27th Meijin title

Newcomers

The lowest three players from the previous year are demoted, and entrance matches determine which three new players enter the League.

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
Qualification final	2001-10-25	O Rissei	Hasegawa Sunao	B+R	sgf
Qualification final	2001-11-01	Cho U	Hikosaka Naoto	W+R	sgf
Qualification final	2001-11-08	Yo Kagen	Yamashita Keigo	W+7.5

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.	Rin Kaiho	4-4			B+R		W+R		B+4.5		B+R
2.	Cho Chikun	7-1	W+8.5			W+R		W+7.5		W+13.5
3.	Ryu Shikun	6-2		B+R			W+R		W+4.5		W+2.5
4.	Cho Sonjin	1-7	B+R		B+R			B+1.5		B+R
5.	O Meien	5-3		B+R		W+R			W+2.5		W+R
6.	Kato Masao	1-7	B+13.5		B+R		B+1.5			B+3.5
7.	O Rissei	3-5		B+R		B+R		W+3.5			B+R
8.	Hikosaka Naoto	3-5	B+R		W+R		B+R		B+R
9.	Yamashita Keigo	6-2		W+R		W+2.5		W+R		W+R

Demotion Playoff

O Rissei and Hikosaka Naoto both had 3 wins, and played a demotion playoff that was won by O Rissei.

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
Demotion playoff	2002-08-05	O Rissei	Hikosaka Naoto	B+R	sgf

Kato Masao, Cho Sonjin, and Hikosaka Naoto are demoted.

27th Meijin Title

1	2002-09-11,12	Cho Chikun	Yoda Norimoto	W+R	sgf
2	2002-09-25,26	Yoda Norimoto	Cho Chikun	B+2.5	sgf
3	2002-10-02,03	Cho Chikun	Yoda Norimoto	B+2.5	sgf
4	2002-10-16,17	Yoda Norimoto	Cho Chikun	B+0.5	sgf
5	2002-10-23,24	Cho Chikun	Yoda Norimoto	W+R	sgf

Yoda Norimoto won 4-1.