Distribution of participants across different countries
List of confirmed participants for EGC 2026
| Participant | Club | Rank | Rating | Country | Attendance | Paid? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aimo Donner | - | - | DE | Full Congress | YES | |
| Pei Zhao | - | - | FR | Full Congress | N/A | |
| EYTİŞ DEVİM KARABULUT ASAR | - | - | TR | Weekend | N/A | |
| Mustafa Kurnaz | - | - | TR | Weekend | N/A | |
| Celal Kazova | - | - | TR | Full Congress | N/A | |
| Ali Haydar Onay | - | - | TR | Weekend + Second Week | N/A | |
| Ana Harlau | - | - | RO | Weekend + Second Week | N/A | |
| HÜLYA OKUYUCU ÇALIK | - | - | TR | Weekend | N/A | |
| Can Balaban | - | - | TR | Weekend | N/A | |
| Dilara Güvercin | - | - | TR | Full Congress | N/A | |
| Irene Yeung | - | - | UK | Full Congress | N/A | |
| Mila Lacin | - | - | TR | Weekend | N/A | |
| Inci Okyar Lacin | - | - | TR | Weekend | N/A | |
| özkaya Enes | - | - | TR | Weekend + Second Week | NO | |
| Rumeysa Küpeli | - | - | TR | Full Congress | N/A | |
| Aurel Gheorghe | - | - | RO | Full Congress | N/A | |
| Mateusz Surma | Dzim | 3p | 2755 | PL | Full Congress | YES |
| Stanisław Frejlak | xxxx | 2p | 2750 | PL | Full Congress | YES |
| Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia | 13Ma | 1p | 2686 | FR | Full Congress | YES |
| Yicheng Xiao | UCL | 7d | 2743 | UK | Full Congress | NO |
| Yicheng Xiao | UCL | 7d | 2743 | UK | Weekend | NO |
| Ioan-Elian Grigoriu | ATAR | 6d | 2579 | RO | Full Congress | YES |
| Denis Karadaban | 38 GR | 6d | 2571 | TR | Full Congress | NO |
| Kaku Maekawa | K | 6d | 2568 | JP | Full Congress | NO |
| Lukas Kraemer | Bonn | 6d | 2624 | DE | Full Congress | NO |
| Denis Dobranis | ATSU | 6d | 2574 | RO | Full Congress | YES |
| Alexander Eerbeek | AmsO | 6d | 2516 | NL | Full Congress | NO |
| Davide Bernardis | FAENZA | 6d | 2582 | IT | Full Congress | NO |
| Cornel Burzo | Baia Mare | 6d | 2582 | RO | First Week + Weekend | NO |
| Alban Granger | 35Re | 5d | 2457 | FR | Full Congress | YES |
| Yukitsuna Furuya | xxxx | 5d | 2469 | JP | Full Congress | YES |
| Dmytro Yatsenko | Kyiv | 5d | UA | Full Congress | NO | |
| Koichiro Habu | Krak | 5d | 2513 | PL | Full Congress | YES |
| Lucian Deaconu | ATAR | 5d | 2503 | RO | First Week + Weekend | NO |
| Naoyuki Kai | Yok | 5d | 2523 | JP | Full Congress | YES |
| Stjepan Medak | Vrba | 5d | 2559 | HR | Full Congress | YES |
| Ulaş Ören | Ist | 5d | 2549 | TR | Full Congress | NO |
| Яценко Дмитро | Kyiv | 5d | UA | Full Congress | NO | |
| Geert Groenen | Den Haag | 5d | 2532 | NL | First Week + Weekend | NO |
| MyongSoo Park | Seo | 4d | 2350 | KR | Full Congress | YES |
| Zbynek Dach | BMik | 4d | 2413 | CZ | Full Congress | YES |
| Akira Fukushima | K | 4d | 2421 | JP | Full Congress | NO |
| Sorin Sora | Crai | 4d | 2217 | RO | Full Congress | YES |
| Peikai Xue | UCL | 4d | 2437 | CN | First Week + Weekend | NO |
| Manja Marz | JIGS | 4d | 2408 | DE | Full Congress | YES |
| Martijn van Ling | Utre | 4d | 2425 | NL | Full Congress | YES |
| Benjamin Chetioui | 67SE | 4d | 2367 | FR | Full Congress | YES |
| Mathieu Delli-Zotti | 34Mo | 4d | 2445 | FR | Full Congress | YES |
| Bartik Dach | BMik | 4d | 2436 | CZ | Full Congress | YES |
| Wentian Zhang | Beij | 4d | 2355 | CN | Full Congress | YES |
| Kaan Malçok | TGOD | 4d | TR | Full Congress | NO | |
| Francois Mizessyn | 92An | 4d | 2371 | FR | Full Congress | YES |
| Toru Imamura | 38Gr | 4d | 2332 | FR | Full Congress | YES |
| Darius Dobrinis | ATSU | 3d | 2279 | RO | Full Congress | YES |
| Doğaç Köse | İGOD | 3d | TR | Weekend | N/A | |
| Ari-Pekka Perkkiö | M | 3d | 2253 | FI | Full Congress | YES |
| Yun-Bo Yi | Danger Monkey Go Club | 3d | 2267 | US | First Week + Weekend | NO |
| Danyl Petrashevskyi | Kyiv | 3d | 2300 | UA | First Week + Weekend | NO |
| Patrick Säving | KN | 3d | 2242 | DE | Full Congress | YES |
| Mirta Medak | Vrba | 3d | 2307 | HR | Full Congress | YES |
| Birand Adal | ODTÜ | 3d | TR | Full Congress | NO | |
| Zhan Shi | Manchester Go Club | 3d | 2324 | UK | Weekend | NO |
| Ferdinand Marz | J | 3d | 2210 | DE | Full Congress | YES |
| Laura Avram | Cluj | 3d | 2299 | RO | Full Congress | YES |
| Pål Sannes | Oslo | 3d | NO | Full Congress | NO | |
| Larion Syrotkin | Cork | 3d | UA | Full Congress | NO | |
| Dragan Dubakovic | KGRa | 3d | 2281 | RS | Full Congress | YES |
| Adelina Sora | Crai | 2d | 2142 | RO | Full Congress | YES |
| Rokuro Daimon | NARA | 2d | 2103 | JP | First Week + Weekend | NO |
| Thomas Derz | - | 2d | 2095 | DE | Full Congress | YES |
| ERTUĞ AKKOL | TGOD & IGOD | 2d | 2142 | TR | Full Congress | NO |
| Camille Lévêque | 38Gr | 2d | 2126 | FR | Full Congress | N/A |
| Dominique Cornuejols | 38Gr | 2d | 2150 | FR | Full Congress | YES |
| Michael Marz | JIGS | 2d | 2195 | DE | Full Congress | YES |
| SUSUMU UESAKA | mail go | 2d | JP | Full Congress | NO | |
| Bernd Sokolowsky | ER | 2d | 1868 | DE | Full Congress | YES |
| Ahmet Eren Kurter | TGOD | 2d | 2198 | TR | Full Congress | NO |
| Ege Köse | İstanbul Go Oyuncuları Derneği | 2d | TR | Full Congress | NO | |
| Kazumitsu Muraoka | Toky | 2d | 2123 | JP | Full Congress | YES |
| Diana Mastan | VaDo | 1d | 2053 | RO | First Week + Weekend | NO |
| Nika Petrashevska | - | 1d | 2069 | UK | Full Congress | YES |
| Oğuz Erdoğan | Izm | 1d | 2025 | TR | Full Congress | NO |
| Fujikazu Sakai | Toky | 1d | 2103 | JP | Full Congress | YES |
| Lilly Hu | GO7 | 1d | 2044 | AU | Full Congress | YES |
| Aleksandar Milošević | Beograd | 1d | 2075 | RS | Full Congress | N/A |
| 硕通 张 | 温涛奇社 | 1d | CN | First Week + Weekend | NO | |
| Lorenz Trippel | Zur | 1d | 2121 | CH | Full Congress | YES |
| Xinyuan Wu | xxx | 1d | 2132 | CN | Full Congress | YES |
| Ihnatii Bondar | Kiev | 1d | UA | Full Congress | NO | |
| Jörg Sonnenberger | HRO | 1d | 2019 | DE | Full Congress | YES |
| Shuotong Zhang | Wentaoqishe | 1d | CN | First Week + Weekend | NO | |
| Santaigo Laplagne | AAGo | 1d | 2033 | AR | Full Congress | NO |
| Maja Logar | Ljubljana | 1k | 1992 | SI | First Week + Weekend | NO |
| zhou guanwen | progo | 1k | 2108 | CN | First Week + Weekend | NO |
| Danylo Petryk | Kyiv | 1k | UA | Full Congress | NO | |
| Frans Bergisch | Nijmegen | 1k | 1959 | NL | Full Congress | NO |
| Onur Türkmen | Wars | 1k | 2060 | PL | Full Congress | YES |
| Svitlana Tarasenko | Kyiv | 1k | UA | Full Congress | NO | |
| Mike Cockburn | StAl | 1k | 1954 | UK | Full Congress | YES |
| David Kirschen | HD | 1k | 1908 | DE | Full Congress | YES |
| Hendrik Reinke | B | 1k | 1992 | DE | Full Congress | YES |
| 泽文 赵 | go | 1k | CN | Full Congress | NO | |
| Cagatay Tavsanoglu | HUGOKU | 1k | 2034 | TR | Full Congress | NO |
| Serap Süleymanoğlu | TGOD | 1k | 2005 | TR | Full Congress | NO |
| Uwe Lanz | Berlin | 1k | 2022 | DE | First Week + Weekend | NO |
| Bastiaan Bekooij | Nijmegen | 1k | 2046 | NL | Full Congress | NO |
| Serkan Karalı | Goizm | 2k | TR | Weekend | N/A | |
| Muharrem Yiğitcan Çördük | Türkiye Go Oyuncuları Derneği | 2k | 1758 | TR | Weekend | NO |
| Claude Brisson | Marseille | 2k | 1743 | FR | First Week + Weekend | NO |
| Andreas Urban | B | 2k | 1910 | DE | Full Congress | YES |
| Özgür Ocak | Esgo | 2k | TR | First Week + Weekend | N/A | |
| Mircea Alexandru Guga | CSRB | 2k | 1973 | RO | Full Congress | YES |
| Natalia Klamecka | Wroc | 2k | 1924 | PL | Full Congress | N/A |
| Jan Adamek | TFMi | 2k | 1781 | CZ | Full Congress | YES |
| Erik Schweitzer | Wuppertal | 2k | 1860 | DE | First Week + Weekend | NO |
| Raisa Baturina | khar | 2k | 1887 | UA | Full Congress | NO |
| Christophe Malavasi | Paris La Fontaine | 2k | FR | First Week + Weekend | NO | |
| Damir Medak | Vrbani | 2k | HR | First Week + Weekend | N/A | |
| Hakan Eryargi | Amsterdam | 2k | 1992 | NL | First Week + Weekend | NO |
| Harold Brown | xxxx | 2k | 1784 | AR | Full Congress | NO |
| Violeta Gorbulska | Odessa | 2k | UA | Full Congress | NO | |
| Haroldo Brown | AAGO | 2k | 1784 | AR | Full Congress | YES |
| Léon Groenemejer | Amst | 3k | 1733 | NL | Full Congress | YES |
| Len Recheis | Go7 | 3k | 1914 | AT | Full Congress | NO |
| Arda Serdar Pektezol | Ist | 3k | 1771 | TR | Full Congress | NO |
| Colin Williams | Bristol | 3k | 1818 | UK | First Week + Weekend | NO |
| Lidia Agafitei | Cluj | 3k | 1780 | RO | Weekend + Second Week | N/A |
| Serdar Lacin | İstanbul Go | 3k | 1619 | TR | Weekend | N/A |
| Satoshi Sakashita | Toky | 3k | 1867 | JP | Full Congress | YES |
| Mehmet Ali Göktaş | Enderun Go Kulübü | 3k | 1590 | TR | Weekend | NO |
| Daria-Maria Meseșan | ATSU | 3k | 1789 | RO | Full Congress | YES |
| Michael Wendlandt | - | 3k | DE | First Week + Weekend | NO | |
| Bilge Göze | TGOD | 3k | 1814 | TR | Weekend | N/A |
| YILMAZ ÇALIK | TGOD | 3k | 1584 | TR | Weekend | YES |
| Eunyong Jeong | Seo | 4k | 1726 | KR | Full Congress | YES |
| Julius Masarovic | Brat | 4k | 1682 | SK | Full Congress | YES |
| Kurt Paar | Wien | 4k | 1745 | AT | Full Congress | YES |
| Gün Ürkmez | İstanbul Go Oyuncuları | 4k | 1680 | TR | Full Congress | N/A |
| Yağız Üstündağ | Tgod | 4k | 1683 | TR | Full Congress | NO |
| Cherry Hu | GO7 | 4k | 1852 | AT | Full Congress | YES |
| ÖZGÜR ERDEM AKMAN | ESGO | 4k | TR | Weekend | NO | |
| Martin Sattelkau | GoVBerlin | 4k | 1704 | DE | Full Congress | NO |
| Clemens Carstaedt | KA | 4k | 1545 | DE | Full Congress | YES |
| seçkin görüşük | çanakkale | 4k | 1688 | TR | Weekend + Second Week | NO |
| Masao Emi | Play | 5k | 1524 | JP | Weekend | N/A |
| Özge Özdemir | Goizm | 5k | 1517 | DE | Weekend | N/A |
| Océane Malavasi | Paris La Fontaine | 5k | FR | Full Congress | NO | |
| ali karakaya | İZMİR | 5k | TR | Full Congress | NO | |
| Viktoriia Symonenko | Kyiv | 5k | UA | Full Congress | NO | |
| Jonna Deva van Vliet | Oldenburg | 5k | 1377 | DE | Full Congress | NO |
| Lela Donner | M | 5k | 1579 | DE | Full Congress | YES |
| Erik Brummelkamp | Nijm | 5k | 1590 | NL | Full Congress | YES |
| Gözde Taşkın | IstanbulGo | 6k | 1462 | TR | First Week + Weekend | NO |
| Krzysztof Podbiol | Chor | 6k | 1332 | PL | Full Congress | YES |
| Vasile Dobranis | ATSU | 6k | 1263 | RO | Full Congress | YES |
| Mariusz Klimczak | Bydg | 6k | 1505 | PL | Full Congress | YES |
| Roberto Orsenigo | Mila | 7k | 1193 | IT | Full Congress | YES |
| Alain Le Hérissé | Buenos Aires | 7k | AR | Full Congress | YES | |
| Fassal Mahmood | Birmingham Go Club | 7k | 1593 | UK | First Week + Weekend | NO |
| Merve Güleç | Türkiye Go Derneği | 7k | 1191 | TR | Full Congress | NO |
| Martin Schwarz | Innsbruck | 7k | 1383 | AT | First Week + Weekend | NO |
| Burkhard Landskron | GP | 7k | 1780 | DE | Full Congress | YES |
| Hande Olgar | TGOD | 7k | TR | First Week + Weekend | N/A | |
| Tetiana Larina | Kyiv | 7k | UA | Full Congress | NO | |
| Kyrylo Konyk | Kyiv | 8k | UA | Full Congress | NO | |
| Thilo Burkhardt | DD | 8k | 1206 | DE | Full Congress | YES |
| Oleksandr Nahorniy | Kyiv | 8k | UA | Weekend | NO | |
| Nikola Petrov | ljubljana | 8k | 1379 | SI | Full Congress | NO |
| Sema Seymen | İstanbul Go Oyuncuları | 9k | 1189 | TR | Full Congress | NO |
| Özge Mutlu | Esgo | 9k | TR | Weekend | N/A | |
| Valentine Malavasi | Paris La Fontaine | 9k | FR | Full Congress | NO | |
| Valentin Cherchesov | Mannheim | 9k | 1295 | DE | Full Congress | NO |
| Yongwoo LEE | 34MO | 9k | 1275 | FR | Weekend | NO |
| Yukari Yasuda | Izmir | 10k | 1023 | JP | Weekend | N/A |
| Francesco Potortì | Pisa | 10k | 1000 | IT | Full Congress | YES |
| Serhat Türktan | TGOD ve ESGO | 10k | 1060 | TR | Full Congress | YES |
| Uygar Tavsanoglu | Bilkent Go | 10k | 1038 | TR | Full Congress | YES |
| Ayşe Deniz Artuner | Bursago | 11k | 1027 | TR | Full Congress | NO |
| Tavmo Donner | M | 11k | 1164 | DE | Full Congress | YES |
| Leopold Marz | J | 12k | 914 | DE | Full Congress | YES |
| Yongwoo LEE | 34MO | 12k | 1275 | FR | Full Congress | NO |
| Larissa Marz | JIGS | 12k | 936 | DE | Full Congress | YES |
| Haldun Oymak | Kir | 12k | 1003 | TR | Full Congress | NO |
| Kübra Şafak | Ist | 12k | 765 | TR | Full Congress | N/A |
| Sepken Kaptanoglu | TGOD, ESGO | 12k | 687 | TR | Full Congress | NO |
| İlbige Kılıç | İstanbul Go Okulu | 13k | 687 | TR | Weekend + Second Week | NO |
| Kaya Güvercin | istanbul go okulu | 13k | 664 | TR | Full Congress | NO |
| Ana-Sofia Gheorghe | VaDo | 13k | 807 | RO | Full Congress | NO |
| Bitna Makhmatalieva | Sengoku | 13k | 339 | KG | Full Congress | NO |
| Jasna Medak | Vrbani | 13k | HR | First Week + Weekend | N/A | |
| Mete Alp Fidan | İstanbul Go Okulu | 14k | 108 | TR | Full Congress | NO |
| Mert Oskay Onay | ESGO | 14k | 677 | TR | Full Congress | NO |
| Shunji Masuyama | Yokohama | 14k | 1518 | JP | Full Congress | YES |
| Hlib Petruk | Kyiv | 14k | UA | Full Congress | NO | |
| William Lindved | Edinburgh | 14k | 1456 | UK | Full Congress | NO |
| ENBIYA KUTAY YILDIZ | Esk | 14k | 670 | TR | Weekend | NO |
| Agnieszka Surma | Dzim | 14k | 876 | PL | Full Congress | YES |
| Mathieu BUARD | St Etienne | 15k | 1480 | FR | Full Congress | NO |
| Siegmund Schleiss | HD | 15k | 1541 | DE | Full Congress | YES |
| berke özücer | istanbul go club | 15k | 557 | TR | Weekend | NO |
| AYMIRA YILDIZ | Esk | 15k | 381 | TR | Weekend | NO |
| Çınar Õztürk | Istanbul Go Okulu | 16k | TR | Weekend | NO | |
| Olha Symon | xxx | 16k | 586 | UK | Full Congress | YES |
| Sibel YILDIRIM | EsGO | 16k | 463 | TR | Weekend | NO |
| Andrii Maksymenko | Kyiv | 16k | UA | Full Congress | NO | |
| Taito Donner | M | 16k | 676 | DE | Full Congress | YES |
| FIRAT ASAR | Goizm | 16k | TR | Weekend | N/A | |
| Andrzej Obirek | Warsaw | 16k | 510 | PL | Full Congress | NO |
| Altuğ Çalın | Ist | 17k | 1552 | TR | Full Congress | NO |
| Adam Dottan | Berlin | 18k | 2427 | DE | Full Congress | NO |
| Katrin Sattelkau | B | 18k | 162 | DE | Weekend | N/A |
| can özücer | istanbul go club | 18k | 317 | TR | Weekend | NO |
| Demir Balaban | Istanbul Go Okulu | 18k | 511 | TR | Weekend + Second Week | N/A |
| Ege Ertok | Istanbul Go School | 18k | 482 | TR | Full Congress | NO |
| Viktoriia Shumakova | Kyiv | 19k | UA | Full Congress | NO | |
| Hayoung Kim | HUFS | 19k | 225 | KR | Full Congress | N/A |
| Halil Remzi Kılıç | İstanbul Go Okulu | 20k | -197 | TR | Weekend + Second Week | NO |
| Semra Onay | TGOD, ESGO | 20k | TR | Full Congress | NO | |
| Mustafa Kürşat Elitok | ESGO | 20k | 2006 | TR | Full Congress | NO |
| Emel Oymak | Kir | 20k | TR | Full Congress | N/A | |
| Gaukhar Zhussupova | Aberdeen Go Club | 20k | -485 | UK | Full Congress | NO |
| Mehmet Demirdag | Ank | - | 1304 | TR | Weekend | NO |