Belgian Go Federation

Young Pavol LISY (18 years !, SK, ex 7-d) became last WE the 1st European player to be promoted professionnal go player within the European Go Federation.
He won 4 straight games against other European top candidates.

20th of June, he will be joined by another European top amateur to be selected among half-finalists of the "1-defeat competition": Cornel Burzo vs. Lukas Podpera and Mateusz Surma vs. Ali Jabarin.

Here are the results:
http://www.eurogofed.org/proqualification/#tournaments

(I remember that, 2-3 years ago, Pavol took only 18 months to raise from 1-k to 5-d !)