This starts now! Let the games begin!
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Oh it started? Itâs still January here haha
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Challenge is on UTC time zone, right?
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Correct, UTC. The competition officially started 84 minutes ago.
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Is there an official list of participants anywhere or an email confirmation of entry? I signed my kiddo up and he is very fired up, but I didnât receive an email confirmation or anything. I want to know if the sign-up went through and he is good to go! Thanks to everyone who has made this possible!
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I just played my first game, an interesting 300-move win with a midgame ko fight.
I was able to take a lead as White (4kâ4k) starting with Blackâs decision to play the situationally dubious A rather than the proper B.
An interesting point is that, professionally, Black has never * played the pincer in this whole-board opening.
(* That is, not in a formal dated game I can find in Waltheri)
Also in this game, I had a gut feeling that I should play the âupwardâ tigerâs mouth on the left side, but I persuaded myself to play the âdownwardâ one. Turns out first bugcat was correct â now I look at the board again, I canât believe I played the --15 :D
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Hide your ranks, hide your stones!
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Just checking, do these have to be even games?
the point is to get more people in the community playing, so I would be very surprised if handicap wasnât allowedâŚ
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How to confirm the participants?
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Do games where my opponent disconnects midgame count?
Iâve played 10 ranked blitz games. (5 wins, 5 losses.) I feel like my limiting factor is endurance. The intensity of playing is physically demanding, like a light cardio workout. If I can learn to relax, and exhale slowly while playing, I think I can do even better.
Based on my endurance and availability, Iâm on course to play perhaps 200 games in February!
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There is not a confirmation email as Iâm only one person and I didnât want to write out 250+ emails xD
However if you send me your username I can confirm weather or not you are signed up and if not, then I can manually put in your entry to make sure your games are being counted.
Since there are a lot of people asking for confirmation I will be working on a confirmation list coming soon. However, we have 250+ usernames to verify that they exist and on which servers they exist so please give us a week to work through it all.
If you are not on the list yet but think you are your games can still be counted. When I release the list if you do not see your names, simply message me and I will add you to the list and the games you have played will be counted on the next counting loop.
Basically, the games you are playing now will still count. Just make sure you are on the list when it is published or you can ask me directly and I can look. As long as you are on the list by the end of the month your games will be counted.
Have fun everyone!
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Why not just post a google spreadsheet with all the participantsâ username info?
You can also export the Google Form results to a Google Spreadsheet and share the sheet 
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Sharing personal data without consent would probably break some data protection laws. Itâs conflicting with GDRP at least.
Iâm pretty sure usernames and taking part in an open challenge are not sensitive personal data, as per GDPR.
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Usernames are already public, he just canât share attached emails.
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Agreed that a single username participating in an open challenge and winning potentially a prize is not personal data. But some people have shared their multiple handles/email addresses etc with the intention of helping the organizers to determine winners and communicating with the participants, not for that data to be shared publicly and possibly associated to a single entity. In the later case that data becomes personally identifiable by association and a subject to data protection laws.