Publicity
Ideas On Publicising Go
This is a new page designed to hold information and ideas on how to best publicise the Game. Publicising a tournament / similiar event is a subservient subsection to this. Naturally the page is a fluid mess waiting to be crystalised right now.
Media
Hikaru No Go could suggest that we should be looking to cartoon strips to acheive maximum impact on target audience. Print and its cousin the Internet are probably dwarfed by television though. If we can get have Late Night Poker on TV isn't it possible we can put Go on the box too? If the answer is yes, then the question is how and in what form. Is Go too unknown, and thus too inaccessible to make it, perhaps the answer is no.
Television
Jared: Go TV, in America at least, would not turn a profit until at least a million of us play Go. Alternatively, new technology could make broadcast extremely cheap. So there will be no Go programming on TV in the forseable future. Go does find its way into some TV programs, though never as a main element. I saw two kids in a sitcom playing a game ... How about getting Cartoon Network to play HNG? Probably been tried ..
Accessibility
If you want people to appreciate Go they have to be able to understand it. In that regard it has to be accessible. To use the impulse shopping arguement, if it is on sale it can be bought. People will usually ask is this Othello for instance - now if Go is more popular than Othello why the hell are people asking that question?? Answer Because publicity is pants?
Accessible Teaching Material
What is the best way to teach people to learn Go and thenthe best way to present the fundamentals? Make a cartoon strip of proverbs, use cards to teach shape...etc
Audience
Who are we selling too? Universitys currently seem the most profitable market, then schools. To reach a wider audience what do we have to do? Also is the Programming boom over?
As an aside -can we categorise recruitment generations like this?
- Hikaru Generation
- Compsci Generation
- New Scientist
Description
Probably bound to accessibility. List 10 word sells here. Everything needs a Hook Line though - no tag, no sell.
Benefits
Why should you play Go ?
Who
Who has been successful at promoting the game?
Ing, Iwamato, etc - does your name have to begin with I? ;-)
Tournament Publicity
This is more boring. List outlets for publicising event. How to publicise. Leaflets/Resources etc... Calendars
- EuropeanGoTournamentCalendar
- EGF Self Posting
http://www.go-tournaments.org
- National Lists - multitude
- Useful faq
http://www.britgo.org/organisers/tournamentsfaq.html
more soon...
Ease Of Learning
Othello > Go > Poker > Chess
Ease Of Play
Poker > Othello > Chess > Go
Ease Of Playing Extremely Well
Poker = Othello = Chess = Go
Speed of Play
Poker > Othello > Go 9x9 > Chess
Blake: "Speed of play" seems really arbitrary. You can set any time limits, after all--and even a 19x19 game of Go played at reasonable time settings (i.e. 20, 1x5) can vary greatly in speed. It might take forty minutes, or it might take an hour and a half as each player uses his byo-yomi. The same goes for chess, of course, but my impression is that an amateur tournament game of Go takes less time to play than an amateur tournament game of Chess.