Gosei (competition)


The Gosei is a Go competition in Japan or a title of the competition's winner.

Outline

Gosei is a Go competition used by the Japanese Nihon Ki-in and Kansai Ki-in. It is one of the seven big titles in Japan, although it pays much less than the top three. The payout is only 7,700,000 Yen compared to the Kisei's payout, which is a large 42,000,000 Yen. Gosei uses the same format as the other big seven. The winner of the knockout tournament faces the title holder in a best of five match. There is one restriction that the other titles don't have, and that is to be able to enter the Gosei tournament, a player must be at least 5 dan.
The promotion rules are just like the Judan's. If the player gets to challenge the title holder, they are promoted to 7 dan. If that player wins the title match, they are promoted to 8 dan. If they defend the title for another year, they are promoted to 9 dan.

Past Winners

YearWinnerScoreRunner-up
1.1976Kato Masao3-2Otake Hideo
2.1977Kato Masao3-0Takemiya Masaki
3.1978Otake Hideo3-1Kato Masao
4.1979Cho Chikun3-0Otake Hideo
5.1980Otake Hideo3-1Cho Chikun
6.1981Otake Hideo3-1Kato Masao
7.1982Otake Hideo3-2Cho Chikun
8.1983Otake Hideo3-2Awaji Shuzo
9.1984Otake Hideo3-1Kato Masao
10.1985Otake Hideo3-1Kudo Norio
11.1986Cho Chikun3-0Otake Hideo
12.1987Kato Masao3-1Cho Chikun
13.1988Kobayashi Koichi3-0Kato Masao
14.1989Kobayashi Koichi3-1Imamura Toshiya
15.1990Kobayashi Koichi3-0Kobayashi Satoru
16.1991Kobayashi Koichi3-2Kobayashi Satoru
17.1992Kobayashi Koichi3-1Kobayashi Satoru
18.1993Kobayashi Koichi3-0Rin Kaiho
19.1994Rin Kaiho3-1Kobayashi Koichi
20.1995Kobayashi Satoru3-2Rin Kaiho
21.1996Yoda Norimoto3-0Kobayashi Satoru
22.1997Yoda Norimoto3-1Yuki Satoshi
23.1998Yoda Norimoto3-0Sonoda Yuichi
24.1999Kobayashi Koichi3-2Sakata Eio
25.2000Yamashita Keigo3-2Kobayashi Koichi
26.2001Kobayashi Koichi3-2Yamashita Keigo
27.2002Kobayashi Koichi3-1Yuki Satoshi
28.2003Yoda Norimoto3-2Kobayashi Koichi
29.2004Yoda Norimoto3-1Yamada Kimio
30.2005Yoda Norimoto3-0Yuki Satoshi
31.2006Cho U3-0Sakata Eio
32.2007Cho U3-0Yokota Shigeaki
33.2008Cho U3-1Yamashita Keigo
34.2009Cho U3-0Yuki Satoshi
35.2010Sakai Hideyuki3-2Cho U
36.2011Hane Naoki3-2Sakai Hideyuki
37.2012Iyama Yuta3-0Hane Naoki
38.2013Iyama Yuta3-2Kono Rin
39.2014Iyama Yuta3-2Kono Rin
40.2015Iyama Yuta3-1Yamashita Keigo
41.2016Iyama Yuta3-0Murakawa Daisuke
42.2017Iyama Yuta3-0Yamashita Keigo
43.2018Kyo Kagen3-0Iyama Yuta
44.2019Hane Naoki3-2Kyo Kagen