What happens?? North America versus Europe.
Rules: ING rules, with time controls of 30 minutes main time + 10 moves/5 minutes Canadian-style overtime.

By now you should have already filled that day on your calendar with a “do not disturb, I’m at KGS” note. Or, at least, this is what the poll at Godiscussions points out, since a third of the participants haven’t voted for North America nor Europe, but for a KGS collapse.

Just in case you want to know the players for each team, check the American Go Association announcement.

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Since the amount of players summed up to 146 and it would be a mess to post it here, check the original list for further details HERE.

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Those days you’ll hear about Kisei 2007, for those who don’t know about it and in order to make it clearer, I’ll explain some of the biggest championships that are going on in the professional world.
Those of you who have seen “Hikaru no Go” might have some knowledge about professional Go titles.

Part of this is extracted from the Sensei’s Library:

International Tournaments:1. Ing Cup:
this is the one with the biggest prize, and it takes place once every 4 years. It is based on a knockout tournament, with 24 players and played to the best of three matches on the semifinals and best of five at the final.
2. Toyota & Denso Cup: Takes place once every 2 years. 32-player knockout tournament, leading up to a best of three final match.
3. LG Cup: 32-player knockout tournament, a best of five final match.
4. Samsung Cup: Takes place every year, 32-player knockout tournament, leading up to best of three semifinals and finals.
5. Chunlan Cup: 32-player knockout tournament, a best of three match.
6. Fujitsu Cup: First World Go tournament, 32-player knockout. Even the final is disputed on a single game.

Japanese domestic tournaments:
Most traditional Japanese tournaments work in a different way than the previous. The champion of the last edition plays against a challenger, selected from a league made between preliminary tournaments.

1. Kisei: one of the most important titles (with the biggest prize), along with the two following ones. The final of this title is currently being played.
2. Meijin.
3. Honinbo: the oldest Go tournament and, though it isn’t the one with the biggest prize, it retains most of the prestige of the past, so some players regard it as the most important one.
4. NEC Cup: single knockout tournament of fast games with sixteen participants. The sixteen players invited include the seven big Japanese title holders (Kisei, Meijin, Honinbo, Judan, Tengen, Oza, and Gosei), the NHK Cup and JAL Fast Game champions, NEC Cup New Pro champion, and top finishers in the previous year’s NEC Cup.
5. Judan:
This is where you can get the famous 10-dan category, though it is only a title and you are considered a 9 dan player. This one is based on a double knockout tournament instead of the robin league. At the end, the winner of the winners and the winner of the losers play against each other to see who will challenge the title holder.
6. Tengen.
7. Oza.
8. Gosei.

If you are interested on viewing Kisei games on real time, there are several options available:
-Cyberoro server
-Nihon Ki in client

If you are interested on the past games and comments about them, they can be found here: Kisei 2007 at 361points

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