The Chunlan Cup, officially the Chunlan Cup World Professional Weiqi Championship (), is an international Go competition.
Outline The Chunlan Cup is an international Go tournament sponsored and hosted by the Chunlan Group of China. 24 players are chosen as follows:
3 top players of last tournament 8 from 5 from 4 from 2 from 1 from North America 1 from Europe
The 24 players are reduced to 16 after the first round. The top 8 players are qualified for the next round while the bottom 8 play each other in a knockout tournament.
Each player has 2 hours and 30 minutes of time with five 60-second byoyomi periods, since the 12th cup. (Formerly, the time limit was 3 hours with five 60-second byoyomi periods.) The komi is 7.5 points. The winner's prize is US$150,000.
Past winners and runners-up Edition Year Winner Score Runner-up 1st 1998–1999 Cho Hunhyun 2–1 Lee Chang-ho 2nd 1999–2000 O Rissei 2–1 Ma Xiaochun 3rd 2000–2001 Yoo Changhyuk 2–1 O Rissei 4th 2002–2003 Lee Chang-ho 2–0 Hane Naoki 5th 2003–2005 Lee Chang-ho 2–1 Zhou Heyang 6th 2006–2007 Gu Li 2–0 Chang Hao 7th 2008–2009 Chang Hao 2–0 Lee Chang-ho 8th 2010–2011 Lee Sedol 2–1 Xie He 9th 2012–2013 Chen Yaoye 2–1 Lee Sedol 10th 2014–2015 Gu Li 2–0 Zhou Ruiyang 11th 2016–2017 Tan Xiao 2–1 Park Yeong-hun 12th 2018–2019 Park Junghwan 2–0 Park Yeong-hun 13th 2020–2021 Shin Jin-seo 2–0 Tang Weixing 14th 2022–2023 Byun Sang-il 2–0 Li Xuanhao 15th 2024–2025 Yang Kaiwen 2–1 Park Junghwan
By nation Nation Winners Runners-up 8 6 6 7 1 2
References
External links Official website (in Chinese) gotoeveryone.k2ss.info