jia Missingham
Hong Kong - Chen Zhi Xian, Wu Zi Sen, Zhao Jia Rui
Macao - Yao Jian Ping, Lu Huan Qiu, Chen Guo Hong


Korea wild card team


Korea seed team


Team Japan


Team Taiwan


Team China and Team Korea doing Gunbae...........

Cool tournament, nice that so many European amateurs get to rub shoulders with so many great professionals of past and present.

After 5 round of Swiss league, Korean seed team advanced to semi final as 1st place with 5 wins. China seed team advanced as 2nd place with 4 wins, China wild card team with 4 wins as 3rd place(Less indivisual wins than seed team.). Korea wild card team 4th place with 3 wins.

So semi final match will be,
Korea(seed) vs Korea(wild)
China(seed) vs China(wild).

Some pictures at tygem.

http://www.tygem.com/news/news/viewpage ... &findword=

Pairing in semi final;

Seed team vs Wild card team
Park Junghwan defeated Lee Changho by resign.
Choi Cheolhan defeated Yoo Changhyuk by resign.
Kang Dongyoon defeated Cho Hoonhyun by resign.

Chen Yaoye defeated Kong Jie by resign.
Xie He defeated Gu Li by 1.5.
Zhou Ruiyang defeated Chang Hao by 2.5.

Final will be Korea seed team vs China seed team.

This is how they set the board. Top is board for korean team to discuss and right is board for real playing. And play is relayed to Chinese team. There are hidden boards for Chinese team.

Trout is the final game being played live now?

Yes, they are playing now and game is relayed at Oro and Tygem.

Also wild card teams are playing also for 3rd or 4th.

I wish they post each team's discussion after the game later.

Final match,

Korea seed team(Park Junghwan, Choi Cheolhan and Kang Dongyoon) defeated China seed team(Chen Yaoye, Xie He and Zhou Ruiyang) by resign.

3rd and 4th ranking match,

Chang Hao defeated Yoo Changhyuk by 7.5.
Gu Li defeated Cho Hoonhyun by resign.
Kong Jie defeated Lee Changho by resign.

China wild card team defeated Korea wild card team by 3:0.

1st Korea seed team
2nd China seed team
3rd China wild card team
4th Korea wild card team

The final game is as follows. Other games are here: http://www.go4go.net/go/games/tournament/162

Thanks for the link. Enjoyed going over this game.

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