Life In 19x19

Uberdude wrote:UK stay in league C We started well but after that loss to Turkey we lost quite a few games and matches we shouldn't have by rank and ended up 4th.

I should pump up my rank so I can join Spain. Or relocate

Is there any reason why most of the players in Spain don't seem to want to play in the league?

Javaness2 wrote:Is there any reason why most of the players in Spain don't seem to want to play in the league?

I have absolutely no idea, it's quite puzzling indeed. I don't frequent my local club (only for the Barcelona tournament), nor I'm much in touch with the Spanish community (just being part of some mailing list and twitter) so I don't know the particular reasons, but indeed, the stronger players seem to be absent (IIRC at my current EGF level I could be one of the last reserve boards, it's as bad as that.)

The spanish team is doing very well, despite being one of the weaker teams in paper. I think the ranks in Spain must be very harsh for kyu players! If South Africa join league C next year, I think they will have to split it into 2 groups.

Javaness2 wrote:The spanish team is doing very well, despite being one of the weaker teams in paper. I think the ranks in Spain must be very harsh for kyu players! If South Africa join league C next year, I think they will have to split it into 2 groups.

Yup, we've talked about it here: sanniti (KGS 4k) is Spanish EGF 8k, alejo (KGS 5k) is Spanish EGF 10k and I (KGS 4k) am Spanish EGF 9k. So... Seems so, at least given a small sample of players

The 4th Pandanet Go European Team Championship leagues have finished and the last changes in the league places will be fought in the relegation games on Tuesday 3rd June.

Ukraine, Czechia, Russia and France earned their places in the finals. Congratulations and good luck in the European Go Congress in Romania.

The Netherlands is coming back to the league A, the 5th season starting autumn 2014. Hungary and Poland will resolve the last league A place in a five-board match this Tuesday. Israel unluckily dropped from the league A to the league B.

Turkey took a promotion to the league B with an impressive five point gap to the next in the league C. Italy and Switzerland still need to play for the league B place. Slovenia will patiently collect some speed from the league C next season.

The matches on Tuesday 3rd June 2014, 20:00 CEST, your local IGS/Pandanet server

Hungary vs. Poland
Italy vs. Switzerland

http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps

Cheers,
Vesa

Javaness2 wrote:The spanish team is doing very well, despite being one of the weaker teams in paper. I think the ranks in Spain must be very harsh for kyu players! If South Africa join league C next year, I think they will have to split it into 2 groups.

Oh god please don't. It's the only chance i have to play with some dan players long games (and get crushed but that's beside the point). Besides being last in league C sounds way better than being last in league D :p

I would prefer to have C1 and C2 split approximately by timezone, with some two layer playoff thing:
C1 first -v- C2 second
C2 first -v- C1 second
That way a few evenings are saved.