All Good Things Come to an End!

The Last Game

All good things come to an end and the Congress is over :(
I think that this, the first Australian Congress, was a huge success. Everything ran very well. The facilities were good. Everyone was friendly and the all the players had a great time.

I can safely say that my brains are fried though! Trying to remain focused and concentrating, checking and re-checking every move, for a solid four days is tiring work (but heapso fun :). I must say I wasn't as "clicked" today as I was yesterday. Today I won one and lost one - so over all I won 4 and lost 3 - which is not too bad :)

I was lucky enough to get the first game I played today (and lost) reviewed by Dayhe Lee 4p. She was very good at demonstrating moves that would have worked better (and which were obvious once she pointed them out :^P) She was quite inspirational and enthusiastic about the game. The review was even more helpful later when I was playing my last game as there were some situations that cropped up again and I was able to handle them better.

After stretching my legs I returned to see people still playing Go after the tournament has finished :^O

Later Younggil An 8p and Dayhe Lee 4p gave a review of one of the top board games.

Younggil An 8p and Dayhe Lee 4p reviewing a game

And then it was time to award the prizes ... and the winners are:

Division A:
1st - Eunkuk Kim 7D (trophy + $5,000)
2nd - Dohyun Kwak 7D (trophy + $2,500)

Division B:
3rd - Yeongbae Choi 4D (trophy + $1,200)
4th - Kwangkoo Lee 4D (trophy + $600)

Division C:
5th - Yoko Ohashi 6K (trophy + $300)

Special mentions to Amy Song, who was the best placed Australian player (well done - definitely a rising Australian star), and to Tom Chen who was the youngest player :)

And to Eugene Lee for all his very hard work and dedication - without whom the Congress would not have run as smoothly as it did.

The Winners

I had a great time and all I can say is I can't wait for "Congress 2016!"

BTW - Many of the international guests are planning to come to the Club tomorrow night including Dayhe Lee 4p. So come along to the Club at 17 Brisbane Street Surry Hills (1st floor) and join in the fun.

Full Results:

Division A:
1 Eunkuk Kim 7D
2 Dohyun Kwak 7D
3 Juhyung Yoon 5D
4 Hannui Choi 7D
5 Jiyoung Park 6D
6 Nohuhisa Fujii 5D
7 Xin Lei 5D
8 Tungehun Ho 6D
9 Sejong Hwang 7D
10 William Qian 6D
11 Myongsoo Park 5D
12 Yoonkook Noll 5D
13 Tom Chen 5D
14 Kwanghoon Kim 5D
15 Daniel Putra. 5D
16 David Mitchell 5D

Division B:
1  Yeongbae Choi 4D
2  Kwangkoo Lee 4D
3  Amy Song 3D
4  Shuniehi Hyodo 4D
5  Masahiro Kawaguchi 4D
6  Tadahiro Sakao 4D
7  Akira Tamura 2D
8  Motoyoshi Makino 4D
9  ZJ Dai 1D
10 Toshio Nakanto 4D
11 Sang Yun Kim 2D
11 Kazumi Kondo 1D
13 Shoichi Sugita 1D
14 Hyanghee Kim 3D
15 Aeyeong Park 3D
16 Kunio Ohne 1D
17 Munjin Park 2D
18 Aaron Chen 1D
19 Jesse Savo 4D
19 Wonjoong Lee 4D

Division C:
1 Yoko Ohashi 6K 
2 Miyoko Miyama 5k
3 Yoshitomo Nakata 1K
4 Andrew Fischhof 6K
5 Kanami Hasegawa 5K
6 Rhys Malaria 2K
7 Gareth White 10K
8 Kiyo Tamura I7K

Thanks for reading.