European Grand Prix

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Table of contents

1 European Grand Prix 1.1 Tournament Format 1.2 Scoring 2 History 2.1 Previous results 2.2 Previous winners 3 Statistics 3.1 Season 3.2 Tournament 3.2.1 Individual (winning) 3.2.2 Individual (other) 3.2.3 Country 3.2.4 Team 3.3 Age 3.4 Collected EGP points 3.5 More

European Grand Prix

The European Grand Prix (EGP) is a circuit consisting of the major European tournaments; the winner is determined by adding the number of EGP points scored in the player's best N tournaments, where N has varied over the years.

Tournament Format

EGP tournaments are held over 2 days. Traditionally on a Saturday and Sunday. They are usually played over 11 Rounds. 7 Rounds on the first day and 4 on the second. A best of three final and a one game 3rd/4th Playoff on the afternoon of the second day. (Note: Some countries play a best of three playoff as well.)

Scoring

Points are awarded for the following places in any EGP tournament:

1st 200; 2nd 140; 3rd 90; 4th 60; 5th 40; 6th 30; 7th 20; 8th 15; 9th 10; 10th 5.

Ties for placings fifth and below and drawn play-offs (e.g. 1 1/2-1 1/2) are not resolved and all tied players are awarded points equal to the total points awarded for the tied players divided by the number of players.

For example three players tied for fifth place will each be awarded 30 points. This is equal to the sum of points for fifth, sixth and seventh places (40+30+20 = 90) divided by three (30)

Should there be any fractions, these are ignored and 1 added to the number of points awarded. For example four players tied for eighth place would each be awarded eight points. This is equal to the sum of points for eighth, ninth and tenth places - eleventh scores zero (15+10+5 = 30). This divided by four is 7 1/2. Ignoring the half and adding one makes the points awarded equal to 8.

A player's points total consists of his or her best N scoring tournaments.

History

The EGP began in 1986 with the tournaments in Milan, Cambridge, Copenhagen and Paris. Brussels was added in 1991, and recently Amsterdam (2001), Stockholm (2003), Gdansk (2005), Barcelona (2006), Prague (2007),Berlin (2008) and Moss (2009) have been added to the list of host cities. In 2010 and 2011 the EGP cycle will consist out of 6 tournaments. All 12 organising will have their EGP in the one year or the other. The winner of the EGP is sometimes referred to as the European Champion, although there is an annual tournament at the MSO referred to as the "European Championship".

As can be seen from the full list of winners, British players dominated in the early years, but French players won for ten of the eleven years 1993-2003. The last 6 seasons players from 5 different countries have claimed the title.

Previous results

Previous winners

Statistics

Season

• As of the end of the 2008 season, Marc Tastet, Takuji Kashiwabara and Imre Leader have all won the EGP four times.
  
• Not only French and British players won the EGP. German, Dane, Italian, Japanese, American and Polish players are also listed as EGP series winner.
• Imre Leader (1986), David Shaman (1996), Emmanuel Caspard (1998), Graham Brightwell (2005) and Michele Borassi (2008) scored the maximum number of available points.
  
• The largest period between two EGP victories is 16 years. Imre Leader won his fourth EGP in 2007, after winning his third in 1991.
• Takuji Kashiwabara manages to hold a top3 position in the EGP series since 2001, thus over a period of 9 years.
• Takuji Kashiwabara is the only player who was able to score EGP points the last 12 years (1998-2009). A group of 13 players managed to do this the past 5 years.
• Marc Tastet and Graham Brightwell have scored points every year for over a period of 20 seasons (1986-2005).
• 12 players already managed to win multiple EGP's in one season.
• Bintsa Andriani is the only player having played tournaments in every season (3,4 on average) - until 2009.

Tournament

Individual (winning)

• Imre Leader has won the most individual EGP tournaments (15).
  
• 48 Different players have already won an EGP. These players represented 14 different countries living in 3 continents.
  
• The largest period between two EGP tournament victories is 13 years. Francesco Marconi won the Italian EGP in 2006, after winning his last in 1993.
  
• Graham Brightwell claimed 4 victories in EGP tournaments in 2007 (out of 9 tournaments). Relatively seen David Shaman did even better by winning 3 out of 5 in 1996.
  
• Michele Borassi is the first player to win 5 EGPs in one season (2008). He won every EGP he participated in that season.
• Emmanuel Caspard won all the EGPs he participated in the 1998 season. He won 4 (out of 5 tournaments in the series).
• Takuji Kashiwabara managed to claim victory in eight different countries, Imre Leader returned victorious from six different countries.
• Michele Borassi played the most finals without losing one (6).
• David Shaman has won Amstelveen EGP 2003; which was the biggest tournament (63 players). Imre Leader is the only player having won 3 tournaments with over 40 participants.

Individual (other)

• Two women reached a top4 position in an EGP. Velma Fu ended 2nd in the 2005 Dutch EGP and Helena Verrill ended 4th in the Cambridge EGP 1990.
• Takuji Kashiwabara reached the top 3 on 37 occassions.
• 13 players got into an EGP final but did not win. Didier Piau and Dominik Nowak are the unfortunate players having had this twice.
• Dominique Penloup played the most consecutive EGP tournaments (31 from Paris 1989 until Cambridge 1996).
• Marc Tastet played the most consecutive EGP tournaments and got points (9 from Milan 1992 until Brussels 1993).
• Marc Tastet got points in the most consecutive EGP tournaments he played (35 from Cambridge 1994 until Amsterdam 2005).
• Roel Hobo played the most tournaments before winning the tournament (37?).
• Roman Kraczyk played the most tournaments without having won the tournament (46).
• Marie-Christine Torri played the most tournaments and still has no points (18).
• Aubrey de Grey played the most tournaments without making the play-offs (35).
• [[]] played the most tournaments before making the play-offs ().
• Marcel Sneek played the most tournaments before scoring points (21 / 22nd = points).
• Bintsa Andriani played the most EGP tournaments (82).
• Roman Kraczyk played EGP tournaments in all organising countries (12).

Country

• French players won 43 EGPs. France is well ahead on Great Britain, having won 35 EGPs.
  
• France has 9 players having won at least one EGP. Alexandre Cordy could be the 10th player for France, but lived in Belgium at that time. Italy and United Kingdom have 8 unique winners.

Team

• The best performance by 2 brothers is the one of Nils Berner and Johan Berner, scoring 14.5 points (8+6.5) playing the Stockholm EGP 2003. Also Marc Tastet and Serge Tastet scored 14.5 points (9+5.5) in the Paris EGP 1990.
• The best performance by 2 partners were Tom Schotte and Akke-lien de Boer, scoring 16 points (10+6) during Gent EGP 2009. Also Mario Madrona and Velma Fu got the same score (10+6) during Barcelona EGP 2007 and Hoorn EGP 2006 (8+8).

Age

• The youngest player to win an EGP was Pawel Peczkowski during Gdansk 2004 (aged 16 years and 245 days).
• The youngest player to reach the top 4 was Lukasz Szyszko during Gdansk 2004 (aged 13 years and 30 days)
• The oldest player to win and EGP was Imre Leader during Cambridge 2010 (aged ... years).
• The oldest player to reach the top 4 was Imre Leader during Cambridge 2010 (aged ... years).
• The youngest player to score EGP points was Lukasz Szyszko during Gdansk 2004 (aged 13 years and 30 days).
• The oldest player to gain EGP points was Mikael Mårtensson during Copenhague 2005 (aged 71 years and 342 days).
• The youngest player to participate an EGP was Tani Turner during Cambridge 2009 (aged 9½ years).
• The oldest player to play an EGP was Mikael Mårtensson during Copenhagen 2007 (aged 73 years and 355 days).

Collected EGP points

• Takuji Kashiwabara collected the highest number of EGP points, namely 6582.
• France scored the highest number of points, namely 26836.
• The youngest player to score 1000 EGP points was Michele Borassi (aged...).

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