Life In 19x19

If you attend an in person club, what's your typical club attendance and rank distribution?

I go to the dallas go club, we get about 5-6 consistent regulars and about 4-5 rotating players every so often with another 4-5 not so often people. So typically a decent night is 8 people.

The rank distribution is mostly 3k-7k with a few 3-4 dans.

I attend two clubs.

The West Michigan Go Club's usual attendance as of late is 2-3. During last summer it was 5-7. Most members are not ranked by AGA or any online server, so I'll guess based on their handicaps against me. We have a 4k (me), a 9k, an 11k, a 13-14k, and occasionally an AGA 5k. We had a 30k show up for a while who seemed to rise quickly to around 20k, but he stopped attending.

The Grand Valley Go and Chess Club's usual attendance is 5-7. Of those, 3 play go regularly and 2 irregularly. We have a 4k (me), a 7k, and a 15-20k. The irregulars are around 15-20k as well.

We have two club nights per week, both of which see about 6-16 players attending of around 30-40 total active players in the city. Ranks are anywhere from 4 dan to 30 kyu, with players at pretty much every level. We've had over 10 newcomers in the past year, who now span the 10k-30k range.

The local club has been around for over 40, 50 years or more,
so the composition also has changed over time.

Currently, we meet twice a week: Wednesday evenings at Coffee Bean,
and on Saturdays, two members take turns hosting at their homes.

Typical Wednesday -- (KGS) 10k, 6k, 6k, 3k, 3k, 1k, 2d.
Occasionally, another 3k. Visitors from the UK (maybe summer post-doc workshop at the university), 2d.
Once in a blue moon, 2p.

Typical Saturday -- (KGS) 10k, 3k, 3k, 3k, 1k.

Over 10 years ago, before my time, there was a Japanese 8dan.
Many, many years ago, Michael Redmond would learn Go by watching
his dad play.

My club (Cape Town, South Africa) meets weekly. We consistently have about eight players, with the number swelling and shrinking a bit over time. We quite often have overseas visitors, particularly Europeans on holiday. Currently the distribution is 16k, 12k, 4k, 3k, 1k, 1d, 3d, 3d.

We met once a week and regulary we have two 20-kyu-ish players, a KGS 5-kyu, a KGS Shodan (me) and a KGS 4-5-dan. Every so often we are joined by two other players, one somewhat DDK, the other a good SDK. Then there are up to five SDK to Dan players who show up once in a while.

Anything from 2 to 10 with 4-6 being more normal. The rare wild dan player appears but the strongest is normally either a 2k or 5k EGF with some 2-3 beginners and maybe myself (I've been bad for attending this year) or another turning up.

The club I go to most frequently usually has between 6 and maybe 15 people on any given night, drawn from a pool of at least 30, maybe 40 or more. There is a 8-9k player who is very regular, several in the 1-5k range, a couple around 6-8k, quite a few ddks or other beginners, a several from 1-3d, one relatively regular 5d, an infrequent 6d, and very rarely, a 9d who will stop by, usually with the 6d.

On a given night, I could be the strongest player in the room, in the strong SDK range, or one of the weakest, depending on who stops by, but the latter is becoming more and more rare.

Attendance ranges from 6-10 players over a session at my club (Fiery Rain of Go Stones) in Denver. Level usually runs from 15k-2d (AGA equivalent), so there is a pretty good scope for anyone who wants to learn or drop in.

Bruce "ClubMeister" Young

I envy your club meetings...

"My club" meetings are either 1-2 players. 1: just myself and noone shows up. 2: someone joins in for a game.
Actually, there are very few players in my city (around 5). All being 15k-30k but myself, about 5k. However, if I really wanted to play go I could always join the club meetings at Barcelona with several DDKs, SDKs and EGF dan players. Unfortunately, whenever I visit Barcelona I have other priorities

alejo wrote:I envy your club meetings...

"My club" meetings are either 1-2 players. 1: just myself and noone shows up. 2: someone joins in for a game.
Actually, there are very few players in my city (around 5). All being 15k-30k but myself, about 5k. However, if I really wanted to play go I could always join the club meetings at Barcelona with several DDKs, SDKs and EGF dan players. Unfortunately, whenever I visit Barcelona I have other priorities

Somehow every time I showed at Barcelona's club no-one showed (except chess players.) I eventually stopped going.

RBerenguel wrote:Somehow every time I showed at Barcelona's club no-one showed (except chess players.) I eventually stopped going.

I assume you're talking about La Pedra club... I know, I've been there too. Have you tried going to the Chinese restaurant?
I haven't been there for the last two years, but it used to be quite "crowded", much more than the actual club itself

alejo wrote:

RBerenguel wrote:Somehow every time I showed at Barcelona's club no-one showed (except chess players.) I eventually stopped going.

I assume you're talking about La Pedra club... I know, I've been there too. Have you tried going to the Chinese restaurant?
I haven't been there for the last two years, but it used to be quite "crowded", much more than the actual club itself

I could only make things work during the week, so tried going on Tuesday's. Even on days when supposedly someone would show up, no-one. Yes, talking about "La Pedra," sure

You may want to try the Chinese restaurant. However, I don't remember where it was... you should ask for it at the Spanish Go mailing list. PM me if you need more directions

I founded a go club ages ago, it basically had a couple of 5k level players + me(1d then). Now I moved to a bigger city so we just have like 10 1-4d players and some random kyu players every once in a while(kinda depending on the meeting how many kyu players we get. Occasionally there aren't any, occasionally there are quite a few). Then there's of course 5-7d whenever.

I envy how many clubs described here seem to have kyu players. I really haven't seen that big of an influx of new players anywhere I've went. Like, once or twice a year you get a new player in all of the 5 or so clubs I frequent.