MAR Tournament Announcement

[Bill Chiles]

Hey, everyone.  If you would like to play in the MAR tournament, please reply to me with your name, the rank you would like to play at, and if you are under 18 yrs old.  In FEB we had 7 boards, and in round two, four people have won both their games.  I'm loosely thinking of the winners as those winning all three games 🙂.

I'll pair the first round 07 MAR.  I encourage folks to play during the Saturday Discord hangout around 3pm or Tue nights on the zoom hangout as an easy way to find a common time.

 

We cannot submit a report to the AGA for ranking as we usually do with the monthly ratings because the AGA does not support ranking based on online games.  Therefore, if your AGA membership has lapsed, it is ok.  On the upside, you can have a thoughtful game (no online pressure to play super fast) that may be good for reviewing or learning from.

 

The default time controls for a game are 45 min main with 5x30s byouyomi.  You may ask your opponent to play with a different time control, but your opponent can stick with the default.  This is our usual monthly ratings tournament time control.  

 

The tournament is a handicapped tournament.  If there are outlying ranked participants, and I cannot pair you due to no one being within 9 stones that you have not played previously in the tournament, then I will notify you that I cannot pair you.  If it happens that we have an odd number of people, then I will ask someone to bye for a round, and if there are no volunteers, I will pick someone as best I can.  If there is an odd number of people who sign up, then the last person to send email that they want to participate will have to wait for next time.

 

You can use the SGC Discord chat room to chit chat while playing or discuss your games, or chat boxes in OGS and KGS, or however you agree with your opponent.

 

If you are under 18 yrs old, we need you to CC your parent when you sign up, and the parent needs to agree to a consent form.  As are the rules for SGC, children need to be supervised by parents or someone the parents asked to be responsible to watch out for the kids.

 

PLEASE consider participating.  We hope this can be fun and get you playing more Go.  It might be that we can recruit a strong player on a Tue evening to pick a tournament game and review it.

 

Cheers,

Bill

[Bill Chiles]

I already did a reminder on Fri, so I am sorry to email everyone again.  To be able to have a MAR tournament, we hope more people are interested in participating.  In particular, it would be great to have the following kinds of folks sign up to be able to pair everyone in three rounds:

 * two more double-digit kyuu players

 * two more mid single-digit kyuu players

 * two more 1 kyuu to low dan players

I think the best motivations are 1) you get handed a game to play, no fishing in the online waters 2) winners of all three rounds get called out in the tournament wrap email ... I mean, what better motivations are there 🙂.

Ok, last general mailing for MAR.  If we do not get enough players, we can pair one or two rounds in MAR for fun, and we'll try again in APR.

Cheers,

Bill

P.S.,

     While we do have two well-known ex-Seattle members playing, I would still like to keep the tournament to our members and not open the invitation to all of America or the world.

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