As Hou Yifan also won the Grand Prix, Koneru Humpy as the runner-up qualified for the championship match.
[1][2][3] The final tournament was originally scheduled to take place in Santiago de Chile starting on October 23, 2010.
However, due to problems with financing, the host was replaced and the final tournament was then played in Doha, Qatar.
Mamedyarova was excluded from the series after the first tournament in Istanbul and replaced by Baira Kovanova due to change of host city to Nalchik.
With the objective of determining a clear, single winner to play in the championship match in the case that two or more players had equal cumulative points at the top, the following criteria (in descending order) would be utilized to decide the overall winner: The prize fund was €40,000 per Grand Prix event and €60,000 for the overall Grand Prix placement.