The IMSA World Masters Championship was held in Hengshui, China on May 12–19. Thirty players took part in three tournaments: men’s team tournament, women’s team tournament, and pair go. The final standings in the tournaments were as follows:

Men’s team tournament

1. China
2. Korea
3. Japan
4. Chinese Taipei
5. Europe
6. North America

Women’s team tournament

1. Korea
2. China
3. Japan
4. Chinese Taipei
5. North America
6. Europe

Pair go

1. Korea (Choi Jeon & Shin Jinseo)
2. Chinese Taipei (Pai Hsin-Hui & Lin Li-Hsiang)
3. Chinese Taipei (Joanne Missingham & Wang Yuan-Jyun)
4. Europe (Natalia Kovaleva & Ilya Shikshin)
5. China (Yu Zhiying & Mi Yuting)
6. Europe (Ariane Ougier & Pavol Lisy)
7. Japan (Nyu Eiko & Murakawa Daisuke)
8. North America (Lin Xuefen & Eric Lui)

Men’s team tournament and women’s team tournament were played as round robin tournaments, while the pair go tournament was played as a single knockout tournament with a lottery deciding each pair’s location in the bracket. Losing pairs continued playing each other to decide the final positions of 3–8.

The detailed results in the tournaments were as follows:

Men’s team tournament

Team	Players	China	Korea	Japan	Chinese Taipei	Europe	North America
China	Ke Jie Mi Yuting Gu Zihao		OOO	OOO	OXO	OOO	OOO
Korea	Park Junghwan Shin Jinseo Lee Jihyun	XXX		OOO	OOO	OOO	OOO
Japan	Murakawa Daisuke Ida Atsushi Motoki Katsuya	XXX	XXX		OOX	OOO	OOO
Chinese Taipei	Wang Yuan-Jyun Lin Li-Hsiang Hsu Hao-Hung	XOX	XXX	XXO		OOO	OOO
Europe	Mateusz Surma Ilya Shikshin Pavol Lisy	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX		XOO
North America	Ryan Li William Shi Eric Lui	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	OXX

Women’s team tournament

Team	Players	Korea	China	Japan	Chinese Taipei	North America	Europe
Korea	Choi Jeong Oh Yujin		OO	XO	OO	OO	OO
China	Yu Zhiying Wang Chenxing	XX		OO	OO	OO	OO
Japan	Mukai Chiaki Nyu Eiko	OX	XX		XO	OO	OO
Chinese Taipei	Joanne Missingham Pai Hsin-Hui	XX	XX	OX		OO	OO
North America	Lin Xuefen Gabriella Su	XX	XX	XX	XX		OO
Europe	Natalia Kovaleva Ariane Ougier	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX

Pair Go

Randomised positions in the bracket were as follows:

• A: Chinese Taipei (Joanne Missingham & Wang Yuan-Jyun)
• B: Japan (Nyu Eiko & Murakawa Daisuke)
• C: Korea (Choi Jeon & Shin Jinseo)
• D: China (Yu Zhiying & Mi Yuting)
• E: Europe (Natalia Kovaleva & Ilya Shikshin)
• F: North America (Lin Xuefen & Eric Lui)
• G: Chinese Taipei (Pai Hsin-Hui & Lin Li-Hsiang)
• H: Europe (Ariane Ougier & Pavol Lisy)

Results in the tournament were as follows:

• Round 1:
  • A 1–0 B
  • C 1–0 D
  • E 1–0 F
  • G 1–0 H
• Round 2:
  • A 0–1 C
  • E 0–1 G
  • B 0–1 D
  • F 0–1 H
• Round 3:
  • C 1–0 G
  • A 1–0 E
  • D 1–0 H
  • B 1–0 F

Edit 24 May 2019: Corrected Pair Go results for the North American and second European teams.