KGS Rooms / Texas Go Players

If you're from Texas, join us online at KGS in the Texas Go Players room.

• Rooms->Social->Texas Go Players

This room was created in October 2003. Its record attendance was 24 during the Universities tournament.

Please visit the KGSUsersMap or IGoLocal to find which cities the regulars are from.

To request a change to the room greeting message, please leave a message for one of the room owners.

For Non-KGS Texas Go Players information, see Texas Go Players

Table of contents Texas Clubs IRL (In Real Life): First KGS Texas Win & Continue Ladder Win & Continue Tournament Math Texas Room Rumbles Texas Room Players

Texas Clubs IRL (In Real Life):

• Austin Go Club
• Dallas Go Club
• Denton Go Club
• Houston Go Club
• Katy Go Club (Houston suburb)
• San Antonio Go Club
• Texas Tech Go Club
• Texas A&M Go Club
• University of Texas (Austin) Go Club
• Ziggy's Go Club (in Houston)

First KGS Texas Win & Continue Ladder

Concept: The lowest two players on the ladder play an even game, loser is out, winner continues up the ladder to play the next person. Winner of that game continues, etc. There will be two winners: Longest winning streak, and whoever wins the final game.

Seeding is by KGS rating, in the case of multiple accounts or unstable ratings common sense will be applied. Tied ratings are broken by lottery.

Matches can be scheduled at any time, but for more hype it could be fun to announce the time in the room 24 hours in advance. If a player cannot play his match within a reasonable amount of time, he forfeits and the other player continues. (I am thinking most matches should take place in at least 1 week)

Time controls can be flexible... I'm thinking 25+5x:30.

Players can still join after as long as their rating is above the point where matches are being played.

Results

Challenger	Defender	Result
tfunk	Metropolis	B+R "That haircut was too powerful"
caveman	tfunk	B+R "Hairy caveman beat haircut anyday"
mortymanta	caveman	W+33.5 caveman forgot to bring supplies
Tapwater	mortymanta	B+R water tastes so good
Burton	Tapwater	B+R "quack quack"
Paracelsus	Burton	B+13.5 "For Sai and all who strive to play the divine move"
nodog	Burton	B+R nodog won on an early sunday morning
skeng	nodog	W+2.5 the battle of end game
tunafsh	skeng	W+0.5 blitzin' to the end
Fiara	skeng	W+R Only 4 minutes to play
notstrong	Fiara	B+13.5 (*Result adjusted for Komi)
embeck	Fiara	B+R Big death
sockfolder	Fiara	W+R
burrito	sockfolder	W+22.5
jiva	burrito	B+R
bagpiper	burrito	B+R
Tsuijin	bagpiper	W+40.5
yoyoma	bagpiper	W+R the great yoyoma fall
txn001	bagpiper	B+17.5
CptCaveman?	txn001	W+18.5
sai1029	txn001	W+11.5
Longest Winning Streak	3 wins	(3 way tie) Fiara bagpiper txn001

Win & Continue Tournament Math

In a tournament of this style with N players, there will be N-1 games. Since there are two players per game, each player will on average play 2(N-1)/N games. In this tournament format, the same pair of people never play twice. Therefore, each player will play the same number of opponents as the number of games he/she has played.

So in the limit as N->inf., each player plays 2 games and 2 opponents. (Also, in the limit as N->0, each player plays -inf games and opponents.)

Q.E.D. :P

For Paracelsus: In this tournament with N=23, each player will on average 1.913 games and 1.913 opponents.

Texas Room Rumbles

Every once in a while, we invade another room and challenge them to a game. Everyone watches and comments, and fun is had by all. Here is our current rumble record:

Date	Room Rumbled With	Texas Player	Room Player	Game Settings	Obs.	Result
4/13/09	Salo Iberoamerica	nemoneko (W)	dankenzon(B)	6.5 Komi	10	W+R
6/16/04	Chez Hu	Carey (W)	Hu (B)	6.5 Komi	9	B+R
6/14/04	Sabaki Go Club	derek84 (B)	Shenron (W)	0.5 Komi	13	W+5.5

Texas Room Players

(Please feel free to add yourself. Out of respect for people's privacy we don't actively add other people.)

• Bagpiper
• burrito
• Carey
• caveman
• Chew
• Derek83
• BartJacob embeck
• Fiara
• GleepWurp
• GothicGirl
• Halfling
• igoAggie
• jiva - moyo freak?
• kiseki
• Landis
• MColbert
• Metropolis
• nemoneko (maybe?) he's weird
• Nicksib
• nodog
• Phoedran
• Runtt
• sai1029
• Saturos
• Solbadguy
• Thach
• Tsuijin
• Verse
• Weiss
• Wiggin
• Yebisu
• YellowBird
• yoby
• yoyoma
• txn001
• sai535
• DrWily
• often kofhwang
• awk3524

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