European Cup
The European Cup is a grand prix style competition organised by the European Go Federation. It is composed of a series of tournaments organised in EGF member countries. Tournaments pay a fee to be part of the tour. Depending on the amount they pay, the tournament will offer different numbers of points to competitors. The player who accumulates the highest number of points over the course of the tour is declared the winner of the European Cup. Note that only European Nationals may earn points as of 2011. The first tour runs until the end of 2012.
The European Cup 2011-2012
- Point price: 10 euro a point
- Levels: 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 euro
- ECup 2011-2012 will be run from 10th August 2011 to the end of 2012.
Level Euro Total N.Places Points 1 100 10 3 6,3,1 2 200 20 4 9,6,3,2 3 300 30 5 12,8,5,3,2 4 400 40 6 15,10,7,4,3,1 5 500 50 7 18,12,8,5,4,2,1
Secret Rules
The points are distributed according to the tournament wallchart, so if 3 players are split on tiebreak by Nigiri, then so are the European Cup points.
History
The European Cup ran from 2004 to 2007, whereupon, it then merged together with the Fujitsu/Pandanet Tour to become one event. The winners of the old European Cup where as follows:
- 2006/7 Pal Balogh
- 2005/6 Seok Bin Cho
- 2004/5 Ondrej Silt