The Romanian federation voted to not allow 3 successful clubs to affiliate, see https://medium.com/@EuroGoHebdo/romania-vetoes-new-go-clubs-cd8a5fbb827f

Be careful : this is satire, and shouldn't be taken seriously.

Hi Tryss, Thanks.

Follow-up question: what's the actual affliation status of the three said clubs ?

All three clubs had their applications to join FRGO refused at a board meeting. I think it is quite serious actually.

The rest of the articles on this site by the same author are definitively not serious :

https://medium.com/@EuroGoHebdo/identit ... 2cc24b85d4

https://medium.com/@EuroGoHebdo/french- ... 8febba60ea

What are the real reasons ?

The name Hebdo in the URL should be seen as hint to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo

By real, do you mean the reasons given at the vote, or the real reasons behind those? For instance why CT might not be accepted as a national trainer.

Please add “[SATIRE]” to the thread title, otherwise this is just fake news that should be reported.

Also, as I have said elsewhere already: not all that is fake deserves to be called “satire”.


Thanks in advance.

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No, hebdo just means weekly in french. Nothing to do with Charlie Hebdo.

By the way, while the original article was written in satire style, it is unfortunately based on very real, recent events from the Romanian Go scene.

What happened there is that several "ghost clubs" have been officially created, which gave a small group of people larger than usual voting power in a recent official assembly of the national association (the model is "one vote per club").

People behind these ghost clubs used their voting power to deny official status to a few real clubs, leading to a recent scandal that surfaced one week ago or so.

I can't help but think a factual account, as sorin posted, would have been more helpful and indeed likely to achieve the OP's presumed aims of raising awareness/concern than the obfuscated waffle version. Probably not as fun to write though.

Yes I suppose so, here is episode two: https://medium.com/@EuroGoHebdo/romania ... 72f2f10d65

What is the document that was needed but not acquired? When I went to the WAGC I only needed a Chinese visa which I organised myself (with help from Haylee as IGF secretary to get the invitation letter). I know in some countries WAGC reps receive government support as quasi-athletes, so maybe something like this? Or just some extra bureacracy, surely Romanians don't need government permission to leave the country anymore?

I have to believe this is either very bad reporting or another joke. To my knowledge, the only non-Asian countries to place as high as third in the WAGC are Netherlands and USA. I also would think I would have heard of the player, but I am not as up to date on the European scene as others.

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Christian has finished fourth before.

Cristian Pop (he's not a music genre!) 7d is one of the strongest players in Europe not to have made pro. He studied as an insei in Japan with Catalin Taranu (who made 5p) and is known for his magnificent central style. Seated bottom left, reviewing his game at the 2016 WAGC:


Also Ukraine (Artem) and Argentina (Aguilar) have placed 3rd.

I am glad to see this report was inaccurate as Cristian Pop is playing in the WAGC and won his first game versus Australia.