Online European Championship 2021 (EGF Grand Prix Bonus point A) 

24 top European players (passport of EGF member country required) will participate in the event. They can be either amateur or professional players.

The players qualify for participation in order of their best-achieved EGF-ratings within the last twelve months (1.11.2020 – 31.10.2021), as given in the EGF rating database by October 31st  2021.

This is a bonus point A tournament, the first 8 players will win points for the European Grand Prix.

This event will be submitted to EGD as a class A event (anti-cheating measures are implemented).

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Online EGC 2021

Pairings / Results

 

 

Pairings:

*** Group rounds ''''
The seeding for the players 9 to 24 will be done according to the rating list of the 15th November 2021. The groups will be generated by drawing out of four pots (9-12, 13-16, 17-20, 21-24) on 21st November 2021.
''' Last 16 pairings '''
After the three rounds in groups in each group the top 2 players qualify for the last 16. These 8 players will be paired against the already qualified 8 players in the following way::
First step: Build 4 pots:
-- Pot 5 with the top 4 rated and prequalified players (Ilya Shikshin, Artem Kachanovskyi, Pavol Lisy, Ali Jabarin)
-- Pot 6, the left 4 prequalified players (Andrii Kravets, Tanguy Le Calvé, Anton Chernykh, Benjamin Dréan-Guénaïzia)
-- Pot 7, the 4 winners of the groups
-- Pot 8, the 4 second placed players of the groups
Second step: Drawing Pot 5 against Pot 8 and Pot 6 against Pot 7. This results in the 8 pairings for the last 16 round
''' Quarterfinal '''
The eight winners will be ordered according to their EGD-rating of 15th November 2021.
The pairing for the next three rounds (quarterfinal, halffinal, finals) will follow the published brackets-view (1-8, 4-5 upper half, 3-6, 2-7 lower half)

Control-system:
a) Camera-control only in all games from the first round till quarterfinals. Players will record themselves playing as well as their screen - to be kept until the next phase
b) Camera-control with proctors for the half-finals and finals except if players agree otherwise
c) Always possible to play from home

In case of a claim, the game will be sent to the anti-cheating commission: Antti Törmänen (1p), ....

Proctors:
The national go organization is responsible for nominating one (or several) proctor (s) for its (maximum 4) participant(s) to semi-finals and finals.

Time settings: Fischer Time, 60 minutes basic, 30 sec per move additional - OGS server to be used as it enables Fischer time - Chinese rules (komi 7.5), Nigiri in all games, except in the second game of a best of three series.

Prize Money

Prize-money: goal 8500 Euro (it will depend upon the crowdfunding campaign) for the TOP 4 players (40%/30%/20%/10%)
Crowdfunding:https://www.okpal.com/2021-european-go-championship-november-23rd-dece/#/

Rules

In the Rules of the European Go Championship, you can find the setup of the European championship with more details about the selection criteria.