Well, I have no idea who's going yet, but I thought I would start this poll anyway. It is something of a tradition by now.
(KPMC=Korean Prime Minister's Cup)

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Doyoung is going to rock this. (New Zealand).

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I thought people played in the KPMC rather than countries.

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If you know who the people are, feel free to post their names here.

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I can't vote for Toby

I think it counts if you vote in the thread following as well.

Here is a list of the tournament: https://plus.google.com/photos/11072932 ... 8316464321

№ Name Club Level
1 HU, Yuqing cn 8 Dan
2 BURRALL, Matthew us 7 Dan
3 CHEN, Chi-jui tw 7 Dan
4 GE, Yongfei ca 7 Dan
5 CHAN, Nai san hk 6 Dan
6 CHEN, Xiao Chun au 6 Dan
7 GROENEN, Gerardus nl 6 Dan
8 KACHANOVSKYI, Artem ua 6 Dan
9 KIM, Doyoung nz 6 Dan
10 KINOSHITA, Nagatoki jp 6 Dan
11 LAZAREV, Alexey ru 6 Dan
12 SURMA, Mateusz pl 6 Dan
13 TAHIRBAYOV, Bahadur Bayram az 6 Dan
14 ZHANG, Xiang sg 6 Dan
15 BUTALA, Gregor si 5 Dan
16 CORLAN, Lucian ro 5 Dan
17 HAN, Seung Joo kr 5 Dan
18 JABARIN, Ali il 5 Dan
19 JIRASOPHIN, Apidet th 5 Dan
20 KURONEN, Juri fi 5 Dan
21 LE CALVE, Tanguy fr 5 Dan
22 MANOJLOVIĆ, Lazar rs 5 Dan
23 PODPERA, Lukas cz 5 Dan
24 SASAKI, Jorde br 5 Dan
25 HARMAN, Schayan at 4 Dan
26 MUALIM, Sebastian id 4 Dan
27 POCSAI, Rita hu 4 Dan
28 WELTICKE, Jonas de 4 Dan
29 BENENATI MICHELENA, Martin uy 3 Dan
30 BURGOS ANRADE, Julian Felipe co 3 Dan
31 CHENG, Khai yong my 3 Dan
32 DAVIES, Andrew Lewis za 3 Dan
33 MANNING, Toby uk 3 Dan
34 PEDERSEN, Torben dk 3 Dan
35 PETRAUSKAS, Andrius lt 3 Dan
36 SULAK, Fatih tr 3 Dan
37 TABARES, Santiago Andres ar 3 Dan
38 ANGUILA CANER, Oskar es 2 Dan
39 BING, Jakob se 2 Dan
40 GONZALEZ, Javier ve 2 Dan
41 LE, Mai dui vn 2 Dan
42 MISSIAEN, Kwinten be 2 Dan
43 RAKOTOARISOA, Mamy mg 2 Dan
44 ALBUJA ORTIZ, Diego German ec 1 Dan
45 BACHRI, Amine ma 1 Dan
46 CHAKUR, Aliaksandr by 1 Dan
47 GUITIERREZ GALICIA, Emilio mx 1 Dan
48 HANEVIK, Heming no 1 Dan
49 HUTCINSON, James ie 1 Dan
50 JADROŇ, Milan sk 1 Dan
51 KINA AVALOS, Kenyi Miguel pe 1 Dan
52 MORRISON, Robert ch 1 Dan
53 NGUYEN, Ngoc Cuong lu 1 Dan
54 MARTINS CARMONA, Pedro Miguel pt 1 Kyu
55 MONTIEL FLORES, Sebastian Andres cl 1 Kyu
56 TSETSEG-ULZII, Zoljargal mn 1 Kyu
57 ZRNO, Daniel hr 1 Kyu
58 ALEXANDROV, Boyan bg 2 Kyu
59 CHRISTODOULIDES, Phedias cy 2 Kyu
60 BAJIĆ, Vladimir ba 3 Kyu
61 GANEYEV, Damir kz 3 Kyu
62 ARTAK, Margaryan am 4 Kyu
63 GIULIATO, Leonardo it 4 Kyu
64 IZEKI, Yu ph 5 Kyu
65 VARGAS CAMPOS, Daniel Antonio cr 5 Kyu
66 CAICS, Juris lv 6 Kyu
67 DAVE, Shashank in 6 Kyu
68 HO SOON, Ang bn 7 Kyu
69 GÓMEZ FLORES, Mario Roberto gt 9 Kyu
70 MOHAMMADI, Shirin ir 10 Kyu


I think the Chinese player (8th dan) will be winner . He is a very strong player. He played for China in the open tournament in Beijing in 2008 year (1WMSG).

http://www.cyberoro.com/news/news_view.oro?num=517249
Some pictures from KPMC orientation.

Any known results from the first 3 rounds?

I only saw a few games from round 1...

Final results:

So little info online about the 7th KPMC? A results table would be nice. OR an sgf or two if you missed the live recording on WBADUK.

Result of 7th KPMC -
http://www.wbaduk.com/news/news_view.asp?news_no=612

Full table : http://kamyszyn.go.art.pl/kpmc2012 (it should be on EGD soon)

There was some mini McMahon system there - 35 players (from 70) with 1 point more, but surprisingly some strong players (Matthew Burrall 7d USA,Chen Xiao Chun 6d Australia and 3 players with 5d) were in lower group and at the same time 2 shodans and even 1 first kyu player were in upper group.

Good work.

Last year the USA came 65th, which may explain their initial placing.
Slovenia and Australia finished 44th and 41st.
Chile finished in 11th (!) place last time - further reinforcing my theory that starting positions where based on last year's positions.

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Congratulations to all the players. Yongfei Ge coming in 3rd is a great result. 6 games is not that many for the number of players, though.

So the rep from Spain, Oscar Anguila 2d, defeated both Ali Jabarin 5d (IL) and Gregor Butala 5d (SI)? Maybe shouldn't be 2d anymore...

promotions in spain are regulated strictly through rating points, i bet he doesn't get promoted for a long time

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According to the EGD (http://www.europeangodatabase.eu/EGD/Pl ... y=13562450), he is 4D.

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Okay, typo alert then ..

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I believe that Iran is being represented forthe first time in the KPMC should be bigger news for the internationalisation of Go than the actual result of the tournament. Strange that nobody mentioned it.

That is great.

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