The European Cup

2004-2007

Introduction

The aim of the European Cup (EC) was to provide a tournament circuit that was independent of any single sponsor. It is the nature of sponsorship that from time to time the level of sponsorship changes or sponsors withdraw. The EC system was independant of any single sponsorship as it was funded by the participating tournaments which were free to get their own sponsors.

Any EGF member country may have had one or two EC tournaments in each EC year. Each tournament paid the EGF for the points they wanted to award and the points were awarded to the players according to the results of the tournament. The price was 6 euro per point (from 1st June 2005); the price of a point could only be changed annually. There were various levels of tournament with different points, ranging from 25 to 400. All tournaments were in fact 25 or 50 points.

Points

Place Points        
1 9 15 24 39 63
2 6 11 19 32 55
3 4 8 15 27 48
4 3 6 11 22 41
5 2 4 9 18 35
6 1 3 7 14 29
7   2 5 11 24
8   1 4 9 20
9     3 7 16
10     2 6 13
11     1 5 11
12       4 9
13       3 8
14       2 7
15       1 6
16         5
17         4
18         3
19         2
20         1
Total 25 50 100 200 400

Prizes

The EC was used as part of the selection to the European Masters (EM).
EC ranking prizes (from 2006-2007 Cup) were only open to European nationals and to players resident in Europe for 2 years before the start of that cup year.
The highest point scoring players at the end of the EC year got money ranking prizes according to the amounts in the following table:

Prize Fund Number of Prizes Distribution
   0-1000 euro 3 500,330,170
1000-2000 euro 4 800,600,400,200
2001-2500 euro 5 900,700,500,300,100
2501-3000 euro 6 1000,750,500,350,250,150
3001-3500 euro 7 1100,800,550,400,300,200,150
3501-4000 euro 8 1200,850,600,etc
4001-5000 euro 9 1300,950,700,etc
and so on up to max 15 2000,etc

Rules

  • The EC started on 1st June and finished on 31st May following.
  • The EGF tournament rules and international regulations applied to EC tournaments.
  • Only players who competed in every rounds of a tournament were eligible for points for that tournament.
  • Points were awarded according to final placing in the tournament, after applying the tie-breaks for that tournament.
  • A country could only buy maximum 100 points or 30% of the total for that EC year, whichever is higher.
  • The lower of their two tournaments must have been a 25 point tournament.
  • Requests for all tournaments had to be submitted to the EC Controller more than three months in advance.
  • The EC Controller would return the decision with a month of the request.
  • If a tournament clashed with a European Go Tour or other European top event then it was limited to 25 points.
  • In exceptional cases the executive could decide.
  • Major changes to the system could only be decided at the AGM in advance.

    • The First European Cup

  • The first EC started after EGC 2003 and finished on 31st May 2005.
  • In the first EC no one single country could buy more than 33% of the total points.
  • Each point was 5 euro.

    • European Cup Ended

    The European Cup ended at the end of the 2006-2007 season.

    The events in the Cup could join the new Pandanet Go European Cup at level 1 or 2.

    Calendar

    Results

    Points Tables

    Page last updated 2007-04-23.