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| Author: | John Fairbairn [ Mon Feb 10, 2020 5:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Tournamemt postponements |
I haven't bothered to check how the corona virus is affecting the ordinary Chinese tournament scene, but it seems that the eagerly awaited Game 2 of the 1st Fox Pro Tournament (Iyama 1-0 up against Tong Mengcheng) due on 12 February may have been postponed. Likewise the Chunlan Cup games due on 24 Feb in Taizhou have been scuppered. No new dates have been scheduled, though presumably internet games remain an option. That was used for 6th Korea-China King of the New Stars Match in 2003 during the SARS outbreak. But that was a team event. Perhaps there is a greater reluctance to use the internet for big-money individual games. |
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| Author: | Uberdude [ Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:24 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tournamemt postponements |
Ing Cup postponed too: https://www.usgo.org/news/2020/01/ing-c ... -outbreak/ |
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| Author: | AloneAgainstAll [ Tue Feb 18, 2020 5:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tournamemt postponements |
Is Nongshim Cup postponed too? On fox i saw Park Junghwan game but not against Iyama but someone else. |
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| Author: | xela [ Tue Feb 18, 2020 7:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tournamemt postponements |
Seriously? Tokyo is two and a half thousand kilometres from Wuhan. Is it really that dangerous to be in town? How are the other ten million people there coping? |
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| Author: | hyperpape [ Tue Feb 18, 2020 7:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tournamemt postponements |
It's difficult to extrapolate, but the number of cases in Japan has multiplied by 3-4x so far this month (though it's only 74 so far). I don't know how bad it'll be, maybe not even worse than flu season. However, there are still a lot of new cases in China, despite quarantines, closing stores and workplaces. It's already had almost 10x the cases SARS had, with 2.5x as many deaths. SARS resulted in cancelling the WAGC. I don't know if there's an airtight argument for cancellation, but it doesn't seem like a surprising decision. |
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| Author: | xela [ Tue Feb 18, 2020 8:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tournamemt postponements |
Yes, but 74 out of 125,000,000 is still better than your odds of being in a car accident on the way to the airport. |
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| Author: | hyperpape [ Tue Feb 18, 2020 8:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tournamemt postponements |
You’re right that if you assume there will be about 74 cases in May, it would be very unreasonable to cancel the tournament. |
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| Author: | Bill Spight [ Tue Feb 18, 2020 9:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tournamemt postponements |
xela wrote: Seriously? Tokyo is two and a half thousand kilometres from Wuhan. Is it really that dangerous to be in town? How are the other ten million people there coping? One nice thing about Japan is that people wear masks when they have cold or flu symptoms. From what I have read, masks are not really effective in protecting yourself from others, but they are good in protecting others from you. 
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| Author: | TegaiS [ Wed Feb 19, 2020 4:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tournamemt postponements |
May be they are afraid of chinese delegation. |
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| Author: | trout [ Sat Feb 22, 2020 9:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tournamemt postponements |
The following tournaments are postponed. Nongshim cup Chunlan cup Yongseong cup World baduk Champion MLily Senko cup Ing cup IMSA |
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