The South-West Qiwang (), also known as the Xinan Wang, is a Go competition in China.
Outline The competition is a single-elimination tournament for 16 players. It is played with fast time controls: each player has no main time and five 40-second byoyomi periods, as of the 23nd South-West Qiwang in 2024. Formerly, in 2021 and earlier, each player had 30 seconds to play each move, as well as ten extra periods of 60 seconds.
As of 2025, the winner's prize is 250,000 RMB and the runner-up's prize is 120,000 RMB. This was increased from 2019, when the prize money was 160,000 RMB and 80,000 RMB respectively.
Past winners and runners-up Edition Year Winner Runner-up1st 2002 Yang Yi Ding Wei2nd 2003 Gu Li Ding Wei3rd 2004 Zhou Heyang Gu Li4th 2005 Wang Lei Zhu Yuanhao5th 2006 Wang Lei Wang Xi6th 2007 Gu Lingyi Yang Yi7th 2008 Gu Lingyi Li Jie8th 2009 Gu Lingyi Gu Li9th 2010 Wang Xi Piao Wenyao10th 2011 Gu Lingyi Dang Yifei11th 2012 Piao Wenyao Peng Liyao12th 2013 Xie He Gu Li13th 2014 Tang Weixing Chang Hao14th 2015 Tang Weixing Shi Yue15th 2016 Yang Dingxin Tao Xinran16th 2017 Yang Dingxin Tan Xiao17th 2018 Mi Yuting Tang Weixing18th 2019 Ke Jie Dang Yifei19th 2020 Mi Yuting Tuo Jiaxi20th 2021 Yang Dingxin Mi Yuting21st 2022 Ke Jie Tang Weixing22nd 2023 Fan Tingyu Tang Weixing23rd 2024 Fan Tingyu Ke Jie24th 2025 Gu Zihao Ding Hao25th 2026 Li Xuanhao Tu Xiaoyu
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