2018 Australian Digital Tournament

...is an annual first-class tournament of the Australian Go Association and regional tournament of the New Zealand Go Society. If you are an Australian player, it affects your national rating, earns you international representative points, the whole ball of wax. If you are a New Zealand player, it is a fun chance to crush Australian players in a trans-Tasman tournament... and earns you international representative points. If you play in or from another South Pacific Nation, we earnestly invite you to join in the fun.

The final round of the 2018 tournament finished on Tuesday 3 April.

Play

The tournament is on the Internet in seven rounds, one per week. At midnight on Saturday, the draw for the next round and results from the last round will appear below. Find your opponent in the draw table, contact them with their listed email, agree on a time and a server, play the game online, email the result and the game record to the tournament director.

Round 1 drawn Saturday 10 February, play Sunday 11 February to Saturday 17 February, email us game results by midnight, Saturday 17 February.

Round 2 drawn Monday 19 February, play Monday 19 February to Saturday 24 February, email us game results by midnight, Saturday 24 February.

Round 3 drawn Sunday 25 February, play Sunday 25 February to Saturday 3 March, email us game results by midnight, Saturday 3 March.

Round 4 drawn Sunday 4 March, play Sunday 4 March to Saturday 10 March, email us game results by midnight, Saturday 10 March.

Round 5 drawn Sunday 11 March, play Sunday 11 March to Saturday 17 March, email us game results by midnight, Saturday 17 March.

Round 6 drawn Sunday 18 March, play Sunday 18 March to Saturday 24 March, email us game results by midnight, Saturday 24 March.

Round 7 drawn Sunday 25 March, play Monday 26 March to Monday 2 April, email us game results by midnight, Tuesday 3 April.

Results announced Wednesday 4 April, by 6pm AEST.

Open Division Draw

The open division is for players from 2k to 7d. There are no handicap stones.

First prize is $100, free entry to the 2018 Australian Go Congress (September, Sydney), and the title of Australian Digital Champion.

Second and third prizes are $50.

Your opponents for this round are listed in the row of your name and the column of the round.

Handicap Division

The handicap division is for players from 25k to 2d. Up to nine stones handicap.

First prize is $50, free entry to the 2018 Australian National Championships (November, Queensland), and the title of Australian Handicap Digital Champion.

Second and third prizes are $25.

Your opponents for this round are listed in the row of your name and the column of the round.

Competitors

As of this writing, there are twenty-four stronger players in the open division and twenty-four players in the handicap division, ranging from 6d to 15k. Six of you are in both. Below is listed who they are, how to contact them, what their accounts are on OGS and other servers. You are expected to contact them and sort out a time for your round yourself. If your information is not here, or is not right, please tell the tournament director via email immediately.

Name Surname Email OGS Account KGS Account IGS Account Country Rank Go club, if any Joshua Chong fuwachong@gmail.com underwah Australia 3d Adelaide Ng Derek pkpkpkpk35@gmail.com y48d88 Australia 3d Perth Bowen Ge bowenge@outlook.com DoraKitty DoraKitty Australia 4d Sydney Go Club Ziyu Ge 18ge@tgs.qld.edu.au coddyfish Australia 5d Brisbane Go Club Alan Guerin alanguerin@fastmail.com Sawcutgorge castlehill New Zealand 1d Christchurch Go Club Jack Guo jackjieguo@live.com.au jackjieguo Australia 6d Sydney Go Club Chahine Koleejan chahineinjapan@gmail.com vflux Vortex New Zealand 5d Wellington Daniel Li kwantaoli@gmail.com likam go4fun Australia 6d The University of Sydney Go Society David Mitchell david@1wilshire2230.net.au Daviid Daviid Australia 5d Sydney Go Club Kevin Oh kevinoh0418@gmail.com kevinoh Australia 3d Brisbane Go Club Tony Oxenham tox@tpg.com.au LoLoGo LoLoLo Australia 1d None Graeme Parmenter graemeparmenter7@gmail.com leffy gonzo gonzo New Zealand 4d Otago University Go Club Anthony Purcell dr.anthony.purcell@gmail.com dr.anthony.purcell tonyp Australia 4d Canberra Go Club William Rui JAQUELIN_RUI@HOTMAIL.COM williamrui williamrui Australia 2k Victorian Go Club Yidan Shang fmesyd@yahoo.com.au Yidan Yidan Australia 4d None Billy Sun billy@chinohouse.com.au BillySun Oliarry Australia 5d Victorian Go Club Ken Xie 2984332125@qq.com shiqing9 shiqing9 New Zealand 5d Auckland Richard Yeh lyeh6438@uni.sydney.edu.au RichardYeh Expected Australia 4d Sydney Go Club Barry Allison barryallison68@gmail.com Mango Muncher Barry68 Australia 9k Brisbane Go Club Aayush Bhattacharya astertheking5@gmail.com AayushButterchicken Australia 14k The University of Sydney Go Society Simon Burchill v_quixotic@yahoo.com.au DashaTabasco DashaTab Dasha Australia 18k Brisbane Go Club Alfred Burgess alfred.burgess95@gmail.com thebagleboy Australia 9k None Andrew Fischhof tzorec1@bigpond.com tzorec slayne Australia 8k Sydney Go Club Allan Hunt allanhunt24@gmail.com Allan53 Alllan53 Australia 9k Brisbane Go Club Michael Hyde runifyouseeme@gmail.com BHydden BHydden BHydden Australia 9k Ballarat Go Club Huazhen Liu charles17.liu@hotmail.com huahzengo Australia 12k Sydney Go Club Jack Liu janie-zhang@hotmail.com Jack Liu Australia 8k Sydney Go Club Paul McIver pmciveratron@gmail.com RPMc DMenace RunPMC Australia 12k University of Melbourne Go Club Sam Murray samuelwilliammurray@gmail.com HoganHeroes New Zealand 8k Otago University Go Club Fei Peng pfei1997@gmail.com FlandersPF Australia 1d University of Melbourne Go Club Emma Reynolds emmahreynolds@gmail.com bored_goldfish New Zealand 10k Christchurch Go Club Peter Simpson peter.v.simpson@gmail.com wailN wailN Australia 7k Perth Rex Tion rex_tion@hotmail.com TRex222 Australia 15k Perth Rodney Topor r_topor@yahoo.com RodneyT RodneyT RodneyT Australia 3k Brisbane Go Club Tony Xi jackyxiwei@hotmail.com tonyxi Australia 2k Sydney Go Club Qian Ye q1717045@gmail.com Australia 9k None Jotham Chu ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Horatio Davis horatio@go.org.au ahd ahd ahd Australia 1k Brisbane Go Club Kelvin Duong kelvin.duong@hotmail.com kelvin.duong500 kzhd1234 kzhd1234 Australia 1d Sydney Go Club Yanis Newman-Pache yanisnp99@gmail.com bunyan wildbunyan Australia 2d Lismore Fergus Roache fergusroachenz@gmail.com Weird Pawsok Multicone New Zealand 1d Wellington Go Club Jim Shie kawaiitsukiko@gmail.com Kawaii Tsukiko KawaiiTsu Australia 1d The University of Sydney Go Society Brenton Williams baw@internode.on.net SpaceInvader morumotto Australia 1k Adelaide

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