Today was the zeroth day of the go congress! It was just a day where everyone was arriving and registering. I arrived in the morning around noon and checked into the room. We went to a local grocery store to stock up on some breakfast items: Bananas, raisin bran, and oatmilk as well as some snackies, pretzels and chocolate orange Milanos (not sponsored.)
Then we got some pizza at a local place and relaxed for the afternoon. In the evening they had a welcome ceremony where they explained all the different events that would be happening throughout the week and went over some rules.
Then starting at 8pm they had the first event of the congress, the preliminary round of the 9x9 tournament! All participants were lined up in order of rank and peeled off into six-player tables. Then each table plays a 5-game round robin tournament and the winner of each table goes to the 9x9 playoffs on Tuesday. I went 4-1 and won my table! I unfortunately might not play in the 9x9 playoff. It's scheduled at the same time as the Crazy Go event, one of my favorites where people bust out their crazy go variants! I don't really have much of a chance anyway. Also playing in the playoff are some 5 dans and 6 dans (I'm a 1 dan, meaning they could on average pass four times in a row and still have a 50% chance of beating me, yikes!) so it would be a steep uphill battle. Possibly not worth passing up on crazy go for, but still fun!
Let the Congress begin!
Maxwell + Milanos = Watch Out
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