I volunteered to be Assistant Tournament Director for this one because I will be Assistant Tournament Director for the U.S. Open at this year's U.S. Go Congress (in Boston!!). I think I directed a couple of MGA tournaments many years ago, but it's been a long time, so I figured I should start getting some practice.
The actual Tournament Director was James Peters, who has a very laid back approach to directing tournaments. I rather enjoyed the fact that he didn't take it too seriously. It certainly makes some things a lot easier. I don't think we'll get to be so cavalier for the U.S. Open though. Here's James getting a game in in round 3:
Even though I was working, I got to play two games. Andrew strong-armed me into playing at 2 dan. He played at 3 dan. We have a lot of rank inflation happening in our area. It will be interesting to see how everyone stacks up at the U.S. Open. I don't want to cheat the system, but I also don't want to put my fellow players, who are accustomed to playing even games with me, at a severe disadvantage. (I won against Andrew playing an even game in the Spring Open just a few weeks ago, but if I entered at 1k, he'd be giving me 3 stones, which isn't right at all.)
Anyway, I played 2 games at 2 dan and won both of them. The first game (in round 1) was with Ed Gillis:
and the other (in round 4) was with Audrey Wang:
(I didn't record my games because I was working, but one of my jobs was to take a few photos.)
Since Audrey was playing at 3 dan, I took black with no komi. I ended up winning by 7 points on the board, so if she did have komi, she would have won by .5 point. Since our City League game (see earlier post) was also a .5 point game, we decided we're clearly within .5 point of each other.
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