Report on the 10th Brock Go Tournament

Right at the 10th Anniversary tournament we had a record number of 34 participants: two 6 Dan, three 5 Dan, three 4 Dan, one 3 Dan, two 2 Dan and another 23 players from 1st to 25th Kyu including many children.

After four rounds of play we determined winners to 4 groups:

Place Group 'Open' Group 1-3 Dan Group 1-8K Group 13+K
1 Tianyi Chen 6D (4-0) Nicholas Prince 2D (3-1) Kevin Li 2K (3-1) Paul Stalker 15K (4-0)
2 Minsung Suh 6D (3-1) Jason Shen 2D (3-1) Jeremy Day 5K (3-1) Denis Shen 18K (3-1)
3 Joseph Ma 5K (3-1) Will Rushworth 20K (3-1)
4 Musa Al-Hassy 6K (3-1)

We had cash prizes of a total of $250.

The bagels with cream cheese, drinks, the buffet of warm Chinese food for lunch and pizza in the afternoon worked very well.

We were able to help with petrol costs for the participant driving farthest to the tournament (a whole Go playing family coming from 200km away).

A big 'Thank you!' goes to the Brock Confucius Institute for preparing a nice poster, sponsoring all food and drinks and taking pictures.

Thanks also go to James Sedgwick for running the pairings and bringing playing sets and clock and to Beate Wolf for logistics support.

A lot of pictures are shown here.