The South-West Qiwang (), also known as the Xinan Wang, is a

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in China.

Outline

The competition is a

single-elimination A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final matc ...

tournament for 16 players. It is played with fast time controls: each player has no main time and five 40-second

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periods, as of the 22nd South-West Qiwang in 2023. Formerly, in 2021 and earlier, each player had 30 seconds to play each move, as well as ten extra periods of 60 seconds. As of 2023, the winner's prize is 250,000

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and the runner-up's prize is 120,000 RMB. This was increased from 2019, when the prize money was 160,000 RMB and 80,000 RMB respectively.

Past winners and runners-up

References

Go competitions in China Recurring sporting events established in 2002 {{Go-stub