Shin Jin-seo, Nongshim Cup's 'Short-term Philma' sortie... Will we create a ‘6-game winning streak’?
Round 3 opens in Shanghai on the 19th... Five more players from China and Japan must win to win
Shin Jin-seo (23), 9th dan, the world's strongest professional player and the last bastion of Korean baduk, attempts a miracle once again.
Shin Jin-seo will participate alone as a representative of Korea in the final third round of the 25th Nongshim Shin Ramyun Cup World Baduk Championship, which begins in Shanghai, China on the 19th.
Nongshim Cup, known as the 'Three Kingdoms of Baduk', is a national competition in which five players each from Korea, China, and Japan participate to determine the winner through a series of wins in which the winning player is kept and the losing player is eliminated.
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In Korea, 8th dan Seol Hyun-jun and 9th dan Byun Sang-il, Won Seong-jin, and Park Jeong-hwan participated in the first and second rounds of this tournament, but they were all eliminated without a single win.
On the other hand, in China, No. 1 runner She Erhao 9th Dan swept the first and second rounds with Pajuk's 7th consecutive win.
In Japan, first runner Xu Jiayuan, 9th dan, won against Seol Hyunjun in the first match of the first round, but 8th dan Wei Jeongchi and 9th dan Doramaru Shibano and Ryo Ichiriki were eliminated after being caught up in the Sheerhao Typhoon.
Korea, which was the only team that did not have a single win, escaped the crisis of elimination when Shin Jin-seo, the last runner to participate in the final 9 countries in the second round held in Busan last December, defeated She Erhao.
Shin Jin-seo, the only Korean player to win, will face Japan's 9th dan Yuta Iyama in the first round of the third round starting next week.
If he defeats Iyama as expected, he will have to face China's Ke Jie, Ding Hao, Gu Zihao, and Zhao Chenyu, 9th dan, in that order.
In order for Shin Jin-seo to lead Korea to a comeback victory, he must achieve a miraculous '6-game winning streak'.
Previously, Shin Jin-seo led Korea to victory three times in a row at the Nongshim Cup.
Shin Jin-seo, who achieved 5 consecutive wins as the fourth runner in the 22nd competition held online, led the comeback victory by winning 4 consecutive wins as the last runner in the 23rd competition.
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Shin Jin-seo competed as the last runner last year, defeating China's Gu Zihao and giving Korea his third consecutive victory, and is currently enjoying 11 consecutive wins in the Nongshim Cup.
However, it is unclear whether Shin Jin-seo will be able to achieve a ‘6-game winning streak’ under tremendous pressure.
In the past, there were three cases in which runners who participated in the first round of a Nongshim Cup tournament achieved seven consecutive wins, including China's Pan Tingyu, Yang Dingxin, and Xue Erhao.
However, the record for the winning streak in the last three rounds that confirms the championship is the five-game winning streak established by Lee Chang-ho in the 6th tournament and Shin Jin-seo in the 22nd tournament.
Attention is being paid to whether Shin Jin-seo can lead Korea to its fourth consecutive win by becoming the first player to achieve a '6-game winning streak' in the Nongshim Cup.
Meanwhile, in Shanghai next week, senior professional drivers along with the Nongshim Shin Ramyun Cup will compete for the championship trophy in the Nongshim Baeksan Cup.
In Korea, where 9th dan Seo Bong-su was eliminated in the first round held in Beijing, China in October last year, 9th dan Choi Gyu-byeong, Yoo Chang-hyuk, and Cho Hoon-hyeon will participate.
China's Nie Weiping, Cao Dayuan, and Ma Xiaochun will participate, while Japan's 9th Dan Masaki Takemiya and Norimoto Yoda will participate.
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The winning prize for the Shin Ramyun Cup team is 500 million won.
Individuals receive 10 million won for three consecutive wins and 10 million won for each additional win.
The prize money for winning the Baeksan Cup, in which drivers born before 1969 participate, is 180 million won, and the prize money for consecutive wins is 5 million won.