The South-West Qiwang (), also known as the Xinan Wang, is a

Go competition This is a list of professional Go tournaments, for competitors in the board game of ''Go''. The tradition, initiated by the Honinbo Tournament in Japan, is for an event to be run annually, leading up to a title match and the award of a title for ...

in China.

Outline

The competition is a

single-elimination A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, w ...

tournament for 16 players. It is played with fast time controls: each player has no main time and five 40-second

byoyomi A time control is a mechanism in the tournament play of almost all two-player board games so that each round of the match can finish in a timely way and the tournament can proceed. For turn-based games such as chess, shogi or go, time controls ...

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

References

Go competitions in China Recurring sporting events established in 2002 {{Go-stub