Toyota-Denso Cup

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The International Go Federation Toyota & Denso Cup - World Go Oza is the newest of the world go championships. It is intended to be held every two years. Tournament history and results may be found at [ext] http://igo-kisen.hp.infoseek.co.jp/tc.html. Tournament rules are also available [ext] here. The winner's prize is ¥30,000,000 plus a luxury car.

The event is a 32-player knockout tournament, leading up to a best of three final match (from 2005 onward).

Previous winners and defeated finalists:

  1st 2003  Yi Ch'ang-ho      (d. Chang Hao)
  2nd 2005  Yi Se-tol         (d. Chang Hao 2-1)
  3rd 2006  Yi Se-tol         (d. Cho U 2-1)
  4th? 2008  To be determined

Qualifying Tournaments, 2008

Japan [ext] http://igo-kisen.hp.infoseek.co.jp/tc.html
Seeded Players: Cho U 9p, Takao Shinji 9p, Yamashita Keigo 9p
Qualifiers: Hane Naoki 9p, Yamada Kimio 9p, Ogata Masaki 9p, Imamura Toshiya 9p, Hikosaka Naoto 9p, Kono Rin 9p, Kimu Sujun 9p, Yoda Norimoto 9p

China ?

Korea ?

Taiwan [ext] http://igo-kisen.hp.infoseek.co.jp/tc.html
Winner: Zhou Junxun 9p

Africa [ext] http://www.sagoclubs.co.za/saga/sa-open/2008/ (Cape Town, South Africa)
9th February - 10th February
Winner: Victor Chow 7d

North America [ext] http://www.oza2008.com/ (Baltimore/Los Angeles, USA)
19th January - 20th January
Winners: Jie Li 7d, Jiang Mingjiu 7p

South America [ext] http://www.geocities.com/iberogo07/ (Quito, Ecuador)
12th October - 14th October (07)
Winner: Fernando Aguilar 7d

Europe [ext] http://www.suomigo.net/wiki/EuropeanGoOza2008 (EGC, Netherlands)
30th January - 3rd February
Winners: Cristian Pop 7d, Ilya Shikshin 7d, Alexandre Dinerchtein 3p

Oceania [ext] http://www.australiango.asn.au/Events.php#Toyota-Denso (Brisbane, Australia)
18th January - 20th January
Winner: Joanne Jiajia Missingham? 7d

Asia (excl. China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan) [ext] http://www.weiqi.org.sg/oza2008/indexe.asp (Singapore, Singapore)
20th March - 24th March
Winner: Yang Shi Hai 8p

Qualifying Tournaments, 2006

Africa [ext] http://math.sun.ac.za/~go/?page_id=518 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

North America [ext] http://www.usgo.org/oza/oza2006/

South America TorneoIberoamericano

Europe [ext] Final (Amstelveen, Netherlands)

Oceania [ext] http://www.uq.net.au/~zzjhardy/toyotacup.html (Brisbane, Australia)

Asia [ext] http://weiqi.org.sg/oza2006/indexe.asp (Singapore)


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