Preliminary of the 1st Transatlantic Professional Go League

08^th – 09^th May

The two winners will qualify to 1st Transatlantic Professional Go League.

Time Table:

CEST (GMT+2) is used

08.05. Saturday
14:00	1st round in groups
17:00	2nd round in groups

Tournament system:

There will be two groups of four players, A and B
Players will be seeded by a draw out of 4 pots, according to the ratings.
1st pot: Stanisław Frejlak, Lukáš Podpěra (players A1 and B1 will be selected)
2nd pot: Viktor Lin, Benjamin Dréan-Guénaïzia (players A2 and B2 will be selected)
3rd pot: Óscar Vázquez Núñez, Rémi Campagnie (players A3 and B3 will be selected)
4th pot: Lucas Neirynck, Jonas Welticke (players A4 and B4 will be selected)

Pairing will be done as follows:

1st round: A1 - A4, A2 - A3, B1 - B4, B2 - B3
2nd round: winner (A1-A4) - winner (A2-A3), looser (A1-A4) - looser (A2-A3)
                  winner (B1-B4) - winner (B2-B3), looser (B1-B4) - looser (B2-B3)
Players with two points from both groups will qualify directly to the Semi-Final as the winners of the groups (W(A) and W(B)). Players with 0 points will be eliminated from the tournament.
3rd round: players with one point after the 2nd round in each group will play a decisive game for who will qualify as a runner-up from the group to the Semi-Final (R(A) and (R(B))
Final matches: W(A) - R(B), W(B) - R(A)

Tournament Groups:

Pairing:

1st round (Saturday, 08^th May, 14:00 CEST)

2nd round (Saturday, 08^th May, 17:00 CEST)

3rd round (Sunday, 09^th May, 14:00 CEST)

Play-off (Sunday, 09^th May, 17:00 CEST)

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