Go club activities
Possible activities for a Go club:
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Open tournament
Club tournament
How do you organise internal club competions? Ladders?
The reason I ask is: People at the club I recently joined asked me to help organise the (ongoing, ladder-) competition at the kid's club (Kunwa). I would like to find out what possibilities are there to make it nice and interesting. While I think this topic is of interest to more people, the specifics here are: about 30 children aged 8 to 14, 12 of them attend (almost) every week, weekly attendance 15-25 children, their strength ranging from absolute beginners to EGF 4kyu. Please share your experience and knowledge.
The Leamington Go club in the UK runs its ladder as follows (IIRC):
The ladder is marked in sections of 0.2k. Games are played with a handicap based on the integer part X of the grade difference between the players. The stronger player gets 20-X mins on the clock, the weaker 20+X mins. (If X>9 then X=9 is used for timing) Games are sudden death. The winner advances 0.2k on the ladder, the loser retreats 0.2k.
Surprisingly, this system has produced ladder values close to the actual UK rating of the players.
Inter-club competition
Promotion
- fairs and game gatherings
- but also at a flea market - get a clubmate, a table and two chairs - and play smack in the middle of the place...
- organise playing evenings outside club days: places where lots of people meet; also helps in identifying potential new club locations
- on strike days, if expect struck @ home: contact some local school for a demo?