Pandanet Go Latin American Team Championship
The Pandanet Go Latin American Team Championship is run by the Ibero American Go Federation and as of 2020 it gathers 14 countries from Latin America and the Caribbean.
Teams are divided into A and B Leagues. Each season two countries will descend from A League into B League and two countries will ascend from B League into A League.
Final match between top two teams in League A is to be played within Latin American Go Congress each year.
Brazil and Peru to play final match of PGLATC 2023 in Punta Cana during 5th Latin American Go Congress
The 7th Pandanet Latin American Team Championship will be decided in the final match between Brazil and Peru, having both finished as top two teams of the A League after the Round Robin stage of this Championship.
The match on three boards will take place at the 5th Latin American Go Congress at Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
Peru, which hadn’t seen top places in previous editions, managed to win a seat in the final this year as to contest the Championship title to Brazil, who has won the last three championships in a row.
Led by Aaron Alvarado 4d who has beaten top players like Argentina’s Fernando Aguilar 7d, Peru is in its best shape of all times.
Follow the match on Pandanet on Friday, October 13th at 15 hrs. local time.
Brazil and Chile will play for the PGLATC at the 4th Latin American Go Congress
The 4th Quzhou Lanke Latin American Go Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina will be the host of the final match of the 6th Pandanet Go Latin American Team Championship between Brazil and Chile. After two years of online finals, on this 2022 the over the board final is back.
These two countries finished at the top of League A table earning the right to participate in this final match. The three players from each country who will be playing the final are:
Brazil
- Amir Fragman 5d
- Felipe Herman van Riemsdijk 2d
- Helcio Alexandre Pacheco 1d
Chile
- Ignacio Iglesis 2d
- Matias Navarro 1k
- Thierry Patri 5k
The final match will take place on October 7th and a live broadcast of the game will be transmitted. Further details will be revealed later on.
5th Latin American Pandanet League starts on January
As of the 24th of January, fourteen Latin American countries divided in two leagues will be fighting to reach the top in the 5th Pandanet Go Latin American Team Championship.
Novelty in this season is Cuba playing in the League A and standing as a strong competitor for the Championship as their top 3 boards rank as 5 dan and the team has an average level of 3 dan.
Meantime in the League B, we also find a strengthened Uruguay with the recent incorporation of Martin Benenati 5d, which projects a very fought scenario with Chile and Venezuela also trying to fight their way back to the League A.
Showdown starts as soon as the first round with heavy matches like Argentina vs Mexico, who last season finished second and fourth respectively and Brazil vs Peru who finished first and third respectively.
Follow the 1st round of the Championship on Sunday 24th at 19 hrs GMT-6 on the LatinAmericanTeam Champ room in Pandanet.
Brazil wins the 4th Pandanet Go Latin American Team Championship
On a hard fought match, Brazil overcame Argentina to become the champion of the 4th PGLATC.
Of the three games played, the first one to finish was third board match between Brazil’s Helcio Alexander and Argentina’s Luciano Salerno. While Salerno kept the lead throughout most of the game, a latter invasion proved too deep which gave the victory to Alexander.
Later on, the second board finished with a large point victory for Brazil’s Wang Sen Feng over Argentina’s Santiago Tabares.
At last, the first board finished with a victory of Argentina’s Fernando Aguilar over Israelian-Brazilian Amir Fragman, in a game with plenty of fighting and group exchanging.
So the result is a 2-1 victory for Brazil. Congratulations!
Kifus of the games:board 1, board 2, board 3.
Check out Mateusz Surma 2p live commentary of this match on this link.
Brazil and Argentina to play in the final match of the 4th Pandanet Latin American Team Championship
After a long wait, finally Brazil and Argentina will be facing each other on the final match of the 4th Pandanet Latin American Team Championship.
Brazil and Argentina finished 1st and 2nd respectively at the end of the 2020 League, which grants them the right to play the final match for the championship. Originally this match was to be played in Buenos Aires, during the 4th Latin American Go Congress but due the COVID-19 pandemic, the match will be played online.
The match will take place on Sunday, November 22th at 18 hrs GMT -3 in Latin American Room in Pandanet and it will also be live commented by Mateusz Surma 2p from EGF through https://www.twitch.tv/aagotv
Players playing the final are:
Brazil:
Amir Fragman (Wade)
Feng Wang (wsfbr)
Helcio Alexandre Pacheco (HelcioAlex)
Argentina:
Fernando Aguilar (Fernando)
Santiago Tabares (Petete)
Luciano Salerno (salerno)