The Wakagoi or Young Carp is a Go competition in Japan for players 30 years of age or younger and at most 7 dan in rank.
Its full name is , named after the sponsor Hiroshima Aluminum Industry Co., Ltd.
The tournament was founded in 2006 and is held annually. It was considered a local unofficial tournament in its first five years, before becoming an official tournament in 2011. The maximum rank for eligible players was 5 dan from 2006 to 2010, 6 dan until 2014, and the current 7 dan since 2015.
The winner's prize is ¥3,000,000 (formerly ¥2,000,000 from 2006 to 2014).
Past winners and runners-up + Young Carp Year Winner Runner-up 1. 2006 Hsieh Yimin Lee Ishu 2. 2007 Shida Tatsuya Mitani Tetsuya 3. 2008 Mitani Tetsuya Anzai Nobuaki 4. 2009 Uchida Shuhei Yamamori Tadanao 5. 2010 Terayama Rei Yamamoto Kentaro 6. 2011 Uchida Shuhei Shida Tatsuya 7. 2012 Shinji Suzuki Ichiriki Ryo 8. 2013 Ichiriki Ryo Fujita Akihiko 9. 2014 Motoki Katsuya Mutsuura Yuta 10. 2015 Terayama Rei Shida Tatsuya 11. 2016 Ichiriki Ryo Motoki Katsuya 12. 2017 Li Yi-hsiu Yao Zhiteng 13. 2018 Fujita Akihiko Koike Yoshihiro 14. 2019 Hirata Tomoya Mutsuura Yuta 15. 2020 Fujisawa Rina Sun Zhe 16. 2021 Ueno Asami Nishi Takenobu 17. 2022 Ueno Asami Koike Yoshihiro 18. 2023 Hirose Yuichi Koike Yoshihiro 19. 2024 Yokotsuka Riki Hirose Yuichi 20. 2025 Onishi Ryuhei Yokotsuka Riki
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