The 32nd Kisei was held from January 2007 to 2008. The following players earned spots through not being eliminated in the group stage: Naoki Hane (4-1), Cho U (4-1), Kobayashi Satoru (4-1), Atsushi Kato (4-1), O Rissei (3-2) Hideki Komatsu (2-3), Norimoto Yoda (2-3), and Imamura Toshiya (2-3). Mimura Tomoyasu, Kunihisa Honda, Satoshi Yuki, and Cho Chikun were eliminated from group play and had to earn a spot through preliminary stages. The players who qualified through preliminary tournaments are Cho Chikun, Hiroshi Yamashiro, Shinji Takao, and Yuta Iyama. Players who ended with the two lowest records in the each league were eliminated from automatic berth into the next tournament while the 3 other players who were not eliminated or had the top record were given a place in the following year's groups.

Preliminaries

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Group A

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Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
February 1
 
 
Yoshiaki Imamura 9 dan1
 
March 1
 
Hideki Enda 9 dan0
 
Yoshiaki Imamura 9 dan1
 
February 1
 
Daisuke Murakawa 3 dan0
 
Masaharu Sato 9 dan0
 
March 22
 
Daisuke Murakawa 3 dan1
 
Yoshiaki Imamura 9 dan0
 
February 1
 
Cho Chikun Judan1
 
Yasuo Katayama 8 dan0
 
February 22
 
Mitsuki Kono 7 dan1
 
Mitsuki Kono 7 dan0
 
January 25
 
Cho Chikun Judan1
 
Kunio Ishii 9 dan0
 
 
Cho Chikun Judan1
 

Group B

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Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
February 22
 
 
Cho Riyu 7 dan0
 
March 22
 
Kimio Yamada 9 dan1
 
Kimio Yamada 9 dan1
 
February 8
 
Naoto Hikosaka 9 dan0
 
Hironari Nakano 9 dan0
 
April 19
 
Naoto Hikosaka 9 dan1
 
Kimio Yamada 9 dan0
 
February 8
 
Hiroshi Yamashiro 9 dan1
 
Kim Shushun 7 dan0
 
March 8
 
Rin Kono Tengen1
 
Rin Kono Tengen0
 
February 1
 
Hiroshi Yamashiro 9 dan1
 
Hiroshi Yamashiro 9 dan1
 
 
Kunihisa Honda 9 dan0
 

Group C

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Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
February 8
 
 
Ryu Shikun 9 dan0
 
March 15
 
Yujiro Hashimoto 9 dan1
 
Yujiro Hashimoto 9 dan0
 
February 22
 
Shinji Takao Meijin1
 
Shuzo Awaji 9 dan0
 
May 3
 
Shinji Takao Meijin1
 
Shinji Takao Meijin1
 
February 1
 
So Yokoku 8 dan0
 
Otake Hideo Honorary Gosei0
 
March 22
 
Norio Kudo 9 dan1
 
Norio Kudo 9 dan0
 
February 22
 
So Yokoku 8 dan1
 
So Yokoku 8 dan1
 
 
Tomoyasu Mimura 9 dan0
 

Group D

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Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
January 25
 
 
Satoshi Kataoka 9 dan0
 
March 15
 
Masaki Takemiya 9 dan1
 
Masaki Takemiya 9 dan0
 
February 22
 
Shinya Nakamura 8 dan1
 
Shinya Nakamura 8 dan1
 
April 5
 
Tetsuya Kiyonari 9 dan0
 
Shinya Nakamura 8 dan0
 
February 1
 
Yuta Iyama 7 dan1
 
Rin Kaiho Honorary Tengen0
 
March 8
 
Yuta Iyama 7 dan1
 
Yuta Iyama 7 dan1
 
February 22
 
Shungo Goto 9 dan0
 
Shungo Goto 9 dan1
 
 
Satoshi Yuki 9 dan0
 

Main tournament

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Group A

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Player S.K. O.R. N.Y. C.U. S.T. H.Y. T
Kobayashi Satoru 9 dan X L L L L L 0-5
O Rissei 9 dan W X L L W W 3-2
Norimoto Yoda 9 dan W W X L W L 3-2
Cho U Gosei W W W X W W 5-0
Shinji Takao Meijin W L L L X W 2-3*
Hiroshi Yamashiro 9 dan W L W L L X 2-3

* Shinji Takao held the tiebreaker over Hiroshi Yamashiro.

Group B

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Player S.K. K.A. H.K. T.I. C.C. Y.I. T
Naoki Hane 9 dan X W W L L L 2-3**
Atsushi Kato 8 dan L X W W L W 3-2***
Hideki Komatsu 9 dan L L X W L L 1-4
Toshiya Imamura 9 dan W L L X W L 2-3
Cho Chikun Judan W W W L X W 4-1
Yuta Iyama 7 dan W L W W L X 3-2

** Naoki Hane held the tiebreaker over Toshiya Imamura.

*** Atsushi Kato held tiebreaker over Yuta Iyama.

Key:

  • Green - Winner of group; earns a spot in the challenger final.
  • Blue - Earns a place in the next edition's group stage.
  • Red - Eliminated from automatic berth; must qualify through preliminary stages.

Challenger finals

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Final
   
Cho U Meijin 0
Cho Chikun Judan 1

Finals

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Player 1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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Keigo Yamashita[1] (Kisei) W+R W+R W+R W+R 4
Cho Chikun (Challenger) W+R W+3.5 W+4.5 3

Key

  • W+ - Won by
  • R - Resignation

References

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  1. ^ "GoBase.org - Kisei title, 32nd edition, 2008". gobase.org. Retrieved 2022-06-14.