The Grand Prix Finale 2019 is the culmination of all the Bonus Point Tournaments that took place over the year.
This year it will be held in Leksand, Sweden from the 16th – 19th January 2020. 16 players, both professional and amateur, and with the citizenship of an EGF member-country, qualified for the tournament by winning Bonus Points in the Grand Prix Serie 2019.
10:30 | Opening and drawing |
11:30 | Round 1 |
10:00 | Round 2 |
15:00 | Round 3 |
10:00 | Round 4 - Quarter-finals |
15:00 | Round 5 - Semi-finals |
10:00 | Round 6, games for 3rd, 5th, 7th |
11:00 | Final |
16:00 | Prizegiving / Closing |
Pot #1 Mateusz Surma, 2p Ilja Shikshin, 3p Artem Kachanovskyi, 2p Pavol Lisý, 2p |
Pot #2 Lukáš Podpěra, 7d Ali Jabarin, 2p Stanisław Frejlak, 7d Cornel Burzo, 7d |
Pot #3 Andrii Kravets, 1p Nikola Mitić, 7d Benjamin Dréan-Guénaïzia, 6d Daniel Hu, 5d |
Pot #4 Dušan Mitić, 7d Oscar Vazquez, 6d Dominik Bővíz, 6d Tanguy Le Calvé, 1p |
Name | M | L | N | D | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mateusz Surma | xxx | W | L | W | 2 |
Lukáš Podpěra | L | xxx | W | W | 3 |
Nikola Mitić | W | L | xxx | W | 1 |
Dominik Bővíz | L | L | L | xxx | 4 |
Name | I | C | B | O | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ilja Shikshin | xxx | W | W | W | 1 |
Cornel Burzo | L | xxx | L | L | 4 |
Benjamin Dréan-Guénaïzia | L | W | xxx | W | 2 |
Oscar Vazquez | L | W | L | xxx | 3 |
Name | Ar | Al | An | D | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Artem Kachanovskyi | xxx | W | L | W | 2 |
Ali Jabarin | L | xxx | W | W | 3 |
Andrii Kravets | W | L | xxx | W | 1 |
Dušan Mitić | L | L | L | xxx | 4 |
Name | P | S | D | T | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pavol Lisý | xxx | W | L | L | 3 |
Stanisław Frejlak | L | xxx | W | W | 2 |
Daniel Hu | W | L | xxx | W | 1 |
Tanguy Le Calvé | W | L | L | xxx | 4 |
Games will be transmitted on KGS (Userids EGF1, EGF2, EGF3 and EGF4) and on Twitch
Game parameters:
– Even games, Chinese rules
– Fischer time – 45 minutes basic with 20 seconds per additional move
– “EGF Nigiri” in all games – the winner of nigiri decides the colours, and the loser the position for the clock
System of pairing for the preliminary rounds:
– 1. round (Thursday morning): per group (A to D) players pot #1 — pot #3 and pot #2 — pot #4 (1-3 and 2-4)
– 2. round (Friday morning): Winners against winners and losers against losers of round 1
– 3. round (Friday afternoon): automatically defined
Tiebreaks for the Group Stage:
– Number of wins
– Result in round 3
– Mutual game
The group stage is a round robin system - All players in a group must play 3 games together
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.
Mode of pairing for the 3 final rounds:
4. round (Saturday morning): A1 -- C2, A2 -- C1, B1 -- D2, B2 -- D1
5. round (Saturday afternoon):
top 4: winner A1/C2 -- winner B2/D1, winner A2/C1 -- winner B1/D2
bottom 4: loser A1/C2 -- loser B2/D1, loser A2/C1 -- loser B1/D2
6. round (Sunday morning):
1st place: winner of won A1/C2 vs. won B2/D1 -- winner of won A2/C1 vs. won B1/D2
3rd place: loser of won A1/C2 vs. won B2/D1 -- loser of won A2/C1 vs. won B1/D2
5th place: winner of lost A1/C2 vs. lost B2/D1 -- winner of lost A2/C1 vs. lost B1/D2
7th place: loser of lost A1/C2 vs. lost B2/D1 -- loser of lost A2/C1 vs. lost B1/D2
Name | L | O | Du | Do | Rank |
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Lukáš Podpěra | xxx | W | L | W | 2 |
Oscar Vazquez | L | xxx | L | L | 4 |
Dušan Mitić | W | W | xxx | W | 1 |
Dominik Bővíz | L | W | L | xxx | 3 |