36th Meijin title

Qualification tournament

The lowest three players from the previous year are demoted from the League, and a qualification tournament with three groups determines which three new players are allowed to enter the League.

Yamashita Keigo		Yamashita Keigo W+R 2010-08-05	Yamashita Keigo B+R 2010-09-23	Yamashita Keigo W+R 2010-10-21
Yoda Norimoto
Han Zenki	Han Zenki	Han Zenki
Kanazawa Hideo
Mimura Tomoyasu
Shida Tatsuya	Seto Taiki W+R 2010-08-26	Seto Taiki	Seto Taiki W+R 2010-09-23
Seto Taiki
Fujii Shuya
Kono Rin		Ogata Masaki W+R 2010-09-09
Ogata Masaki
Hane Naoki		Hane Naoki B+R 2010-08-19	Hane Naoki W+R 2010-09-23	Hane Naoki W+R 2010-10-28
Tsuruyama Atsushi
Kitano Ryo	Murakawa Daisuke	Murakawa Daisuke
Murakawa Daisuke
Aragaki Takeshi
Kobayashi Satoru	Kobayashi Satoru B+3.5 2010-08-12	Kobayashi Satoru B+1.5 2010-09-02	Yamada Kimio W+4.5 2010-09-30
Hikosaka Naoto
Yukawa Mitsuhisa
Kataoka Satoshi		Yamada Kimio W+R 2010-09-09
Yamada Kimio
Matsuoka Hideki		Kono Takashi	Rin Kanketsu	Rin Kanketsu B+R 2010-10-28
Kono Takashi
Ha Youngil	Ryu Shikun W+6.5 2010-08-12	Rin Kanketsu B+R 2010-09-09
Ryu Shikun
Rin Kanketsu
Suzuki Shinji		Goto Shungo	O Meien B+R 2010-10-07
Goto Shungo
Sakakibara Masateru		O Meien W+R 2010-08-26
O Meien

League

Results (in the first column the white player, on the top row the black player). The ordering of the first six players is according to their results in the previous year. The last three are the winners of the entrance matches.

#	player	result	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1.	Takao Shinji	5-3		W+4.5		W+R		W+0.5		B+R
2.	Cho U	5-3			W+0.5		B+2.5		W+R		W+4.5
3.	Yuki Satoshi	5-3	W+0.5			W+1.5		W+R		B+R
4.	Sakai Hideyuki	2-6		W+0.5			W+R		B+R		B+4.5
5.	Mizokami Tomochika	3-5	B+R		B+R			W+R		W+1.5
6.	Cho Chikun	1-7		B+4.5		W+R			B+R		B+R
7.	Yamashita Keigo	6-2	W+3.5		W+R		W+4.5			B+6.5
8.	Hane Naoki	6-2		B+R		W+0.5		W+R			W+0.5
9.	Rin Kanketsu	3-5	B+R		B+R		W+0.5		B+R

Cho Chikun, Sakai Hideyuki, and Rin Kanketsu are demoted.

Playoff

Yamashita Keigo and Hane Naoki both had 6 wins, and played a challenger playoff that was won by Yamashita Keigo.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2011-08-08	Yamashita Keigo	Hane Naoki	B+R	189	sgf

36th Meijin Title

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2011-09-01,02	Yamashita Keigo	Iyama Yuta	B+5.5	273	sgf
2011-09-14,15	Iyama Yuta	Yamashita Keigo	B+R	179	sgf
2011-09-21,22	Yamashita Keigo	Iyama Yuta	B+R	197	sgf
2011-10-05,06	Iyama Yuta	Yamashita Keigo	W+R	198	sgf
2011-10-13,14	Yamashita Keigo	Iyama Yuta	W+R	182	sgf
2011-10-27,28	Iyama Yuta	Yamashita Keigo	W+3.5	281	sgf

Yamashita Keigo won 4-2.