Tournaments
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1. Introduction
A Go tournament is a competition lasting one or more days, usually involving more than two players. The world of professionals and the world of amateurs each have their own tournaments, which rarely allow for each other to participate. Professional tournaments usually last longer and involve high prize money, while most amateur tournaments are held in one weekend and have fun prevail over prize money.
More about professional tournaments
2. More about amateur tournaments
Several organizations, such as the International Go Federation, the Japanese and Korean Go Associations and the Ing foundation, hold worldwide amateur tournaments, lasting a week or longer. Participants are often the local champions of one national association. Europe and the US each have their congress. Major city tournaments in Europe have been grouped into one competition and linked to a sponsor as the Toyota Tour. Follow the links below to read more about such events. Other formats are round robin, McMahon, and single elimination.
- European Go Tournament Calendar
- American Go Tournament Calendar
- Canadian Tournaments
- National championships
- Toyota tour
- World Amateur Go Championship
- WomensWorldAmateurGoChampionship
- World Pair Go Championship?
- International Team Baduk Championship
- Incheon World Amateur Baduk Championship
- World Youth Goe Championship
- Go Server Tournaments
- Asia Baduk Championship
- All Japan Children's Tournament
- All Japan Pair Go Championship?
- World Oza (allows both amateur and pro entries)
- Youth tournaments index
- Korea Prime Minister Cup World Baduk Championship
- Pair Go Tournaments
If you wish to take part in a tournament, but need travel assistance, perhaps you should visit the ride board.
3. Tournament reports
- CotsenGoTournament/year2002
- ZhonghuanCup
- Canadian First Online Youth Go Tournament
- Dashn online tournament
- 30th LOGC
- 2004 Spain Open
- Results of European Go Tournaments
- Old: Go Calendar
- Super Go Team Tournament System
Note: Some of the tournament reports are not actually tournament reports, just adverts for tournaments in the past. They may be deleted some time in the future.
4. Holding a tournament
In order to hold a tournament, a number of decisions should be made and clearly communicated to the participants. These include:
- Date, time, location and fees
- Eligibility
- Rules of Play
- Seeds
- Tournament Format
- Tournament Scoring
- Tournament Prizes
It would be good to have all material for tournament organisers on a path page. Possibly coming: TD