As mentioned in an earlier post, there were some administrative oversights with regards to finalizing SAGA’s membership list for credit point calculations in 2007 and 2008. The council discussed this extensively, and resolved to correct the point standings as far as possible, as detailed in Item 409 of our council meeting on 1 April, which was approved.

Most members points are unaffected by these changes – the only players who should see notable changes are the Soweto players funded from the development fund in 2007 and 2008, and the players who took the opportunity for retroactive 2008 membership. The revised points for 2007 and 2008 are available at the bottom of this post.

The most difficult aspect of these modifications is that they affect who should have been selected as the SA representative at the 2008 KPMC: Welile Gogotshe ends the revised list for 2007 in second place. The council decided that the fairest resolution of this situation is that Welile will be treated as if he has the second highest total in 2010 (only) for the purpose of electing a representative regardless of his actual total (unless he has the highest total).

Revised 2007 credit points

Revised 2008 credit points

The points are in a zip file – each player’s point calculation is in the recordsheet folder, and the full list of totals is in wagc_points.txt. If you find any mistakes or oversights in the calculations, please let me know by leaving a comment on this post or emailing Steve Kroon. If no objections are made before 12 July, these points lists will be considered final.

Posted by Steve as News, SAGA, Tournaments at 10:16 PM, No Comments »

Some news snippets:

• Since the SA Open no longer requires participants to be SAGA members, while the SA Closed does, SAGA has decided that in future, the development fund will only subsidize SAGA memberships by default for financially needy participants at the SA Closed, not the SA Open. General applications for financial assistance w.r.t. payment of membership fees is still open to anyone who feels they qualify.
• Due to budget constraints, the Toyota and Denso corporations have withdrawn their sponsorship of the World Oza, so there will be no more African Ozas in the foreseeable future
• The next World Amateur Go Championship will be in China, not Japan
• Also due to budget constraints, Japanese Airlines, withdrew as a sponsor before the 2009 WAGC. The IGF still found a sponsor for flights for 2009, but from 2010, flights to the WAGC will no longer be arranged by the organizer. Anyone who knows someone who may be able to help with sponsorships for coming years, PLEASE contact someone on the SAGA council (or leave a comment)
• The International Go Federation is trying to get affiliated to the International Olympic Committee, with the goal of trying to make Go an Olympic sport. The next Asia games will see Go featured as a regular sport as a result of this work. To achieve this affiliation, the IGF has had to adopt anti-doping regulations, and these regulations have administrative implications for SAGA. Anyone interested/willing to volunteer time to help with this, again, please contact us – your help would be invaluable. [This applies especially if you have some medical/chemistry knowledge]
• Anti-doping regulations in international events start at the Korean Prime Minister’s Cup in October, where the SA rep will be Victor Chow
• The 2nd WMSG is scheduled for July-Aug 2013

If you want more details, or have something to say, please feel free to leave a comment on the website.

Posted by Steve as News, SAGA, Tournaments at 8:52 PM, No Comments »