Go Magic League is a free regular tournament where you play one game per week, communicate with other league members, review your games, compete for prizes, and most importantly gain some practical experience. This tournament completes the magic cycle:
- Take interactive courses
- Solve Skill Tree problems
- Play more games! 👈
Your rank doesn’t matter for participation. Beginners can get as many benefits from the league as seasoned dan players, if not more.
Join and learn more details on the Leago platform page. 🙌
The next season is scheduled for September 2024.
Go Magic League Season 5 Results 🔮
Yuppie! The 5th season of our League has come to an end! Once again, we witnessed beautiful triumphs and unfortunate blunders. Or was it the other way around? 😃 We are deeply grateful to all 85 participants and look forward to welcoming you in the next season. Dates will be announced later.
This season, we have increased the overall prize pool to nearly $2000, making it even more rewarding for participants.
Due to the changes in the tournament system this season, we have also updated the awards accordingly. 😊 We award everyone who secured 1st place in their division, instead of recognizing 4 and 5 victories. Prizes are as follows:
- Division 1: $140 gift card
- Division 2: $120 gift card
- Division 3: $100 gift card
- Divisions 4-8: $60 gift card
- Divisions 9-15: $40 gift card
Those who played all 5 games but didn’t win in other categories will receive a $15 gift card.
By the way, we are considering improvements to the league, so you can expect some surprises next season. We’ll announce the start date separately!
🥇 Division winners
Division 1 David Wang
Division 2 Sariel Sariel
Division 3 David Labbé
Division 4 Gerard Slooven
Division 5 ghoulRE0 Исаенко
Division 5 Leandro Marcolino
Division 6 Tobias Limbach
Division 7 Derek McGuire
Division 8 Gerald Jaritz
Division 9 Kyle Crowley
Division 9 Lev Sokolovsky
Division 9 Vladimir Sintsov
Division 10 Will Bator
Division 11 Michal Ochapski
Division 12 Andrea Yunuén Hernández Gómez
Division 13 Gia Pietri
Division 14 Julia Emelina
Division 15 Tobias Hessel
🐉 Dragon Slayer — Derek McGuire (39 stones dragon)
👻 Terrific Blunder — Jim Mattson (46 points)
🗡 Surgeon blade — Tobias Limbach, Derek McGuire, Master Sword, Sariel
🦄 Better Luck Next Time — we will award all players, who played all 5 games but couldn’t win a single one, with a $20 gift card.
We will email certificates shortly. If you haven’t received one, please, check the Spam folder or email to league@gomagic.org
Special thanks to Muff0 and Nick Prince for their invaluable help with the organization. 💖
Hooray! The 4th season of our League has concluded! This time we had smaller dragons and bigger blunders 😅. We extend our gratitude to all 98 participants and eagerly anticipate your presence in the upcoming season commencing in May. 🎉
Award & Review Event 📺
Vadim Efimenko 4d — April 2024 (Discord). The date and time will be announced later.
👉 The record of the review event
League Winners:
🥇 Tao Lu (the only person to win all 6 games!)
🥈 Xiaoyu Liao
🥉 Byoung-Ju Lee
They got certificates for $220, $120 and $80 respectively.🎁
🐉 Dragon Slayer — Yuriy Balandin (26 stone dragon)
😲 Terrific Blunder — Mishal Dasani (104 point blunder) and Mario Ionescu (92 point blunder)
🗡 Surgeon Blade — Terri Schurter (0.5 point game) and Brenda Mastroianni (0.5 point game)
5 Wins:
Bob Zhao
Naisi Zhen
Yury B
Yury Balandin
Vladimir Sintsov
4 Wins:
Maxim Dukov
Jayme E
Vitaly Somkin
Larion Syrotkin
Lauren Hindmarch
Dimitri Lotti
Gerald Jaritz
Nhien Thuy
Francesco D’Emilia
Lucas Pardo
Polina Novoselova
Go Influenchess
George Pan
People who won 5 and 4 games will get $60 and $35 certificates respectively. Yuriy Balandin, who slain the dragon and won 5 games, will get a 80$ certificate. People who got the Surgeon Blade Awards will get $60 certificates. People who got the Terrific Blunder Awards will get $35 certificates. Everyone who played all games will get a $15 certificate. 🎁
We will email certificates shortly. If you haven’t received one, please, check the Spam folder or email to league@gomagic.org
Many thanks to everyone who helped with the organization: Muff0, Nick Prince. ❤️🙌
Woohoo, the 3rd season of our League is over! Thanks to all 128 participants and we hope you come to the next season which starts February next year. 💫
Award & Review Event 📺
Vadim Efimenko 4d — January 2024 (Discord). The date and time will be announced later.
League Winners:
🥇 Ulrich Groh
🥈 Tao Lu
🥉 Hesai San
They got certificates for $200, $100 and $100 respectively.🎁
🐉 Dragon Slayer — Tobias Hessel (40 stone dragon), Dimitri Lotti (37 stone dragon)
😲 Terrific Blunder — Alex Friedman (60 point blunder), Igor Vieira (59 point blunder)
🗡 Surgeon Blade — Igor Vieira (0.5 point game)
5 Wins:
Zhaslan Doschanov
Andy Nidodaev
Carolina Santilli
4 Wins:
Bob Zhao
Jayme E
Pavel Naumenko
Thomas Spinelli
van Thuan Do
Darren Marson
Dimitri Lotti
Chess Tactics
Vladimir Sintsov
Jeremy Minardi
Alex Friedman
Igor Vieira
Francesco D’Emilia
People who won 5 and 4 games will get $60 and $35 certificates respectively. People who got the Dragon Slayer, Terrific Blunder and Surgeon Blade Awards will get $60 certificates. Everyone who played all games will get a $15 certificate. 🎁
All certificates have been sent via email. If you haven’t received one, please, check the Spam folder or email to league@gomagic.org
Many thanks to everyone who helped with the organization: Muff0, Nick Prince and Yulia Sapsan. ❤️🙌
Woohoo, the 2nd season of our League is over! Thanks to all 144 participants and we hope you come to the next season which starts on November 13. 💫
Award & Review Event — September 28, 4 pm UTC on Discord. (Watch the record on YouTube)
Top-3 Winners
🥇 Shaoyang Qu
🥈 Nguyễn Hoàng
🥉 Minh Vo
They got certificates for $300, $150 and $150 respectively. 🎁
Special Awards
🐉 Dragon Slayer — Lauren Hindmarch (60 stone dragon), Derek McGuire (35 stone dragon)
😲 Terrific Blunder — Cassandra McGuire (153 point blunder, move 58), Karan R (61 point blunder, move 159), Thuy Nhiem (53 point blunder, move 180)
🗡 Surgeon Blade — Terri Schurter (0.5 point game)
6 Wins
Ulrich Groh
James Foy
Marcio Lopes
Lauren Hindmarch
Roberto Tamburini
5 Wins
Emre Apa
Arkhaya Aratia
Francisco Hernandez Lucas
Hugh Brown
Anton Venouil
Ryan Reed
Anna Shtanova
4 Wins
Marco Henkel
Joseph Barkell
Zaher Nazif
Kristupas Krivickas
Bob Zhao
Dmitriy Vinogradov
Jayme E
Cassandra McGuire
Anthony Yang
Mark Engelberg
Thang Do
Players, who won 6, 5 and 4 games, will get $100, $60 and $35 certificates respectively. Players who got the Dragon Slayer, Terrific Blunder and Surgeon Blade Awards will get $60 certificates. Everyone who played all 6 games will get a $15 certificate. 🎁
All certificates have been sent via email. If you haven’t received one, please, check the Spam folder or write to league@gomagic.org.
Many thanks to everyone who reviewed the games and helped with the organization: Nick Prince, Disruption, Muff0, Toma, Mikhail S, Firescourge, Arkhaya and Yulia Sapsan. ❤️🙌
A big thanks goes to all 204 participants of our first experimental Go Magic league tournament! We want this tournament to feel nice and cozy, so we decided to wait for the necessary improvements in the Leago platform.
The next league season is expected to start in September 2023.
Live Stream Reviews
Eunkyo Do 1p — May 27, 1 pm GMT on Twitch
Vadim Efimenko — May 27, 4 pm GMT on Discord
Winners
League Champion — Vadim Efimenko 😅
Dragon Slayer — Tom OBENCHAIN (45 stone dragon)
Terrific Blunder — Matej DURICEK (52 point blunder, move 266), Leandro SANABRIA (47 point blunder, move 241)
Surgeon Blade — Oleksii BUTKOVSKYI (0.5 point game)
Division 1 — Vadim EFIMENKO
Division 2 — Marta PRELIĆ
Division 5 — Serge EON
Division 6 — David MARVIT
Division 8 — Emre Apa
Division 9 — Marco PRADERIO
Division 10 — James BEICKERT
Division 11 — Antonio BORRERO
Division 13 — Wojciech BRONISZ
Division 14 — Líber Sebastián MAGALLANES
Division 15 — Linus RABENECK, Arkhaya ARATIA, Terri SCHURTER
Division 17 — Albert SANCHEZ
Division 19 — Don KARNS
Division 20 — Emanuele CASTRIOTTA
Division 21 — Matthew HULSCHER
Division 23 — Oleksii BUTKOVSKYI
Division 25 — James FOY
Division 27 — Liam CRAVEN
Division 30 — Hugh BROWN
Division 31 — Sergey KHARLAMOV
Many games were not played due to technical issues, so we decided to reward division winners who played at least 3 games.
Every winner will receive a Go Magic $50 gift certificate. All of those who played at least one game will get a $10 certificate.
Many thanks to everyone who reviewed the games and helped with the organization: Disruption, Muff0, Toma, Mikhail S, Firescourge, Arkhaya and Est. ❤️🙌