Wow, I managed to get on the second place in my group.
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| Overall | KGS | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dan 3k+ | 8fledermaus8 | 716 | Dan 3k+ | moyofan | 198 | |
| pt8o | 587 | harikiri | 141 | |||
| Leiye | 337 | wurfmaul | 127 | |||
| SDK 9k-4k |
 Sofiamā:dolphin: |
1024 | SDK 9k-4k | |||
| Ehomba | 321 | LinuxGooo | 157 | |||
| TDBear42 | 229 | |||||
| DDK 10k-25k | Zafnok | 147 | DDK 10k-25k | |||
| Paid Actor | 107 | |||||
| DashaTabasco | 72 | |||||
| OGS | CGS | |||||
| Dan 3k+ | 8fledermaus8 | 716 | Dan 3k+ | Hrafnir | 93 | |
| pt8o | 587 | hanayeol | 25 | |||
| Leiye | 337 | iryumika | 22 | |||
| SDK 9k-4k |
Sofiamā:dolphin: |
1015 | SDK 9k-4k | PopcornCzar | 33 | |
| Ehomba | 317 | |||||
| TDBear42 | 229 | |||||
| DDK 10k-25k | DDK 10k-25k | |||||
| Zafnok | 147 | |||||
| Paid Actor | 107 |
These are the final results. If there is anyone who did not get counted or if anything is amiss please let me know by next Friday. After that there will not be anything changing.
I discussed with the OGS mods about Leiye, they concluded it was not against the TOS and it was not an intentional sandbagging so I went with their judgement and feedback from others for the prize.
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Yeeeehawwww we made it!!!
Congrats to everyone and thanks to Clossius, his wife, Goop, Anoek and the other folks who helped going through the thousands of games, the donators (baduk.club!!), those who contributed otherwise and the hundreds of players who took the challenge!!
As Paid Actor said above: By the means of the WDC I became accustomed to OGS - to the point where I play most of my games here. 
Iām curious to know if others have experienced the same, across all ranks?
Thanks yāall!!
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I started on OGS but WDC helped me keep up the pace to reach SDK literally the day after the challenge ended. March 1, I hit 9k, and I imagine the number of games played to qualify for WDC certainly helped me achieve that milestone. Thinking to become supporter of OGS now haha
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And @Clossius1 happily collects his commission from @anoek. āI told you Iād get you more site supporters. Well, here they are.ā
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No pricesfor CGS? Ireally tried to boost that server, but opponents were hard tocome buy, even lower ranked ones
If you played 300 on CGS you would get a prize 
Clossiusā post shows CGS rankings, looks like they will get a prize, right?
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No. No prizes for anyone that didnāt get the 100 games minimum
Zenbeggar played way above 100 games but spread out on several servers iirc. 
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Not sure tho how prizes are handled for CGS.
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CGS prizes are mentioned here 
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Hihi, just thought Iād chime in briefly.
I didnāt follow the discussion earlier, so I was kind of surprised I was mentioned.
The reason for me to play in the WDC was just to test myself, seeing if I would do alright playing a lot of games at the same time. The challenge itself was deffo the trigger for it, but I didnāt really expect to win anything after seeing several people had like 150+ games after half a week or so.
I donāt really think I was sandbagging, though.
I took the open challenges of dan players rather regularly, and didnāt really have much control over who accepts the ones I have open.
Yes, I could intentionally restrict the rank further. But since I am usually just happy to play anybody nice, I didnāt see much point in that. I had a couple of games with 4d+ people, like 3 or so with Jonas, so yeah.
The current rank of my account is not intentionally low either. I just found it hard to play at the absolute best of my abilities when juggling 150+ concurrent correspondance games. So I did end up losing some games more than Iād else. But itās not like Iād play better blitz or anything either. : ]
Aaaanyway, seems like the discussion is mostly over anyway. Just thought it made sense to answer a few points. :'D
Cheers for putting up all of this, though! Was good fun to push myself to actually play a bunch of games for once! So thanks a lot for all the effort, much appreciate it!
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Just to clarify this again.
It was not sandbagging, intentionality is irrelevant 
As far as the OGS-side of things is concerned (no comment about the spirit of the tournament): donāt worry, none of the moderators consider you to be sandbagging. Playing people from lower ranks in ranked games is in no way sandbagging and totally allowed. The ranking system accounts for difference in strength as well, so it should be no problem in that regard either.
What would be sandbagging, is resigning games deliberately to lower your rank so that you appear to be weaker to your opponent than you actually are. But youāre not doing that, since you appear exactly as strong as your opponents need to expect from you.
(the same holds for the airbagging mentioned, by the way)
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That is one of the best points of the OGS glicko system imo: Being allowed to play ranked games against opponents of different strength, without handicap. 
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The DGS Elo rating system handles this too. Any decent rating system should. Are there any that donāt?
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Hey, I just noticed that a badge appeared on my homepage.
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Not sure that Tygem, Fox or WBaduk handle it that way? IGS does, but it feels also excruciatingly slow.
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Looks great, love it.
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yeah, since opponents are hard to come by, I had to spread out.
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