Beat the Kyu, Be a Dan 2024
12/31/2023, 4:02:06 PM
Clock: Fischer: Clock starts with 3 days and increments by 1 day per move up to a maximum of 1 week.
Have you been playing Go for years, grinding tsumego for countless hours, and still find yourself stuck at the kyu level? You are not alone!
Join us in this annual tournament since 2019 where players like you, struggling at the kyu ranks, come together.
This tournament is all about fast-paced correspondence. Players who try to pause games or taking a vacation will be disqualified.
No pause/Vacation
No sandbagging
No AI support
| Group | 24HGO_OGS |
|---|---|
| Tournament Director | trung5000[2k] |
| Exclusivity | Open |
| Tournament Type | Simultaneous McMahon |
| McMahon Bars | 25k - 1k |
| Players | 0 (was 100-10000) |
| No | |
| Initial Pairing Method | Strength |
| Subsequent Pairing Method | Strength |
| Number of Rounds | 9 |
| Minimum Group Size | 5 |
| Rules | Japanese |
| Board Size | 19x19 |
| Handicap | None |
| Not allowed | |
| Rank Restriction | 25 Kyu - 2 Kyu |
| Not allowed |
December 2, 2024
azalea0o0: This tournament is all about fast-paced correspondence. Players who try to pause games or taking a vacation will be disqualified.Valgrind: The rules do say that, and we had such a discussion before. It's simply not reasonable to never go on vacation in a tournament that is supposed to take many years.
December 3, 2024
cheezopath: yeah it's better to just not include it in the rules next time. I'm on vacation now (but still playing moves) because I accidentally let one of my games timeout, so I'm not in next round either way. Christmas coming up, but I don't want to drop a fun game and ruin it for my opponentmasterps: @Cheezopath, you're playing against me, don't rush your moves over Christmas please 🤣
cheezopath: hahaha no worries. I will make sure to keep ogs closed when I'm drinking
masterps: For the sake of the AI review I think we both should limit our drunk moves 🤣
cheezopath: ^v^v^v^v lol
December 19, 2024
seri_martin: Hi! May be this is not the appropriate forum. I'm far far away to beating the Kyu hahaha. But I've been winning for a long times (18 games more or less on after the other) and I'm still in 25 kseri_martin: Is it possible that OGS is not classifying properly after last usability changes?
MapleLeafNorth: From a quick look, all your wins are against 25k players, and you've lost to anyone higher. So 25k seems right until you win a game against a higher rank.
seri_martin: But now is impossible to chose higher ranks. Although now I had a few more games (and lose LOL)
MapleLeafNorth: Yes, sometimes it's hard to find a match for games. You can play against bots; also I've entered tournaments that were specifically for my level.
MapleLeafNorth: There are several bots, designed to play at various levels. I think AmyBot is the beginner one.
MapleLeafNorth: Hm. Not AmyBot. At any rate, you can play against a bot your level by Play -> select Computer opponent -> select the bot from the list.
msaari: Fast-moving tournament for 10k-15k players: tournament 123257 – two spots left.
EdBow: Anyone know how many matches left in this round?
JigoSaku: I think it might be a smidge less than a bazzzillion. :) Somewhere around here (check the reddit) - there's a link to the site where you can see that number
MapleLeafNorth: 3759 total matches, finished 3246, still in progress 513.
e-max: "Beat the Kyu, Be a Dan 2025" - let's gooo
sandalbucket: I feel like I have a decent shot at winning one of these purely through attrition
cheezopath: that reminds me, I've gotta set aside some time to watch "The Seventh Seal"
JigoSaku: I think the Be a Dan 2023 might still be running. Attrition is a good strategy :)
January 3, 2025
Bolo: I keep getting email notice games which are not appearing on my home page (some of which I was actively playing before they disappeared) are timing out! HunterX57: Score charts say you were disqualified, most likely for being on vacation mode at some point which is the typical reason. It's probably that the unfinished matches were removed once the tournament dq'd you, but the clock kept running for the other player in those matches.
Sipjin: My next tournament Speedy 2025 will start soon: Hope you will start the new year with me in: tournament-120937
MapleLeafNorth: I will not start it, Sipjin . Your tournament doesn't allow me.
Sipjin: For lower ranks I have a own tournament: tournament 123113
MapleLeafNorth: Sweet! Thank you!
January 6, 2025
MapleLeafNorth: 2025 starts. I see 4 [1d]s in the player list. Congratulations, this tournament saw them move to dans.Bruyere: That's one way to do it. Nice move.
msaari: Yes. It's on round 2; there are 9 rounds. This tournament will continue for many years.
felipem: how many games are running now in r2?
felipem: thanks
February 6, 2025
msaari: New tournament for 10-15k players, with fast time controls: tournament 125084February 8, 2025
frandekai: here you see at the end the remainings matches... https://online-go.com/api/v1/tournaments/103535February 15, 2025
Petru Dumitriu: @Trung5000. This question is addressed to you as director of the tournament, if you still pay attention to this milliped. Other than testing players' patience and calm keeping power, what is the charm of such endless tournament? What is it supposed to bring to us? Thank you in advance.Sipjin: Hmm. I would say the question is: Why do I participate in such a long tournament, if I don't like the settings
Sipjin: 😉
Sipjin: If you like real fast paced tournaments look out join: group 13788
Sipjin: Out = or