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Hi,

I am thinking of playing in some European tournaments in the future.
Maybe I can go to 2-3 different countries each year. That would be fun!
So I started to search for a central tournament calendar to plan for which tournaments to go to.

On the eurogofed I found a link to http://senseis.xmp.net/?EuropeanGoTournamentCalendar

Is this the only source available?
It seems that organizers are not so good at updating this list.

Then I found this site http://www.eurogofed.org/eurocup/calendar.htm
Several of these tournaments are not mentioned on Sensei's.
I guess _a lot_ of national tournaments are planned but not published on Sensei's.

So does it exist some more updated database?
Or do I have to use google to find each clubs tournament in each countries language?

You can find more tournaments here: http://www.eurogofed.org/calendar/calendar.htm

Adrian Ghioc wrote:You can find more tournaments here: http://www.eurogofed.org/calendar/calendar.htm

Ah, yes there are some more!
I missed the link because I mistook it for a page title.

This page is quite good but I would like to see more tournaments in it.

Adrian Ghioc wrote:You can find more tournaments here: http://www.eurogofed.org/calendar/calendar.htm

I wonder how "Major European Tournament" is defined. If it is measured by the number of participants, then the Cologne Tournament is surely missing. In the last years over 100 players showed up.

karaklis wrote:I wonder how "Major European Tournament" is defined. If it is measured by the number of participants, then the Cologne Tournament is surely missing. In the last years over 100 players showed up.

I don't know exactly what Major European Tournament means but you have to take into consideration that the page is not updating by itself. Someone does it. If she or he doesn't get the info from the organizers ...

Maybe the fact that Cologne is missing from that page is just organizers' bad marketing. This is just an assumption but there may be some truth in it: just take a look at the link you provided: there is a site in German. Hmm ... not everyone understands German ... that's bad marketing ... or the tournament is a local one, not an international one.

eurogofed.org wrote:National and international events can be advertised on this page (shown in black) - please email your details.

All open tournaments can probably be listed there.
Only closed tournaments can not. Like a club championships.
So the Cologne tournaments organizers should email the details to EGF, if they want foreigners to come and play.

More tournaments can be found at

http://www.britgo.org/tournaments/ which is the official BGA list and is therefore comprehensive for all UK and Irish events

and
http://senseis.xmp.net/?EuropeanGoTournamentCalendar

mumps wrote:More tournaments can be found at

http://www.britgo.org/tournaments/ which is the official BGA list and is therefore comprehensive for all UK and Irish events

and
http://senseis.xmp.net/?EuropeanGoTournamentCalendar

The BGA tournaments page is very good and I use the links on it to find other major tournaments.

I just found the equivalent German page - it is also, I think, very good http://www.dgob.de/index.htm?turniere/

European tournament websites:-
Austria http://goverband.at/neu_starttermine.php
Belgium http://www.gofed.be/en/tournament
Czechia http://www.goweb.cz/prohrace/turnajeaakce
Denmark http://www.danskgoforbund.dk/fundanemt.php
Finland http://www.suomigo.net/wiki/Turnaukset
France http://ffg.jeudego.org/evenements/calendrier.php
Germany http://www.dgob.de/index.htm?turniere/
Hungary http://www.goszovetseg.hu/index.php?page=competition
Ireland http://www.irish-go.org/clubs-tournaments/
Italy AGI http://www.agi.go.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=10009&Itemid=287&lang=en
Italy FIGG http://www.figg.org/tornei/index.html
Luxembourg http://homepages.internet.lu/GoClubLux/
Netherlands http://www.gobond.nl/Nieuws/Kalender.php
Norway http://goinorge.no/
Portugal http://www.go-portugal.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=49&Itemid=58
Romania ?
Russia ?
Slovakia http://www.sago.sk/turnaje/turnaje.htm
Slovenia http://www.go-zveza.si/
Spain http://aego.biz/
Sweden http://goforbundet.se/Turneringar/
UK http://www.britgo.org/tournaments/

Corrections and additions invited

Wow, impressive!
Thanks a lot!

richardamullens wrote:Romania ?
Russia ?

Corrections and additions invited

Russia:
http://gofederation.ru/en/calendar (in English)
http://go-federation.spb.ru/?page_id=218 (in Russian)

Romania:
http://frgo.ro/competitions.aspx

VERY GOOD

just copied the whole list to [sl=NationalTournamentCalenders]National Tournament Calenders[/sl]

richardamullens wrote:Corrections and additions invited

Ukraine: http://forum.ufgo.org/index.php?showtopic=2662&st=0

karaklis wrote:

Adrian Ghioc wrote:You can find more tournaments here: http://www.eurogofed.org/calendar/calendar.htm

I wonder how "Major European Tournament" is defined. If it is measured by the number of participants, then the Cologne Tournament is surely missing. In the last years over 100 players showed up.

Some tournament directors don't want more participants because they have enough already.

tapir wrote:Some tournament directors don't want more participants because they have enough already.

It's quite nice if you get too many, rather than too few, participants though.

Javaness wrote:It's quite nice if you get too many, rather than too few, participants though.

Hm, I supposed that was spoken ironically.