Agon Cup

Keywords: Tournament

The Agon Cup is a single knockout title in Japan, properly the Agon-Kiriyama Cup. This is a pro-am event, called the Acom Cup until 1998. The winner's prize is ¥10,000,000.

Winners and defeated finalists
Ed.	Year	Winner	Runner-up
1st	1994	O Rissei	Cho Chikun
2nd	1995	Kato Masao	Kobayashi Satoru
3rd	1996	Kato Masao	Yoda Norimoto
4th	1997	Yoda Norimoto	Kato Masao
5th	1998	Kobayashi Satoru	Cho Chikun
6th	1999	Kobayashi Koichi	Takao Shinji
7th	2000	Cho Sonjin	Cho Chikun
8th	2001	Cho Sonjin	O Rissei
9th	2002	Cho Chikun	Cho U
10th	2003	Kato Masao	Cho U
11th	2004	Hane Naoki	Kobayashi Koichi
12th	2005	Iyama Yuta	Kobayashi Satoru
13th	2006	Cho U	Hane Naoki
14th	2007	Cho U	Cho Chikun
15th	2008	Cho U	Takanashi Seiken
16th	2009	Hane Naoki	Cho U
17th	2010	Yamashita Keigo	Cho Chikun
18th	2011	Iyama Yuta	Yamashita Keigo
19th	2012	Cho U	Rin Shien

John Fairbairn has written about the structure of the Agon. [ext] http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/orient/go/japan/agon.html. In 2011, for the first time, amateurs (Sung Bong Ha and Kim Seong-chin?) reached the final sixteen players.