Pandanet Youth Go European Team Championships

The second Pandanet Youth Go European Team Championships will be held from January to April 2025. The first edition was in 2024.

This European team event has strict eligibility requirements with all players having to be citizens of the country they represent (as opposed to qualifying through long term residence) and to be U18. The reason for these tighter criteria is that were the winning team be invited to compete in a world event then the players would need to be able to demonstrate citizenship of their country.

There are again nine countries participating. There are two leagues with six teams in League A (teams playing each other once) and only 3 teams in League B (who play each other twice). The best placed team in League A being the PYGETC Champion.

The UK is again playing in League A.

Team Manager Alison Bexfield has selected the UK team for this event. There is a team of nine players of which five will play each match, each match containing a female player and an under-12.

The team is:

Ryan Zhang
Lea Wong
Michael Mitcham-Harding
Yanyi Xiong
Andrew Volovich
Lukasz Kudla
Blake Shamoon
Zoe Walters
Emily Gan

The matches are normally played on Pandanet on Wednesday evenings, with the first match on 22 January and last on 23 April.

22nd January Ukraine 4 - 1 UK

1. Olesia Malko (olesia,4d) 1 - 0 Ryan Zhang (RYANZ2013, 4d) by Resignation
2. Danylo Petrashevskyi (Danyll, 2d) 1 - 0 Michael Mitcham-Harding (FKnife, 2k) by Resignation
3. Violeta Gorbulska (Violeta, 3k) 0 - 1 Yanyi Xiong (Yanyi, 5k) by 7.5
4. Mariia Chernova (MariiaChe7, 1d) 1 - 0 Lea Wong (leazwong7, 2k) by 14.5
5. Avhust Savytskyi (McAugustOs, 2k) 1 - 0 Lukasz Kudla (wopiwopi, 6k) by 20.5

12th February UK 5 - 0 France

1. Ryan Zhang (RYANZ2013, 4d) 1 - 0 Raphaël Valot (raphou, 1d) by 27.5
2. Lea Wong (leazwong7, 2k) 1 - 0 Tâm Loup Lê (Mifeu, 1d) by Resignation
3. Michael Mitcham-Harding (FKnife, 2k) 1 - 0 Alexandre Bongiovanni (Filameur18, 7k) by Resignation
4. Zoe Walters (zw314, 8k) 1 - 0 Valentine Malavasi (malawiX22, 10k) by 44.5
5. Blake Shamoon (amyas, 6k) 1 - 0 Alexandra Le Du (ALEDU, 14k) by 98.5

12th March Romania 0 - 0 UK

2nd April Germany 0 - 0 UK

23rd April UK 0 - 0 Croatia

UK current position 3.

More details: Pandanet Youth Go European Team Championships (PYGETC)