Surprise;

Lee ChangHo(perennial seeder) played in 1st round of preliminary.

2nd round surprise;

Chang HaO lost to Akiyama Jiro.

Three Amatuers Kim NamHoon Lee Hoseung Jeung Dooho advanced to 3rd round.

Chinese rank #1 Chou Ruiyang lost to Wang Haoyang.

Gu Li lost to Park Younghoon. I hope Gu Li does not get into slump. Probably it is hard for him after losing BC card cup to Lee Sedol.

Maybe not much of a surprise: Akiyama won the last time they played when Akiyama 1d and Chang was 5d. It might be my imagination, but graduates of the Ryokusei Gakuen seem to do better than most Japanese against foreigners, and if that's true a possible explanation would be Kikuchi's policy of taking his pupils on trips overseas.

Eh, Gu Lingyi...

Cheers,
Vesa

isn't the LG Cup - theoretically - open to all? who has been the "best" european in its hitory?

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"Eh, Gu Lingyi..."


Sorry, I couldn't tell who it was. They just showed "Gu Li".

2nd round surprise; Also found that Zhang Zhengping(2d) from Taiwan defeated Cho Hunhyun(9d).

2 amatuers advanced to 3rd round.
Kang Jihoon(ama) defeated Zhou Hexi.
Cho Inseun(ama) defeated Dang Yifei.

3 Ladies advanced to 3rd round.
Park Jieun, Kwon Hyojin, Li He.

Korea 36, China 23, Japan 4 advaced to 3rd round.

I think that should be "advanced to 4th round".

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Well... yes... kind of... Actually that should be "advanced to the semifinals" (of the integration preliminary tournament)

Cho forfeit the game because he had other tournament to enter.

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3rd round surprise:

2 Amatuers are still alive.

Kang JiHoon won against Wang Tao.
Cho Insun defeated Ding Wei.

2 seniors advanced.
Seo Bongsoo and Yu Bin advanced to next round.

1 lady advanced.
Kwon Hyojin defeated Lee Heesung.

This seems to be the semifinals, not the 3rd round.

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Look at the following chart.

http://media.cyberoro.com/photo/201105/ ... ist-lg.jpg

Yes, there it is called "4th round". At igokisen, it is called "semifinals". Note that in both charts, the column shows the winner of the game of that round. For example, in round 4 Yu Bin won against Kim Kiyoung.

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The charts have a different structure. Igokisen has always seemed eccentric to me, and the cyberoro one natural. Also, Kim Kiyoung is one of igokisen's regular mistakes. It should be Kim Ki-yong.

As far as I can see, the charts have exactly the same structure (the underlying table cells are exactly the same), but the lines and colouring are drawn differently. The colouring of the Cyberoro chart is a bit inconsistent between the first round and the subsequent ones (first the players of one match share a colour, but later they have different colours). Igokisen always colours the players, not the graph position, which I find helpful in seeing the way of the players through the tournament graph.

The inconsistent and sometimes wrong transcriptions at igokisen are a bit irritating, of course, but that is a different topic.

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The following players reached the main tournament.

Cho Hanseung, Han Woonkyu, Kim Dongho, Park Jeungsang, Zhou Heyang, Yun Junsang, Lee Changho, Jiang Weijie, Chen Yaoye, Wang Xi, Mok Jinseok, Lee Wonyoung, Kim Jiseok, Park Younghoon, Park Seunghwa, Tan Xiao

Lee Changho; This is the first time that Lee went through preliminary. He was seeded 1st-15th LG cup.

* No amatuer and no lady survived.

Seeded players:
Korea:
Lee Sedol, Choi Cheulhan, Park Jeunghwan, Heo Youngho, Won Seungjin, Kang Dongyoon

China:
Kong Jie, Piao Wenyao, Gu Li, Xie Hu, Qiu Jun

Japan:
Cho U, Iyama Yuta. Yuki Stosi, Sakai Hideyuki

Taiwan:
Chen Shiyuan

We just had a Lee Sedol x Gu Li Final. How about a Lee Sedol x Lee Changho now? But actually, I'm really looking forward to see Iyama Yuta on this cup.

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