Preliminary tournament will start 5/21/13 and lasts for 5 days. 75 players(60 male, 7 female and 8 amateurs) from Korea will play in this tournament. During preliminary, there is no payment for game and all expense must be paid by players themselves.

Seeded in main tournament are 5 players(Shi Yue, Gu Li, Chen Yaoye, Zhou Ruiyang, Fan Tingyu), 3 players(Lee Sedol, Park Junghwan, Kim Jiseok) from Korean, 3 players(?????) from Japan and 1 player(???) from Taiwan.

And Lee Changho and Kong Jie were selected as wild card.

Winner gets 180,0000 yuan and 2nd place 60,0000 yuan.
Players in main tournament will be paid.

The tournament will be held every other year.
Current sponsor will support this tournament at least till 3rd.

After final round of preliminary,
14 from Korea, 35 from China and 1 from Taiwan advanced to main tournament. These 50 players will join 12 seeded players and 2 players selected by sponser.


Main tournament:
round of 64 - 7/9/13
round of 32 - 7/11/13
round of 16 - 8/9/13
round of 8 - 8/11/13

Date for semi final and final has not been decided yet.

One youngster Shin Minjoon(14 years old) advanced to main tournament.
He was born 1/11/1999 and became 1p 10/19/2012.



Watch out this youngster.

This seems like a fairly significant tournament on the international level - hope the first iteration will be a big success.

Result of round of 64,

Cho Hanseung defeated Wang Chenxing by resign.
Gu Li defeated Kim Jiseok by resign.
Wang Lei defeated Gao Xing by resign.
Chen Yaoye defeated Zhang Jiahao by resign.
Wang Xi defeated Kim Junghyun by resign.
Guo Wenchao defeated Zhang Wei by resign.
Dong Mengcheng defeated Kim Seungjae by resign.
Zhou Ruiyang defeated Li Haojie by resign.
Hu Yuefeng defeated Tan Xiao by resign.
Mi Yuting defeated Kang Dongyoon by resign.
Yuki Satoshi defeated Jeong Seunghyun(a) by resign.
Qiu Jun defeated Cai Jing by resign.
Lian Xiao defeated Shin Minjoon by 3.5.
Choi Cheolhan defeated Song Ronghui by resign.
Dang Yfei defeated Xie He by resign.
Peng Quan defeated Park Junghwan by resign.
Wu Guangya defeated Zhang Li by resign.
Li Qincheng defeated Piao Wenyao by resign.
Lei Chenkun defeated Lee Changho by resign.
Lee Sedol defeated Chang Hao by resign.
Zhou Hexi defeated An Sungjoon by resign.
Li Xuanhao defeated Fan Yunruo by resign.
Hu Yaoyu defeated Murakawa Daisuke by resing.
Mao Ruilong defeated Niu Yutian by resign.
Oh Jangwuk defeated Hei Jiajia by 2.5.
Tang Weixing defeated Fan Tingyu by resign.
Na Hyun defeated Shi Yue by 2.5.
Gong Yanyu defeated Lee Changseok(a) by 0.5.
Joo Hyungwook defeated Zhou Junxun by 5.5.
Kong Jie defeated Choi Hyungjae(a) by 0.5.
Ke Jie defeated Cho Inseon by resign.
An Dongxu defeated Yamashta Keigo by 2.5.

• Overall another bad day for the Korean players. 4-11 again the Chinese and the 4 wins include 2 against female players.
• Korean lost big guns including Lee Changho, Kim Jiseok, Kang Dongyun and Park Jungwhan
• China lost several top-ranked players too, including Shi Yue, Fan Tingyu, Xie He and Tan Xiao.
• Yuki Satoshi is the only Japanese representation in top 32.
• No female player survived.
• One Korean amateur has made the top 32.

All 32 game records are now at: http://www.go4go.net/go/games/tournament/157

The international games of next round:

Lee Sedol vs. Mi Yuting; Gu Li vs. Na Hyun; Cho Hanseung vs. Qiu Jun; Yuki Satoshi vs. Li Qincheng

Next round,
round of 32 - 7/11/13

Pairing;

Cho Hanseung vs Qiu Jun
Gu Li vs Na Hyun
Wang Lei vs Peng Quan
Chen Yaoye vs Kong Jie
Wang Xi vs Zhou Hexi
Guo Wenchao vs Mao Ruilong
Dong Mengcheng vs Tang Weixing
Zhou Ruiyang vs Gong Yanyu
Hu Yuefeng vs Joo Hyungwook
Yuki Satoshi vs Li Qincheng
Lian Xiao vs Ke Jie
Choi Cheolhan vs Oh Jangwuk
Dang Yfei vs Li Xuanhao
Wu Guangya vs An Dongxu
Lee Sedol vs Mi Yuting
Hu Yaoyu vs Lei Chenkun

** Bold case = non Chinese

Round of 32;

Yuki Satoshi defeated Li Qincheng by resign.
Wang Xi defeated Zhou Hexi by resign.
Mi Yuting defeated Lee Sedol by resign.
Wang Lei defeated Peng Quan by resign.
Hu Yaoyu defeated Lei Chenkun by resign.
Tang Weixing defeated Dong Mengcheng by resign.
Lian Xiao defeated Ke Jie by 1.5.
Zhou Ruiyang defeated Gong Yanyu by resign.
Choi Cheolhan defeated Oh Jangwuk by resign.
Kong Jie defeayed Chen Yaoye by resign.
Gu Li defeated Na Hyun by resign.
Wu Guangya defeated An Dongxu by resign.
Dang Yfei defeated Li Xuanhao by resign.
Hu Yuefeng defeated Joo Hyungwook by resign.
Guo Wenchao defeated Mao Ruilong by resign.
Cho Hanseung defeated Qiu Jun by resign.

Hi trout,

One of the results should be: Guo Wenchao defeated Mao Ruilong by resign.

All game records are now at: http://www.go4go.net/go/games/tournament/157

Wbaduk server shows Mao as winner but Oro and Tygem web site shows Guo as winner. I am confused. But I changed Guo as winner.
Thanks for correction.

It was a bit confusing earlier. But Guo is confirmed to be the winner - a photo of him drawing for the next round.

Pairing for round of 16(8/9/13);

Yuki Satoshi vs Wang Xi
Mi Yuting vs Kong Jie
Wang Lei vs Cho Hanseung
Hu Yaoyu vs Gu Li
Tang Weixing vs Dang Yfei
Lian Xiao vs Choi Cheolhan
Zhou Ruiyang vs Guo Wenchao
Wu Guangya vs Hu Yuefeng

Wang Xi beat Yuki Satoshi
Mi Yuting beat Kong Jie
Wang Lei beat Cho Hanseung
Gu Li beat Hu Yaoyu
Dang Yifei beat Tang Weixing
Lian Xiao beat Choi Cheolhan
Zhou Ruiyang beat Guo Wenchao
Wu Guangya beat Hu Yuefeng

It will be an all-China quarter final on 11th August. The pairing:

Dang Yifei vs Mi Yuting
Zhou Ruiyang vs Lian Xiao
Gu Li vs Wang Lei
Wang Xi vs Wu Guangya

The result of quarter-final round:

Mi Yuting beat Dang Yifei
Zhou Ruiyang beat Lian Xiao
Gu Li beat Wang Lei
Wang Xi beat Wu Guangya

Game records at http://www.go4go.net/go/games/tournament/157

The semi-final round will be best-of-3.

Wang Xi vs Mi Yuting
Zhou Ruiyang vs Gu Li

Zhou Ruiyang in top form versus Gu Li in a three game match - what a great semi!

The semi-final round;

Mi Yuting defeated Wang Xi by 3.5.
Gu Li defeated Zhou Ruiyang by resign.

The semi-final round;
2nd game,
Wang Xi defeated Mi Yuting by resign. score 1:1
Gu Li defeated Zhou Ruiyang by resign. score Gu Li vs Zhou 2:0
Gu Li advanced to final.

The semi-final round;
3rd game,
Mi Yuting defeated Wang Xi by resign. Mi vs Wang 2:1
Mi Yuting advanced to final.

The Final will be Gu Li vs Mi Yuting.

Score chart with links to all games available here:

http://www.go4go.net/go/tournaments/sco ... 157-1-s64f