1st Transatlantic Professional Go League

Final standings, top four:

Winner	Ryan Li 3p
Runner-up	Ilya Shikshin 4p
3rd place	Artem Kachanovskyi 2p
4th place	Tanguy Le Calve 1p

From 15 May until 15 August 2021, the EGF professionals, the AGA professionals and two European amateurs played in an online league at https://online-go.com every Saturday and Sunday at 18:00 CET/CEST.

The preliminary for selecting amateur players took place on 8 - 9 May. The games were played at 14:00 and 17:00 CEST and commented live on the EGF Twitch channel. Participants: Stanislaw Frejlak 7d, Lukas Podpera 7d, Viktor Lin 6d, Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia 6d, Oscar Vazquez 6d, Jonas Welticke 6d, Remi Campagnie 6d, Lucas Neirynck 6d. Winners of the preliminary: Oscar Vazquez 6d and Remi Campagnie 6d.

In the main tournament, one match is played per day: a single pair of participants will play a best of two match, switching colours. Another participant will comment the games live on the EGF Twitch channel.

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Organizers: European Professional Committee.

Participants:

EGF: Ilya Shikshin 4p, Artem Kachanovskyi 2p, Pavol Lisy 2p, Ali Jabarin 2p, Andrii Kravets 1p, Tanguy Le Calvé 1p
AGA: Calvin Sun 1p and Ryan Li 3p
European amateurs: Oscar Vazquez 6d and Remi Campagnie 6d

Tournament system: after the preliminaries for amateurs, the players will be divided into two groups each consisting of:
1) Three EGF Pros
2) One NAGF Pro
3) One European amateur

Each group will play a round robin. Once all the matches are played, two players will qualify from each group to the playoffs.

Time control: 30 minutes basic time, three periods of 30 seconds per move byo-yomi.

Tie-breaker: SODOS, mutual game.

Prize money: 1st place: € 1.000, 2nd place: € 600, 3rd place: € 400, 4th place: € 200.

Sponsors and partners:

Group I

Name	Rank	IS	ArK	AnK	CS	OV	Score	Place
Ilya Shikshin	4p		B+R W-2.5	B+R W+R	W-3.5 B+0.5	B+R W+R	6	I
Artem Kachanovskyi	2p	W-R B+2.5		B-R W+R	W+R B-R	B+R W+R	5	II
Andrii Kravets	1p	W-R B-R	W+R B-R		W-R B-R	B-2.5 W+R	2	V
Calvin Sun	1p	B+3.5 W-0.5	B-R W+R	B+R W+R		W-R B-R	4	III
Oscar Vazquez	6d	W-R B-R	W-R B-R	W+2.5 B-R	B+R W+R		3	IV

Group II

Name	Rank	RL	AJ	PL	TC	RC	Score	Place
Ryan Li	3p		W+R B+R	W+5.5 B+R	B+R W+R	W+R B+R	8	I
Ali Jabarin	2p	B-R W-R		B+R W-R	W-7.5 B+R	B+3.5 W+8.5	4	III
Pavol Lisy	2p	B-5.5 W-R	W-R B+R		B-R W-R	W-R B-R	1	V
Tanguy Le Calve	1p	W-R B-R	B+7.5 W-R	W+R B+R		B+10.5 W+8.5	5	II
Remi Campagnie	6d	B-R W-R	W-3.5 B-8.5	B+R W+R	W-10.5 B-8.5		2	IV

Semi-finals:

Ilya Shikshin 4p vs

Tanguy Le Calve 1p

Ilya won 2-0 | W+R | B+R |

Ryan Li 3p vs

Artem Kachanovskyi 2p

Ryan won 2-1 | W-R | B+R | W+8.5 |

Match for 3rd place:

Artem Kachanovskyi 2p vs

Tanguy Le Calve 1p

Artem won 2-1 | B-R | W+R | B+T |

Final:

Ilya Shikshin 4p vs

Ryan Li 3p

Ryan won 2-0 | W+R | B+1.5 |

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