30th 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
Group 1 Final	2004-11-04	Komatsu Hideki	Cho Sonjin	W+R	sgf
Group 2 Final	2004-11-11	Ogata Masaki	Kato Atsushi	B+1.5	sgf
Group 3 Final	2004-10-28	Hane Naoki	Sakai Hideyuki	W+R	sgf

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.	Yoda Norimoto	3-5			B+5.5		W+1.5		W+R		B+0.5
2.	Kobayashi Satoru	7-1	W+0.5			W+R		B+5.5		W+0.5
3.	Imamura Toshiya	6-2		B+8.5			W+R		W+4.5		W+R
4.	Yamashita Keigo	7-1	W+1.5		W+R			W+R		W+R
5.	O Meien	3-5		B+3.5		B+R			W+R		B+3.5
6.	Yamada Kimio	4-4	W+R		B+R		B+R			W+R
7.	Cho Sonjin	1-7		B+R		B+R		B+R			W+R
8.	Ogata Masaki	1-7	B+3.5		B+R		B+R		W+R
9.	Sakai Hideyuki	4-4		B+R		B+R		W+2.5		W+3.5

Ogata Masaki, Cho Sonjin, and O Meien are demoted.

Playoff

Kobayashi Satoru and Yamashita Keigo both had 7 wins, and played a challenger playoff that was won by Kobayashi Satoru.

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
challenger playoff	2005-08-08	Yamashita Keigo	Kobayashi Satoru	W+1.5	sgf

30th Meijin Title

1	2005-09-07,08	Cho U	Kobayashi Satoru	B+R	sgf
2	2005-09-22,23	Kobayashi Satoru	Cho U	W+6.5	sgf
3	2005-09-28,29	Cho U	Kobayashi Satoru	B+R	sgf
4	2005-10-11,12	Kobayashi Satoru	Cho U	B+3.5	sgf
5	2005-10-19,20	Cho U	Kobayashi Satoru	W+1.5	sgf
6	2005-11-03,04	Kobayashi Satoru	Cho U	B+0.5	sgf
7	2005-11-09,10	Kobayashi Satoru	Cho U	W+R	sgf

Cho U won 4-3.