Total 365 players will be playing in combined preliminary.

1st round of preliminary starts 3/10/12(China).

Few players are seeded 2nd round of preliminary.

And the following players are seeded in main tournament.

Korea; Lee Sedol, Choi Chulhan, Park Junghwan
China; Gu Li, Kong Jie, Piao Wenyao, Jiang Weijie, Gu Lingyi
Japan; Yamashita Keigo, Iyama Yuuta, Hane Naoki
Taiwan; Zhou Junxun
Sponsor selected(Wild card); Cho Hanseung, Chang hao

http://igokisen.web.fc2.com/wr/bl.html

Result of 1st round of prelim.

http://igokisen.web.fc2.com/wr/bl.html

Unexpected result:
Kang Dongyun, Heo Youngho, Won Seongjin lost in the 1st round.

Missing in action: Lee Changho

Thank you for the update

Some amateurs advanced, lets keep an eye on them.

2nd round,

2 from Japan, 30 from Korea and none from Taiwan survived 2nd round.
Amateur: 1 from China and 2 from Korea survived.

Biggest surprise;
Song Ronghui defeated Tan Xiao(rank #1 in China).

I could not find SGF file for Tan Xiao Song Ronghui game. It may be uploaded later.



Song Ronghui's next opponent is Byun Sang-il.

I cannot find anything about Byun Sang-il except that he was recently promoted to 1d. He had been in tournaments as an amateur before, but I don't know the specifics of his promotion.

He may be tougher than expected for sure.

Byun Sangil;
Birthdate - 01/14/1997

He studied at Golden Bell Baduk school. He was 2nd place in Daehan life insurance cup in 2008.
He became pro 1/15/2012 through pro entrance exam for public.

From looking at the tournament table at igokisen it seems that no less than eleven games were defaulted. Is there any story behind that?

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Byun Sangil defeated Song Ronghui.

Byun Sangil 1p.

Rui Naiwei won her third game and will be one of players in the main tournament

p.s.

I would argue that her win against Won Seong-jin in first round is not a surprise result - it was probably a 50/50 match-up.

Result of 1st round(main tournament)

Lee Sedol defeated Mao Ruilong.
Park Junghwan defeated Zhu Yuanhao.
Chen Yaoe defeated Choi Chulhan.
Shi Yue defeated Park Younghun.
Zhou Hexi defeated Lee Younggu.
Cho Hanseung defeated Dong Yan.
Jiang Weijie defeated Mok Jinseok.
Baek Hongseok defeated Zheng Miaoxin.
Kim Hyunchan defeated Li Qincheng.
Kim Dongho defeated Zhang Dongyue.
Chen Xian deeated Kim Minho.
Ahn Kukhyun defeated Byun Sangil.
Park Jungsang defated Lee Sangheun.
Yamashita Keigo defeated Kim Seungjae.
Tang Weixing defeated Zhou Junxun.
Iyama Yuuta defeated Yang Dong.
Huang Yunsong defeated Hane Naoki.
Yang Dingxin defeted Ha Youngil.
Li Kang defeated Gu Li.
Kong Jie defeated Huang Chen.
An Dongxu defeated Chang Hao.
Cui Can defeated Piao Wenyao.
Qiu Jun defeated Wu Guangya.
Xie Erhao defeated Rui Naiwei.
Zhou Ruiyang defeated Mi Yuting.
Han Han defeated Peng Quan.
Dang Yifei defeated Cui Can.
Xie He defeated Dong Mengcheng.
Fan Tingyu defeated Wang Lei.
Niu Yutian defeated Mao Rulong.
Li Haojie defeated Jiang Wei.
Tao Xinran defeated Gu Lingyi.