We are hosting our Spring Tournament this April 19th.  We will have both an open (all even games) and handicap tournament. The open being our 4-8 strongest players facing off in even games 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.

There will be no Monthly Rating Tournament this April 5th.

I want to congratulate the Bellvue Crossroad meet up on a successful blitz tournament this last weekend, and thank all that could make it down to take part in it. We are always looking to help get more Go activities in the surrounding area and this is a big step in the right direction.

We hosted the 4th annual WA State Championship tournament at the Seattle Go Center.  It was a happy reunion for many folks and fun to see some new faces too.  A few folks came from out of state, and it was nice to meet them.  Everyone had lots of fun and took a break from the emergency rain conditions sweeping western WA State recently.  We had 16 participants over two days.

We’ve had four state champions, and no one has held the title more than once yet.  This year Kenny Jin, 6d, won by winning all five rounds.  There was an exciting finish when Michael Wanek lost by only one point, but Kenny kept a clean win of the title.  Second place was Zhihong Yao, 3d, and in third place was Michael Wanek, 4d.

Bryan Walsh won all five rounds in the handicap division, and Woody Lai took the youth prize for most won games by someone under 18 years old.  

Thanks to the American Go Association for supporting state championships, and thanks to the American Go Foundation for supporting youth events.