5. All six Weiqi titles

The year 2013 is the most successful year in individual competition for Chinese Weiqi players.

When Tang Wei­xing ­defeated 30-year-old South ­Korean Lee Sedol in the Samsung Insurance World Masters Baduk Championship earlier in December, Chinese ­players had won all six individual Weiqi titles of the year. It is the first time since 1996 that South Korean players have failed to claim a single individual title.

Zhou Ruiyang, Shi Yue, Fan Ting­yu, Chen Yaoye and Mi Yuting claimed the other five titles for China. Except Chen who was born in December 1989, all five other Chinese ­players were born in or after 1990. What's more exciting for Chinese fans, except Zhou, all the other five champions had defeated Lee, widely considered South Korea's best player, en route to their final championship wins.