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Re: Kuchinashi Tournament (1k-3k)
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:21 pm
by Redundant
lovely wrote:Redundant wrote:I did an embarrassing amount of stalking to find out a general time zone for everyone.
Should I be worried?
For people who didn't have location information, I checked to see if they did an introduction post. If not, then I checked the language on their KGS accounts, some of which I had to find by stalking forum posts.
Re: Kuchinashi Tournament (1k-3k)
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 2:25 am
by Phelan
RedStick wrote:Also, it looks like there are 6 or seven people from the 4-8k range who are interested. Does anyone want to set up a second tournament?
Is this one also starting? Or do you need someone to set it up?
Re: Kuchinashi Tournament (1k-3k)
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:30 am
by emeraldemon
Is this tournament named after クチナシ = gardenias?
Re: Kuchinashi Tournament (1k-3k)
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 9:46 am
by RedStick
emeraldemon wrote:Is this tournament named after クチナシ = gardenias?
Kind of. The legs of traditional gobans are modeled after the Kuchinashi flower. Apparently there is also a pun in the name Kuchinashi, something close to "closed mouth" to emphasize silence amongst observers during a game. Although obviously in this tournament kibitz is encouraged.
Also. I'm going to repost the brackets in the OP for easy reference.
As people finish games make sure to post in the thread also so we can keep a record of how the rounds are progressing.
Re: Kuchinashi Tournament (1k-3k)
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:15 am
by Osvaldo
hey!
Nikolas73 and I will be playing our first game tomorrow Sunday at 3:00pm (GMT-3) on KGS, if anyone's interested!
by the way,
Also. I'm going to repost the brackets in the OP for easy reference
whats the OP?
Take care,
Dave
Re: Kuchinashi Tournament (1k-3k)
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:26 am
by OtakuViking
Fantastic! I was wondering when this tournament would begin.
Dave, the OP = Opening Post
Re: Kuchinashi Tournament (1k-3k)
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:04 am
by Phelan
Phelan wrote:RedStick wrote:Also, it looks like there are 6 or seven people from the 4-8k range who are interested. Does anyone want to set up a second tournament?
Is this one also starting? Or do you need someone to set it up?
Re: Kuchinashi Tournament (1k-3k)
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:30 am
by karaklis
Just found out that "Simba" on KGS is not identical to "Simba" on L19.
I think it would help for participants and tournament director if KGS nicks were published here, or even better if the KGS nicks were notes in one's L19 profile..
Re: Kuchinashi Tournament (1k-3k)
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:34 pm
by Osvaldo
I wanted to report that after a very exciting 3 games, I ended up beating Nikolas 2-1 in the first round!!
So now am I up against OtakuViking? Does Nikolas go in another bracket?
Take care,
Dave
Re: Kuchinashi Tournament (1k-3k)
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 5:17 am
by perceval
i would also be interested in a 4k-8k tournament.
So it seems there is Phelan, speedchase, myself.
anyone else ?
Re: Kuchinashi Tournament (1k-3k)
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:51 am
by speedchase
You could ask Leyleth and RB.
Re: Kuchinashi Tournament (1k-3k)
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:03 pm
by Redundant
Osvaldo wrote:I wanted to report that after a very exciting 3 games, I ended up beating Nikolas 2-1 in the first round!!
So now am I up against OtakuViking? Does Nikolas go in another bracket?
Take care,
Dave
Yup, you're against otakuviking. Nik gets another chance in the losers bracket. The winner of the losers bracket faces the winner of the winners bracket in the grand finale. The winners bracket winner starts 1 game ahead and it'll be best of five (i think)
Re: Kuchinashi Tournament (1k-3k)
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 1:46 am
by schultz
You guys should post the games you've played here in this thread. It's always fun to be able to play back through and see how the games went.
Should/could also get some discussions going. One of the things that was fun about following the last Kuchinashi, even if I wasn't playing in it!
Also - keep me in the loop with a 4-8k tournament. I'm (theoretically) in that range. (May need to play more on KGS and get a better established rank...)
Re: Kuchinashi Tournament (1k-3k)
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 7:47 am
by Nathan
perceval wrote:i would also be interested in a 4k-8k tournament.
So it seems there is Phelan, speedchase, myself.
anyone else ?
I would be interested in a 4 - 8kyu tournament.
Someone just needs to set it up and come up with an awesome name for the tournament like this one has.
Re: Kuchinashi Tournament (1k-3k)
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 11:12 am
by Osvaldo
Here are our games with Nikolas73:
Game 1 - won by Nikolas73
Game 2 - won by Osvaldo
Game 3 - Won by Osvaldo
How are the other games going?