2012 Life in 19x19 Tournament Pairings & Results

[Uberdude]

Herman won. It was an interesting large scale game and I had a slight lead until I miscounted and decided to play a move I knew didn't work (n17) because I would still win anyway if he answered correctly, but I didn't and lost.

[HermanHiddema]

i should be playing with lobotommy at 20:30 CET time today, that is in 37 minutes

EDIT 21:46 - so far no show by lobotommy. as an excuse for him, he'd written he would "try to log into kgs today at 20:30", but given it was on the same day as the planned game, i am pretty disappointed his try didn't succeed

So is this a no-show win by default, or are you rescheduling?

[Laman]

So is this a no-show win by default, or are you rescheduling?

we've played without reschedule on today, but i'll leave reporting the result to lobotommy

[lobotommy]

So is this a no-show win by default, or are you rescheduling?

we've played without reschedule on today, but i'll leave reporting the result to lobotommy

Thanks Laman

In short: Veni, Vidi, Vici.
First problems arose after a "joseki" in upper right corner. Black was happy to block white group in the corner, but in the same time he got classic situation - two groups on the outside, cuttted and vulnerable. White attacked with clear simple moves and was building enormous central strenght. It looked like black will have really heavy task to bring back a balance to thr game. Suddenly white made very bad decision on the bottom and two things happend: his corner died, and the rest of the stones only made enough space for two eyes. But in sente, so not so bad. White was behind in territory at this moment, so he needed to move in motion his central strength. But next bad decisions were just about to come, and black go chance to destroy all central potential of white. White tries to block black on the bottom but with no good result and when center area shrinks there was no chance for white to catch up due to solid black stones everywhere. The cherry at the top was killing white group in the corner which result in white's resign.
I was playing (as black) with patience in my mind, counting points all the time, just waiting for my chance. And it eventually come and gave me a win.

Thank you Laman for a game. We are even now - Laman has won our first game few months ago, so this time was my "revenge" .

[HermanHiddema]

This round was very quick, well done!

So now, we have the following two games in the loser's bracket:

Practise - crux (venkman)
Uberdude - tommyray (lobotommy)

The winners of those games then play against each other to determine who plays against the loser of:

The Winner's Final

ez4u vs. herminator


The only two remaining undefeated players!

As always, full bracket is at: http://hiddema.nl/L19-2012.html

[lobotommy]

This round was very quick, well done!

So now, we have the following two games in the loser's bracket:

Practise - crux (venkman)
Uberdude - tommyray (lobotommy)

The winners of those games then play against each other to determine who plays against the loser of:

The Winner's Final

ez4u vs. herminator


The only two remaining undefeated players!

As always, full bracket is at: http://hiddema.nl/L19-2012.html

Ok, sure, I will play against Uberdude, no problem, but if he is so strong he should play with his eyes closed!

[jts]

Hmm, so... whatever happened? It seems that none of those matches were ever played, correct? Uberdude is playing like 17 games a day and tommyray (lobotommy) is still visiting the forum, so I don't see any reason they couldn't play their game.

Loons (Practise) may perhaps have quit the forum, and I haven't seen him on KGS recently. Is anyone in touch with him? Crux (venkman) has been quiet, but apparently he is still visiting the forum daily.

As for ez4u and Herman, I can only assume that they think it would be undignified to play their game before the loser's bracket has been hashed out.

------- Now, another topic: I assume we're not going to have a 2013 tournament? It's fun in concept but we haven't managed to finish the 2011 tournament, and here we are nearly halfway through 2013. Last year we started planning in April and posted pairings in June. I guess there's nothing wrong with having a tournament that precesses haphazardly through the calendar. But at the same time, it does seem that the strongest players have the least interest in the tournament, and so the final stage, which should be the most exciting, is instead the point where everyone forgets that we have a tournament going on.

[stalkor]

Just a thought but ASR could host a league or tournament for L19x19 in the beginning of fall or late this year.

[oren]

The problem is not hosting, it's getting players to play through the whole thing.

[stalkor]

The problem is not hosting, it's getting players to play through the whole thing.

Thats true but we can support through agressive emailing and reminding if there is need for it

[crux]

Loons (Practise) may perhaps have quit the forum, and I haven't seen him on KGS recently. Is anyone in touch with him? Crux (venkman) has been quiet, but apparently he is still visiting the forum daily.

We exchanged PMs for a while trying to schedule a game but didn't manage. I haven't heard from him in a while.

[jts]

Loons (Practise) may perhaps have quit the forum, and I haven't seen him on KGS recently. Is anyone in touch with him? Crux (venkman) has been quiet, but apparently he is still visiting the forum daily.

We exchanged PMs for a while trying to schedule a game but didn't manage. I haven't heard from him in a while.

Well, it seems he hasn't logged onto KGS recently. Maybe the best thing is just to award you the win? I imagine Herman will give us a ruling on that. Hope all is well with him.

[karaklis]

The problem is not hosting, it's getting players to play through the whole thing.

The causing problem is probably the format of the tournament. Maybe the format stalkor suggests (ASR-like) would make it easier for the players to play through the whole thing.

[jts]

The problem is not hosting, it's getting players to play through the whole thing.

The causing problem is probably the format of the tournament. Maybe the format stalkor suggests (ASR-like) would make it easier for the players to play through the whole thing.

I'm not so sure. ASR appeals to some people and not others. Our tournament's players seem to think that a game a month is excessive. We could make it a self-paired double-elimination tournament, but I suspect that would only mean players who were not energetic enough to schedule a game with an assigned opponent would schedule nothing at all.

It's also worth hashing out where things started to unravel. My sense is that things started out slow, but that the tournament only stalled out in the last two rounds. OTOH, I could appreciate it if someone wanted to argue that the slow pace at the beginning meant that people who were committed to playing in Summer 2012 had other priorities by winter. But obviously these all have very different consequences.

[Joaz Banbeck]

Hmm, so... whatever happened? It seems that none of those matches were ever played,...

------- Now, another topic: I assume we're not going to have a 2013 tournament? It's fun in concept but we haven't managed to finish the 2011 tournament, and here we are nearly halfway through 2013. ..

An L19 tournament sounds like a good idea, but experience has shown that any project on L19 that has more than two people involved has less than a 50/50 chance of completion. Even one with only 4 people ( 2 vs 2 Malkovich ) seems to require substitutes to finish

L19 members have real lives.

What we need is a more compatible structure - something more like king-of-the-hill - in which new participants can enter easily and retiring participants do not leave gaps.