5th European Grand Prix Finale 2021

The Grand Prix Finale 2021 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 22th – 27st January 2022. 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 2021.

• Schedule |

• Groups |

• First 3 group rounds |

• Knock out bracket |

• Rules & tournament system |

• Photos

 

Schedule

Players

 
  Ali Jabarin, 2p (Avtikh)
  Anton Chernykh, 6d (AshesOfDreams)
  Artem Kachanovskyi, 2p (artem92)
  Benjamin Dréan-Guénaïzia, 6d (ben0)
  Ilja Shikshin, 4p (roln90)
  Jan Prokop, 6d (jan.prokop)
  Jonas Welticke, 6d (iryumika)
  Lucas Neirynck, 6d (Cassis)
  Lukáš Podpera, 7d (Lukan) 
  Mateusz Surma, 2p (mateusz.surma1995)
  Nikola Mitic, 7d (nidza)
  Ondrej Kruml, 6d (OndraKruml)
  Oscar Vazquez, 6d (dacat1)
  Pavol Lisy, 2p (Palko)
  Stanislaw Frejlak, 1p (Siasio)
  Tanguy Le Calvé, 1p (Welvang)

Knock out bracket

Games will be played on OGS and at least rounds 5 and 6 will be streamed with commentary on Twitch.

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 either one more round or three more rounds
-- No more games after Stage 1 for players ending 3rd and 4th place within their group
-- The tournament will be registered in the European Go Datababase (EGD) as a Class A tournament
-- Prize-money all over  Euro 6.500,-

Mode of playing:
–  For all rounds the playing day is fixed, but 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, chinese rules (7,5 komi), playing online on the OGS Go-server
– Fischer time: 45 minutes basic time, additional 20 seconds per move
--Tie-break games with Fischer time 20/10
– Nigiri in all games 

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 25th January with reduced thinking-time
– If after three games round robin all players are still equal (one won and one lost game), decision by won Bonus Points in the Grand Prix 2021

System of pairing for the three rounds in Stage 2,

 --  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   (a knock-out round)
-  5. round:  winner A1 / D2  --  winner B2 / C1   and   winner A2 / D1  -- winner B1 / C2                  
-  6. round: 
      -- for 3rd place:  loser of won A1/D2 vs. won B2/C1   --   loser of won A2/D1 vs. won B1/C2 
      -- for 1st place:  winner of won A1/D2 vs. won B2/C1  --  winner of won A2/D1 vs. won B1/C2