Dear all,
after the exciting news about the 2nd World Mind Sports Games today a second highlight, the start of our new Pandanet European Team Go Championship.
Start means the beginning of nominating teams.
In short terms the highlights of the coming championship:
a) Teams compete, minimum 6 and maximum 12 players per team, in matches on 4 boards (= jigo possible)
Nominated team is unchanged for the whole season, no transferlist, no hiring and firing
8 teams in the first league, maybe up to 10 in the second league. Third league ?
c) One team per country - team-members must have the citizenship of the country they represent
d) Teams are open for amateurs and professionals
e) Round Robin systems, one game a month
f) Thinking-time 60 min, canadian byoyomi 15 moves in 5 minutes, 6.5 Komi
g) An order per team must be fixed according to the EGD-Ratinglist available on Nov 5th 2010
h) Order keeps unchanged till end of July 2011
i) 7th round of league 1 will be played in May 2011
k) Top 4 teams of league 1 will be invited to play half-finals and finals at the congress in Bordeaux, on July 23rd and 24th
l) Prizemoney 10.000 Euro all over (only Top 4 teams can win money)
m) Fixed schedule when to play (latest), maximum 7 days earlier is possible (= games on max. 8 different days per month)
Many other things will be published in detail (later on a special webpage). But as we want to play the first round in November here's a tough plan what to do in which time-frame if your country wants to participate in the first season:
What to do:
1) Message to
mstiassny@aol.com (and .cc to
vesa.laatikainen@teamware.com) till November 2nd that you want to start with a national team
2) Nomination of a teamleader (with a proxy) and the ordered list of your players till November 6th, again by mail to the two upper adresses
3) Preparing new Userids and sending more informations of the players (for example picture, year of birth, profession - similar to international championships) to an e-mail-adress which will be published soon ("Webmaster") till November 11th
4) First round scheduled for Tuesday, November 23rd. This means that the first match can be played on November 16th.
I hope you will enjoy this new way which will lead to much more contacts within Europe and will also help to spread our game. Everyone was positive minded when I explained the idea in the last months / years. So now, with the big support of Pandanet, we can start a complete new things. Don't miss it - I wait on your registration.
Of course parallel a complete ruleset will be made available on the Web, very similar to the one we use in Germany now over 5 years.
Best wishes
Martin Stiassny
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