Nongshim Cup

The Nongshim Cup (Korean:농심배) or Nongshim Spicy Noodles Cup (Korean: 농심신라면배) is a team tournament with five participants from each participating country (China, Japan, and Korea). Each person who wins continues to play opponents from the other two teams (alternating between them) until there are no more opponents left. Time limits are 1 hour each with 1 period of 1 minute byoyomi. Sponsored by Nongshim.

Some photos from Nongshim cup-2005: http://www.baduk.or.kr/news/homenews_view.asp?gul_no=507608&gdiv=2 (page not found) http://www.baduk.or.kr/news/homenews_view.asp?gul_no=507621&gdiv=2&frpg=MN (page not found) http://www.badyk.ru/ (impossible to navigate without Russian language knowledge)

See /Teams for information on individual teams for a given year.

Winners

(in brackets the last game of each edition)

• 23rd, 2022 Korea (Shin Jinseo d. Ichiriki Ryo)
• 22nd, 2021 Korea (Shin Jinseo d. Ke Jie)
• 21st, 2020 China (Ke Jie d. Park Junghwan)
• 20th, 2019 China (Dang Yifei d. Park Junghwan)
• 19th, 2018 Korea (Kim Jiseok d. Ke Jie)
• 18th, 2017 China (Fan Yunruo d. Park Junghwan)
• 17th, 2016 China (Ke Jie d. Lee Sedol)
• 16th, 2015 China (Lian Xiao d. Kim Jiseok)
• 15th, 2014 China (Shi Yue d. Park Junghwan)
• 14th, 2013 Korea (Park Junghwan d. Jiang Weijie)
• 13th, 2012 China (Xie He d. Lee Changho)
• 12th, 2011 Korea (Choi Cheolhan d. Kong Jie)
• 11th, 2010 Korea (Lee Changho d. Chang Hao)
• 10th, 2009 Korea (Lee Sedol d. Gu Li)
• 9th, 2008 China (Chang Hao d. Park Yeonghun)
• 8th, 2007 Korea (Lee Changho d. Gu Li)
• 7th, 2006 Japan (Yoda Norimoto d. Lee Changho)
• 6th, 2005 Korea (Lee Changho d. Wang Xi)
• 5th, 2004 Korea (Lee Changho d. Rin Kaiho)
• 4th, 2003 Korea (Lee Changho d. Luo Xihe)
• 3rd, 2002 Korea (Lee Changho d. Zhou Heyang)
• 2nd, 2001 Korea (Lee Changho d. Kato Masao)
• 1st, 2000 Korea (Lee Changho d. Ma Xiaochun)

emeraldemon: I'd like to start something similar to what was tried for the Sixth Chunlan Cup, where we go over all the games, but this time with the 11th Nongshim Cup.