According to Dr Teal's rating lists, Choi Jeong had about 10% against each Fan Yunrou and Peng Liyao (9164, 58th in Korea). Also interesting is the is the resultant schedule--

05-31, 06-01, LG Cup
06-02, Korean Baduk League and probably Korean Women's Baduk League on the same day
06-04~06-10, Huanglongshi Cup, however most likely wouldn't need to play any games.

I'm not sure if in Japan, scheduling two matches on the same day is avoided as I've never heard of an incident as such, but this is the second time I've heard from Korea...

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Some of these are fast games. Playing two games a day isn't rare, even in Japan. For example, check the GLOBIS Cup.

There's a 5 month break before the quarterfinals - am I reading this right?

Yes, that's normal for the LG Cup (and some other tournaments have similar gaps). See last years schedule in the headings here:
http://igokisen.web.fc2.com/wr/20lg.html

OUCH. Meng meng thought the game started at 9:30 china time but it actually starts 9.. so he came 18 mins late and lost 36 mins against shin jinseo just like that... not only the time, it'll probably affect his mood a lot too for such an important match... ugh!

He's the only one I really really really want to win today... please...

A fast game ended with Meng Tailing losing.

Round of 8;
Park Junghwan defeated Gu Li by resign.
Shin Jinseo defeated Meng Tailing by resign.
Dang Yifei defeated Chen Yaoye by .5.
Zhou Ruiyang defeated Peng Liyao by resign.

Semi final - 11/16/16

Dang Yifei was the surprise of the round. He was the runner-up in 2012 BC Card Cup, so he will become 9p if he can make the final here.

Pairing for semi final,

Park Junghwan vs Zhou Ruiyang
Shin Jinseo vs Dang Yifei



Semi final - 11/16/16

Dang wins...... surprising

Seems Shin was leading pretty much the whole way, but a misread caused his whole group to suddenly die.

Zhou Ruiyang beat Park Junghwan by resign.

Another final between two Chinese players. Three in a row now.

Sorry for the offtopic remark, but doesn't it look like they don't dare to touch their hands in the picture?

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Man, if meng meng beat Shin, he would've had a very good chance against dang yifei. This was the best chance for him to get in an international final.... so sad

Game 1 will start at 4pm PST tonight.

Dang Yifei wins the first game, I think.

Yeah, by resign in 187 moves.

And Dang Yifei won the cup by the score of 2-0.