Thanks for all that made it out for this Spring Tournament, and a Special Congrats to our winners.
Open First: Harrison Dow
Open Second: Kenny Jin
Handicap: Thomas Gehrt



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The Zoka group meets to play Go 9am-12pm at Zoka Coffee (Green Lake):
2200 N 56th St #6204, Seattle, WA
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Columbia City meetup is at Bananas Grill 6-8pm
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Drew’s DDK/SDK Class
South Sound Go Club meets on Discord and OGS
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Mt Si Senior Center meetup 1-4pm:
411 Main Ave S, North Bend, WA
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Seattle Central Go Club meetup at 7 pm at 12th Ave Arts (Capitol Hill) hosted by Derek:
1620 12th Avenue, Suite 206, Seattle, WA
SGC open hours for general Go playing and teaching
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Seattle Shogi also meets at this time
SGC meetup hosted by Jay/Emma at Crossroads Mall food court near the library.
SGC open hours 11am-3pm for general Go playing and teaching (except the first Sunday of the month due to the ratings tournament).
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SGC meetup at 10am at Espresso Vivace in Capitol Hill hosted by Daivd.
South Sound Go Club meets on Discord and OGS
SGC monthly ratings tournament. Please have a valid AGA membership in advance. Registration is from 10:00am – 10:45am, first game starts at 11:00am, and third round starts at 3:30pm
SGC is open for Kid’s Time to help teach younger players the game of go
Thanks for all that made it out for this Spring Tournament, and a Special Congrats to our winners.
Open First: Harrison Dow
Open Second: Kenny Jin
Handicap: Thomas Gehrt
We are glad to announce our upcoming Spring Tournament this April 6th (first sunday of the month). We will have both and open (all even games) and handicap tournament. The open being our 4-8 strongest players facing off in even game for prize money of $100 for first place and $75 for second. The handicap tournament will have $50 prize for strongest band winner of 3 games, and $20 for the lower band winner of 3 games. There is a youth prize of $20 to the youth winner of 3 games or the youth who won the most games.
Registration:
9:00am-9:45am (an hour earlier than monthly ratings)
The Entrance fees:
$20 for non-voting members
$10 for voting members
$10 for youth under 18 (entrance fees will be paid by the AGF)
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR AGA MEMBERSHIP IS UP TO DATE AHEAD OF TIME. If you are not an AGA member when we pair the first round, you cannot play.
We will also order pizza if participants want. It costs $15, and we will order 4 slices per person.
We are hosting a Maeda Sensei workshop, 15-16 MAR. His workshop was quite popular last year. Admission is $30 per day for non-voting members (or $50 for both days) and $20 per day voting members (lifetime or annual). Saturday, 15 MAR, SGC is closed to people not taking the class.
ROUGH SCHEDULE:
* Saturday, 15 MAR 1:00pm start — doors open for registration and playing Go at noon.
The start time is a little soft since we will be coming directly from the airport.
* Saturday — probably lecture, game review, and possibly simuls
* Saturday 6pm-ish — class ends for the day
* Sunday 10am — class resumes with mixture of lecture, game reviews, simuls
* Sunday 12pm — lunch break (usual $15 for 4 slices of pizza option)
* Sunday 1:00-5pm-ish — final workshop session
MAEDA SENSEI BACKGROUND
Maeda Sensei is a 6p from the Kansai Ki-in Japanese professional organization. He is very popular at the Go Congresses for many fun and entertaining lectures. He has attended the Go Congress almost every year for the past 20+ years. He usually stops in Seattle on his way to or from the Congress.
Maeda Sensei created and runs the Osaka Go Summer Camp that is very popular. It runs every JUL/AUG for 3 weeks, ending in the Japanese Go Congress that Maeda created in the image of our Go Congress. He also runs the Osaka International Online School — weekly serious games with ~30 min reviews and 2x/mo private teaching game with a pro.