Hupan Women's World Team Cup

A women's international team relay (擂台赛, leitai sai) — the winner-stays-on format that has been the signature spectacle of East Asian team Go since the original Sino-Japanese Supermatches of the 1980s and the Nongshim Cup that followed. The leitai itself comes from much older Chinese tradition: a raised platform on which a defender faces all challengers in turn until defeated. The tournament name "湖盘" ("lakeside board") evokes the classical Chinese literati image of Go played beside still water, and gives the women's circuit its own answer to the men's national team relays.