The Beginning Of Magic — Online Tournament

Two awesome Go communities — BeginnerGo and GoMagic — combine their power to bring you The Beginning of Magic Tournament! We strive to make a tournament that will be exciting for everybody from confident beginners to experienced players. This tournament is FREE to enter, and we prepared awesome prizes in different categories. The final round will be hosted on Twitch by the Go Magic team who will offer the commentary.

Rules

This will be a single elimination tournament. Games are to be played with appropriate handicap, which will be the difference between the players’ ranks. For example, a match between a 4k and a 6k would be played with 2 stone handicap.

Games will be played on OGS, with the following settings required:

Rules: Japanese
Game Speed: Live
Time: 30 minutes + 30 sec x 5

Schedule

Registration is closed.

Games in Rounds 1 to 4 (i.e. the round of 32, the round of 16, the quarter-finals and semi-finals) can be played at any time, as agreed to by the players, as long as they are played by the following due dates:

Round 1: 12th September
Round 2: 17th September
Round 3: 21st September
Round 4: 24th September
Round 5 (the final) will be live streamed and played on 25th September at 12 PM EST.

Prizes

Honinbo Noobaku Award
For our most talented DDKs who make it past the first or second round!

Dragon Slayer Award
Blood for the blood God! For the biggest kill.

Zen Master Award
Give them whatever they want and confidently win anyway! For the most peaceful game.

Terrific Blunder Award
Throw the laptop out of the window and get a prize for the biggest blunder.

Surgeon Blade Award
You don’t need more than 0.5 points to win! For extremely close games.

Mighty Underdog Award
For a win in the match with more than 3 stones rank difference.

The Beginning of Magic Runner Up
For making it to the final round.

The Beginning of Magic Champion
For winning the tournament.

✨ All winners will be awarded with Go Magic memberships and courses! ✨

Registration

Registration is closed!

Tournament announcements and discussions will be on BeginnerGo Discord Server:

👉 https://discord.com/invite/82g6s3bqJ3

Tournament Director: danjosely#0001 (Discord)
Support Contact: reebaanee#7515 (Discord)

Streamers and Reviewers Invitation

We invite experienced players of dan level to review tournament games. As a small thank you, we grant free access to two advanced courses by Alexander Dinerstein 3p: The Art of Attachments and Probing Moves (6.5 hours of learning material in total!):

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We invite streamers to cover tournament games. As a small thank you, we grant free access to historical and motivational courses (5.5 hours of inspiring material in total!):

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