Bingsheng Cup

The Bingsheng Cup (兵圣杯), the Qionglong Shan Bingshen Cup according to Go4Go, is a female international tournament created in 2010. First prize is 200,000 RMB, second 70,000 RMB. In 2013, prizes raised to 250,000 and 100,000 RMB.

In the first edition, the Bingsheng Cup is held at Qionglong Mountain (穹窿山) in Suzhou, China, hence the long name Qionglong Mountain Bingsheng Cup (穹窿山兵圣杯). For this reason Bingsheng Cup is referred to as Qionglong Cup in some English media. It is a knock-out tournament with 16 players and 30 minutes main time with 30 seconds byo-yomi.

Tournament winner was Park Jieun, runner up Hei Jiajia.

Rui Naiwei obtained a wild card; in Korea, China and Taiwan preliminary tournaments were held. Japan sent Aoki Kikuyo, Xie Yimin, and Chinen Kaori.

In Taiwan the winner of the preliminary tournament was Hei Jiajia, but an odd situation changed her to be the Oceania representative: A player from Thailand at first won the right to represent Oceania but unfortunately had to cancel because of personal issues. Faced with this change on a short notice, the tournament organizers invited Hei Jiajia as the Oceania representative, because of her dual citizenship with Australia and Taiwan. A new playoff was quickly run among four other Taiwanese participants to replace Hei, and was won by Zhang Kaixin (one SGF file includes preliminary matches of the tournament in Taiwan and you can download it from the Italian blog Weichi Taiwan).

Winners:

• 1st, 2010: Park Jieun (d. Hei Jiajia)
• 2nd, 2011: Park Jieun (d. Tang Yi)
• 3rd, 2012: Li He (d. Rui Naiwei)
• 4th, 2013: Wang Chenxing (d. Yu Zhiying)
• 5th, 2014: Choi Jung (d. Rui Naiwei)
• 6th, 2015: Yu Zhiying (d. Park Jieun )
• 7th, 2016: O Yujin (d.Wang Chenxing )
• 8th, 2017: Choi Jung (d. Wang Chenxing)

More information about 1st edition:

• Tournament table
• TOM.com news (in Chinese).

The following SGFs were provided by igo-kisen.hp.infoseek.co.jp, a site which apparently collapsed in 2019. The reader is advised to instead use the Go4Go tournament page or Waltheri until the tabled links have been replaced. Some or all of the links may also have archived versions in the Wayback Machine.

Tournament table

1st round
Tang Yi	Rui Naiwei	sgf
Xie Yimin	Kim Hye-min	sgf
Park Jieun	Li Chenshuo	sgf
Song Ronghui	Chinen Kaori	sgf
Zheng Yan	Rita Pocsai	sgf
Lee Sula	Wang Chenxing	sgf
Zhang Kaixin	Li He	sgf
Hei Jiajia	Aoki Kikuyo	sgf
2nd round
Tang Yi	Xie Yimin	sgf
Park Jieun	Song Ronghui	sgf
Zheng Yan	Lee Sula	sgf
Li He	Hei Jiajia	sgf
Semi-finals
Park Jieun	Tang Yi	sgf
Zheng Yan	Hei Jiajia	sgf
Final
Park Jieun	Hei Jiajia	sgf