Swiss Go Association

After 1997,2002,2004, Sébastien Koch (Ko Go Club) is for the fourth time Swiss Go Champion. Congrats!
Félicien Mazille (Ishi) and Sébastien Ott (Ko Go) had in fact the same number of points, but the cruel placement criteria (SOS) had to designate only one. Congrats also to them, they really made a great tournament.
The tournament took place in the magnificient village of Veyrier near Geneva. As usual in this cold spring 2013, the sun appeared quite rarely, but enough to take this photo at a few meters from the salle communale.

Thank you to Cho Seok Bin 8d that was present all the week-end and analysed a lot games, like the two winner's one on the picture. His strength is amazing and even the strongest swiss have many things to learn.
Finally thank you to the city of Veyrier, the Veyrier/Ko Go Club comitee (Jeremy, Sandra, Guillaume, Jean-Marc et Tetsuo) and all participants. Next year, we are impatient to attend a 2 days week-end in Ticino, a place many of us also love. There will probably be also 7 rounds but a little quicker.  Moreover the tournament will be earlier in order to avoid exams. 
Finally, on the international level, Ott will go to KPMC, Praz to WAGC.
ADW 
Photos, Results, EGD

In a small survey, i asked people whether they came to Active Go for eating or for playing, maybe they answered as for a joke, but indeed 80% answered for eating, and Wang Jie, the owner of the restaurant Lin Xiang, can be proud. This year we had no crispy Beef but many other nice things. Note that nobody drank any alcohol. Incidentally we had some go fights, and 3 players got 6 points on 7. Wolff lost against his teacher Inseong, Ott against Wolff, and Inseong against the morning alarm clock that failed to wake him up enough early for the first round. One can notice, that the handicap -1 give spice to many games but change only moderately the final result. A big thank you to Jeremy and Sandra, for whom it was the first and perfect organisation, after 10 years of Wolff, and 3 of Sébastien Koch. By the way Sébastien brought his lovely familly, including two future talented boys that may soon participate. Organised by Ko Go Club. Reported by Lovebach. Results, Photos