Participate at our online tournament and become one of our Champions for the FESA World Open Shogi Championship 2025 in Poland !

Registration : until January 26th – on Shogi Harbour Discord

official website : http://shogiharbour.com

Expected Start : February 3rd

ESC/WOSC 2025: 24-27 July in Wroclaw City, Poland. (details yet to be announced)

Tournament system
Single-elimination system, 1 game per week, long thinking time (30+60s), random colors.

Winners and Prizes

There will be three winners (Champions) :

• Tournament winner
• Best kyu player 3 kyu and above
• Best kyu player 4 kyu and below

If the best kyu players are tied (reaching the same stage of the tournament), playoffs will be played.

The prizes : 

• Become one of the official Shogi Harbour Champions and represent Shogi Harbour during ESC/WOSC 2025
• Subsidy for travelling to ESC/WOSC 2025 in Poland (300EUR)
• Trophy
• Chosen Champions’ games played during ESC/WOSC 2025 will be commented on the Shogi Harbour YouTube channel

Requirements

Participants must have :

• a discord account
• an 81dojo account that is at least 5 months old with an established rating

Participants must be able to participate in-person in a real life event ESC/WOSC 2025 in Poland.

Champions agree to share their real name and photos online.

Fair play notice

To ensure fair play, if asked by organizers, participants agree to play with a webcam. If the organizer has any doubt about the fairness of an online play, the player will be banned from future tournaments and the rewards will be revoked. That includes: using external support like shogi AI or exploitation of 81dojo bugs.

Other issues

Draws – Sennichite and Jishogi

In case of sennichite (repetition draw), the match is immediately replayed with flipped colors. If the main time was used up, the time for the game is set to 60 seconds byoyomi.

In case of Jishogi (double entering king), the game is resolved using 81dojo DECLARE system.

Scheduling, reporting and game related issues

The schedule and pairings are announced on the first day of each round on shogiharbour.com with an accompanying ping on the tournament’s discord channel. The announced deadline is the final date for the game to take place. That is: the game needs to be scheduled and played before the deadline.

Paired players must arrange their games either on discord public channels or DM’s. The schedule of the game must be posted by one of the players to the “schedule-report” channel with a Discord Time Stamp.

The game schedule cannot be changed, if there are less than 24 hours remaining before the game. The player cannot be more than 15 minutes late to the game. 

Not answering messages of the opponent, not scheduling the game, not showing on the game within 15 minutes or at all is all considered a forfeit without a match. 

Technical problems may occur from the player’s side (e.g. faulty internet connection). If it results in 81dojo system as a loss, it will be considered as a loss in the tournament – unless the opponent agrees to replay the game (in a fair play spirit). That being said, if the loss is the result of an unfair bug exploitation (e.g. “forever time delay” bug), the game needs to be submitted (possibly with a proof : screenshot, video) to the organiser to be reevaluated.

The result of the game is posted on the discord “result-report” channel by the winner.

In any other issues the organizer will do their best to decide on the matter according to a fair play spirit.