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WAGC points

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1 Current system
2 History
3 See also

WAGC points are the points awarded to placegetters in official (national and club) Go tournaments in New Zealand, used at the conclusion of each annual NZ Open for determining who represents New Zealand at the following year's WAGC.

The 2007 AGM resolved: "The WAGC points need to be posted at the NZ Championship tournament so it is clear who has a chance of being the next WAGC representative."buy tag heuer

[edit] Current system

The current system was implemented in 2006. Players who place in the top 4 of a regional tournament, or top 8 in the national tournament, earn WAGC points.

Place           National                Regional

		Old	New		Old 	New

1		10	25		4	10
2		7	16		3	6
3		5	10		2	3
4		3	6		1	1
5		2	4	
6		1	3	
7			2	
8			1	

Total		28	67		10	20

After the national tournament, the player with the most points and who wishes to attend, is selected as the WAGC representative. However, they must be a New Zealand citizen. Players who represent NZ during the year will also have points deducted – the total deducted will match the number of points entering the system during the previous year.

Each year all players have 25% of their points deducted.

Points are carried from year to year. A player can only lose points by representing New Zealand somehow.

[edit] History

Another set of points

In the November 1986 issue of the NZ Go Journal, there appeared

“A proposal regarding the position of NZGS team manager and NZGS games representative to the World Amateur Go Championship”

In 1987 a motion was passed at the AGM of the NZ Go Society to introduce a points system to decide who would represent NZ at the WAGC. That system was defined in the NZ Go Journal of March 1988 and has remained substantially the same since then.

It allocated points to the top six places at the NZ congress (10, 7, 5, 3, 2, 1) and points for the top four places at regional tournaments (4, 3, 2, 1). It also introduced the principle of only using final points not “sum of opponents scores” (SOS) to decide on finishing position in tournaments. The Go Journal also described how the system worked:

“Points will be accumulated throughout the year, ending with the NZ Go Championships. At that time, the New Zealand representative to the WAGC shall be the person with the most points who wishes to go. After this has been determined, 25% will be deducted from each person’s points, with a further 33 deducted from the WAGC representative.”

This established the principle of deduction of a fixed amount from the points of the representative and an annual depreciation of all points. This has continued since then, with occasional alterations to the amount deducted (-22.5 in 1995 and -30 in 2002).

In theory, any club affiliated to the NZGS, which by definition of the NZGS constitution must contain at least five members, can run a tournament attracting points. In practice, only clubs in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin have done so.