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Renew your SAGA membership for 2010
SAGA is pleased to note that general membership fees for 2010 have remained the same as they were in 2009. Scholar fees are also unaffected, while student fees have been increased from R40 to R50. Membership is valid for the 2010 calendar year.
This is a call to all SAGA members to renew their membership for 2010 as soon as possible, and before your memberships expire at the end of 2009. Details for how to renew your membership are available on the SAGA page (see the section: Joining SAGA/renewing your membership).
New members are also welcome to join for 2010 now.
February 8th, 2010
Notice of 2010 SAGA AGM and call for nominations
The Annual General Meeting of the SAGA will be held on Saturday 17th April 2010 during the lunch break of the SAGA second quarter internet tournament in the South African Room on KGS (expected time 12h00). The agenda will be as follows:
- Considering the 2009 minutes for acceptance.
- Receipt and consideration of the President’s report for 2009/2010
- Receipt and consideration of the Treasurer’s report for 2009
- Adoption of the Financial Statements for 2009
- Election of new council members for 2010/2011
- Matters arising
The reports and financial statements will be released in due course, and linked to from this article.
This post also serves as a call for nominations for the SAGA council for 2010/2011. Chris Welsh, Andre Connell and Ben Gale’s terms of office expire in April. Nominations must reach the secretary (secretary@saga.sagoclubs.co.za) by 6 March 2010: nominations require a proposer and a seconder, and an indication by the nominee that (s)he is willing to serve on the SAGA council. Proposer, seconder, and nominee must all be members of SAGA (more details on nomination are available in paragraph 6.9 of the SAGA constitution).
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February 8th, 2010
Konrad wins first 2010 SAGA internet Go tournament
Congratulations to Konrad who took advantage of the absence of Victor and Ben to win the internet tournament held on the 6th Feb. Congratulations also to:
Francois for winning group 2
Michael who was promoted to 14k
Cornelia who was promoted to 19k
It was great to see some new faces, and I’m hoping the internet tournaments will grow to 2 full groups this year. The final placings were:
1 Konrad Scheffler
2-4 Andrew Davies
2-4 John Leuner
2-4 Chris Welsh
5-7 David Gale
5-7 David Richfield
5-7 Gordon Wells
8 Paul Steyn
9 Francois van Niekerk
10 Michael Ben-Yosef
11 Cornelia vd Walt
12 Rory Shea
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February 1st, 2010
African representatives for WPGA Pair Go World Cup 2010
Congratulations to Victor and Carle who will represent Africa at the world cup to be held in Hangzhou, China from March 20 to March 23. They were the winners of the selection tournament held on 31 Jan.
Pair-Go, requiring a team of 1 male and 1 female is not big in Africa, and eventually only 3 teams were able to compete in the final. Of the IGF member nations, Madagascar and Morocco were unable to field any teams, and South Africa only managed 4, whcih was reduced to 3 on the day because of client/PC interface problems. The teams were:
Team1:
Victor Guang Chow, 7d
Carle Joubert, 4k
Team2:
Lloyd Rubidge, 1k
Cornelia vd Walt, 20k
Team3:
Rory Shea, 16k
Candice Barker, 27k
Round 1 was played between teams 2 and 3, and was won by Lloyd and Cornelia. They then faced team 1 in the final and were beaten by Victor and Carle. In both games it was interesting to observe the problems that arise when the partners follow different plans. It looked like upset results were quite possible.
Talk is underway to introduce a pair Go tournament to the SAGA calendar. Most likely it will be RenGo, where the gender of the teams is not specified.
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January 30th, 2010
Japanese Go Symbols
Japanese Go Symbols
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January 20th, 2010
World Pair Go Championship change of date
The African qualifying stage for the World Pair Go championship will now be held on 31 January. Morocco and Madagascar do not have any female players available to take part, so the field will consist of four South African pairs in a knockout tournament. The tournament will take place on IGS-Pandanet. Round 1 begins at 10h00, and Round 2 begins at 13h00 (South African time).
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January 20th, 2010
World Pair Go Championship – African qualifiers date change
The African qualifying stage for the World Pair Go championship will now be held on 31 January. Morocco and Madagascar do not have any female players available to take part, so the field will consist of four South African pairs in a knockout tournament. The tournament will take place on IGS-Pandanet. Round 1 begins at 10h00, and Round 2 begins at 13h00 (South African time).
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January 20th, 2010
SA Open 2010 entries
The SA Open 2010 will take place is follows:
When: Saturday 20 and Sunday 21st February 2010
Where: Most likely the Nan-Hua Buddhist Temple, Bronkhorstspruit (about 40km outside Pretoria)
Please let me know asap those interested in taking part.
Gordon Wells [gordon.wells@gmail.com]
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January 17th, 2010
New posts on Twitter @sagoclubs
If you’re on Twitter, and would like to keep up to date on new posts on the website, you can follow @sagoclubs.
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January 17th, 2010
Credit points deduction for international representation changed
In this post, SAGA members were given the opportunity to contribute to a discussion on changing the deduction formula applied to the credit points of international representatives. At the SAGA council meeting held on 13 January, a modified formula was passed. In principle, the same changes proposed in the original post were passed. However, the formulas presented in the original post.
For clarity, the original deduction was:
1000 [n+2-(T-P)/(T-1)].
This deduction formula has been altered, as of 2010, to:
1000 [n+(2p/100)-(T -P)/(T-1)],
where the new variable p is a factor representing the portion of the total cost being covered by sponsors (p=100 representing all costs covered, and p=0 representing no costs covered).
The value of p is, of course, subjective, and is to be set by the council – this task will usually be handled by the member with the tournament portfolio. When players are contacted about possible participation, the council will endeavour to provide as much information as they reasonably can on the value of p.
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January 17th, 2010
South African Open – call for entries
The South African Open Go Championship will be hosted by the Pretoria Go Club this year. It is scheduled for 20-21 February, and will most likely be held at the Nan-Hua Buddhist Temple in Bronkhorstspruit (about 40km outside Pretoria).
Anyone interested in taking part should contact Gordon Wells at gordon.wells@gmail.com.
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