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Go Congress Tournament Descriptions
Played on a 13 x 13 Go board. Tournament scheduled for Sunday at 7:00 pm
**Location:** **Director:** Pete Schumer **Eligibility:** Everyone *Open TournamentKick off the USGC right with a 9 x 9 tournament, Saturday night at 9:00 pm, right after the Opening Ceremonies!
**Location:** **Director:** Justin Teng **Eligibility:** Everyone *Open TournamentThe AGA Girls Cup is the premier tournament for young female players (U16) across North America. Formerly named the U16 Girls tournament, this is the first edition of the tournament in this form, which consists of preliminaries taking place in the Spring, and finalists playing live at the US Go Congress. The Finals will be broadcast live on KGS.
Round 1: Sunday at 3:00 pm. Round 2: Monday at 3:00 pm. Round 3: Thursday at 3:00 pm.
**Location:** Strong Players Room **Director:** Steve Colburn **Eligibility:** Finalists *Invitational TournamentThe Pandanet-AGA City League has been run for the last two years with players from all over the US and Canada. They have formed teams around cities and played on Pandanet to see who is the strongest city. This tournament has players from 1p to 13k within the three leagues. This year’s finalists will be decided at the last round in June. Full tournament information, players, and game records can be found on the (Pandanet City League website)[http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/agacityleague.html].
The A League finals will take place on Saturday July 21st at 3:00 pm in the strong players room.
**Location:** Main Playing Room **Director:** Terry Benson **Eligibility:** Everyone *Open TournamentCome enjoy an evening of go turned upside down, inside out, and altered in ways that will test your skills… and your sanity!
Tuesday at 7:00 pm
**Location:** Main Playing Room **Director:** Andy Olsen **Eligibility:** Everyone *Open TournamentPlaying go on the day off? Six rounds before peopke conme back from trips? I hope my i survive! Wednesday 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
**Location:** **Director:** Neil Ritter **Eligibility:** Everyone *Open TournamentEvening tournament at 9 p.m. on Sunday and Monday, and 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday.
**Location:** Main Playing Room **Director:** Keith Arnold **Eligibility:** Everyone *Open TournamentHow fast can you play? Blitz? Blitz? This is Lightning Go. Hand flashing on the board as fast as you can place them. Monday night at 7PM.
**Location:** **Director:** Todd Heidenrich, Lionel Zhang **Eligibility:** Everyone *Open TournamentWhen we win the joy is doubled, if we lose the pain is halved. Find your best guy/gal and team up for this tournament of pairs. One Male and One Female compete to find the strongest pair among our group. Must be an AGA Member for longer than one year to compete for the overseas competition. Thursday evening at 7pm.
**Location:** **Director:** Todd Heidenrich, Lionel Zhang **Eligibility:** Everyone *Open TournamentWhen we win the joy is doubled, if we lose the pain is halved. Find your best guy/gal and team up for this tournament of pairs. One Male and One Female compete to find the strongest pair among our group. Must be an AGA Member for longer than one year to compete for the overseas competition. Thursday evening at 7pm. Pairs should be ~1dan combined rank.
**Location:** Strong Players Room **Director:** Justin Teng **Eligibility:** Finalists * Invitiational tournamentThe AGA is proud to host the Redmond Cup tournament for the 28th(2021) year. The Redmond Cup is the longest-running Youth tournament in North America, and is the premier tournament for the strongest youth players across the continent. Many former Redmond Cup champions have gone on to become majors stars of the US Go scene, including four of the five current North American Professionals. Other champions and competitors have gone on to represent North America in international tournaments and/or become Go organizers in their communities.
Round 1: Sunday at 3:00 pm. Round 2: Monday at 3:00 pm. Round 3: Thursday at 3:00 pm.
**Location:** Main Playing Room **Director:** Greg Kulevich, Ted Terpstra **Eligibility:** Age 55 and up *Open tournamentCompetition for seniors.
Rounds are daily at 1pm for rounds: Round 1: Sunday. Round 2: Monday. Round 3: Tuesday. Round 4: Thursday. Round 5: Friday.
**Location:** Strong Players Room **Director:** Josh Lee **Eligibility:** Very Strong Players: 7-dan amateurs and above *Open tournamentThe top US tournament of the year, open to all professionals and 7-dan amateurs.
Round 1: Sunday at 9:00 am. Round 2: Sunday at 7:00 pm. Round 3: Monday at 9:00 am. Round 4: Monday at 7:00 pm. Round 5: Tuesday at 9:00 am. Round 6: Thursday at 9:00 am. Round 7: Friday at 9:00 am. Round 8: Friday at 7:00 pm. Round 9: Saturday at 9:00 am.
**Location:** Main Playing Room **Director:** Andrew Hall **Eligbility:** Everyone *Open tournamentThis is the largest tournament in the US. Join up to 500 players and play one round a day in the US Open. Only at tyhe US Go Congress can you find so many players to play against. One game a day at 9am in the morning; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
**Location:** Main Playing Room **Director:** Lisa Scott, Laura Sparks **Eligibility:** Women *Open Tournament
The 15th(2021) annual US Women’s Tournament is a four round handicap tournament which allows female go players to meet and play each other in a fun and competitive environment.
Rating Criteria If mutually agreed by players in a given game, players may submit the game to the self-paired tournament.
Game Play Default game start time is 3pm on Sunday, Monday, Thursday, and Friday. Alternate times may be arranged by mutual agreement of both players and the TD, but each game must be finished on the assigned day.
Time Limits 45 minutes per player, 3 overtime periods of 30 second each. Players may also choose to play without a clock.
Prizes Prizes will be awarded to the top players in each bracket.