Life In 19x19

12th Asian New Star Match

Host Organization :KC TV
Jeju, Korea 2011-11-22,23,24

This is team match of new star from Korea, China, Japan and Taiwan.

You will be able to see players who will lead next generation in very near future.

Link to Igokisen,

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

To me, the Korean team looks stronger than the Chinese this year. The other question is who'll place third, Japan or Taiwan. I don't have a guess there.

Japan's team is so... eh. Where's Iyama?

Korea won against Taiwan by 7:1.
China defeated Japan by 7:1.

http://www.cyberoro.com/news/news_view.oro?num=515913

2nd round;
China vs Taiwan 8:0
Korea vs Japan 6:2



http://www.cyberoro.com/news/news_view.oro?num=515916

The Japanese team seems to rotate players in general. Also, Iyama Yuta has a busy match schedule in Japan (but so have some of the Chinese or Korean players). So far only Xie Yimin had good results from the whole Japanese team. Hmm.

3rd round;
Korea vs China 4:4
Taiwan vs Japan 5:3

1st place China by overall win-loss.
2md place Korea
3rd place Taiwan
4th place Japan

http://media.cyberoro.com/photo/201111/ ... e-list.jpg

Makes me wonder where Japan will be relative to Taiwan in ten years. They're close, but Taiwan has beaten Japan 3 years running now.

hyperpape wrote:Makes me wonder where Japan will be relative to Taiwan in ten years. They're close, but Taiwan has beaten Japan 3 years running now.

I think they're close to level already, and have been for the last few years. Some of the best Nihon Ki-in players of the last 15 years have been Taiwanese.

True.

But I meant player who competes in Japanese professional tournaments, not Japanese natives. Unfortunately the term is ambiguous.