Playing 1st board for Blackie's team was Korean wonderkid Shin Jinseo 9p (goratings #3), against Team Kixx first board Yun Junsang 9p (#34). 2nd board was Park Jinsol 8p (#68) in a tough pairing against Kim Jiseok 9p (#7) (maybe Kixx didn't put their strongest on first board as they thought he'd lose to Shin anyway so maximize chance to win board 3?). Blackie picked female pro Oh Yujin 6p (#156) to play the slow game, against Baek Hongsuk 9p (#75), over legend Lee Changho 9p (#105) who is also on the team but hasn't been doing so well recently, plus Oh recently beat him in the GG Auction cup event of female vs older male pros (I got to play a simul against Oh at the KPMC). These 3 games started first around 6:30, you can find the records on WBaduk, Tygem, Fox etc and game databases later.
Various other pros from the team plus friends were in the next door room following the games. I was interested to see that like the Chinese pros at the Changqi cup semi-finals in Cambridge, Korean pros were also using Lizzie / Leela Zero to analyse the game live. Shin was expected to win but actually was losing at various points in the game (LZ didn't like his sacrifice of 2 stones) but he was the first to win by resign. Park Jinsol also managed to beat Kim Jiseok in a see-sawing game which was a great start. Even though he wasn't playing Lee Changho dropped by to follow the games so it was cool to get to meet him too. Oh Yujin's game wasn't going so well when the other 2 games started with Kim Myeonghoon 6p (#43, a rising young player) and Han Seungjoo 4p (#92). Unfortunately they both started badly, and then Oh resigned so the good start wasn't looking so good anymore. Kim's game was practically over in the first fight said Blackie, LZ gave his opponent 98% but he recovered somewhat and then when his opponent played a solid pole connection allowing a squeeze there were muted squeals of excitement as LZ instantly identified it as a 30% blunder and the game was reversed. Much fighting and ko trades followed but Kim seized his chance and won the game. Han wasn't so fortunate so the end result was a 3-2 win. Here's some pictures.
The playing room, Blackie's team are in red (from closest: Park Jinsol, Shin Jinseo, Oh Yujin).
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looks like a Dosaku move to me. 
