Belgian league
Renamed SMACH CUP in honor of its sponsor :).
Rules : The League is open and reserved to all players from the Belgian Go Federation .
There is no fee. The league is played in rounds, one every month.(about 3games/month) and begin on 15/04/2006 and ends on 15/04/2007. During July and Aug only one round will be played.
1st phase : Initialization phase : 15April => 15Juni All participants will be randomly placed in different groups of 4 or 5 players for two months. After that, the divisions will be populated depending of the result of these first two rounds. A game played is 1point, a win is 2pts and an unplayed game is 0pt.
2nd Phase : : The “real Smach Cup” begins in June. The main principle is the following: each month (starting with June), all the players of one division are asked to play each others one time.
At the end of each month,the first of each division will be promoted one division (ex:div two to one) and the last of each group will be demoted one division (ex:div two to three). If some players finish with the same number of points the player with the lower rating in the Belgian rating list will promote or the player with the higher rating will demote.
The games must be played on Internet in the Belgian Room on KGS . The rules are the normal (Japanese) rules as implemented by KGS. For what is not implemented by KGS the BGF/EGF rules apply.(e.g. net lag is handled as implemented by KGS at the moment of play). and the time limit is 30min main time + 10 min 25 stones Canadian byo-yomi. Komi 6.5, The player with the lowest rating in the Belgian rating list can chooseto take black or white.
After disconnection, players should wait for 15 min. After 15 minutes they are allowed to claim a win by saying so in the game window. All the games are played without handicap.
Ex : Marc 10k subscribe to the tournament, the first month he is playing versus 3 others players ranked 4d, 5k and 15k. He won 1/3 and got 4pts (3 played games + 1pt/victory). The second month he is playing versus 1d, 7k, 16k and won 2 games.
After the two first month he got 9pts 6played games + 3victory. With these results he is placed in the division Four with 3 others players who have about 9pts. The first month thereafter he won all his games and was promoted to division three etc…
If a player requests to enter in the league after the initial start, he will start in the bottom division. The board of pairings will be on a wiki page. The winner of each game must update the board and send the sgf to the organisor (smachcup@gmail.com). The winner has 4 days to do this. If he has not after the 4th day, the looser can do it between the 5th and the 7th day. In that case, both players receive 1 pt. After the 7th day, the game is considered has not having been played.
One or two randomly chosen games will be commented by a strong player and published on Belgonet. We are discussing to link these Internet games and the Belgian rating.
Several prizes offered by SMACH COMPUTER The players with the higher number of points. (External DVD Writter) The player with the best progression decided by a jury (MP3 ballador)
To join the BelgianLeague:
Go to http://www.gofed.be/members/ , then logon (members only) and go to Wiki -> Tournaments -> TourBL
Alternatively, send an email to smachcup@gmail.Com with the
following informations (ex):
Name on kgs smach Real Name : Meeschaert Michael 2kyu FBG Prefered time to play monday/tuesday/thursday/sunday after 20:00 Email: smach.computer@skynet.be Participants will subscribe with their official ranking. They must also indicate prefered day and hour to play.
List of participants :