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| Author: | John Fairbairn [ Mon May 01, 2023 8:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Mingren resumes |
It is not news that the Mingren has resumed with Term 33 already nearing a climax. We now know that, after a more than 3-year gap, Mi Yuting will be challenged by Ke Jie. But what struck me as more newsworthy was the winner's prize, which I have just seen will be a measly 400,000 yuan (around US$50,000) with the runner-up getting half as much. That seems low. I mention it in the context of other discussions here recently of a somewhat downward trend in support for go, but I don't know whether the Mingren prize has actually been reduced. It just seems too low full stop. Admittedly, the Mingren is not top of the pile in China (it's only a "2 hours each" event) but it seems to have no corporate support. As far as I can see, the sponsors are the Shenzhen local government and the People's Daily, which I would count as quasi-governmental. Welcome support, of course, but a corporate investor would inspire a bit more optimism. On a different tack, Ke Jie's victim in the Mingren challengers' final was Yang Kaiwen. Yang reached 9-dan last December. He began his professional career in 2010 and has progressed 1 dan at a time, with no skip promotions. He has this progressed to the top at the rate of a dan per a little over a year - and that includes a big hiatus because of Covid. And he did this without winning anything an being a runner up once (Weifu Cup in 2022). I have no proper feel for this kind of thing (it's all part of numerology for me) but does this not smack a little of dan inflation? Clearly Yang is no slouch, since he got to the challengers' final and it took Ke Jie to beat him (and I think he's been doing well in the China League. But I have this maybe old-fashioned sense that promotion to 9-dan should be a little harder, in any country. |
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| Author: | Shenoute [ Mon May 01, 2023 9:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Mingren resumes |
As far as I can see the prize money seems to have actually increased. If I read these articles correctly, it was 150,000 yuan for the 28th edition, 200,000 for the 29th, and 300,000 for both the 30th and the 31th editions. http://qipai.people.com.cn/n1/2016/1115 ... 61598.html https://sports.qq.com/a/20161224/014564.htm http://sports.sina.com.cn/go/2018-10-19 ... 8804.shtml http://qipai.people.com.cn/n1/2018/1019 ... 52264.html |
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