So I've finally gotten around to making a pairing for the 2012 L19 tournament.

The players are divided into four groups of 8 players, based on playing strength. In case players of equal playing strength needed to be put in different groups, I drew random lots.

The groups are:
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All games are to be played on KGS. If a player's KGS nickname is different than their L19 forum user name, their KGS nick is mentioned behind their user name between parenthesis.

In the first round, the players from group 4 have been paired randomly against those from group 3. The winners will be paired randomly against the players from group 2, and the winners of those games paired randomly against the players from group 1.

Losers will move to the loser bracket, where they will be paired in such a way to avoid repeated match-ups.

All games are even, colors to be decided randomly.
We play with AGA rules and 7.5 komi.
Time setting is 40m main time followed by 5x40s byoyomi (or 10 stones per 5 minutes Canadian, if both players agree).

If the players make a mistake in choosing the rule set, time settings, etc, they should restart the game if they notice within the first 10 moves, otherwise they should finish the games with the settings chosen. Komi will always be 7.5, even if accidentally set differently, because the score can be adjusted after the game.

When your game has been played, the winner should post the result (and the SGF) to this thread.

And the most important rule of all: Behave sportsmanlike!


The pairing for round 1 is:



Please try to contact your opponent a.s.a.p.

This round will run until Sunday June 24th

Point(s) of clarification on AGA rules.

Is it required to fill in Dame?
If I recall correctly in AGA W has to play last, even if he passes.
And when passing you give up a point(passing a stone)

Am I correct in this?

If you choose to pass before dame are filled, you will lose points. The best play then is to fill all dame before passing.

Ah i see. Dame are filled because of the nature of AGA passes. Thank you.

i've made a special database and tag for this tournament

if you say "L19 tournament" in your tournament game it will be picked up by the script and displayed in the results page (which is really bad right now and i dont have time to work on it:P) i hope someone can make the time to help out here at some point


go here for results v0.00001

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do the people in this round actually know that theyre up? with the new forum and all it might seem to some that it just disappeared for no reason

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I'm pretty sure most people read the forum via "view unread posts", so the sub-forum doesn't matter.

Schultz and I will play our game Monday at 830pm CDT/ 730pm MDT, barring unforeseen complications.

It is often customary for the TD to send emails.

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Help make L19 more organized. Make an index: https://lifein19x19.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=5207

Rafa and myself will be playing Sunday 6/10 at 8pm GMT. (I think I have that right for my time zone :/ )

Here´s my game with TwitchyGo, which i won. It was an enjoyable game so thanks to him.

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There´s always more important things than someone´s dreams.

Schultz and I starting presently.

Edit: I won. Exciting game. Thanks to Schultz, and to smonds who gave us a long review.

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Bah, defeated again! I will be back to play again!

Thanks to Jts for the game, and smonds for the review!

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KGS: schultz [?].

NinG and I will play 6/23 4pm GMT.

I cannot contact phillip1882, KGS said there is no this user??

his L19 nickname = philip1882, his KGS= phillip18 if youve looked at his profile.

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i'll play with rpchuang at 11pm GMT on saturday 6/16.
looking forward to playing and hopefully (though not expectedly) winning.

i played Hailthorn today and won.

Comments are welcome

Thanks

I just played Jordus, and won. When the kgs databases start working again i'll post the game here.

I played lesenv today and won.



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