Results of 2018 Auckland Open Go tournament

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Last weekend we held the 2018 Auckland Open Go tournament.

It was held at our new venue, Zhou's furniture shop which proved to be a comfortable and convenient location. We reused last year's format of having 7 rounds instead of the traditional 5. This too worked well - more games are better!

Our near professionals, Kevin Lui and Laris Du, did not enter. We had a small field of just 12 entries but it was very open with no clear favourite. The even field and 7 rounds made for an interesting and dramatic tournament.

After 4 rounds Longyang Li was clear ahead - could he prove himself champion and stay there?
He won his fifth round beating Tony Li, while his other near rivals, Juhau Zhou and Richard Kim, drew their game, and was a game and a half clear of the field.
But he could not hold on losing his sixth game to Roger Li and the last to Richard Kim.

Juhau Zhou and Richard Kim ended up top with 5 and a half wins each. Having drawn to each other if ever there was a case for awarding first equal this was it, but after a clear majority decision at the NZGS AGM in favour of finding a champion regardless, SOS was used. Richard's opponents between them won 28.5 games. Juhua's won 25.5 so Richard was declared 2018 Auckland champion. Very well done Richard - and Not bad Juhau!

Here are the full results...

Auckland Open 2018

Num	Pl	Name	Rank	Co	Club	NbW	R 1	R 2	R 3	R 4	R 5	R 6	R 7	NBW	SOS	SOSOS
1	1	Kim Richard	5D	NZ	Akl	5½	3-	10+	6+	5+	2=	8+	4+	5½	28½	176½
2	2	Zhou Juhau	5D	NZ	AKL	5½	10+	3+	5+	4-	1=	7+	12+	5½	25½	179½
3	3	Li Roger	4D	NZ	Akl	5	1+	2-	9-	8+	11+	4+	5+	5	27	176½
4	4	Li Longyang	5D	NZ	AKL	5	11+	6+	8+	2+	7+	3-	1-	5	27	174½
5	5	Xu Rui	3D	NZ	AKL	4	7+	8+	2-	1-	9+	6+	3-	4	29	171½
6	6	Grierson Colin	4D	NZ	Akl	4	9+	4-	1-	11+	12+	5-	7+	4	22½	173½
7	7	Li Tony	5D	NZ	AKL	3	5-	12+	10+	9+	4-	2-	6-	3	24½	167½
8	8	Bo Cheng	4D	NZ	AKL	3	12+	5-	4-	3-	10+	1-	11+	3	23½	178
9	9	Tang Zhong	1D	NZ	AKL	3	6-	11+	3+	7-	5-	12-	10+	3	20	169½
10	10	Tang Haidong	1D	NZ	AKL	2	2-	1-	7-	12+	8-	11+	9-	2	22	166½
11	11	Kevin Yang	2D	NZ	AKL	1	4-	9-	12+	6-	3-	10-	8-	1	23	163½
12	12	Gantois Sylvain	1K	NZ	Akl	1	8-	7-	11-	10-	6-	9+	2-	1	21½	161
13	13	Wu Danny	4D	NZ	AKL	1	14+	0-	0-	0-	0-	0-	0-	1	0	1
14	14	Zhang Wenggang	2D	NZ	AKL	0	13-	0-	0-	0-	0-	0-	0-	0	1	0