Ukrainian team won the exciting last round match against Russia 3-1 and with the score 2 wins, 1 draw, Ukraine is the new European Team Champion. Russia was the second with two wins and one loss, France was the third and Romania the fourth.

See the full results in Finals 2016 page.

The four top countries in the 6th Pandanet Go European Team Championship 2015-2016 are Russia, Ukraine, Romania and France. Now the final showdown starts, with the decisive 3 rounds to be played in St. Petersburg on 22nd and 23rd July 2016.

The provisional line-ups for the teams

Russia: Ilya Shikshin, Alexandr Dinerchteyn, Dmitrij Surin, Timur Sankin, Grigorij Fionin, Alexey Lazarev

Ukraine: Artem Kachanovskyi, Andrii Kravets, Bohdan Zhurakovskyi, Dmytro Bogatskyi, Volodymyr Kokozei

Romania: Catalin Taranu, Cristian Pop, Cornel Burzo, Mihai Serban, Sorin Sora

France: Thomas Debarre, Benjamin Dréan-Guénaïzia, Tanguy Le Calvé, Rémi Campagnie, Benjamin Papazoglou, Antoine Fenech, Jérôme Salignon

If you look on the players of the teams it is easy to see that very interesting games will come up just at the beginning of this year’s European Go Congress in Russia.

Check the schedule, pairings and the results on the Finals 2016 and follow the top boards live on IGS Pandanet.

The 6th Pandanet Go European Team Championship enters the new year and the season continues in the first week of the year already.

League B Round 5 Matches 5th January

Israel vs. Switzerland
Austria vs. Hungary
Denmark vs. Poland
Norway vs. United Kingdom
Turkey vs. Italy
Belgium vs. Slovakia

League C Round 5 will be played on the Tuesday 12th January.

League A Round 4 will take place 19th January.

Successful Year 2016 for everyone!

Based on the EGF Executive Board decision, the Pandanet Go European Championship will go back to the previous policy of rating the PGETC games. The games are rated C Class (weight factor 0.5) and individual team members have the possibility to not have their games rated. However, as the tournament is already running, this opting out should be informed through team captains to the league managers by Monday 28 September.

The earlier announcement of D Class rating has been withdrawn.

This Tuesday September 15th 2015 is already the first round of the 6th Pandanet Go European Team Championship, season 2015-2016. The European Team Championship has 34 countries participating, League A with 10 teams, League B and C with 12 teams.

League A
France, Ukraine, Czechia, Romania, Russia, Netherlands, Finland, Serbia, Germany and Sweden

League B
Poland, Hungary, Israel, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Turkey, Belgium, Slovakia, Italy, United Kingdom, Switzerland

League C
Slovenia, South Africa, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Croatia, Spain, Ireland, Cyprus, Iceland, Portugal, Kazakhstan, Greece

The schedule and the pairings for the season

Login to the IGS/Pandanet and follow the League B games on Tuesday, September 15th. League C games are played on Tuesday 22nd and League A games will start on Tuesday 29th.

The Finals ended in an extremely close match-off, when France and Ukraine cleared the last round with 3-1 results each. For the final placement, the first (match points), the second (board points) and the third (mutual match) were equal between these two. The fourth tie-breaker – the closing position in the league after nine rounds, favoured France (2nd) and Ukraine (4th) was to be satisfied with the runner up position.

Final Order 2015

France
Ukraine
Czechia
Romania

Friday, 24th July

1st Round

​Czechia vs. Ukraine 1-3
France vs. Romania 3-1

Saturday, 25th July

2nd round

Romania vs. Czechia 1-3
Ukraine vs. France 2-2

2rd round

Czechia vs. France 1-3
Romania vs. Ukraine 1-3

Friday, 24th July

1st Round

​Czechia vs. Ukraine 1-3
France vs. Romania 3-1

Saturday, 25th July

10:15 2nd round

Romania vs. Czechia
Ukraine vs. France

Four players play each round, with one player as a reserve.

Czechia – Lukas Podpera, Ondrej Silt, Jan Hora, Jan Simara, Jan Prokop
France – Fan Hui, Thomas Debarre, Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia, Tanguy Le Calve, Benjamin Papazoglou
Romania – Cristian Pop, Cornel Burzo, Dragos Bajenaru, Lucian Deaconu, Mihai Serban
Ukraine – Artem Kachanovskyj, Andrij Kravec, Bohdan Zhurakovskyj, Dmytro Bogatskyj, Dmytro Yatsenko

This week will see the 5th Pandanet Go Team European Championship finals in Liberec, Czech Republic. The PGETC finals, with the top four teams Czechia, France, Romania and Ukraine, will be held in the beginning of the 59th European Go Congress on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th July 2015.

Friday, 24th July

18:00 The 5th Pandanet Go European Team Championship – Opening

18:15 1st Round

​Czechia vs. Ukraine
France vs. Romania

Saturday, 25th July

10:15 2nd round

Romania vs. Czechia
Ukraine vs. France

14:15 3rd round

Czechia vs. France
Romania vs. Ukraine

Prize giving ceremony at the EGC 2015 Opening ceremony.

The top boards will be broadcast on IGS/Pandanet and there will be a public commentary at the Congress site Babylon Centre, Liberec. Login to the IGS/Pandanet with GoPanda2 client or come to observe the games at site.

This years qualifying games will take place on June 9. The web pages for these events will be created when all the leagues are finished.