Fourth Season of the Sunjang Baduk (순장바둑) Tournament

[Yazphier]

Fourth Season of the Sunjang Baduk (순장바둑) Tournament

Finally has the time come for the fourth Sunjang Baduk Tournament at OGS and you are invited to participate. Last season we were 28 participants and we wish it to be at least twice of that this time around.
The registration will be open for one month and then the battle will commence.

When and How?

The tournament will start the 3rd of August and will be in the correspondence format here on OGS.

To register

• Join the Registration Tournament, Note: This is not the actual tournament but just a registration form, you will be invited to the actual tournament. You also need to be part of the group to join.

• Subscription closes on August 2, 2015. Invitations will be sent the next day

For old participants that has changed their nick, it would be helpful if you either pm me or reply to this topic your old nick to ease the process

##What is Sunjang Baduk?
Sunjang Baduk is a go variant with a fixed starting position that directly leads into battle. After the initial moves have been played, standard Korean rules are applied. For more information you can visit Sensei’s Library

[Yazphier]

###Tournament Format: League

###The Divisions:

• Hierarchical structure, labeled A, B, C, D, etc.
• Assorted in groups. Top division has two (A1, A2)
• Players of similar strength

###The Groups:

• 5 to 9 players (ideally 7)
• Seeded by strength (overall rank)
• Compete in a Simultaneous Round-robin

###The Final Round: 3 players

• Qualify: the winners of A1 and A2, and the Title Holder.
• Merit based tie-break (good title defense, good performance in previous round)
• A third player¹ may be drawn if needed

The games:

• Fischer Timing, 3 days on the initial timer and 1 day increment per move (capped at 7 days). No weekend stop
• No handicap, 6.5 komi. Sunjang Baduk starting position
• Korean rules
• Conditional moves enabled

###Promotions & Demotions:

• Best player¹ per Group promotes one division up
• Worst players¹ per Division demote one division down
• Dropped and disqualified players reapply as new players
• Promotions based on rank may be awarded to fill available space (both new and old players apply, even if demoted).

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####Notes
¹Best and worst players are determined first by Scored Points, then the Sum of defeated opponent’s scores (SODOS) and lastly by overall rank.

For more details you may visit the Sensei’s pages

[Yazphier]

##Groups Listing:
| A1 | A2 |
| ---------------------------------- | --------------------------------- |
| Terranigma 1k | rhubarb 8k |
| gubbelface 5k | illuck 1d |
| ZyBex86 5k | Celebrir 5k |
| mark5000 2d | nrx 3d |
| xhu98 3d | gamesorry 3d |
| dodofish 2k | Ragnar Danneshild 1k |
| Aloisius 2d | 2wo1ne 4k |
| ---------------------------------- | --------------------------------- |

| B1                            | B2                            | B3                            | B4                            |
| ------------------------------| ----------------------------- | ----------------------------- | ----------------------------- |
| kmartine                   5k | leopold                    8k | cuetzpalin                 5k | flakeman2                  5k |
| emei                       4k | thouis                     7k | Leira		             7k | Senffarbe	             6k |
| Blue_Lady                  7k | tealeaf                    9k | fstasys                   14k | BongoBob                   6k |
| Wulfenia                  10k | pablo_abc                  4k | Darsey                     9k | S_B                        9k |
| ba gua                     6k | rpablo007                 10k | kitten1                    8k | nadoss                     5k |
| Redfish-                   9k | Pawel_D                    7k | orang                      5k | vesko_baby                 8k |
| just_starting              8k | Sjuice                     5k | lagerangri1                7k | OldBalance                 8k |
|                               |                               |                               | Markmakmak                1?d |
| ------------------------------| ----------------------------- | ----------------------------- | ----------------------------- |

| C1                            | C2                            | C3                            | C4                            | C5                            | C6                            |
| ------------------------------| ----------------------------- | ----------------------------- | ----------------------------- | ----------------------------- | ----------------------------- |
| terrence.brannon          10k | Ingrid                    10k | DK                        12k | Gojira                    14k | Monadology                11k | Ednago                    13k |
| RevarIsavé                12k | V1ad0                     12k | otesuji                   12k | Tarot                     11k | Yazphier                  11k | ssx                       11k |
| Khosta                    11k | pigface                   11k | Foxmelts                  18k | setra                     14k | gregwawa                  12k | Koldo                     11k |
| Alienora                  16k | Dune                      12k | SivartKceBael             10k | Basti-B                   10k | dustyd                    14k | Winkla                    11k |
| Umi-chan                  19k | a1j9o94                   18k | Cloverr                   11k | torramoon7                11k | stmm888                   15k | Bulletd0dger              12k |
| mjmaher                   13k | BlueberryDaemon           16k | ☠☠☠☠☠☠Pirate☠☠☠☠☠☠       18k | gorisha                   11k | murakoshi                 10k | 1mark1                    15k |
|                               |                               |                               | youlike2                  24k | BananenXD                 21k | GO 2015                   20k |
| ------------------------------| ----------------------------- | ----------------------------- | ----------------------------- | ----------------------------- | ----------------------------- |

You should recieve invites within a day or so, If you do not, let us know

[Leira]

Ok, so, a title needs its own arms. Here is one I made, just the blazon though, no supporters and such.

Things to know: we use Korean ruleset, hence the flag (from title tournaments’ badge tradition); light blue was the de facto color of OldGS, as white is the de facto color of nOvaGS; and the tri-colored Taeguk over there is a traditional Korean symbol (which I feel bad to appropriate, but it’s just a charge after all, same with the flag).

Tell me what you think, and it could be improved.

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How did I do it? Well, with pyBlazon and an SVG editor and some free images from wikimedia.

[Leira]

Version 2.0, less overcharged. The turtle for correspondence

[Leira]

More of a test, but this is the opening:

Sunjang Tournament Opening.sgf (317 Bytes)

Simple enough, right?