The European Cup

Introduction

The aim of the European Cup (EC) is to provide a tournament circuit that is independent of any single sponsor. It is the nature of sponsorship that from time to time the level of sponsorship changes or sponsors withdraw. The EC system is independant of any single sponsorship as it is funded by the participating tournaments which are free to get their own sponsors.

Any EGF member country may have one or two EC tournaments in each EC year. Each tournament pays the EGF for the points they want to award and the points are awarded to the players according to the results of the tournament. The price is 6 euro per point (from 1st June 2005); the price of a point may only be changed annually. There are various levels of tournament with different points, ranging from 25 to 400. Most tournaments are 25 or 50 points.

Points

Place Points        
1 9 15 24 39 63
2 6 11 19 32 55
3 4 8 15 27 48
4 3 6 11 22 41
5 2 4 9 18 35
6 1 3 7 14 29
7   2 5 11 24
8   1 4 9 20
9     3 7 16
10     2 6 13
11     1 5 11
12       4 9
13       3 8
14       2 7
15       1 6
16         5
17         4
18         3
19         2
20         1
Total 25 50 100 200 400

Prizes

The EC will be used as part of the selection to the European Masters (EM).
EC ranking prizes are only open to European nationals and to players resident in Europe for 2 years before the start of that cup year.
The highest point scoring players at the end of the EC year will get money ranking prizes according to the amounts in the following table:

Prize Fund Number of Prizes Distribution
   0-1000 euro 3 500,330,170
1000-2000 euro 4 800,600,400,200
2001-2500 euro 5 900,700,500,300,100
2501-3000 euro 6 1000,750,500,350,250,150
3001-3500 euro 7 1100,800,550,400,300,200,150
3501-4000 euro 8 1200,850,600,etc
4001-5000 euro 9 1300,950,700,etc
and so on up to max 15 2000,etc

Rules

  • The EC will start on 1st June and finish on 31st May following.
  • The EGF tournament rules and international regulations will apply to EC tournaments.
  • Only players who compete in every rounds of a tournament will be eligible for points for that tournament.
  • Points are awarded according to final placing in the tournament, after applying the tie-breaks for that tournament.
  • A country can only buy maximum 100 points or 30% of the total for that EC year, whichever is higher.
  • The lower of their two tournaments must be a 25 point tournament.
  • Requests for all tournaments must be submitted to the EC Controller more than three months in advance.
  • The EC Controller will return the decision with a month of the request.
  • If a tournament clashes with a European Go Tour or other European top event then it is limited to 25 points.
  • In exceptional cases the executive may decide.
  • Major changes to the system can only be decided at the AGM in advance.

    • The First European Cup

  • The first EC started after EGC 2003 and finished on 31st May 2005.
  • In the first EC no one single country could buy more than 33% of the total points.

    • Results/Calendar

    Points situation

    What to do if you want your tournament in the EC?

    Send the following information to the EC Controller, Martin Stiassny (mstiassny at aol.com):

  • The name of the tournament
  • The date of the tournament
  • The place of the tournament
  • The number of points you wish to distribute in your tournament
  • Contact information, including web site and email address

    Please then after acceptance arrange payment (bank transfer) for your points with the EGF Treasurer.

    Note that we will assume when approached by a tournament to join the EC that it is doing so with the support of that country's EGF member Federation/Association.

    Page last updated 2005-08-04.