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The Grand Prix Finale 2026 will take place in Vienna, Austria, on January 28 to 31st, in the University of Vienna.
The event will welcome 16 players, qualified through the Grand Prix Circuit 2026 bonus tournaments: players with a direct seats, then players with the most bonus points.
You can see the current list in the standings. Participants will be contacted through their federation and required to confirm their participation before the end of 2026.
A more complete and better webpage with the full information will appear in November, but you can already find most of it below.
Date: 28-31st January 2027
Venue: Vienna University, Vienna, Austria
Host organizers: Austrian Go Federation, Go7, Lanke Weiqi
System: Group stage / Final stage
Provisional schedule:
| Group Stage | |
|---|---|
| Thursday, 28th January | |
| 14:30 | Opening / Drawing |
| 15:00 | Round 1 (stage 1) |
| Friday, 29th 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, 30th January | |
| 10:00 | Quarterfinals |
| 14:30 | Semifinals (also rounds for places 5–8) |
| Sunday, 31th January | |
| 10:00 | Final games for 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th place |
| 14:00 | Prizegiving / Closing |
Rules (TBD) : The tournament follows the EGF General Tournament rules.
Even games.
Fischer time: 45 minutes basic + 20s per move
Stop the clock if more than 3 stones must be picked up
Tournament Director: Mirta Grigoriu
EGF Referee: Damir Medak
This is still to be completed and confirmed
Group Stage: players are seeded in 4 groups. Depending on the number of Bonus Points they won in the tournaments of the Grand Prix Circuit 2026, they join “pots” from which one player will join a Group each time.
At the end of this Group stage, the two best of each group join the quarterfinals. If there are even results, tie-breaks are played.
The Final Stage is a classical bracket from quarterfinals, with losers playing for the 5th to 8th places.
Players who will not reach the Final Stage are welcome to join the Vienna Open, which will start on the weekend.
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 quarterfinals, 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)
- Tiebreaks rules will be published here a bit later.
Final stage: 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
5th & 8th places: winners/losers of the bottom-bracket cross-matches
1st place: winner of the two semifinal winners
3rd place: winner of the two semifinal losers
Prize Money: The total prize pool is about 8130€, including 150€ starting-prize money.