New European Tour

[Javaness2]

Actually, this is an old event in disguise http://www.eurogofed.org/ecup/index.htm
The Pandanet Tour is now replaced by a new Cup event. The EGF has no sponsor for this event, but it wants to retain a tour. Therefore to generate a prizefund for the Cup, individual tournaments must pay to be in the European Cup.

I was wondering what people thought of this new event. It seems disappointing, but predictable, that the EGF was unable to find a sponsor for the tour. Will you think of joining the Cup?

PS: What happened to password recovery on this site

[willemien]

I was wondering about the points to placed description

a 6 round tournament only validates first 3 players see [sl=SwissPairing]here[/sl] so what if the points stream out to the 7th place (as with a level 5 tournament)

maybe you can only reasonably select the place with the MM score (so all players with a mm score of the winner minus 1 share the next (number of players with this score) places and then ruond up the points p to the next higher integer

[Javaness2]

The first event in the tour had just 10 players

[karaklis]

Maybe it was too close after the go congress.

[HermanHiddema]

The first event in the tour had just 10 players

Such a shame. Leksand is one of my favorite tournaments. Despite the 2000km drive, we been going there with a group of Dutch players for years now. Sadly, this year we couldn't make it. I guess many people feel they have seen Leksand already after the congress there in 2008, and are not willing to travel there again.

On September 10-11 there will be an ECup tournament in Delft, BTW. I've organized this tournament several times, and can highly recommend it. The venue is great. Low prices (coffee for 50 cents, soda for 1 euro, a bottle of beer for 1.50 and cheap food as well) and within easy walking distance of the old city center and the train station. And Delft is just a really beautiful city to visit:

http://www.goclubdelft.nl/en/tournament/2011

The last few years, there were 60-80 participants in the range 6 dan - 30 kyu, so anyone should be able to find some interesting opponents.

[Javaness2]

I was taking a look at participation in the tour. So far we've had 7 tournaments, only 1 person has scored points in more than 1 event. Although the results from Istanbul, as recorded in the table, need checking . At the moment, it looks like the tour is struggling a little to incite Go tourism.
On the bright side - is the prize fund about the same as last years?

[kivi]

5 of the 7 tournaments so far were level 1, giving very few points. I find it normal that they didn't excite any point hunters. Brussels, Goteborg, London, Amsterdam should be more interesting to see, for the tour points.

Istanbul is on EGD. Seems Lazar should get 3 points instead of one, and actually he did, and has 3 points in the total column but Ista column is somehow has a typo, showing 1.

[Javaness2]

My experience was that level 1 events would have usually picked up a Points hunter.
We will see what happens though. Bochum doesn't seem to have picked up a tourist either.
The Istanbul points don't seem to be allocated correctly, Ali should get six points, Then the next 3 players are all tied on MMS, so they should have 1.3 points each. Well, that's how it worked last year.

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1 Jabarin Ali               5d IL  TAv   41   5    195  972   15+   11+    3+    2+    5+     
  2 Manojlovic Lazar          5d RS  KGRa  40   4    196  965    6+   10+    8+    1-   13+    
  3 Mitic Nikola              5d RS  NiSt  40   4    194  966   12+    7+    1-   20+    6+     
  4 Stankovic Mijodrag        5d RS  NiSt  40   4    193  965    9-   15+   12+    5+    7+   

[Javaness2]

13 events so far, another one about to be added, Csaba Mero is top with 3 places. There are 3 people, if I have read correctly, who have 2 places.