2016 Australian Digital Tournament

This is an annual first-class tournament of the Australian Go Association and regional tournament of the New Zealand Go Society, held on the Online Go Server. At the bottom of this page are the rules and the dates for each round.

Round 6 has been played to finish the tournament. To find who you should be playing, look at your division below. Find the row with your name on it. Under "Round 6" is your colour, then your opponent.
If it says 6.5 komi for you then you play white and get 6.5 points komi, your opponent plays black. This is for handicapping even games in the second division, and all games in the first division.
If it says your opponent is black and gets stones, they get that many handicap stones and you get 0.5 points komi.
If it says you are black and get stones, you get that many handicap stones and they get 0.5 points komi.
If it says they are black and you are white and 0.5 komi, you and they are exactly one stone apart in handicap - you take 0.5 points komi and they take first move.
For example from round 2:

• Billy Sun 6d is playing Chahine Koleejan 5d in the open division. In their game, Billy will play as white and gets 6.5 points komi, Chahine will play as black. Billy and Chahine will play according to the rules and then both of them will email their game record on OGS to Horatio, and then one of them will get one point for winning.
• William Rui 7k is playing Shoko Ishigaki 11k in the second division. In their game, William will play as white with 0.5 points komi, Shoko will play as black. William and Shoko will play according to the rules and then both of them will email their game record on OGS to Horatio, and then one of them will get one point for winning.

Open Division - 2k to 7d

• First prize is $100 + free entry to the 2017 Australian Go Congress (September-October, Sydney).
• Second and third prizes are $50.

Second Division - Handicap, 20k To 2d

• First prize is $50 + free entry to the 2016 Australian National Championships (December, Melbourne).
• Second and third prizes are $25.

Tournament Rules

• Six rounds of online go, starting on Sunday the 26th of June, one round per week.
• The draw for each round will be sent out by email on Sunday 26 June (for the first round), play starts Sunday 26 June.
• In the week after your draw is sent to you, you and the opponent you're drawn against play a game on the Online Go Server, then email the game record (or game number, at least) to the tournament director by 10pm AEST Saturday.
• Games may be played on KGS, IGS, or Tygem by mutual agreement, someone must email me the SGF game record.
• The time and place of games are to be worked out by talking to your opponent. All players' email and OGS username will be published on the tournament web page so you can do this. Not playing because you didn't talk to your opponent is a forfeit.
• Australian standard tournament time controls: Byoyomi time, at least 60 minutes per player main time, plus 5x30 seconds byoyomi. It can be more (or unlimited!) by mutual agreement. Fischer time and others are worthy, but it's not what Australian tournaments use, so, no.
• Australian standard tournament scoring: wins are worth 1 point, ties and draws and byes are worth half a point, losses and forfeits (not showing up or breaking the rules) worth zero points. Winners are by how many points you scored, ties broken by Sum of Opponents' Scores, and then by Sum of Defeated Opponents' Scores, and then by which of you defeated the other in the round where you played.
• The draw is a Swiss with modified slide pairing.
• Japanese (territory) scoring and counting, situational superko, jigo are draws.
  
• Player strength is measured in their equivalent Australian rankings.
• If you're Australian, you're expected to be an Australian Go Association member, join up at the AGA web page if your club hasn't already taken care of it for you.
• If you're New Zealand, you need to be a citizen or permanent resident to earn WAGC points.
• Since they asked on reddit: no, no computer aids, no stronger players or friends helping you, just you by yourself playing your opponent. The tournament umpire is an 8d professional and can tell.

Round Dates

• Round 1 drawn 26 June, play Sunday 26 June to Saturday 2 July, email us game results by 10pm, 2 July.
• Round 2 drawn 2 July, play Sunday 3 July to Saturday 9 July, email us game results by 10pm, 9 July.
• Round 3 drawn 9 July, play Sunday 10 July to Saturday 16 July, email us game results by 10pm, 16 July.
• Round 4 drawn 16 July, play Sunday 17 July to Saturday 23 July, email us game results by 10pm, 23 July.
• Round 5 drawn 23 July, play Sunday 24 July to Saturday 30 July, email us game results by 10pm, 30 July.
• Round 6 drawn 30 July, play Sunday 31 July to Saturday 6 August, email us game results by 10pm, 6 August.
• Results announced Sunday 7 August, by 3pm AEST.