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The 2018 British Youth Go Championship (BYGC) featured 57 competitors, aged from 5 to 18. This year, due to an easing of the qualifying rules, there were no non-British players in an open group. There were two minibuses from Cheadle Hulme School and groups from two new clubs. 15 players, ranked 34k to 40k, played in their own section, in a 5-round tournament on 13x13 boards.

The venue again this year was King Edward VI School in Aston, Birmingham.

Section Winners (runners-up)

U18: Tom Bradbury
U16: Jayden Ng (Rowan Borrow)
U14: Edmund Smith (Caleb Monk)
U12: Zoe Walters (Rahul Surapaneni)
U10: Daniel Yang (Emily Oliviere)
U8: Yanyi Xiong (Ryan Zhang)

Youth Champion: Tom Bradbury (Daniel Yang, Jayden Ng)

Winners of four games: Alexander Hsieh, Hilary Bexfield

Event was a seeded knockout, with rounds played at the players' convenience once a month from February to October with a final on 4th December.

The bar was at 1d. Handicap and no-komi games are in red.

Prizes were awarded to the top player in eight divisions (4d-1d, 1k-3k, 4k-6k, 6k-9k, 10k-12k, 13k-18k, 17k-20k, 21k-26k).

Prizes were awarded to the top player in six divisions (2d-1d, 1k-4k, 5k-7k, 8k-11k, 12k-16k, 17k-26k).

Prizes were awarded to the top player in six divisions (3d-1k, 2k-4k, 5k-7k, 8k-10k, 11k-14k, 15k-25k).

Prizes were awarded to the top player in eight divisions (4d-1d, 1k-3k, 4k-6k, 8k-9k, 10k-11k, 12k-14k, 15k-18k, 19k-25k).

The first Wessex Go Tournament was held at Marlborough Town Hall.
Prizes were awarded to the top player in three divisions (1d-6k, 7k-10k, 12k-22k).

This was the first Cambridge Go Tournament - nowadays known as the Trigantius - and was played in the Wordsworth Room in St. John's College. Entry fee was 30p (club members 10p).

The bar was at 2d. Handicap games are in red.

The bar was at 1k. Handicap and no-komi games are in red.