Online Go Controversies

A little page cataloguing controversial incidents in professional online Go.

• Shin Jinseo makes an accidental first line click against Ke Jie in an international title match, caused by a cable brushing the laptop touchpad

• Park Junghwan's click doesn't register, making him time out

• Mateusz Surma disconnects a winning game against Eric Lui due to internet trouble. Lui is declared the winner.

• 2020: Kim Eunji banned one year for botting in a casual Fox game

• 2022: Yang Dingxin's click doesn't register in the 2022 Nongshim Cup ( video)
• 2022: Liu Ruizhi banned for botting in a domestic professional game
• 2022: Yang Dingxin accuses Li Xuanhao of botting. Claim concluded to be without evidence and Yang sanctioned.

• 2023: "The Bulgarian team captain and President of the Bulgarian Go Association?, Tsvetomir Varbanov, was caught cheating by using AI during the Pandanet Go European Team Championship (PGETC) ... <The EGF> disqualified Bulgaria <for two years> ... and Tsvetomir Varbanov personally ... five years."

• 2024: Ryan Li makes a game-losing misclick against Kevin Yang, in the North American qualifier to the Chunlan Cup. It filled his own eye.