The Agon Cup is a Go competition endorsed by the Nihon Kiin. It was started in 1994 by Agon Shu. The name was originally the "Acom Cup" but it changed its sponsor in 1999 and became the Agon Cup. It is a single knockout tournament, but unlike the big titles in Japan, the title holder does not wait for a challenger, hence the difficulty of defending the title. The prize for the winner is 10,000,000 Yen ($86,000).
But it was an agonizing watch for the 23-time Grand Slam... The ESPN broadcast captured the ball rolling towards the hole before agonizingly lipping around the edge of the cup before trundling on past.
The Saudi-backed club beat Liverpool 2-1 on Sunday to win the English League Cup and end an agonizing trophy drought ...Newcastle's last major domestic trophy was the FA Cup in 1955. It won the now-defunct Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969.
... a first domestic triumph since the 1955 FA Cup. The North East club came agonizingly close to ending this drought in 2022, when they fell to defeat against Manchester United in the Carabao Cup final.