[Poll] Favorite Go YouTubers

[oren]

What happened to shyghost ?

3 videos isn't much.

[moyoaji]

What happened to shyghost ?

One of my criteria was that the YouTuber had to have posted a video in the last 2 years. I mentioned LGDArchives in my post, but there hasn't been a new video since October of 2011.

As for what happened to him personally, I have no idea. He isn't active on the KGS anymore either and his page on Sensei's hasn't been touched in a year.

[leichtloeslich]

To be fair, blanket attacks like this are unfair. Which of these players do fall into that category, if I may ask?

I don't mind people trying to get attention. And if they can do so by doing something they love (like teaching/playing go), then more power to them!

However, I have little respect for people who sandbag on camera.

And it's interesting you should bring up KingsCrusher, who plays even games while commenting.
I believe dwyrin's winrate on youtube is pretty close to 100%. Please correct me if I'm mistaken about that.

Frankly, if someone is making go videos on YouTube strictly for the sake of getting attention then they suck at getting attention.

I fully agree. Torturing cute animals to death and posting videos of it on youtube has a very good track-record of getting attention.
Also school shootings and arson.

However I don't see the relevance to Go players who post Go-related youtube videos. (Nor do I see how "my little pony" videos come into the picture.)

[Solomon]

Go Commentary, because he's the only one in that list who really knows what he's talking about.

[Monadology]

I voted for Go Commentary, but apparently accidentally voted for the one above? Is it possible to have my vote changed?

Maybe I should just pretend to support the underdog. None of you understand EscueladeGodeBilbao's brilliance! Even I can see it, despite not speaking a lick of Spanish!

[DrStraw]

Nick Sibicky? Is that his real name? It sound like a play on Icki Jibicki.

[Kirby]

Nick Sibicky? Is that his real name? It sound like a play on Icki Jibicki.

http://www.sibicky.com/

He is also a member of the AGA (you can search for his name under the ratings page).

[Dusk Eagle]

He's a member of the Seattle Go Center, and most of his videos are recordings of the lectures he gives there once a week. I met him while I was there over the summer but never got to play him.

[Bonobo]

Nick Sibicky? Is that his real name? It sound like a play on Icki Jibicki.

DrStraw, this gives deeper insight into your personality than you may have wished.

DrStraw, I apologize, apparently “Icki Jibicki” is a reference I did not get, and so I had a wrong impression and jumped the gun, I’m sorry.

And thank you, Boidhre, for clearing up things.

Tom

[DrStraw]

Nick Sibicky? Is that his real name? It sound like a play on Icki Jibicki.

DrStraw, this gives deeper insight into your personality than you may have wished.


Tom

I don't understand. Attempting to emulate Iki Jibicki would be the ultimate in praise for someone who was a great loss to the AGA.

[Boidhre]

Nick Sibicky? Is that his real name? It sound like a play on Icki Jibicki.

DrStraw, this gives deeper insight into your personality than you may have wished.


Tom

I don't understand. Attempting to emulate Iki Jibicki would be the ultimate in praise for someone who was a great loss to the AGA.

Many outside (and probably within) the AGA wouldn't get the Iki Jibicki reference and think you were just making fun of someone's name, to be fair.

[DrStraw]

Many outside (and probably within) the AGA wouldn't get the Iki Jibicki reference and think you were just making fun of someone's name, to be fair.

Then they need educating. That was the last thing on my mind. I genuinely thought that he might be paying a tribute to Bob High.

[Bonobo]

[..]

Many outside (and probably within) the AGA wouldn't get the Iki Jibicki reference and think you were just making fun of someone's name, to be fair.

Thank you, Boidhre, apparently this is the case with me (living in Germany), and …

Please accept my apology, DrStraw, I got the wrong impression and jumped the gun on this, I’m sorry.

(And I still have no idea who that may be.)


Tom

p.s.: edited my earlier comment to reflect what I learnt.

[DrStraw]

[..]

(And I still have no idea who that may be.)


Tom

p.s.: edited my earlier comment to reflect what I learnt.

Apology accepted.

http://www.usgo.org/bob-high-memorial-library, specifically the link to Go Kiburi: http://www.usgo.org/files/bh_library/gokiburi.pdf


(Oh, and learnt is the past participle. The past tense is learned.)

[Bonobo]

Apology accepted.

Thank you.

http://www.usgo.org/bob-high-memorial-library

Thank you, bookmarked, that’s an amazing source for … procrastination

specifically the link to Go Kiburi: http://www.usgo.org/files/bh_library/gokiburi.pdf

Oh, I LOVE that! Bad puns PLUS Science Fiction PLUS Go—what more could I wish for?

(Oh, and learnt is the past participle. The past tense is learned.)

Well, I learnt my childhood English in Kerala, South India, in the beginning 1960’s … mostly Indian English and British English, some US English (and I still love code switching), and AFAIK “learnt” is a legitimate variant for the past tense of “to learn”:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/learnt

Alternative forms

learned (Standard US English spelling, Canadian)

[..]

Verb
learnt
1. (UK, African American Vernacular, alternative in Canada) simple past tense of learn
I learnt so many things in this school.

2. (UK, African American Vernacular, alternative in Canada) Past participle of learn
She has learnt to adapt to the changes quickly.

BTW I also ask “whom?” and still shudder a bit when I listen to “Who Do You Love” by The Doors though I love them and their music.

BTW #2: Could “Iki Jibiki” be a reference to Waka Jawaka?

Greetings, Tom