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About
Links8th European Grand Prix Finale 2024
The Grand Prix Finale 2024 is the culmination of all the Bonus Point Tournaments that took place over the year.
This year it will be held in Karlsruhe, Germany, from the 3rd – 6th January 2025. 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 2024.
Venue
Place : Studentenhaus Karlsruhe, Adenauerring 7, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
EGD: TBA
1st place: Valerii Krushelnytskyi
2nd place: Ali Jabarin
3rd place: Lucas Neirynck
4th place: Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia
Schedule
Starting with round 2, the games will be commented live on Twitch by Tanguy Le Calvé 1p, about 20-30min after the start.
You can follow the games on OGS on the accounts EGF1-2-3....
| 17:30 | Opening |
| 18:00 | Round 1 |
| 10:00 | Round 2 |
| 14:15 | Round 3 |
| 19:00 | Tie-break games (optional) |
| 10:00 | Round 6 - Final round |
| 13:30 | Pricegiving - Closing |
Pots
Pot #1  Andrii Kravets, 2p  Lukáš Podpěra, 7d  Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia, 7d Ali Jabarin, 2p |
Pot #2 Thomas Debarre, 7d  Yuze Xing, 6d Valerii Krushelnytskyi, 7d  Stanislaw Frejlak, 1p |
Pot #3  Cornel Burzo, 6d Lucas Neirynck, 6d  Michael Cheung, 5d Denis Dobranis, 6d |
Pot #4 Damen Woo, 6d Jonas Welticke, 6d Alessandro Pace, 5d Vsevolod Ovsiienko, 6d |
Preparing lottery for building the preliminary tournament groups A to D: – Build groups A, B, C and D by setting the players of pot #1 as heads of the groups and then spread the players of each pot to the groups
Pairings / Results
Games from round 2 will be commented live on Twitch by Tanguy Le Calvé 1p, about 20-30min after the start.Follow the games on OGS, accounts EGF1-2-3...
Round 1:
A1: Lukas Podpera 1 - 0 Lucas Neirynck
A2: Yuze Xing 0 - 1 Jonas Welticke
B1: Andrii Kravets 1 - 0 Denis Dobranis
B2: Thomas Debarre 0 - 1 Damen Woo - Game
C1: Ali Jabarin 1 - 0 Cornel Burzo
C2: Stanislaw Frejlak 1 - 0 Vsevolod Ovsiienko - Game
D1: Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia 1 - 0 Michael Cheung
D2: Valerii Krushelnytskyi 1 - 0 Alessandro Pace
Round 2:
A1: Lukas Podpera 1 - 0 Jonas Welticke - Game
A2: Yuze Xing 0 - 1 Lucas Neirynck
B1: Andrii Kravets 0 - 1 Damen Woo
B2: Thomas Debarre 1 - 0 Denis Dobranis
C1: Ali Jabarin 0 - 1 Stanislaw Frejlak - Game
C2: Cornel Burzo 0 - 1 Vsevolod Ovsiienko
D1: Benjamin Drean-G. 1 - 0 Valerii Krushelnytskyi - Game
D2: Michael Cheung 0 - 1 Alessandro Pace
Round 3:
A1: Lukas Podpera 1 - 0 Yuze Xing
A2: Lucas Neirynck 1 - 0 Jonas Welticke - Game
B1: Andrii Kravets 0 - 1 Thomas Debarre - Game
B2: Denis Dobranis 0 - 1 Damen Woo
C1: Ali Jabarin 1 - 0 Vsevolod Ovsiienko - Game
C2: Stanislaw Frejlak 1 - 0 Cornel Burzo
D1: Benjamin Drean-G. 1 - 0 Alessandro Pace
D2: Valerii Krushelnytskyi 1 - 0 Michael Cheung
Round 4 - Quarterfinals:
Lukas Podpera 0 - 1 Ali Jabarin - Game
Lucas Neirynck 1 - 0 Stanislaw Frejlak - Game
Damen Woo 0 - 1 Valerii Krushelnytskyi - Game
Thomas Debarre 0 - 1 Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia - Game
Round 5 - Semifinals :
Ali Jabarin 1 - 0 Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia - Game
Lucas Neirynck 0 - 1 Valerii Krushelnyiskyi - Game
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Lukas Podpera 0 - 1 Thomas Debarre - Game
Stanislaw Frejlak 1 - 0 Damen Woo - Game
Round 6 - Finals :
For Champion: Valeri Krushelnytskyi 1 - 0 Ali Jabarin - Game
For 3rd: Lukas Neirynck 1 - 0 Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia - Game
- For 5th: Stanislaw Frejlak vs. Thomas Debarre - Game
For 7th: Damen Woo 0 - 1 Lukas Podpera
Groups
Group A
| Name | LP | YX | LN | JW | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lukas Podpera |
xxx | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Yuze Xing |
0 | xxx | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Lucas Neirynck |
0 | 1 | xxx | 1 | 2 |
| Jonas Welticke |
0 | 1 | 0 | xxx | 3 |
Group B
| Name | AK | TD | DD | DW | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrii Kravets |
xxx | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Thomas Debarre |
1 | xxx | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Denis Dobranis |
0 | 0 | xxx | 0 | 4 |
| Damen Woo |
1 | 1 | 1 | xxx | 1 |
Group C
| Name | AJ | SF | CB | VO | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Jabarin |
xxx | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Stanislaw Frejlak |
1 | xxx | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Cornel Burzo |
0 | 0 | xxx | 0 | 4 |
| Vsevolod Ovsiienko | 0 | 0 | 1 | xxx | 3 |
Group D
| Name | BDG | VK | MC | AP | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia |
xxx | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Valerii Krushelnytskyi |
0 | xxx | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Michael Cheung |
0 | 0 | xxx | 0 | 4 |
| Alessandro Pace |
0 | 0 | 1 | xxx | 3 |
Games will be transmitted on OGS (User ids EGF1-10) and on Twitch
Rules and Tournament System
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
-- "EGF rule" for stopping the clock if more than 4 stones had to be picked up from the board after having caught them
System of pairing for the 3 preliminary rounds:
– 1. round (Friday evening): per group (A to D) players pot #1 — pot #3 and pot #2 — pot #4 (1-3 and 2-4)
– 2. round (Saturday morning): Winners against winners and losers against losers of round 1
– 3. round (Saturday afternoon): automatically defined
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 finals, there are no more games for players ending 3rd and 4th place within their group.
Tiebreak for the Group Stage (same number of wins after three rounds):
– Mutual game, if two players with equal number of wins, also valid after special tie-break games (see next point)
– With three players equal number of wins, two more games will be played following a special system. After this decision the mutual game might decide about number 1 and number 2 after the 3 rounds in the group.
Mode of pairing for the 3 final rounds:
4. round (Sunday morning): A1 -- C2, A2 -- C1, B1 -- D2, B2 -- D1
5. round (Sunday 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 (Monday 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
Tournament prize-chart
Prize-money Grand Prix Final 2024 - Karlsruhe 3-6 January 2025
€ 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9-16 Budget
1 Qualification Grand Prix Final 2022 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 1.600
2 For each won game in R1,2 and 3 100 x* x* x* x* x* `x* x* x* y* 2.400
3 Qualification for Halffinal top 4 (R4) 400 400 400 400 400 1.600
4 Win for 5th and 6th place (R5) 200 200 200 400
6 Win semi-final game (R5) 400 400 400 800
7 Win for 5th and 7th place (R6) 100 100 100 200
8 Win 3rd place game (R6) 200 200 200
9 Win championship (R6) 400 400 400
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€ 7.600
line 2: x* = € 100, 200 or 300
y* = € 0, 100 or 200
Player's prize-money (without rounds 1 to 3) 1300 900 700 500 400 300 200 100 100
Maximal prize-money (with rounds 1 to 3) 1600 1200 1000 800 700 600 500 400 300
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