4th European Grand Prix Finale 2020

The Grand Prix Finale 2020 is the culmination of all the Bonus Point Tournaments that took place over the year.
This year it will be held online, on the Online Go Server from the 8th – 31st January 2021. 16 players participate, 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 Series 2020.

• Schedule |

• Groups |

• First 3 group rounds |

• Knock out bracket |

• Rules & tournament system |

• Photos

 

Schedule

Groups

Games will be played on OGS and at least the final round will be streamed with commentary on Twitch.

Pairings / Results / Stage 2

Round 4 Quarter Final  (22-24 January, CET):
22th Jan  10:00   23th Jan  10:00   24th Jan  09:00   24th Jan  10:00   24th Jan  16:00   25th Jan  11:00	Ilya Shikshin (Russia)  --  Ali Jabarin (Israel)   Lukas Podpera (Czechia)  --  Pavol Lisy (Slovakia)   Ilya Shikshin (Russia)  --  Ali Jabarin (Israel)   Lukas Podpera (Czechia)  --  Pavol Lisy (Slovakia)   Lukas Podpera (Czechia)  --  Pavol Lisy (Slovakia)   Ilya Shikshin (Russia)  --  Ali Jabarin (Israel)	1:0   0:1   0:1   1:0   0:1   1:0
22th Jan  13:00   22th Jan  16:00   23th Jan  13:30   23th Jan  16:00   24th Jan  13:00	Andrii Kravets /Ukraine)  --  Stanislaw Frejlak (Poland)   Artem Kachanovskyi (Ukraine)  --  Oscar Vazquez (Spain)   Andrii Kravets /Ukraine)  --  Stanislaw Frejlak (Poland)   Artem Kachanovskyi (Ukraine)  --  Oscar Vazquez (Spain)   Andrii Kravets /Ukraine)  --  Stanislaw Frejlak (Poland)	1:0   1:0   0:1   1:0   0:1

Round 5  Half Final  (26-28 January, CET):
26th Jan  13:00   26th Jan  18:00   27th Jan  13:00   27th Jan  18:00   28th Jan  09:00   28th Jan  18:00	Artem Kachanovskyi (Ukraine)  --  Stanislaw Frejlak (Poland)   Ilya Shikshin (Russia)  --  Pavol Lisy (Slovakia)   Artem Kachanovskyi (Ukraine)  --  Stanislaw Frejlak (Poland)   Ilya Shikshin (Russia)  --  Pavol Lisy (Slovakia)   Ilya Shikshin (Russia)  --  Pavol Lisy (Slovakia)    Artem Kachanovskyi (Ukraine)  --  Stanislaw Frejlak (Poland)	0:1  1:0  1:0  0:1   1:0  1:0
27th Jan  09:00   28th Jan  15:00	Oscar Vazquez (Spain)  --  Andrii Kravets (Ukraine)   Lukas Podpera (Czechia)  --  Ali Jabarin (Israel)	1:0  1:0

Round 6  -  Final Round (30 / 31  January, CET):
30th Jan  11:00   30th Jan  11:00   30th Jan  11:00   30th Jan  11:00   30th Jan  17:00   30th Jan  17:00	Ilya Shikshin (Russia)  --  Artem Kachanovskyi (Ukraine)   Stanislaw Frejlak (Poland)  --  Pavol Lisy (Slovakia)   Lukas Podpera (Czechia)  --  Oscar Vazquez (Spain)   Ali Jabarin (Israel)  --  Andrii Kravets (Ukraine)   Ilya Shikshin (Russia)  --  Artem Kachanovskyi (Ukraine)   Stanislaw Frejlak (Poland)  --  Pavol Lisy (Slovakia)	1:0   0:1   1:0   0:1     1:0    0:1

Rules and Tournament System

Tournament System:
-- Similar to big sport events, a group phase (Stage 1) and final rounds (Stage 2), starting with 4 groups, each with 4 players
-- In Stage 1 each player has to play three games in a round-robin system within his group 
-- The top 2 players per group qualify for Stage 2, where they play three more rounds
-- No more games after Stage 1 for players ending 3rd and 4th place within their group
-- In Stage 2 many competitions will be decided by best of three mode, so the top 8 players will have to play at least 7 games in this event
-- The tournament will be registered in the European Go Datababase (EGD) as a Class A tournament

Mode of playing:
– For all rounds (exception round 6) there's no fixed day for playing but a frame of three days. The players have to arrange the start of the games  by themselves
-- The finally fixed schedule will be published on this webpage as soon as possible
– All games must be played with parallel running video-control (for example via Skype and mobile-phones)

Game parameters:
– Even games, japanese rules (6.5 komi), playing online on the OGS Go-server
– Fischer time: 45 minutes basic time, additional 20 seconds per move
– Nigiri in all games except in best of three competitions

Organisation:
– Tournament leader: Martin Stiassny, e-mail: [email protected], +46 247 22406
– Controlling: Antti Törmänen
-- Randomly checking of games with appropriate software ("anti-cheating"), also on request
– Web publishing: Lorenz Trippel

System of pairing per group for Stage 1 (group phase, 4 groups (A, B, C and D) each with 4 players) 
– 1. round:  Player #1  --  player #3  and  player #2  --  player #4
– 2. round:  Winners against winners and losers against losers of the 1. round
– 3. round:  Automatically defined in a round-robin system

Tiebreaks after Stage 1 (group stage) 
– in case of 2 players with an equal number of wins after three rounds the result of the mutual game decides
– in case of 3 players with an equal number of wins (3/1/1/1  or  2/2/2/0) deciding games on 20th January with reduced thinking-time
– If after three games round robin all players are still equal (one won and one lost game), decision by lottery (online and transparent)

System of pairing for the three rounds in Stage 2, with exact schedule for the games of round 6 

 --  8 players are qualified, named  A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2, D1 and D2

-  4. round:  A1 -- D2, A2 -- D1, B1 -- C2  and  B2 -- C1    --   best of three competitions
-  5. round:  -- top 4:  winner A1 / D2  --  winner B2 / C1   and   winner A2 / D1  -- winner B1 / C2  --  best of three competitions
                  -- bottom 4:  loser A1 / D2  -- loser B2 /  C1   and   loser    A2 / D1  -- loser B1 / C2    --  knock out games
-  6. round: 
   -- for 7th place:  loser of lost A1/D2 vs. lost B2/C1  --  loser of lost A2/D1 vs. lost B1/C2    --  game on Saturday, 30th January, at 11:00 (CET)
   -- for 5th place:  winner of lost A1/D2 vs. lost B2/C1  --  winner of lost A2/D1 vs. lost B1/C2  --  game on Saturday, 30th January, at 11:00 (CET)
   -- for 3rd place:  loser of won A1/D2 vs. won B2/C1  --   loser of won A2/D1 vs. won B1/C2  -- two games on Saturday, 30th January, at 11:00 and 17:00 (CET)
   -- for 1st place:  winner of won A1/D2 vs. won B2/C1  --  winner of won A2/D1 vs. won B1/C2  -- two games on Saturday, 30th January, at 11:00 and 17:00 (CET)
          optional:  deciding third game(s) in the best of three competition for 1st and/or 3rd place on Sunday 31st January, starting at 11:00 (CET)

Photos