Online Go Controversies
Keywords: Culture & History, Online Go
A little page cataloguing controversial incidents in professional online Go.
- Shin Jinseo makes an accidental first line click against Ke Jie in an international title match, caused by a cable brushing the laptop touchpad
- Park Junghwan's click doesn't register, making him time out
- Mateusz Surma disconnects a winning game against Eric Lui due to internet trouble. Lui is declared the winner.
- 2022: Yang Dingxin's click doesn't register in the 2022 Nongshim Cup ( video)
- 2022: Liu Ruizhi banned for botting in a domestic professional game
- 2022: Yang Dingxin accuses Li Xuanhao of botting. Claim concluded to be without evidence and Yang sanctioned.
- 2023: "The Bulgarian team captain and President of the Bulgarian Go Association?, Tsvetomir Varbanov, was caught cheating by using AI during the Pandanet Go European Team Championship (PGETC) ... <The EGF> disqualified Bulgaria <for two years> ... and Tsvetomir Varbanov personally ... five years."
- 2024: Ryan Li makes a game-losing misclick against Kevin Yang, in the North American qualifier to the Chunlan Cup. It filled his own eye.