2008 World Mind Sports Games: Mixed Pairs Event

Preliminary Round

Group A

Number Name Team
Strength		 Country Round Score SOS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 China 5d CN 8+ 3+ 5+ 4+ 2+ 7+ 6+ 7 21
2 Czech Republic 2d CZ 4+ 8+ 7+ 6+ 1- 3+ 5+ 6 15
3 United States 6d US 6+ 1- 8+ 5+ 4+ 2- 7+ 5 10
4 New Zealand 3d NZ 2- 7+ 6+ 1- 3- 5+ 8+ 4 6
5 Norway 4d NO 7+ 6+ 1- 3- 8+ 4- 2- 3 3
6 Colombia 1k CO 3- 5- 4- 2- 7+ 8+ 1- 2 1
7 Serbia 1k RS 5- 4- 2- 8+ 6- 1- 3- 1 0
8 South Africa 1k ZA 1- 2- 3- 7- 5- 6- 4- 0 0

Group B

Number Name Team
Strength		 Country Round Score SOS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 Korea 6d KR 7+ 2+ 3+ 4+ 6+ 5+ 8+ 7 21
2 DPR Korea 7d KP 8+ 1- 7+ 3+ 4+ 6+ 5+ 6 15
3 Russia 5d RU 5+ 8+ 1- 2- 7+ 4+ 6+ 5 10
4 Great Britain 3d UK 6+ 5+ 8+ 1- 2- 3- 7+ 4 6
5 Finland 2d FI 3- 4- 6+ 7+ 8+ 1- 2- 3 3
6 Argentina 2d AR 4- 7+ 5- 8+ 1- 2- 3- 2 1
7 Belarus 3k BY 1- 6- 2- 5- 3- 8+ 4- 1 0
8 Italy 4k IT 2- 3- 4- 6- 5- 7- 1- 0 0

Group C

Number Name Team
Strength		 Country Round Score SOS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 Japan 7d JP BYE 2+ 4+ 3+ 5+ 7+ 6+ 6 15
2 Hungary 6d HU 6+ 1- BYE 4+ 3+ 5+ 7+ 5 10
3 France 3d FR 5+ 7+ 6+ 1- 2- 4+ BYE 4 6
4 Germany 4d DE 7+ 6+ 1- 2- BYE 3- 5+ 3 3
5 Netherlands 3d NL 3- BYE 7+ 6+ 1- 2- 4- 2 1
6 Slovakia 6k SK 2- 4- 3- 5- 7+ BYE 1- 1 0
7 Lithuania 2k LT 4- 3- 5- BYE 6- 1- 2- 0 0

Group D

Number Name Team
Strength		 Country Round Score SOS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 Mongolia 4d MN 6+ 7+ 3+ 5+ BYE 4- 2+ 5 13
2 Ukraine 3d UA 4+ BYE 6+ 7+ 3+ 5+ 1- 5 11
3 Chinese Taipei 6d TW BYE 5+ 1- 4+ 2- 6+ 7+ 4 7
4 Thailand 3d TH 2- 6+ 7+ 3- 5- 1+ BYE 3 6
5 Canada 6d CA 7+ 3- BYE 1- 4+ 2- 6+ 3 4
6 Spain 1k ES 1- 4- 2- BYE 7+ 3- 5- 1 0
7 Bulgaria 10k BG 5- 1- 4- 2- 6- BYE 3- 0 0

Playoffs

The top two teams from each group are joined by two professional teams from each of China, Chinese Taipei, Japan and Korea. Team play an elimination match to determine the pair go champion. Amateur teams eliminated in the first round compete for the 19th International Amateur Pair Go Championship.

Team Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Final
Korea (pro 1) Korea Chinese Taipei Chinese Taipei China
China (am)
Chinese Taipei (pro 1) Chinese Taipei
Ukraine (am)
China (pro 1) China China
Hungary
Japan (pro 1) Korea
Korea (am)
Chinese Taipei (pro 2) Chinese Taipei Korea China
Japan (am)
Korea (pro 2) Korea
DPR Korea (am)
Japan (pro 2) Japan China
Czech Republic (am)
China (pro 2) China
Mongolia (am)

Third-Fourth Place Playoff

China Korea
Korea

Amateur Playoffs

Player Round 1 Round 2 Final
Ukraine Ukraine Hungary DPR Korea
China
Hungary Hungary
BYE
DPR Korea DPR Korea DPR Korea
Japan
Czech Republic Czech Republic
Mongolia

First place is awarded to the amateur Korean team for their win in the first round. Second place goes to DPR Korea.