2022年新西兰网络围棋公开赛报名通知

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2022年新西兰网络围棋公开赛报名通知

南半球的棋友们新年好！

新西兰新年第一个围棋赛事将要开始了，2022年新西兰网络围棋公开赛将在3月举行，同时也欢迎来自澳大利亚和南太平洋群岛的汽油。新西兰和澳大利亚的棋友都可以获得国际代表积分和全国排名，排名靠前者将有机会代表新西兰和澳大利亚参加世界业余围棋锦标赛

本次公开赛由新西兰李汉平棋友赞助。李汉平在Facebook上设有CoolAccessoriesOnline商店，销售各种数码产品及配件，欢迎有需要的棋友挑选。

比赛采用瑞士制，将分六轮进行，一周一轮，每周日结束之前将比赛结果通过电子邮件发送给比赛负责人。下一轮的对阵将在每周一中午之前发送给选手。

选手将分为三组，公开组（2k至7d）、让子高级别组（2k至10k，级位高者需要给段位低者让子，最多让9子，让子不贴目）。让子低级别组（10K到30K，级位高者需要给段位低者让子，最多让9子，让子不贴目）。采用新西兰围棋规则（黑方贴7目），采用Fisher计时法，规定用时30分钟，每次落子增加20秒。。

详细时间安排：

报名时间截止时间为2022年3月4日

第1轮比赛于3月7日开始。

第2轮比赛于3月14日开始。

第3轮比赛于3月21日开始。

第4轮比赛于3月28日开始。

第5轮比赛于4月4日开始。

第6轮比赛于4月11日开始

比赛结果于4月18日公布。

比赛平台首选OGS（https://online-go.com/ ），可以双方协商使用其他对弈平台。

请提前注册好用户名并熟悉平台的使用方式。比赛时需要将比赛对局设为公开并保存比赛棋谱。

报名方式：

在线提交表单：

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3z4qbmHUgu8xOGaktAMeH1tzj4plOSYKJpfJP-l5XLgOTqg/viewform

（复制以上链接到浏览器）

如果无法打开链接， 请通过电子邮件使用英文将您的段位/级位，所在国家/地区、联系方式以及您在对弈平台上的用户名发送给比赛负责人（Chris Ding，secretary@go.org.nz）。

报名费为 10 新西兰元。请直接向 NZGS 账户 03-0149-0095693-000 进行银行转账。如果您不在新西兰，请使用我们的 PayPal 账户：secretary@go.org.nz。

无论您如何付款，请确保在参考中包含您的姓名和 NZGS 编号，以便我们知道这笔钱来自谁！

奖励：

优胜者将获得由CoolAccessoriesOnline 赞助的商品或者对应的现金奖励，具体金额我们将在明确确切的参赛人数后公布。

备注：

比赛禁止AI辅助作弊，违规者将被取消比赛资格。详细的比赛行为准则参考澳大利亚昆士兰围棋协会行为准则https://queensland.go.org.au/code-of-conduct-faq/。如果怀疑有作弊行为，比赛负责人有权做出他们认为适当的任何决定。

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Happy New Year everyone! As mentioned in our newsletter sent yesterday, our first tournament this year will be the 2022 NZ Digital. Hanping’s online shop, CoolAccessoriesOnline, which specializes in mobile device accessories is sponsoring the tournament. (Here is a link to the shop’s facebook page) Many thanks Hanping!



The tournament is open to players from New Zealand, Australia and South Pacific nations. For New Zealand players the tournament results will count towards your NZGS points and National ranking as with other regional tournaments. Australian players will likewise receive ranking and international representation points*

* To be confirmed by the AGA committee



The tournament is on the Internet in six rounds, one per week. Results are due by midnight Sunday by email. The draw for the next round (opponent, colour, handicap) will be sent out by midday Monday. Contact your opponent, sort out a time, play the game online, email the result and the game record to the tournament director.

The tournament has three divisions.

Open:  No handicaps. Eligible to players ranked 2dan and higher

Division 2: No handicaps. Eligible to players ranked up to 2dan

Handicap: Handicaps will be set depending on the difference in ranks of the players.
Eligible to all

Each division will use a Swiss draw.

Fisher time control will be used with 30 minutes starting time and 20 seconds added per move (about 1 to 1 1/4 hours each)

Entries close on Friday 4 March 2022.

Round 1 drawn Monday 7 March.

Round 2 drawn Monday 14 March.

Round 3 drawn Monday 21 March.

Round 4 drawn Monday 28 March.

Round 5 drawn Monday 4 April.

Round 6 drawn Monday 11 April.

Results announced Monday 18 April.

The preferred server is the ‘Online Go Server’ or OGS (https://online-go.com) Other servers can be used by mutual agreement.



To enter, click here to open the registration form. Or if you have difficulty with the form please email the tournament director (Chris Ding, secretary@go.org.nz ) with your NZGS number if you have one), phone number, rank, home club and country, and your username on the Online Go Server



Entry fee is NZ$10. Please do a direct bank transfer to the NZGS account 03-0149-0095693-000 or, if you are not in New Zealand, use our PayPal account account secretary@go.org.nz.

However you pay, make sure you include your name and NZGS number in the reference so we know who the money is from!

Open Division and Division 2
For ‘serious’ games where you can test your strength against others and the Open division.
Winner gets the title of New Zealand Digital Champion.
May the best player prevail!

Komi of 7 points to white and no handicap stones.

Game settings: Fisher timing with 30 minutes main time plus 20 seconds per move, Chinese (area) scoring and counting, colour is specified in the draw. No nigiri.

Set your game to public and save the url for us if played on OGS. Save a copy of the SGF for us if played on another Go Server..

Disable Analysis if playing on OGS.


Handicap Division (20k to 2d)
For more ‘relaxed’ games with a handicap to give each player an equal chance. Have fun!

Handicap division games will have a number of stones (as specified in the draw) and no komi unless it is an even game.

Even games in the handicap division, have komi of 7 points to white and no handicap stones.

Stones, if any, will be given at one stone per one difference in rank.

Winners ranks are automatically adjusted up by 1 (just for the purposes of the tournament)  

Game settings: Fisher timing with 30 minutes main time plus 20 seconds per move, Chinese (area) scoring and counting, colour is specified in the draw. No nigiri.

Set your game to public and save a copy of the SGF for us.

We may introduce a McMahon bar between the top players and the rest of the division for the first couple of rounds, to avoid highly mismatched games. The sections of each division will be reunited from the third round onwards.

This division is open to everyone and there is no maximum handicap!  However we will try to match players of similar ranks to keep the handicaps small.

Prizes
Hanping’s shop, CoolAccessoriesOnline, is sponsoring the tournament. Winners will be able to select items from the shop up to the value of their prize or take a cash prize of half the amount. Prizes will range from $150 to $50, we will announce the exact amounts when we know the number of players in the tournament.



So that almost everyone can aim at winning a prize, we are introducing ‘virtual plate divisions’ - first and second in each plate division will receive prizes as well as the tournament first, second and third :-)  This will work as follows:

After the first round we naturally have two groups - W & L (Winners and Losers)

The second round divides the groups again, into four: WW, WL, LW and LL.

WW, is the ‘Main’ division where the winners will most likely come from. No change here.

WL, LW and LL are the ‘Plate’ divisions 1-3. The new prizes will go to the top two players in each of the plate divisions.

The new virtual divisions are for awarding prizes only. There will be no change to how players are matched for their games as the tournament progresses.

For the purpose of assigning virtual divisions, byes are treated as a loss.

In round 2, if a first round loser has to play a first round winner they will be assigned to plate division (LW) regardless of the result of the match.



Final ranking will be determined by number of wins, direct result and SOS.

Number of wins is 1 for each game won. Draws count as half. Games that were not played may count as 1, ½ or 0 depending on the circumstances, the tournament director will decide.

Direct result: If two players with equal numbers of wins have played each other, the winner is ranked higher.

SOS: Sum of opponent's scores. The total number of wins of a player's opponents. Higher is better.

Conduct
All competitors must behave reasonably: don't cheat, don't troll, play nice. Violations attract a warning, then disqualification. We don't have an official code of conduct, you can look at the Queensland Go Society Code of Conduct https://queensland.go.org.au/code-of-conduct-faq/ if you want specifics. Games may be reviewed by the tournament referee, Kevin Liu 7dan. If there is suspected cheating the tournament director has the right to make whatever decision they feel appropriate.