Go Orlando

The Orlando Go Tournament was held this past weekend, Saturday April 13 and Sunday April 14. There were five rounds. Thirty-three players participated in the event, with strengths ranging from 20 kyu to 7 dan. We the largest number of dan-level players we’ve had so far (12). There were four divisions, and the winners of each division are listed below. Please thank and support Slate & Shell and Yellow Mountain Imports. They donate prizes every year and help make the OGT a success.

Upper Dan (4D and up)

1. Joshua Lee (5D)
2. Long Nguyen (4D)
3. Tengxiao Yang (7D)

Lower Dan (1K through 3D)

1. Fuqian Shi (3D)
2. Zach Dunham (1D)
3. Joel Sanet (2D)

Upper Kyu: (7K through 2K)

1. Efrain Davila (3K)
2. Don Colladay (4K)
3. Tony Vick (5K)

Lower Kyu (8K and down)

1. Ellis Knickerbocker (10K)
2. Michael Shamp (18K)
3. Aaron Otero (11K)

The 7th annual Orlando Go Tournament will be in mid-April. Please make plans to attend!

Broadways is moving and so our regular meeting location is no longer available.  We will probably use the next few weeks to try several locations to see what will work best for us.  Next week (Tue.16.Oct) will be at Flippers Pizza:

SELF-PAIR EVENT: Remember that our October self-pair event is THIS SATURDAY, from 11a – 4p on the UCF campus. We will meet in the breezeway of the John T. Washington Center ( http://map.ucf.edu/locations/26/john-t-washington-center/ ) if the weather holds. If it is raining, we’ll move to the student center food court.

Please check in with me before you start playing. I’ll need your AGA ID and your entry rank. Please make sure your AGA membership is up to date, as I won’t be able to handle this far you as I do for the Spring tournament. If you are planning to come and haven’t already told me so, please let me know. I’m trying to get a sense for who might be coming.

Don’t forget to register for this year’s Orlando Go Tournament!

It looks like Tuesdays look better after all.  We’ll be at Broadway’s tonight, and we’ll stick with Tuesdays for a while.

Normally, we meet on Tuesdays.  However, attendance has been down … and, indeed, even I have had trouble meeting on Tuesdays this semester.  We’re going to try Thursdays for a few weeks.  If that works better, we’ll change the official meeting times, etc.

We’re still meeting at Broadway’s Ristorante & Pizzeria, 12279 University Blvd. at 7p.

Paul.

Every start of term, we see a few new people.  Some are new to the club but not new to Go, but many are just beginning to learn about the game.  If you are just learning about Go, you might find it helpful to see what resources are available for learning more about the game.  Of course playing regularly is the best way to learn … so come to the club meetings!  But, in addition, this old post contained some useful information, as well.

It looks like Natura’s will be unavailable on Tuesday nights for a number of weeks.  So until further notice, we will meet at Broadway Pizza, over next to where Pom-Pom’s used to be:

Also, Philip B., John S., and John C., would like to move the Wednesday meeting at the Milk Bar to Saturday.  More information on this to follow.
Paul.

John Snapp can’t make the Tuesday night meetings.  He’s considering starting another meeting on Wednesday nights that’s closer to where he is — perhaps at the The Milk Bar on Robinson (see below).  Who is interested?