22nd Pair Go Event Sunday
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The Event consists of British Championship (Qualifying tournament) and Open Championship (Handicap tournament). British Championship (Qualifying tournament) requires that both players should be BGA members and eligible for a British passport. The top eight pairs, based on mean recognised tournament grades, will be eligible. British international representatives are determined through this Event. Rules applied to the qualifying tournament include even games, colour chosen by nigiri, and Komi 6.5 points. Open Championship is based on handicap tournament with no nationality qualifications. The Open Championship adopts normal handicaps and white wins jigo.
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¡a Registration for the Event
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What was unusual, but definitely cool was that every participant was encouraged to get all dressed up for the event. It seems like reflecting the idea that how players look is as important as how well they play Go. More interestingly, there was sufficient notice in advance of the fact that a pair of participants would be chosen as the best dresser of the day at the awards presentations shortly after the end of games. Competitors registered for the Event and socialized with the other participants saying compliments on their dresses or catching up on each other's lives before the commencement of the games.
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for the event in the event
Young participants could enjoy participating in the pair event because Open Championship was conducted as a handicap tournament. The right picture is about the youngest participants in their stylish dresses, who were always the centre of attention during the event.
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¡a Opening ceremony and notice of applicable rules on the spot
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¡a Capture of playing Go
The event consisted of two parts. British Championship was bsed on rules such as even games, colour chosen by nigiri, and Komi 6.5 points. Open Championship was a handicap tournament as mentioned above.
¡a Answering general knowledge quizzes
Participants cannot be disappointed even if they lose a game. A wide range of events like jigsaw puzzles, general knowledge quizzes increased the pleasure of participants. Furthermore, the room to play games was connected to outdoors garden, where family members of competitors not playing games could have a picnic and play about in the open air.
¡a English-language versions of Buduk books donated
English-language versions of Buduk books donated by Korea Amateur Baduk Association (KABA) were presented to participants in the Event. All of them greatly appreciated the KABA's donation, and showed a keen interest in and genuine respect for Korean Baduk making time to read the books at break time.
¡a Winning team ¡a Prizewinners deciding their prize
Natasha Regan and Matthew Cocke retained the British Pair Go Champions title for a third year. They won the top group of the 22nd Pair Go Championships beating Jenny Radcliffe and Francis Roads, the organiser, in the final. Winning the fighting spirit prize were Jackie Chai and John Johnstone.
An interesting feature of the Event was that prizewinners chose their additional prizes in person. It made other participants to wonder which prizes were going to be selected.
¡a The best dresser of the day
A couple won the best dresser of the day. They were selected with unanimous applause. Both were praised for their coordination of the colors of their suite; a wife in white dress with a white hat, a husband in black suite with a white handkerchief. .JPG)
¡a A commemorative photograph was took in the garden
The event began at 10 o'clock in the morning and closed about 30 minutes past 5 pm. We happily parted pledging to meet again next year.
Written by Baromi Kim
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