3rd Brock Go Tournament

The Brock Go-Club invites everyone to our third Brock Go-tournament.

When & Where:

Sunday March 17th, 2013
Brock University, St Catharines,
Plaza building, 4th floor, room 408 (building 30 on the campus map).

Event details:

Main tournament: 4 rounds, 30 min each side
In addition: self pairing 13x13 tournament

Schedule:

Registration: 9:00
Start 1st round: 10:00
Start 2nd round: 11:30
Lunch time break
Start 3rd round: 13:30
Start 4rd round: 15:00
Prize giving: 16:30
We are open to suggestions especially those coming from Rochester and Toronto about changes in the number of rounds and times in order not to close too late.

Registration:

Please send an email to Thomas Wolf, twolf@brocku.ca
subject: 3rd Brock Go tournament
content: your name, playing strength, city/club (if applicable)

Driving Directions:

On the QEW drive towards St Catharines. Shortly before St Catharines exit into Hwy 406 towards Thorold. After about 10km exit on the right into St. Davids West. At the 2nd crossing either
- turn right into Glenridge Ave, after 250m on the right enter parking lot of Niagara Peninsula Children's Centre (green sign with yellow sun drawing) for free parking (in front of building 29 on the campus map), 4 min walk), or
- go straight and then 1/2 around the circle for parking lot D on the campus map), $6 for 1 day pass and 3 min walk).

Food:

Free: bagels, cream cheese, drinks
- 3 min walk: dining hall at Brock with a wide selection of good quality warm and cold food from 8:30am - 11pm
- 5 min walk: McDonalds, Tim Hortens, Subways

Fee:

The tournament is free but a donation of $5 for the purchase of equipment or the donation of a prize are appreciated.

Participating Players:

Tiger Gong (Toronto) 7d
Oliver Wolf (Brock) 4d
Mark Wrong (London, Toronto) 1d
John Dew (Brock) 2k
Peter McMain (Brock) 2k
Chris Gaudaur (Brock) 3k
Matt Mennie (Forest City Go Club, London) 5k
Daniel Zou (Brock) 4k
Jesse Cnockaert (Forest City Go Club, London) 5k
Haochen Zhou (Guelph) 5k
Weslie Chung (Brock) 5k
Tom Fraser (Brock) 6k
Michael Doyle (Forest City) 7k
Richard Chan (Brock) 9k
Musa Al-hassy (Mountain Go Club) 9k
Justin Grossman (Brock) 10k
Keiran Brown-MacFayden (Brock) 15k
Joshua Bingleman (Brock) 15k
Kyle Barbas (Brock) 15k
Grace Ding (Brock) 20k
Adam Balint (Brock) 20k
Nathan Essendi (Brock) 20k

Prizes:

We will aim at having a prize for every player and cash prizes for the best three of each group (in total $150). Groups will be decided when we know the number and strength of participants. We are grateful to Ms Ruth Hillman who donates the top prize in the name of her late husband John who always was a supporter of Go. We are also grateful to financial support by the Brock Confuzius Institute and the Brock Student Union.