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Korea Points Rules 2009

Posted by ian on October 30th, 2008

From 2009, Korea Points will now be allocated on the basis of
performance in Open Irish Tournaments. (The old Rules are listed here.) The Irish Championship will no longer count towards Korea points.

Class A tournaments will offer more points than Class B, which will
offer more points than Class C. The distribution of points is shown in
the table below. Classes are explained on the EGF website.

When places are shared, the points will be shared between the players.
eg. Alan and Bob tie for first place in a Class C tournament, they both get 3.5 points.
Points will be rounded up to the nearest half point. (Sept 09).
Tiebreakers such as SOS or SODOS will not be used to split places,
players on the same MMS will be considered tied.

Only IGA members who have Irish citizenship, or who can apply for citizenship on the basis of continuous residency, are eligible for Korea points.* To qualify you must also be 4kyu or stronger (as before). Players who have not competed in more than 50% of the rounds in a tournament will not be eligible for Korea Points in that tournament (Sept 09).

The player with the highest points total, providing they have not represented Ireland at the World Amateur Go Championship during that same year, should be selected. Any player travelling to Korea to represent Ireland will have their points total reset to 0.
(May 09) Additionally, at the end of each year, all players will have 1 point deducted from their points total.

New points table as of May 09.

Place Class A Class B Class C
1 8 6 4
2 6 4 3
3 5 3 2
4 4 2 1
5 3 1 0
6 2 0 0
7 1 0 0
Total 29 16 10

 
For reference the old points table is listed below

Place Class A Class B Class C
1 10 8 6
2 7 5 3
3 6 4 2
4 5 3 1
5 4 2 0
6 3 1 0
7 2 0 0
8 1 0 0
Total 38 23 12

* The IGF require the Irish representative to have an Irish Passport.