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Ukraine wins the European Youth Go Team Competition 2023/24  18.2.2024

In the 2023/24 edition, Ukraine's players manifested their exceptional talent throughout the competition, ultimately securing the sought-after first-place title by winning in all 4 rounds.

Behind Ukraine, with 3 MMS points and 13 board points there were Germany and Poland. To decide the second and third place it was considered the MMS of the opponent teams, so Germany took the second place and Poland came third.

Throughout the tournament, all 14 participating teams showed exceptional skills, courage and sportsmanship, contributing to make this tournament, we think, a good experience for everyone.

Hopefully, next year we will find all the young players and many new ones, even more motivated, all together, despite diversities and national boundaries, to play, grow and confront each other.

 

Table:

Pl.	Name	MMS	BP	SOM	SOB	Pe	NbW
1	Ukraine	5	17	11	41		4
2	Germany	3	13	14	46	1	2
3	UK	3	12	12	36		2
4	France	3	10	13	48		2
5	Poland	3	13	7	35		3
6	Czechoslovakia	2	10	9	37	1	1
7	Austria	3	10	9	34	1	3
8	Romania	3	9	14	52		2
9	Hungary	2	8	10	42	1	2
10	Turkey	3	7	11	43		2
11	Kyrgyzstan	2	12	5	27	1	2
12	FIND *	2	9	10	43		2
13	Italy	1	6	7	36		1
14	France B	0	8	4	40		0

Pl. = Place, MP = Match Points, MMS= MacMahon Score, BP = Board Points, SOM = Sum of Opponents' MacMahon Score, SOB = Sum of Opponents' Board Points, Pe = Penalties, Y = Yellow Card, Won matches are counted with 1 point
* FIND = Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, Denmark

Team Managers:

France, last year's winner, is allowed to start with two teams, France A and France B but only if the number of participants is odd. Below the list of teams with their respective team captain, names in bold means it's confirmed:

Team	Captain	Nick
Austria	Mirta Medak / Zhao Yiwen
FIND *	Dave de Vos / Jeff Su	gennan / Finnish8d
Czechoslovakia	Adriana Tomšu / Zuzana Kralikova	Kohana / Zuzka
France	Jean-Louis Tu	jlt
Germany	Ying Cheng	myc0627
Hungary	György Csizmadia	csiz
Italy	Sofia Malatesta	Sofiam
Kyrgyzstan	Davron Juldashev	Sengokusan
Poland	Wojtek Szychowiak	woj
Romania	Cornel Burzo	Cornel
Turkey	Fatih Sulak	fatih
UK	Alison Bexfield	abex
Ukraine	Dmytro Bogatskyy	Di

* FIND = Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, Denmark

System / Rules:

Games:

• Will be played on KGS with 60 Minutes+3x30 seconds Japanese Byoyomi without handicap and with 6.5 komi. https://gokgs.com, check out this HowTo on how to setup a game.
• We play in the room "Euro Youth Team". Click on "Rooms", choose "Rooms List", "Tournaments", "Euro Youth Team".
• The detailed rules are in parts similar to the Pandanet European Team Championship of the adults.

FAQ:

• Will there be handicap? - No, but due to the tournament system, after one or two rounds teams of similar strength play against each other.
• Can a younger child play in an older age category? - Yes, of course.
• Can a child play in different age categories in different rounds? - Yes, no problem.
• Will there be prizes? - We'll see what we can do... :)
• Are there some special rules i should know about? - We play "accelerated Swiss system" (meaning the first round is skipped to avoid some boring games), up to three players can be added later to the team (under certain conditions) and one country might be allowed to play with two teams where one team is the A-team (with the top players) and one the B-team (with remaining players).
• Can one player play in different rounds play in different teams? - Usually no, but with one exception: a player might sometimes play in his A team and sometimes in his B team if his country has two teams (but of course not in both in the same round).

Schedule:

• The games are being played on a saturday, in the middle of the month, default playing time is 14:00.