All Asia New Star
Keywords: Tournament
Also known as: Asian New Stars Match; International Young Go Team Games
The All Asia New Stars Competition is a team competition for young professionals between Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan. Each country is represented by a team of 8 players. The teams compete in a round robin format.
The competition began in 1997 as a match betwen China and Korea; in 2000, 1st edition, also Japan compete and in 2004 (5th edition) Taiwan. First prize is 200,000 Yuan.
1st 2000 Korea (Runners-Up: China) 2nd 2001 China (Runners-up: Korea) 3rd 2002 China (Runners-up: Korea) 4th 2003 Korea (Runners-up: China) 5th 2004 Korea (Runners-up: China) 6th 2005 Korea (Runners-up: China) 7th 2006 China (Runners-up: Korea) 8th 2007 China (Runners-up: Korea) 9th 2008 Korea (Runners-up: China) 10th 2009 China (Runners-up: Korea) - Taiwan 3rd, Japan 4th. 11th 2010 Korea (Runners-up: China) - Taiwan 3rd, Japan 4th.
The full line up and results are available on Mr. Kin's Go News page.
Results of the 11th edition are in the Italian blog this post and some previous ones