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.