8th 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 |

• Pots |

• Pairings / Results / Groups |

• Knock out bracket |

• Rules & tournament system |

• Photos

Venue

Schedule

Pots

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

Round 1: 
A1:    Lukas Podpera  --  Lukas Neirynck
A2:    Yuze Xing -- Jonas Welticke
B1:   Andrii Kravets --  Denis Dobranis
B2:   Thomas Debarre  --  Damen Woo
C1:   Ali Jabarin  --  Cornel Burzo
C2:   Stanislaw Frejlak  --  Vsevolod Ovsiienko
D1:   Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia  --  Michael Cheung
D2:   Valerii Krushelnytskyi  --  Alessandro Pace

Round 2:
A1:  
A2: 
B1: 
B2:  
C1:  
C2:  
D1:  
D2:  

Round 3:
A1: 
A2:  
B1:  
B2:  
C1:  
C2:  
D1:  
D2:  

Round 4  -  Quarterfinals:
     N.N.  --  N.N.
     N.N.  --  N.N.
     N.N.  --  N.N.
     N.N.  --  N.N.

Round 5  -  Semifinals :
     N.N.  --  N.N.
     N.N.  --  N.N.
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    N.N.  --  N.N.      
    N.N.  --  N.N.

Round 6  -  Finals :
     For Championship:  
     For 3rd:                      
-    For 5th:                      
     For 7th:                      

Groups

Games will probably be transmitted on KGS (Userids EGF1, EGF2) 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
                                                                                                                                                                                                  ----------
                                                                                                                                                                                            €      7.600      
      lne 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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