According to Sensei’s Library she met her Austrian husband during the European Go Congress of 2007 in Villach, Austria, and was granted her professional status by the Kansai Ki-in in 2010.
There are nine professional players who achieved their professional rank in European Pro Qualification tournaments started as a Chinese - European cooperation project in 2014: https://eurogofed.org/pros/
There are other professional players holding a passport of a European country, which are allowed and invited to participate in European Professional Championships: https://eurogofed.org/pros/other_euro_pros.html
That is how Li Ting, 1p of Kansai kin, an Austrian citizen, got the invitation.
Li Ting is a vice-president of the European Go Federation and a vice-president of the International Go Federation. Recently, she is playing go more actively.
So Andrii has the easy game vs Li Ting and is expected to win with 5 points. Showing his 2 European Championship wins were no fluke and he’s the man to beat with Ilya gone. But if he loses then he ties on 4 with Ali but won their head to head so still wins. The others on 3 who could be on 4 after this round are Artem, Stanislaw and Tanguy. Artem and Stanislaw both lost to Andrii so he’d still win tiebreak whichever of them win their match. But Tanguy beat Andrii so if Tanguy beats Jan (slightly but not hugely expected) then Andrii isn’t clear winner on head to head vs all the other 4 pointers so looks like some tiebreak games needed.
In a case that 4 players share the 1st place after the end of the Round Robin, two additional rounds will be played with shorter time settings in order to define exact placement (a game for the 3rd place will be played as well). There is only one trophy
