I’m not familiar with Hanja but the option to withdraw, and therefore make the tournament have to find another second place is not necessarily an option here. The tournament has already concluded, if the organizers want to they can just document Kejie as the second place in the tournament. This is nothing that Kejie can “withdraw” from without consent from the tournament organizers.
Yes, I do think it is funny that the CWA stated that they will not “recoginze” the result. That’s like me posting on the internet that I won’t recognize the FIFA World Cup winner. Nobody even asked them to recognize the result.
What I said is correct. The Korean rules have always stated that captured stones shall be put in the lid. You can read it in your link:
제3조 바둑통
- 바둑돌을 담는 도구이다.
- 통의 뚜껑은 잡은 돌을 보관하는데 사용한다.
Not sure soccer was a good example for this. FIFA introduced the VAR in 2018 and that is a system that made the sport less enjoyable according to many players and fans.
I highly doubt that football got better because of improvements of the football rules. Humans seem to continously evolve in all sports. Baduk players are also getting contnously better.
True, and yet the FIFA World Cup 2006 was decided by one player insulting another player’s mother.
I cannot pay $500,000 per year but I can put stones in a lid.
I agree with you that the Korean rules are not optimal and could use some improvements. Still the rule that Kejie violated is clearly spelled out.