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20 Oct 2011 No Comments

The 10th World Students Go Oza Championship wants YOU

…at least, if you are a student at an Australian, New Zealand or African university who can play in the regional preliminary tournament on IGS and can be in Tokyo from 27 February to 2 March 2012 for the world finals. Citizenship in a country in the Oceania or African IGF regions would be good, too, and it would be helpful if your national go association has at least heard of you.

This year’s representative from Oceania was Jimmy Yuan from New Zealand, and in 2010 we sent Mile Gu, who liveblogged the whole thing.

More details at the tournament page. Register for the regional qualifiers with this form. Remember, the deadline for registration is 30 October. Pass the word along….

by aguido in Australia, New Zealand, Tournaments, World Championships, World Students Go Oza Tags: , , ,

22 Oct 2009 1 Comment

Eighth World Students Go Oza wants an Oceania representative

If you’re a strong go player and full-time university student under thirty years old, please have a go at the eighth World Students Go Oza happening in March 2010 in Japan. Unlike the previous seven, this one has a slot for a player from Oceania (i.e. Australia and New Zealand and the islands) and a qualifying tournament for same (played on IGS). Registrations for the tournament are reported as closing on Sunday the twenty-fifth of October (or not: updated below).

Word has already been sent to most Australian go clubs. But the qualifying round needs at least ten games played in it, with no doubling up, which means at least five players, and if there are a lot of players from one region, they will adjust the slots for competitors accordingly, possibly upward. If you know anyone who fits the bill, please make sure they know about this before Sunday.

Update: according to Keiko Sota from Pandanet, the deadline is now November 12th for the Oceania contestants to register for the preliminaries in December.

by aguido in Tournaments, World Championships Tags: , ,

07 Mar 2009 No Comments

Kicking off first semester at the University of Melbourne

This just in from Shamim at the Melbourne University Students Playing Go collective:

“The end of summer saw intense flurries of activity from the committee members of SPGO (notwithstanding its political sounding name, Students Playing Go is the happy friendly resident go club of the University of Melbourne), who are preparing to lure welcome new students and introduce them to this wonderful game. We begin by braving 38 degrees heat for Orientation week and was met with resounding success with a high markup of new members. Some have seen passing reference to go especially in movies and TV shows, but many became interested by the sight and sounds of stones hitting the board and also (we hope) by our smiling faces as we demonstrated games. Good news this year, there were fewer mentions of reversi and no one mistook stones for candy nor attempted to eat any!

Turnout for first week meetings have been quite pleasing, with even a couple of dan-level players coming in and beginners who dived into games with much enthusiasm. The first event for the semester – Beginners’ Night certainly looks to be promising at this rate! Meanwhile, the hiccup of players getting lost while attempting to locate us in the Alice Hoy building, will hopefully sort itself out soon.

Stay tuned for more updates and activities from Students Playing Go =)”

Yes, more posts than average this week from me; I hope to persuade someone at MU-SPGO that they want posting rights on this blog as well as theirs, so you don’t just see the same names all the time here. And it would be nice to hear from the UNSW Go Club as well as the crowd at UWA. If anyone in Sydney or Perth is reading this and is in a position to, could you give them a poke?

by aguido in Club updates, Events Tags: , ,