14th Pandanet Go European Team Championship
Finals 26th and 27th June in Toulouse, France
Ukraine, France, Poland and Czechia will play for the Team Championship on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th June. This is a round-robin tournament, 3 rounds for 4 teams.
This 14th PGETC face-off will be the first event in the European Go Congress 2024 in Toulouse, France.
The second round will start CET 16:00 today!
France vs. Poland and Czechia vs. Ukraine
Four games are broadcast on Pandanet-IGS. See PETC France vs Poland and PETC Czechia vs Ukraine in the game list.
14th Pandanet Go European Team Championship Finals
Ukraine, France, Poland and Czechia will play for the Team Championship on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th July. This is a round-robin tournament, 3 rounds for 4 teams.
This 14th PGETC face-off will be the first event in the European Go Congress 2024 in Toulouse, France.
Game results and live broadcast links will be added here in due time. Stay tuned!
Finals pairing and results
The 14th Pandanet Go European Team Championship Opening
The 14th Pandanet Go European Team Championship season 2023-2024 is opening and the teams will be collected by the deadline 3rd October.
The first round of Leagues A and B will be on Tuesday, 17th October. Leagues C and D will commence on Tuesday 24th October. Full schedule and the pairings are published on the PGETC website (see the right column).
League A
Ukraine, Czechia, France, Israel, Romania, Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Germany and Sweden
League B
Austria, Serbia, Italy, Turkey, Switzerland, Belgium, Lithuania, Croatia, Ireland and Finland
League C
South Africa, United Kingdom, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Slovenia, Kyrgysztan and Slovakia
League D
Georgia, Portugal, Kazakhstan, Greece, Cyprus, Iceland and Morocco
Regrettably Bulgaria is excluded from the PGETC competition for two years, based on the EGF Board Decision concerning the cheating incidents.
Ukraine wins the 13th Pandanet Go European Team Championship
Ukrainian team (Artem Kachanoskyi 2p, Andrii Kravets 1p, Valerii Krushelnytskyi 6d, Bohdan Zhurakovskyi 6d and Dmytro Bohatskyi 6d) won the PGETC Finals in July 2023. This is the second championship in a row for Ukraine.
After the exciting last round, Czechia was the second, France 3rd and Israel 4th.
See the Finals full results and games
PGETC Finals in EGC 2023 Markkleeberg
The 13th Pandanet Go European Team Championship Finals between the four best teams in League A will be played on Friday and Saturday 21st and 22nd July 2023. These games are placed on the European Go Congress 2023 site Rudolf-Hildebrand-Schule in Markkleeberg, Germany.
Schedule/Pairings:
Opening on Friday, 10:15 CEST
Round 1 – Friday, 21st July, 10:30 CEST
Czechia – Ukraine, Israel – France
Round 2 – Friday, 21st July, 15:30 CEST
Ukraine – Israel, France – Czechia
Round 3 – Saturday, 22nd July, 10:30 CEST
Ukraine – France, Czechia – Israel
Pricegiving on Saturday evening during the European Go Congress Opening Session
Tournament Mode:
- 3 rounds round-robin, Japanese rules (6.5 Komi), Fischer time control 45 min basic and 20 s increment
- First named team in the pairings gets black on boards 1 and 3
- Final order: Match-points, Board-points, Order after League A online-rounds
European Team Championship to exclude Russia
The Pandanet Go European Team Championship has excluded Russia from
the current League A, following the decision of the EGF (EGF announcement)
The team and the match results are deleted from the tournament table
and the League A will be played with 9 teams in the coming rounds.
As the League A will be finished with nine teams, the rules for
demotion and promotion of teams are modified for the end of the 12th
season:
League A 9th place team will play a play-off with League B 2nd place
team. League B 1st place team is promoted directly.
League B 10th place team will be demoted to League C, the 9th place
team will avoid demotion.
League C top 2 teams will be promoted to the League B.
League C 8th place team will be demoted to League D, the 7th place
team will avoid demotion.
League D top 2 teams will be promoted to League C.
I hope our Ukrainian friends are safe and I wish this war to end soon.
Vesa