# Last preliminary of the 68th Honinbo tournament

In a knock-out system, the 28 winners of the Preliminaries A, together with the 4 players Seto Taiki, Ko Iso, Hane Naoki and Kono Rin who were demoted from the 67th Honinbo League, and the 5 players Imamura Toshiya, Sakai Hideyuki, Fujii Shuya, Yokota Shigeaki and Murakawa Daisuke compete in 4 groups of 9 or 10 for a place in the League.

Awaji Shuzo | Imamura Toshiya | Imamura Toshiya (W+R) | Imamura Toshiya (W+R)
Imamura Toshiya
Yamada Kimio | Yamada Kimio (W+0.5) | Yamada Kimio (B+R)
Kato Atsushi
Sakai Hideyuki
Kobayashi Koichi | Nakamura Shinya (W+R) | Yamada Takuji
Nakamura Shinya | Nakamura Shinya
Sasaka Shiro
Yamada Takuji | Yamada Takuji (B+R)
Kono Rin
Cho Sonjin | Cho Sonjin (B+0.5) | Cho Sonjin (B+R) | Cho Sonjin (W+14.5)
Iwamaru Taira
Mizokami Tomochika | Mizokami Tomochika | Fujii Shuya
Morita Michihiro
Fujii Shuya
Imamura Yoshiaki | Imamura Yoshiaki | Imamura Yoshiaki
Shida Tatsuya
Kubo Hideo | Kubo Hideo (B+R)
Hane Naoki
Aoki Shinichi | Aoki Shinichi | Nakano Hironari | Ko Iso (B+R)
Yokota Shigeaki
Rin Shien | Nakano Hironari | Nakano Hironari (B+R)
Nakano Hironari
Tajiri Yuto
Oba Junya | Oba Junya | Ko Iso
Shimojima Yohei
Tsuruyama Atsushi | Ko Iso
Ko Iso
Muramatsu Hiroki | Shuto Shun | Shuto Shun (B+R) | Seto Taiki (B+R)
Shuto Shun
Kono Takashi | Yoda Norimoto (B+R) | Ryu Shikun (W+1.5)
Yoda Norimoto
Ryu Shikun
Michael Redmond | Murakawa Daisuke (W+R) | Seto Taiki
Murakawa Daisuke
O Rissei | Seto Taiki (B+R)
Seto Taiki