Protocol of USF Executive Committee meeting
Place and date:  24th March 2020, Ukraine, Ukrainian Shogi Federation skype conference
Theme: determination of Ukrainian representative to 8th International Shogi Forum (2020, Tokyo, Japan)
Decision:
1.	Due to Ukrainian government restrictions from 11th March about public meetings and closing transport communications between cities, caused with covid-19 pandemy spreading, to hold USF Executive Committee meeting online.
2.	To choose representative from Ukraine according to qualifying points system competition, that was declared at 28th June 2014 by Ukrainian Shogi Federation officials (in the latest version from 7th October 2017 approved at USF general meeting) as method of choosing representative from Ukraine to main international Shogi competition (8th International Shogi Forum in 2020). Rules of qualifying points calculation are explained in “USF qualifying points tournament statistics.docx” attached file, article 1. 
3.	Take in account all tournaments, that were declared in Ukrainian Shogi Federation yearly tournament calendar as tournaments with qualifying points, with additions from 7th October 2017 and 23rd March 2019. Period of time: from qualifying points system declaration (28th  June 2014) – till today meeting (24th  March 2020). Detailed list of tournaments with tournament tables and photos is represented in “USF qualifying points tournament statistics.docx” attached file, article 2.
4.	Take in account Viktoria Ryasnyanskaya’s declaration (as player with the largest value of qualifying points at the day of meeting) about her refusal to become representative from Ukraine in 8th International Shogi Forum (2020, Tokyo, Japan) due to family reasons.
5.	According to articles 2, 3 and taking in account article 4 – to declare the next after Viktoria Ryasnyanskaya Ukrainian player with the largest value of qualifying points as Ukrainian representative to 8th International Shogi Forum. 
6.	In attached file “USF qualifying points tournament statistics.docx”, article 3, is presented detailed statistics of all Ukrainian tournaments with qualifying points Ukrainian players with their qualifying points. 

According to information in this file, with 242 earned points Ukrainian representative to 8th International Shogi Forum becomes Artem Kolomiyets, 3 Dan

7.	To remove all points from the qualification winner, Artem Kolomiyets. (That means, in next qualification according to qualifying points system Artem Kolomiyets starts with zero points, while all other players with non-zero qualifying points will start with that number of qualifying points)
USF rating officer (e-mail: oiratilnare@gmail.com)                                ____________/Olesya Prypysnyuk/
USF executive committee head (e-mail: stavrojani@gmail.com)            _____________/Sergey Stavroyani/
USF vice-president (e-mail: ryasnyanskaya@gmail.com)                   ________/Viktoriya Ryasnyanskaya/
USF president (e-mail: baydenkobv@gmail.com)                                ________________/Boris Baydenko/