Any news from WAGC?

[kokomi]

It should start today?
Photos?Videos?Kifu?
wonder will chinese go chanel do any report on it.
Saw something about last year's WAGC on youtube, don't know what they will do this year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P33K8uE_qyA

[Phelan]

None that I've heard of so far.

I expect this'll be one of the places to look: http://ranka.intergofed.org/
Others will probably pop up.

[xed_over]

Watch the AGA's website for daily postings: http://www.usgo.org/

The American Go E-Journal will publish special daily editions this week live from the World Amateur Go Championships (WAGC) in Hangzhou, China.

[quantumf]

Games are from Wed (26) to Sat (29), according to the schedule

[kokomi]

Thanks

[Vesa]

First round tomorrow 09:00 (GMT+8)

Korea - Germany
Slovenia - Mexico
Canada - Russia
Chile - Poland
Brazil - Switzerland
Malaysia - UK
Colombia - Ukraine
Romania - Thailand

China - Ecuador
Serbia - Netherlands
New Zealand - Mongolia
Spain - Norway
Guatemala - Israel
Costa Rica - Australia
USA - Cyprus
D.P.R. Korea - Finland

Chinese Taipei - Portugal
Belgium - France
Lithuania - Japan
Argentina - India
Hungary - Italy
Peru - Ireland
Turkey - Slovakia
Czech - Macau, China

Hongkong, China - Venezuela
South Africa - Singapore
Philippines - Austria
Madagascar - Denmark
Sweden - Uruguay
Belarus - Vietnam

Quick notes by hand, mistakes possible. The groups are divided by the top four countries as in the draw lottery.

Cheers,
Vesa

[Phelan]

Thanks for the news, Vesa, and good luck against the North Korean!

[kokomi]

Reading from Ranka online, it talked about anti-doping test. So it does apply now to Go?

Then Lingkai Chen, the Executive Chief Referee, speaking faultless English himself, explained the pairing system, the awards, the tie breaking and time control rules, and the anti-doping tests, and the players drew the numbers used to arrange the pairings.

and talking about why pairing system is different from previous years, it's funny...

This system was adopted because the Chinese already had the necessary software, and did not have time to develop and debug new software to implement the previous system.

maybe they should just let players go nigiri.

[oren]

The anti-doping tests are discussed in Japanese here.

http://www.asahi.com/igo/news/TKY201005220283.html

Short summary is that it's being treated as a sport in China and follows the same rules.

[Phelan]

Some results have been posted on twitter(thanks, Araban):
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23wagc2010

[topazg]

http://ranka.intergofed.org/?p=3612

Yay, go T Mark, we're on our way to the first ever UK win of WAGC

[Phelan]

I just wish they would post the full pairings somewhere, I want to know tho is playing who in the second round.

[kokomi]

I just wish they would post the full pairings somewhere, I want to know tho is playing who in the second round.

on this page, even though the name's in chinese but you can see their numbers.
http://club.weiqi.tom.com/item_111_1592614_11_7.html

Uk is against canada

[Phelan]

And Portugal? I don't know what number it is, and browsing through names I couldn't find the chinese for it.

[kokomi]

And Portugal? I don't know what number it is, and browsing through names I couldn't find the chinese for it.

Round 2 No 21. Portugal 2k lost to Peru 1k