Everyone except for @le_4TC succeeded in playing their first choice. @le_4TC on the other hand collided with a preexisting stone for their first move, but managed to place their second choice.
The stone at B9 is an old stone without liberties, and thus is removed from the board. The stone at N12 is a new stone without liberties that does not capture anything, and thus is removed from the board.
Any player with 13 stones or less on the board is eliminated at the start of Round 35.
All players enter Round 35 with at least 14 stones, and therefore are not eliminated.
Everyone managed to place their first choice, which is a pass for @Haze_with_a_Z and @le_4TC.
The stone at J12 is an old stone without liberties, and thus is removed from the board.
Any player with 14 stones or less on the board is eliminated at the start of Round 36.
All players enter Round 36 with at least 15 stones, and therefore are not eliminated.
Since I could foresee a scenario where the game will grind to a halt, I’d like to propose the following addition to the rules to prevent several weeks of waiting for the minimum stone counter to creep up, in the potential case that this may occur. These rules are of course open to discussion, and only a suggestion of how to play the endgame more smoothly.
If all players agree on a ranking of players still in the game (player A gets 1st place, player B gets 2nd place, etc.), everyone can submit this parallel to their move for that round, and the game will be concluded as such.
If the players do not agree on the order of players, the game does not end, and it will not be revealed what order the individual players have submitted, only that the game continues.
Players may choose to pass a certain number of rounds. If all players decide to pass a number of rounds, the game will progress up to the point that is either the minimal of the submitted pass lengths, or the round in which one of the players is eliminated. For example: if players A, B and C are still playing, A wishes to pass 7 rounds, B wishes to pass 10 rounds and C wishes to pass 5 rounds, then the game will progress 5 rounds. But, in this scenario, if player A for example would be eliminated after 3 rounds for not having enough, then the game will only progress 3 rounds, and continue immediately after A is eliminated.
In saying how many rounds you wish to pass, you may also say you wish to pass “up to 2 moves before player X is eliminated”, to avoid confusion about how many moves you might need to pass for your strategy.
The message that you will pass, will be interpreted as passing a single round, please indicate clearly that you wish to pass an X number of rounds or that you will pass indefinitely.
If you disagree with this idea, you don’t have to do anything differently, as “playing as normal” will make sure none of the things above will come into effect in the game.
@PiggyStardust, @yebellz and @Haze_with_a_Z placed their first choice. @le_4TC and @Leira collided with their first choice, and @Leira collided again with their second choice with a stone placed as a first choice, while @le_4TC passed for their second choice. @Leira’s third choice is a pass as well.
The stones at G8 and at C1 are both an old stones without liberties, and thus are removed from the board.
Any player with 14 stones or less on the board is eliminated at the start of Round 37.
All players enter Round 37 with at least 15 stones, and therefore are not eliminated.
@PiggyStardust, @yebellz and @Haze_with_a_Z placed their first choice. @le_4TC and @Leira collided with their first choice, and @Leira collided again with their second choice with a stone placed as a first choice, while @le_4TC passed for their second choice. @Leira’s third choice is a pass as well.
The stone at A1 is an old stones without liberties, and thus is removed from the board.
Any player with 15 stones or less on the board is eliminated at the start of Round 38.
All players enter Round 38 with at least 16 stones, and therefore are not eliminated.
Suppose that the Star Kingdom will become deserted and only the foundations of its buildings remained, future generations will find it hard to believe that this Kingdom once dominated a quarter of the known world. On the other hand, if one were to compare them to the ruins of Cochineal, one would conjecture from what met the eye, that it was four times as powerful as it was.
Your culture and heroic death will be remembered in the odes of our bards, but it’s foolish to think that the stars have their foundations on the ground, and preposterous that the dead dare speak. Begone spirit, lest your memory be cancelled from our annals.
@le_4TC and @Leira collided for their first choice, and both passed for their second choice, while @yebellz collided with a preexisting stone for their first choice, but placed their second choice.
The stone placed by @yebellz at J12 and the stone at N3 are the only stones without liberties, and thus are removed.
Any player with 15 stones or less on the board is eliminated at the start of Round 39.
All players enter Round 39 with at least 16 stones, and therefore are not eliminated.
In the absence of a move submission from @Haze_with_a_Z , Round 39 will be extended 24 hours.
The new deadline is 2020-12-09T21:00:00Z.
Actually, Haze showed up just now, so I’ll progress the round.
End of Round 39
This is the first déjà vu round: the board position at the end is exactly the same as at the start of the round.
@le_4TC and @Leira collided for their first choice, and both passed for their second choice, while @yebellz collided with a preexisting stone for their first choice, but placed their second choice.
The newly placed stone at J12 by @yebellz is the only stones without liberties, and thus is removed.
Any player with 16 stones or less on the board is eliminated at the start of Round 40.
All players enter Round 40 with at least 17 stones, and therefore are not eliminated.
@PiggyStardust why pass when there are valuable dame left to play for you?
Same question for @Haze_with_a_Z, don’t you want the point at K5?
Edit: OK, Haze might be worried about getting captured, due to only having three eyes, so that’s a valid reason to avoid filling K5. But I think Piggy should be pretty safe with those 10 eyes
There are two ties in the current stone count, which will be resolved by playing on.
What will happen sooner or later, is that the green stones will be captured, and the three surrounding nations will divide that territory. The likely outcome in terms of ranking is:
yebellz
Piggy
le_4TC
Haze
Leira
But it’s still unclear, so I think ending the game right now with that ranking would be premature
Edit: I do think we should speed up the game somehow if possible, so it would be helpful if other players would like to share their thoughts on what will happen in the game. We might be able to fast-forward a bit, and maybe the final endgame between fewer players can be played at a quicker pace.
This round everybody submitted the same moves as last round, and thus, like last round, the board position does not change.
Any player with 16 stones or less on the board is eliminated at the start of Round 41.
All players enter Round 41 with at least 17 stones, and therefore are not eliminated.
@le_4TC succeeded in playing their first choice. 
B9 is an old stone without liberties, and thus is removed from the board. The stone at 
N12 is a new stone without liberties that does not capture anything, and thus is removed from the board.
@PiggyStardust
@yebellz
C1 are both an old stones without liberties, and thus are removed from the board.
give us blooooood…
