Tournament System

SEYGO Tour encourage beginners tournament in order to include as many newcomers to the game. It is fine to organize workshops and tournaments on smaller boards (9x9, 13x13) and report the results.

An official SEYGO tournament is a single MacMahon combining the qualifications stage, the KO (Knock-Out) in each age category: U12 and U18, and all the other games between non-qualified or eliminated participants. At the beginning of each round, the referee sets the pairing according to the Knock-Out tables and the remaining participants are then paired automatically by the computer program. Although differences can be accepted, a regular contest will consist of five rounds, in a competition held during two days. Rules: Japanese; Basic time: 1 hour; Byo-yomi: 3 x 30 seconds (Japanese) or 45 minutes + 20 seconds increment (Fischer time), or (in rare cases with "old clocks" only) 1 hour basic time  plus 20 stones in 10 minutes (Canadian); Komi: 6.5 points.

The Knock Out (KO) Tournament

The initial order of placement in the scheme is based on the rating in the European Go Database (EGD). The Knock Out phase starts within an age group with the special care that the difference in rating between opponents is not too high (e.g. smaller than 8 categories). 

The basic KO tournament should consist at least of semifinals (four players in each age group) in the penultimate (fourth) round and finals and small-finals in the last round. If the number of strong players is larger than four, quarter-finals should be done in the third round etc.