The European Renju Championship is an official Renju championship organized by the Renju International Federation (RIF). It was started in 1994.

History

The first European Championship was held in 1994 in

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. In 1995, it was decided by the General Assembly of the Renju International Federation (RIF) that the European Championships would be held regularly. In the same year, the 2nd European Championship was held in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

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. Since 1996, the European Championship was changed to happen once every two years.

Tournament system

Over the years, the tournament was held in different ways. In 1994 and 1995, the

Swiss system A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format that features a fixed number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than for a round-robin tournament; thus each competitor (team or individual) does not play all the other ...

was used. In 1996, there were two groups, after which the winner was determined by the semifinal and final matches. A similar regulation with only one group was applied until 2002. From then, the

was used in a long time. In 2016, a round-robin system with final matches was applied.

Places and winners

References

{{reflist European championships Renju competitions