Come and Play!
KGC Tournament
June 12th, 2010 (Sat) 11:00 am
Free for AGA members! (It costs $30 to join the AGA or $10 for non-member rated play.)
Contact Paul with any questions or for further information.
Our tournaments have been self paired so far and we may stick with that if we get a small showing; however, we have a tournament director chosen and ready to assign players to games.
If there is enough interest, we may collect a small fee to be used to build prizes for the winning-est players. (It will be optional to participate in this.)
RSVP
Please RSVP for this. We'd like to have everyone's email in case there are any last minute announcements, venue changes, or concerns. Simply send a note to Paul saying how many people will be coming.
Rules
We will be using the AGA rules for the tournament. Most people seem to think of Japanese rules, but officially, the rules must be AGA rules for AGA tournaments. The only practical difference for players is the stone passing rule. This is explained rather well on the Sensei's Library.
For completeness, the full AGA rules are provided below.
Equipment
Please bring whatever boards and clocks you have. We'd rather not ask the AGA for equipment and in all likelyhood we can provide enough boards without having to take that step anyway. If you want to leave your boards in the car, that's probably fine, but please bring them just in case.
Location
We reserved the entire second floor of the D&W Food Center in Portage Michigan [click for interactive google map].
Usually, the best way to get to our regular location is via South Westnedge and many returning players will remember this. While that route is sure to still work on the day of the tournament, we're told there will be construction on that road which may make it unpleasant to traverse.
Because of this, we have drawn up suggested directions from surrounding roadways.