The TOP8 who will decide of the two finalists to become Irish Champion this year has started this week-end with the first four gmaes being played between the best 8 players of the ladder.
Two players couldn’t play one of the game and have only three games in.
The atmosphere was really great, the games extremely serious and ferocious from what I could see around and eveyrbody was deeply focus, leading to extremely tense situation. A lots of games ended with big dragons dying, lots of ko fights, and many last minute change of winners. Most of the players ended in byo-yomi – which shows the implication and reading involved during the games – leading the ING clock to bring a very epic soundtrack to the games…
The results stand as below at this stage…
| SF | CR | NM | JG | PR | MT | MG | PK | TOTAL | |
| Steve Flinter | XXX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Claas Rover | 1 | XXX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |||
| Noel Mitchell | 1 | XXX | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| John Gibson | XXX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Philippe Renaut | 1 | 1 | 1 | XXX | 1 | 4 | |||
| Michael Thai | 0 | 1 | 1 | XXX | 0 | 2 | |||
| Matei Garcia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | XXX | 2 | |||
| Peter Kasko | 0 | 0 | 0 | XXX | 0 |
