Belgian Go Federation

Tournament format: Five rounds MacMahon without handicap
Timing: 1 hour per player + byo-yomi: 15 stones for 5 minutes
Komi: 6.5

Non-smoking tournament
70 participants maximum

Registration form

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeLK1jy-WNlm02HOug1MLG6BZGkRvYV...

Entry Fee

25€ for registration and payment before 20/10/2024
30€ after 20/10/2024 (included)
+10€ for Belgian players, non-member of the BGF
-5€ for Players born after 26/10/2006

You can pay the fee by transfer on our bank account (IBAN: BE24 7755 9621 2238) (BIC: GKCC BE BB) with the communication : "Brussels" + your name + your rank. For international transfers, further information about the bank account of the Belgian Go Federation can be found at the bottom of this page.

Please note that you only qualify for the early registration fee if the the payment arrives before 20/10/2024. It is your responsibility to take into account the possible delay of your bank in transferring money.
Players from outside the Euro zone facing high bank transfer costs, qualify for the early registration fee if they register online before 20/10/2024.

If you pre-register and can not make it for the first round, you are expected to notify the organization by sending an email to board@gofed.be before the start of the round. Once your registration fee has been received, you will be paired for the first round. You only have to confirm your presence if there are mistakes in your name or rating on our wall-list. You can cancel your registration by warning us. Before 20/10/2024, 12€ will be refunded, after 20/10/2024 only 7.5€.

Schedule

Saturday (GMT +2)
10:00 - Opening of registration
10:40 - Deadline of registration
11:00 - First Round
14:00 - Second Round
16:30 - Third Round
Sunday (GMT +1 !!)
10:00 - Fourth Round
13:00 - Fifth Round
16:30 - Prize giving

Venue

Belgium-China Association
Avenue Paul Deschanel 92
1030 Brussels

How to get there
The tournament location is 20 minutes walking from the Brussel North train station (Brussel-Noord / Bruxelles-Nord)
2 minutes away from the tram station Côteaux
15 minutes away from the metro station Botanique

Prizes

Prizes are guaranteed for all the players with 4 wins (30 €) or 5 wins (50 €).
Prizes for top places are determined by the MMS score and SOS. Prizes are divided equally if both MMS and SOS are equal.
In case we have less than 50 registrations, prizes money will be: 1st. 250 €, 2nd: 150 € ; 3rd: 75 €; If 50 or more, they will be 1st: 400 €, 2nd: 200 €, 3rd: 100 €.

Accommodation

Private accommodation is available, but quite restricted.

Youth Hostels in the vicinity :

Bruegel Hostel
Jacques Brel Hostel
You will also find a very large number of hotels within close range of the playing venue.
Here are a few of them :

Atlas Hotel
Hotel Novotel Brussels Centre Tour Noire

List of registered players (updated 07 Oktober 2024)

Still 47 registrations possible

Kaku Maekawa 6 Dan
Akira Maekawa 5 Dan
Koichiro Habu 5 Dan
Martijn van Ling 4 Dan
Lucman Bounoider 3 Dan
Romain Friscourt 2 Dan
Guillaume Roux 2 Dan
Nika Petrashevska 1 Dan
Louis Baudaux Song 1 Dan
Guifré Estall Bellmàs 1 Kyu
Joost Vannieuwenhuyse 1 Kyu
Roel Van Nyen 2 Kyu
Vladimir Munteanu 1 Dan - 3 Kyu
Bram Westhovens 3 Kyu
Donald Macleod 4 Kyu
Nicolas Friscourt 4 Kyu
Frank Segers 4 Kyu
Filipe Vasconcelos 7 Kyu
Zidan Zha 9 Kyu
Ghislaine Weissgerber 9 Kyu
Guillaume Léo 12 Kyu
Tristan Hoorelbeke 14 Kyu
Thomas Stassin 14 Kyu

!! The Brussels tournament is THE biggest tournament in Belgium !!!


This time it will be played by the Chinese-Belgium Association Av. Paul Deschanel 92, 1030 Schaerbeek - a very nice place 20 mn from the center of Brussells. :)
https://www.belchin.be/language/en/


Click here for information about the tournament and to register.

WELCOME !

This year, due to Covid related issues the live edition of the Brussels Tournament is cancelled.
The BGF intends to organize end November an one-line tournament ("Belgian Internet Master").
More info will soon follow.

Registred players

  Last updated 28/10/2022

	Name	Level	Country	Club	Fee
1	Zihan Yan	6D	The Netherlands	Delft
2	Ryan Zhang	5D	Uk	London club
3	JiaHui Chen	5D	China
4	Lucman Bounoider	3D	Belgium	Le Pantin
5	Gabriel Mercier	3D	Belgium	Louvain-la-Neuve
6	Sven Cuyt	2D	Belgium	Leuven
7	Matthieu Aveaux	1D	France	Lille
8	Marie Jemine	1D	Belgium	Liège
9	Gints Engelen	1k	Belgium	Leuven
10	Rémi Cornaggia	1k	France	Jussieu (75Ju)
11	Louis Baudaux	1k	Belgium	Le Pantin
12	Clément Menard	2k	france
13	Chris Nas	2k	Nederland	Amersfoort
14	Joris Vandenbroeck	3k	France	00SITS
15	Renaud Gaban	3k	Belgium	Phénix
16	Clément Ducros	3k	France
17	Lionel Brévière	4k	Belgique	SITS [Stones In The Shell]
18	Serge Eon	4k	France	Pau
19	Jonathan Pittonet	4k	Belgique	Ath
20	Frank Segers	4k	België	Leuven
21	Aliocha Jaskolski	4k	France	Le Pantin
22	Bernard Frank	5k	Belgium	LLN
23	Tom Van Doorsselaere	5k	Belgium	Leuven
24	Jean-Denis Hennebert	5k	Belgium	Brussels Phénix
25	Stefan van der Leeden	5k	Nederland
26	Esteban Allais	6k	France	Rengo 35
27	Frédéric Verrier	7k	France	Lyon
28	Jérémy Vanneste	7k	France	Lille
29	Sophie Lebas de Saint Martin	8k	France	75Al
30	Ghislaine Weissgerber	8k	Belgique	Fedération de Bruxelles
31	Yannick Kuy	8k	Belgique	Phenix
32	Pacucci Dominique	9k	Belgique	Ath
33	Roland Beugnet	9k	France	Lille
34	Thomas Lemaire	10k	Belgium	Le Pantin
35	Eric Baijot	10k	Belgique	Hainaut (Ath)
36	Benoît Vanschoebeke	11k	Belgique	Hainaut (Ath)
37	Thomas Stassin	12k	Belgium	Louvain-La-Neuve
38	Hugues Heuse	12k	Belgique	Louvain-La-Neuve
39	Parra Antoine	12k	France	Graug
40	Pablo Gonzalez Alvarez	12k	Belgium	Pantin
41	Gaëtan de Menten	12k	Belgium	Louvain-la-Neuve
42	Marie Evrard	14k	France
43	François Carton	16k	Belgique	Fédération de Bruxelles
44	Jean Paul Wittek	17k	Belgique	Phénix
45	Léo Guillaume	18k	France
46	Daan Van Doorsselaere	18k	Belgium	Leuven
47	Menen Szymon	20k	Belgique

More information here: https://www.gofed.be/en/tournament/brussels

The Belgian Go Federation is happy to let invite you to the 33rd Brussels Go Tournament. Please, follow this link for all information and to register.

Detailed informations can be found here.

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Now at a beautiful new location in the centre of Brussels. For info follow the link.

http://www.gofed.be/en/tournament/brussels