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Judan
    Keywords: Tournament

The Judan (十段), which literally means "ten dan", is in order of importance the fourth title in professional Japanese go with its top prize of 13.4 million Yen. The sponsoring newspaper is the [ext] sankei shinbun.

The Judan shares most of its structure with the other top 7 titles - winner of preliminary tournament plays a best of five final against the title holder - but it is unique in one aspect. Anyone who loses a game in the preliminary direct elimination tournament goes to a parallel tournament, the losers' section. At the end the winner of the loser's section plays the winner of the winner's section to decide who becomes the challenger.

--Stefan



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