South Korean foreign aid Kim Myung-hoon in the match. Beijing News reporter Sun Haiguang photographed
It has been 21 years since the Chinese Go League, and Chongqing is the only club that has been full attendance, followed by Beijing, which has been participating for 20 years. In the 20 years of competition in the siege, the Beijing team has ups and downs but has never been relegated, and in 2017, it also won the championship of the siege. However, in the 2019 Huawei Mobile Phone Cup Relegation Battle that ended on November 6, CITIC Beijing lost 3-5 to the promoted Marasa Pure Land team in two legs, and was relegated from the weijia for the first time in history.
Relegation
3 opportunities, the Beijing team did not seize one
In 1999, Chinese Go began to professionalize, and the Beijing team entered the Weijia sequence in the second year, and has never been relegated for 20 years. At the beginning of the season, the Beijing team said that the goal was to enter the playoffs. As an established team, Beijing, which just won the league two years ago, is not satisfied with the playoffs, and they hope to go further.
The Beijing team started really well, leading the standings after the first 5 rounds. However, after losing at home to Chongqing in the 7th round, Beijing's performance began to decline sharply. Before the last round, although Beijing still ranked 6th, the points lead was not large. After losing at home to Jiajia Food Tianjin in the final round of the regular season, Beijing plummeted to 10th place and had to enter the relegation group.
This season, the league reformed the format, overturning the double-loop system that had been used for many years, dividing the league into regular season and playoffs. The top 8 teams in the regular season enter the championship group, the bottom 8 enter the relegation group, and the playoffs are a brutal knockout system.
In the relegation battle, the Beijing team repeatedly missed good opportunities in the case that they could "land" as long as they won one more set, and lost to Jiajia Food Tianjin and Weifang High-tech Zone in the first two rounds.
On 4 and 6 November, Beijing took on the promoted Marasa Pure Land team, who finished 15th in the regular season. Two legs later, Beijing lost 3-5 and was relegated.
After 20 years of playing in the weijia, the Beijing team finally fell in front of the cruel knockout format. After successive losses to Tianjin and Weifang, the morale of the Beijing team was severely damaged. According to the new format, the Lhasa team has not played after the regular season at the end of August, and they only need to prepare for the match with Beijing. Cao Dayuan, honorary head coach of the Lhasa team, revealed that in order to prepare for this life-and-death battle with beijing, the whole team rushed to Lhasa a week early to adapt to the climate and played 2-2 with Beijing at home, laying the foundation for relegation.
Tan Yanwu, head coach of the Beijing team, talked about the new format, "As long as the format is passed, it will be the same for everyone. Tan Yanwu does not deny that the new format gives the team at the bottom of the regular season a chance to turn over, but more problems lie in the side, "We actually had 3 chances to relegate, but we didn't seize it." In itself, we are not able to win them with a handle, everyone's level is not much different, and it is also related to the play and mentality of the party. ”
Chen Yaoye was in poor shape. Beijing News reporter Sun Haiguang photographed
The Lord will
With 8 wins in 21 games, Chen Yaoye's winning percentage is less than 40%.
In the second leg against Lhasa, the fast chess match between Beijing's South Korean foreign aid Kim Myung-hoon and Mao Ruilong ended first. Kim Myung-xun lost 1 and 1/4 in the first half, a loss that put Beijing's relegation prospects in jeopardy.
After losing the game, the 22-year-old Jin Mingxun did not repeat the game, and after hurriedly putting away the chess pieces, a person buried his head and pulled his hair, and it took a long time to get up and leave.
In the past few seasons, the Beijing team has always had two world champions, Chen Yaoye and Feng Jiaxi, and the Beijing team has not relied heavily on foreign aid. This season, Jin Mingxun's record is 5 wins and 7 losses, which looks like the winning rate is not high, but Tan Yanwu said that its overall performance is OK.
In the Beijing team's plan, Jin Mingxun and Cai Jing played one, and the positions of Chen Yaoye, Feng Jiaxi and Han Yizhou were thunderous. However, in the second round of the life-and-death battle with the Lhasa team, the Beijing team, which was under great pressure, was forced to change the team, with Yu Jiaxi replacing Chen Yaoye's main player position, and Cai Jing replacing Han Yizhou. Although Feng Jiaxi, who had the highest winning percentage in the team, defeated Zhou Ruiyang in 7 hours, he had no choice but to lose the other 3 games, and the Beijing team could only accept the reality of relegation.
"We played well in the regular season, and in the last round, Chen Yaoye was the main player, and we could enter the top 8. After that, it fell into a strange circle, and no team could win. Tan Yanwu bluntly said that this season is a bit back, 3 rounds of relegation battle, Beijing team only needs to win one more set in each round to go ashore, but it is always a breath of relief.
Compared with the 2017 championship, except for the foreign aid Jin Mingxun who replaced Shen Minzuo, the Beijing team lineup has not changed, but the state of Chen Yaoye and Han Yizhou is much worse than in 2017.
"Han Yizhou played 19 sets and won 7 sets, which is much worse than last year." In addition to Han Yizhou, Tan Yanwu also talked about the 30-year-old veteran Chen Yaoye, who has performed poorly this year, "Yaoye has played 21 sets this year and only won 8 sets, and he has never won more than half of the time before. Now it's 8 wins, even if it's 9 wins, it's not going to happen (relegated). ”
After losing to Jiang Dongrun, Chen Yaoye walked out of the game room with red eyes, briefly chatted with Tan Yan and left first. This season, Chen Yaoye has a poor record in the main position. According to the rules of the playoffs, the Beijing team and the Lhasa team set up the main player in the second leg of the life-and-death battle, Chen Yaoye was under great pressure, and the Beijing team finally replaced him with Feng Jiaxi.