In case you aren’t aware, this week the North American Go Federation has invited 11 go players from the US and Canada to compete to become the next NAGF Pro!
If people want to chat about it they can do so here and I’ll be sharing some fun stuff I’ve made around it here as well. The games are available under the account ejournal
I went ahead and made this promo video, but due to some sickness and travel I am a bit late in releasing it. Regardless, I hope you enjoy 
Here are some player cards I designed as well. The stats are all from an analysis a friend did. I’ll publish a write up of all of that with credit soon.
Here is the explanation for the player stats NAGF Pro Qual Player Cards | by Devin Fraze | Baduk News
Super-classy video, great work!
Might be of interest for anyone missing the streams or watching the live relays
Classy looking shadows!
started playing 2020
it’s amazing how advanced these players can become in relativrly short time
Sorry to spoil the mood but the guidelines for announcement was to have a single announcement per event (or, for tournaments, one per round). Such announcement may redirect to this thread or any other, where each game would be linked.
Seeing a whole pack of NAGF notifications each time is clearly against the rule, which leaves me a bit concerned about how serious we are to enforce it… 
I sent a PM to @torontogoassociation (who made the announcements) as well
Hopefully they are able to adjust in future posts.
I think it’s premature to raise concerns about enforcement about a new rule before the first breach that we see is even reported. 
One thing this instance tells me is that we may not be very good at letting people know what the rules are.
Where are these rules written down?
How are they communicated to new announcers?
And … how do we report instances when we see them? 
One thought is that we could extend the “purpose” of the CM Alerts channel to include rogue announcers, because this is another case of “affects a lot of people” 
I don’t know how to code anymore, but one option: Add a modal that asks announcers not to spam by benjaminpjones · Pull Request #3171 · online-go/online-go.com · GitHub
There were some unofficial guidelines but based on some other things that were collected here and there, and some community feedback.
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years
Tom Lehrer
Alright, fair enough.
My thought process was that, unlike most other issues that can’t be seen unless reported, OGS notifications are broadcasted to everyone so one could imagine mods noticing it even without a specific report. But even better if we could have a way to report it.
Agreed this is a key point. I don’t think the Toronto Go Association is purposefully breaching rules.
LOL I just clicked the pesky things away like I always do and returned to what I was doing 
It hadn’t occurred to me, before this thread, that they were out of bounds.
