The 1st AGA Strong Players Online Tournament (SPOT1) begins tonight at 7pm (I wonder if that's eastern time or pacific? -- that would be, what, 4pm for me on the west coast?)

AGA front page news: http://www.usgo.org/index.html

Main tournament site: http://www.ngol.us/Home.html (pairings are posted)

The schedule at the web page also mentions EST for later rounds, but probably everyone on the east coast is on EDT.

Sigh, I was in this...until I got disqualified for my membership not being "continuous" in the past year; in other words, there was a gap between membership renewals in the past that I didn't cover. I think it makes sense that membership should be active by the time of the tournament, but don't really understand this requirement; anyways, apparently I'm not the only one and last year it was even worse so can't complain too much .

Bah. I saw your name there, and was rooting for the two GD members that I knew. I was finding it strange that your name wasn't there anymore.

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Now I've also lost the reason to follow the tournament too. Why did you go and let that happen?

Meh, the TD gave me the option to raise an objection and see if I could discuss with the AGA about it, but I figure it'd cause too much problems for the TD due to time constraint and the pressure it'd add on him, so I didn't bother. I'll just remember to always make sure my membership doesn't lapse :p.

Results from tonight's games:

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<gmt>2010-04-23 23:00</gmt>
Qual_A - Remi Campagnie 5D CA (ikami) - Daniel Gourdeau 6D CA (bagman) B+r
Qual_B - Jianing Gan 6D CA (hkkyeen) - Patrick Lung 6D CA (Crisis) W+r
<gmt>2010-04-23 23:30</gmt>
F_1 - Xinyu Tu 7D (tuxy) - Nick Jhirad 6D (Shapenaji) W+r
H_1 - Bogdon Dobrescu 5D (bogdanD) - Juan Zhou 7D (GMD) B+r
<gmt>2010-04-24 00:30</gmt>
D_1 - Yong Chen 6D (ychen88888) - Eric Lui 7D (compendium) B+r
Qual_F - Andrew Huang 6D CA (DonValley) - Jin Sarah Yu 6D CA (jinsarah) B+r

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and pairings for tomorrow morning

<gmt>2010-04-24 17:00</gmt>
A_1 MyungWan Kim 9P (myungwan) - Hugh Zhang 6D (sume)
A_2 Daniel Gourdeau 6D CA (bagman) - Jian Zhang 5D (infovisthinker)
B_1 YongFei Ge 7D CA (gyfcat) - Gus Price 7D (Tabemasu)
B_2 Jianing Gan 6D CA (hkkyeen) - MengMeng Chen 5D (qiaqia)
C_1 Zhaonian Michael Chen 7D (zchen) - Yixian Zhou 7D (missbear)
C_2 Yinli Wang 6D (fairy2009) - Yang Xu 5D (yangxu)
D_2 Changlong Wu 7D (angryfist) - Ke Lu 5D (kelu)
E_1 Curtis Tang 7D (cjheaven) - Calvin Sun 7D (kbag)
E_2 Andrew Lu 6D (lint) - Xiaohan Huang 5D (xiaohan)
F_2 Jie Liang 7D (gust) - Carlos Vladimiro Gonzalez 5D MX (manonegra)
G_1 Minshan Shou 7D (mshou) - Yue Zhang 7D (fossilman)
G_2 Jin Sarah Yu 6D CA (jinsarah) - Emil Estueardo 5D MX (e1000)
H_2 Jung Lee 7D (redrock) - Bo Qian 5D (vcoop)

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I wonder if Hugh has any chance tomorrow...

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Maybe if there is a misclick.

First round results are in

<gmt>2010-04-24 16:00</gmt>
B_1 Gus Price 7D (Tabemasu) - YongFei Ge 7D CA (gyfcat) B+7.5
<gmt>2010-04-24 17:00</gmt>
A_1 MyungWan Kim 9P (myungwan) - Hugh Zhang 6D (sume) W+r
A_2 Jian Zhang 5D (infovisthinker/zhjwy9343) - Daniel Gourdeau 6D CA (bagman) B+r
B_2 Jianing Gan 6D CA (hkkyeen) - MengMeng Chen 5D (qiaqia) W+r
C_1 Zhaonian Michael Chen 7D (zchen) - Yixian Zhou 7D (missbear) W+12.5
C_2 Yang Xu 5D (yangxu) - Yinli Wang 6D (fairy2009) B+r
D_2 Ke Lu 5D (kelu) - Changlong Wu 7D (angryfist) B+r
E_1 Calvin Sun 7D (kbag) - Curtis Tang 7D (cjheaven) B+r
E_2 Andrew Lu 6D (lint) - Xiaohan Huang 5D (xiaohan) W+r
F_2 Carlos Vladimiro Gonzalez 5D MX (manonegra) - Jie Liang 7D (gust) B+1.5
G_1 Minshan Shou 7D (mshou) - Yue Zhang 7D (fossilman) B+t
G_2 Emil Estueardo 5D MX (e1000) - Jin Sarah Yu 6D CA (jinsarah) B+r
H_2 Jung Lee 7D (redrock) - Bo Qian 5D (vcoop) W+r


And Curtis says he's finally got his revenge

Second round pairings:

<gmt>2010-04-24 19:30</gmt>
l-B1 Gus Price 7D (Tabemasu) - B2 MengMeng Chen 5D (qiaqia) W+r
<gmt>2010-04-24 23:00</gmt>
w-A1 MyungWan Kim 9P (myungwan) - A2 Daniel Gourdeau 6D CA (bagman)
l-A1 Hugh Zhang 6D (sume) - A2 Jian Zhang 5D (zhjwy9343)
w-B1 YongFei Ge 7D CA (gyfcat) - B2 Jianing Gan 6D CA (hkkyeen)
w-C1 Zhaonian Michael Chen 7D (zchen) - C2 Yinli Wang 6D (fairy2009)
l-C1 Yixian Zhou 7D (missbear) - C2 Yang Xu 5D (yangxu)
w-D1 Eric Lui 7D (compendium) - D2 Changlong Wu 7D (angryfist)
l-D1-Yong Chen 6D (ychen88888) - D2 Ke Lu 5D (kelu)
w-E1 Curtis Tang 7D (cjheaven) - E2 Andrew Lu 6D (lint)
l-E1 Calvin Sun 7D (kbag) - E2 Xiaohan Huang 5D (xiaohan)
w-G1 Yue Zhang 7D (fossilman) - G2 Jin Sarah Yu 6D CA (jinsarah)
l-G1 Minshan Shou 7D (mshou) - G2 Emil Estueardo 5D MX (e1000)
l-H1 Bogdon Dobrescu 5D (bogdanD) - H2 Bo Qian 5D (vcoop)
<gmt>2010-04-24 23:30</gmt>
w-F1 Xinyu Tu 7D (tuxy) - F2 Jie Liang 7D (gust)
w-F1 Nick Jhirad 6D (Shapenaji) - F2 Carlos Vladimiro Gonzalez 5D MX (manonegra)
<gmt>2010-04-25 00:30</gmt>
l-H1 Juan Zhou 7D (GMD) - H2 Jung Lee 7D (redrock)

So, I didn't get to see any of the games on Saturday, but I did see a few games on Friday. I believe shapenaji had one the best games. It was very interesting near the end. I don't know by what count, but I was pretty sure that the game was down to the last fight to decide who would win or lose.

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Kim Myungwan is 9d, by the way. You can see that here:
http://www.baduk.or.kr/information/info ... p?gno=1092

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corrected. (I only typo'ed it once )

Eight 2-0 players move on to the sweet 16 (starts next weekend)
Eight 0-2 players are out

Today starts the head-to-head playoffs to break the 1-1 ties in each of the eight groups.

I'll not list them all here like I've been doing. The main website has been updated.

There have been a few upsets and surprises along the way, most involving what I like to call -- internet weather.

The rules for this even specifically call out that if you get disconnected, you risk losing on time. At least two players have so far, and one of them twice.

The odd thing about lag on KGS, your client may still think you are connected when you play your move and the clock switches to your opponent -- but the server didn't get that move, so it thinks your clock is still running. Now both players think the other player has run out of time (they were both in byo-yomi).

the last playoff, zchen vs missbear, has been rescheduled for tonight <gmt>2010-04-27 03:00</gmt> (8pm pacific/11pm eastern)

Then the sweet 16 rounds start on Saturday May 1st

New feature for this weekend's games... live commentary of Kim's games.

Saturday: Jie Li will comment Myungwan Kim vs Yongfei Ge
Sunday: Jenny Shen 2p will give an audio commentary

We're down to the final 4

Semi-Final: <gmt>Sat 2010-05-08 17:00</gmt>
MyungWan Kim 9P (myungwan) - Zhaonian Michael Chen 7D (zchen)
Eric Lui 7D (compendium) - Jianing Gan 6D CA (hkkyeen)

after tomorrow's games, there'll be a 3 game playoff to determine 1st, 2nd and 3rd places over this weekend and next.

Not sure yet if I'll get to watch the games scheduled for Mother's Day. Otherwise, we might as well cancel Father's Day for me

Times like these are when I wish KGS had an auto updated web link for top games on their site. I wonder, is it possible? A scribe-bot that updates through diagrams on webpages?

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well, if the TD's would communicate with the KGS Admins, then they could keep it updated.

I do not think I explained what I meant correctly, but I do agree with you. There is a serious lack of coordination on the part of the TDs. That's not to say they aren't doing a decent job, I just think it could have gone a lot more smoothly than it did. On the first day.. I saw that a few of the players did not know who to talk to / where the TDs were to watch over the game(I believe some of the TDs were missing...). It's very painful to see players having to ask repeatedly to be able to start their game or not know where the TDs that they were to report to were at. Not to mention, some of them starting their games in different rooms(some in EGR, some in AGA tournaments, etc). I also have not seen the sponsor sign on to watch any of the games.. Isn't this a bit odd?

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