2018 Chinese Pro Qualification

[wolfking]

It looks like at least 4 of the new female pros are playing in female Mingren main bracket https://gotoeveryone.k2ss.info/cn/fm/1:

Wu Yiming
Dong Tianyi
Ding Mingjun
Chu Keren

It will be interesting to see how they fare against older pros.

Yes all 4 plus another new pro Hang Xiaotong are in the Mingren main bracket. Chu Ke'er and Ding Mingjun qualified by finishing in top 8 of the 2018 Women's individual tournament. Wu Yiming, Dong Tianyi and Hang Xiaotong by latest CWA pro Elo ranking.

[silviu22]

It looks like at least 4 of the new female pros are playing in female Mingren main bracket https://gotoeveryone.k2ss.info/cn/fm/1:

Wu Yiming
Dong Tianyi
Ding Mingjun
Chu Keren

It will be interesting to see how they fare against older pros.

Yes all 4 plus another new pro Hang Xiaotong are in the Mingren main bracket. Chu Ke'er and Ding Mingjun qualified by finishing in top 8 of the 2018 Women's individual tournament. Wu Yiming, Dong Tianyi and Hang Xiaotong by latest CWA pro Elo ranking.

Chu Ke'en and Ding Mingjun confirmed their form by winning in 1st round. Alas, they both lost in 2nd round. Chu's performance is remarkable, since she took out the defending champion.

[wolfking]

The 2018 Chinese Weiqi Congress has come to a close.
Now on the women's side

1 Wu Yiming (吴依铭) 10 wins
2 Chu Ke'er (储可儿) 10 wins

The above earned 1p status through Early Qualification (10 wins after 10/11 rounds).

3 Huang Jiayi (黄嘉怡) 10 wins
4 Hang Xiaotong (杭小童) 9 wins
5 Zhou Yushan (周昱杉) 9 wins
6 Gao Ruohuan (高若环) 9 wins
7 Jin Shan (金珊) 9 wins
8 Ding Mingjun (丁明君) 10 wins
9 Zhang Xinyue (张馨月) 9 wins
10 Dong Tianyi (董天怡) 9 wins

The above were promoted to 1p.

Chu Ke'er and Huang Jiayi of Team Dalian Yidao (Way of Go) both made pro, so they could potentially keep the team intact and play in 2019 Women's A-League as an all shodan team.

I just want to report that the new all shodan team did come to fruition in the form of Shanxi Shuhai-Luxin Weman's Weiqi Team (山西书海•路鑫女子围棋队) as a result of cooperation between Shanxi Weiqi Association and Dalian Yidao Go Club. Shuhai, a publishing company and Luxin, an energy company co-sponsored the team. The new team will have all three original players from Dalian Yidao (Gu Wanshan 1p, Chu Ke'er 1p, and Huang Jiayi 1p), plus Wang Zixin 1p.

The team stated goal for the first year was to stay in the WAL.

Press conference of the signing ceremony

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