Tournament venue
The tournament takes place at the China Cultural Center of Stockholm, located by Kungsträdgården in central Stockholm. The address is Västra Trädgårdsgatan 2. At the same time, during the weekend, an open tournament will take place - the Jusandan Open 2026, organized by the Stockholm Go Club. You're welcome to join!
Grand Prix Finale | Schedule
| Group Stage | |||||||
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| Thursday, 8th January | |||||||
| 14:30 | Opening / Drawing | ||||||
| 15:00 | Round 1 (stage 1) | ||||||
| Friday, 9th January | |||||||
| 09:30 | Round 2 (stage 1) | ||||||
| 13:30 | Round 3 (stage 1) | ||||||
| 17:00 | Tiebreak round 1 (optional) | ||||||
| 18:15 | Tiebreak round 2 (optional) | ||||||
| Final Stage | |
|---|---|
| Saturday, 10th January | |
| 10:00 | Quarterfinal-round |
| 14:30 | Half-Final round (also for places 5–8) |
| Sunday, 11th January | |
| 10:00 | Final games for 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th place |
| 14:00 | Prizegiving / Closing |
Game broadcast
Most of the games will be broadcast directly on OGS (accounts EGF1-8). Top boards will be commented live on the Twitch Channel of the European Go Federation.
Rules and Tournament System
The tournament follows the EGF General Tournament rules, but the games are played in Chinese rules.
Game parameters
- Even games, Chinese rules
- Fischer time — 45 minutes basic + 20s per move
- “EGF Nigiri” — winner chooses colours, loser chooses clock position
- Stop the clock if more than 4 stones must be picked up
Tournament Director: Martin Stiassny Tournament Referees: Martin Stiassny & Li Yue (remote) Tournament Appeals Committee: Named at the tournament
Pairing system
Group stage (3 rounds)
The group stage is a round robin system - All players in a group must play 3 games. The top 2 players per group qualify for the finals, there are no more games for players ending 3rd and 4th place within their group. The players are seeded depending on the number of bonus points accumulated to qualify.
- Round 1 (Thursday afternoon): per group (A–D) pot #1 vs pot #3 and pot #2 vs pot #4 (1–3 and 2–4)
- Round 2 (Friday morning): winners vs winners, losers vs losers of round 1
- Round 3 (Friday afternoon): automatically defined
Tiebreaks (Group Stage)
- Mutual game, if two players with equal number of wins, also valid after special tie-break games (see next point)
- With three players equal number of wins, two more games will be played following a special system. After this decision the mutual game might decide about number 1 and number 2 after the 3 rounds in the group.
Final rounds — Pairings
The final stage is a classical knock-out system with quarterfinals, semi and final. For the quarterfinals, the players are seeded according to their results in the Groups (A1-C2, A2-C1, B1-D2, B2-D1). Then, winners play together and loses play together ( loser(A1/C2) — loser(B2/D1), loser(A2/C1) — loser(B1/D2))
Final/Small final/Round 6 (Sunday morning)
- 1st place: winner of the two semifinal winners
- 3rd place: loser of the two semifinal losers
- 5th & 8th places: winners/losers of the bottom-bracket cross-matches
Prize Money
Prize chart — Grand Prix Final
This year, the total amount of the prize pool is 9600€, including 4800€ for the top 8. The players get a 150€ start-prize-money, then win 100€ per won game in the first stage (R1-3)
| Top 8 Prize Money | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th |
| € 1,400 | € 1,100 | € 800 | € 500 | € 400 | € 300 | € 200 | € 100 |