There are two tournaments (one male, one female) in Kunming, and whenever you are in Kunming, everything is paid.
It's recommended to build teams of 3 players, but there is no team-tournament. At the end the individual results are "combined" to team-results, for example national teams.
It is also a goal of this tournament (my opinion) to motivate more female players to attend international tournaments.
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this mail I got last week from the Chinese Weiqi Association. Please spread the info to your female players. This tournament is open for everyone, but there's no support for the travelling-expenses to/from China. Anyway, as there are no restrictions on the strength of the participants it might be interesting for some of your engaged female Go-players.
Please send any registration to me - I will forward it to Ms. Liu Ruimin from CWA (Chinese Weiqi Association).
Kind regards
Martin
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I am writing to invite your women players to take part in the 7th Wu Qingyuan Cup World Women's Weiqi Tournament.
The 7th Wu Qingyuan Cup has been changed to an open tournament, which means that any female player can join.
The tournament consists of open preliminaries and the major competition.
Open preliminaries: check in: September 19, 2024
match day: Sep.20, 21, 22, 23 (Knockout system is used)
departure: Sep.24
*If there are more than 160 players, then check on19th, compete on 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, and leave on 25th.
Major competition: Nov. 22--Dec. 1, 2024
There are 24 players in the major competition, of which 14 players are assigned to the champion and runner-up of 6th edition, 4 from China, 2 from Japan, 2 from Korea, 1 from Chinese Taipei, 1 from Europe, 1 from North America, 1 from wild card, and 10 places are open qualifiers.
The location is in Fuzhou, Fujian Province.
As this is open tournament, the air ticket, meals and accommodation are borne by players.
And there is prize money for the major competition players.
Registration for open preliminaries: Aug. 23rd