32nd Meijin title

Last Preliminary

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 enter the League.

Mochizuki Kenichi		Fujii Shuya	Mimura Tomoyasu	Mimura Tomoyasu W+3.5 2006-11-02
Fujii Shuya
Yamada Takuji	Mimura Tomoyasu	Mimura Tomoyasu
Mimura Tomoyasu
Ogata Masaki
Rin Shien		Rin Shien	Rin Shien
Ogaki Yusaku
Yo Kagen		Imamura Toshiya
Imamura Toshiya
Yokota Shigeaki		Yokota Shigeaki W+R 2006-08-24	Yamada Noriyoshi	Hikosaka Naoto B+0.5 2006-10-26
O Meien
Kiyonari Tetsuya	Kiyonari Tetsuya W+0.5 2006-08-24	Yamada Noriyoshi
Cho Chikun
Yamada Noriyoshi
Takei Takashi	Takei Takashi	Takemiya Masaki B+R 2006-08-31	Hikosaka Naoto W+8.5 2006-10-05
Goto Shungo
Takemiya Masaki
Hikosaka Naoto		Hikosaka Naoto
Han Zenki
O Rissei		Tsuruyama Atsushi W+R 2006-08-24	Hane Naoki	Ko Iso B+R 2006-11-09
Tsuruyama Atsushi
So Yokoku	So Yokoku	Hane Naoki
Honda Kunihisa
Hane Naoki
Rin Kaiho	Rin Kaiho B+2.5 2006-09-07	Kataoka Satoshi W+11.5 2006-09-28	Ko Iso
Chin Kaei
Kataoka Satoshi
Iyama Yuta		Ko Iso B+2.5 2006-08-24
Ko Iso

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.	Cho U	7-1		W+0.5		W+0.5		W+5.5		W+R
2.	Yamashita Keigo	1-7			B+R		B+5.5		B+R		W+R
3.	Sakai Hideyuki	4-4	W+0.5			B+0.5		B+0.5		B+0.5
4.	Kobayashi Satoru	4-4		W+R			W+R		W+R		B+R
5.	Yamada Kimio	5-3	B+R		W+R			W+1.5		W+R
6.	Yoda Norimoto	4-4		W+4.5		W+1.5			B+0.5		B+3.5
7.	Hikosaka Naoto	3-5	B+1.5		B+8.5		W+R			B+1.5
8.	Mimura Tomoyasu	4-4		W+0.5		W+R		B+R			B+R
9.	Ko Iso	4-4	B+4.5		B+R		B+R		W+1.5

Demotion Playoff

Ko Iso and Mimura Tomoyasu both had 4 wins, and played a demotion playoff that was won by Ko Iso.

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
Demotion playoff	2007-08-16	Ko Iso	Mimura Tomoyasu	B+R	sgf

Yamashita Keigo, Hikosaka Naoto, and Mimura Tomoyasu are demoted.

32nd Meijin Title

1	2007-09-06,07	Takao Shinji	Cho U	B+4.5	sgf
2	2007-09-19,20	Cho U	Takao Shinji	B+R	sgf
3	2007-09-26,27	Takao Shinji	Cho U	W+1.5	sgf
4	2007-10-10,11	Cho U	Takao Shinji	B+R	sgf
5	2007-10-17,18	Takao Shinji	Cho U	B+2.5	sgf
6	2007-11-01,02	Cho U	Takao Shinji	W+0.5	sgf
7	2007-11-08,09	Cho U	Takao Shinji	B+2.5	sgf

Cho U won 4-3.