Life In 19x19

Round of 16 matchups:

Xie Ke vs. Baek Hyunwoo
Xu Jiayang vs. Tong Mengcheng
Meng Tailing vs. Park Younghoon
Xie Erhao vs. Kim Jiseok
Fan Tingyu vs. Wang Wei
Ke Jie vs. Park Junghwan
Ding Hao vs. Ichiriki Ryo
Mi Yuting vs. Byun Sangil

Baek Hyunwoo became 1p by reaching round of 16 in major international tournament(Mlily, Samsung, and LG).

Baek Hyunwoo vs Ilya Shikshin

Some of the round of 16 games are playing now, but Ke Vs Park still shows on Yike for tomorrow. Ichiriki Vs Ding, Mi Vs Byun, Xu Vs Tong underway. Odd schedule.

Mi Yuting beat Byun Sangil
Ichiriki Ryo beat Ding Hao. Not such a famous opponent but Ding is #10 on goratings now so very nice to see a Japanese player progressing. Ichiriki tried but failed to kill a group and had some cut bits on the outside when the group escaped, but ended up not dying with any of them and actually making a bunch of territory.
Xu Jiayang beat Tong Mengcheng.

Uberdude wrote:Some of the round of 16 games are playing now, but Ke Vs Park still shows on Yike for tomorrow. Ichiriki Vs Ding, Mi Vs Byun, Xu Vs Tong underway. Odd schedule.

Xu Jiayang, Ichiriki Ryo, and Byun Sangil are participating in the Okage Cup and need to leave early, so their matchups got moved up a day.

Today's results.
Ke Jie beat Park Junghwan, Ke kept up the pattern of white winning their games, and showed he hadn't lose sharpness from going to university (though I don't know how full or part time that is).
Xie Ke best Baek Hyunwoo
Meng Tailing beat Park Younghoon
Xie Erhao beat Kim Jiseok
Fan Tingyu beat Wang Wei

So 7 Chinese, 1 Japanese and no Koreans in the quarter finals!

Uberdude wrote: Ke Jie beat Park Junghwan, Ke kept up the pattern of white winning their games, and showed he hadn't lose sharpness from going to university (though I don't know how full or part time that is).

It is full-time study, quite tough too. But that doesn't mean he has to do bad in professional competitions. As a good example, Jiang Weijie, who started at the same university few years ago, re-emerged much stronger this year.

Quarterfinal matchups:

Mi Yuting vs. Xie Erhao
Xie Ke vs. Ichiriki Ryo
Ke Jie vs. Fan Tingyu
Xu Jiayang vs. Meng Tailing

That last round of games was interesting. Not only did the Chinese dominate, but almost all of the games were bloodbaths. Really fun go to watch!

xiayun wrote:Quarterfinal matchups:

Mi Yuting vs. Xie Erhao
Xie Ke vs. Ichiriki Ryo
Ke Jie vs. Fan Tingyu
Xu Jiayang vs. Meng Tailing

When will these be played?

ez4u wrote:

xiayun wrote:Quarterfinal matchups:

Mi Yuting vs. Xie Erhao
Xie Ke vs. Ichiriki Ryo
Ke Jie vs. Fan Tingyu
Xu Jiayang vs. Meng Tailing

When will these be played?

March of 2020.

Video review of Ke vs Park from Yeonwoo on her new channel:

Haha, I really like this lady's energy, her commentary is great. And what a game!

Xie Ke beat Ichiriki Ryo to secure a semi-final position.

This game was played over the Internet.

Look like the other quarterfinal matches will be played on 06/18, with semifinals scheduled for 06/20 - 23 (best of 3).

The other quarterfinal matches were finally played yesterday.

Result:
Fan Tingyu beat Ke Jie
Mi Yuting beat Xie Erhao
Xu Jiayang beat Meng Tailing

Semifinal matches (12/31):
Fan Tingyu vs. Xie Ke
Mi Yuting vs. Xu Jiayang