Regardless of gender, age and ranking,Korea, China Japan and Taiwan players competed each other to get through the preliminaryleague of the 4^th BC Cup held for 4 days.

320 players attended this time which is the highest record for BC Cup fromKorea 202 players, China 57 players, Japan 29 players, Taiwan 12 players andalso amateur 20 players.


As a result of the preliminary league, Korea recorded 29 players (including 1amateur player) and China 20 players, Japan 2 plaeyrs and Taiwan 1 player.

Including 10seed players, all 64 players are decided and the final will be held both in KBAand Hilton Hotel.

Seeds for Korea are Lee SeDol, Park JungHwan, Choi ChelHan, Won SungJin and forChina are Guli, Kong Jie, Jang Weiie, Japan are Yamasita Gaigo, Iyama Uta, andTaiwan is Chen Shiwen.

The wild card this time are Lee Dong Hun and Choi Jung 1 Dan, they record theearliest age attending this BC Cup.


¡a Top rankers in Korea arecompeting well.

Kim JiSuk (6^th) Jo HanSeong(7^th), Park YoungHun(8^th),Lee ChangHo (9^th), Heo YoungHo(11^th) Yun JunSang (12^th)stepped to final.

 
Lee ChangHo 9Dan had a game with amateur player Lee JuHung saying that I haveplayed with amateur players several times knowing their strength, it is not newto lose against them, so I didn't have much burden.

¡a Top rankers in China are ready

Xie He and Tan Shao 1 ranker in China and Lu xing, Hu Yaoyue, Ding Wei, MiWeiting, Nio Wetian, Shi Yie, Lee ChinCung, Yang DingSin etc stepped to finalas expected.


¡a Not bad record for Japanand Taiwan.

Mulakawa andIda from Japan got through this severe preliminary league and stepped to final.They said, it was lucky that two players from Japan survived this timecomparing no one survived last time. There are a lot of strong players in thefinal, we will try our best.

He is only amateur player this time among 20 players who survived this time. Hewon Song YongHea 5Dan from China last game. It is expected that he can show thestrength of amateur more in the final.