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CGA Qualifying for the North American Masters Tournament

This event will be run online on KGS, from March 1st - approximately end April.

Participants

The participants have been seeded as follows (based on CGA rating On February 28th, 2010)

Pairing system

The event is a variant on a two round knock out. To be eliminated from the top 4 you must lose two games. The final 4 will then play a two round event to award the top 4 places.

Round 1

BYE - Players 1-4
5 versus 12 = Winner 1-A & Loser 1-A
6 versus 11 = Winner 1-B & Loser 1-B
7 versus 10 = Winner 1-C & Loser 1-C
8 versus 9 = Winner 1-D & Loser 1-D

Round 2 (Winner's round)

BYE - Loser's 1-(A-D)
1 versus Winner 1-D = Winner 2-A & Loser 2-A
2 versus Winner 1-C = Winner 2-B & Loser 2-B
3 versus Winner 1-B = Winner 2-C & Loser 2-C
4 versus Winner 1-A = Winner 2-D & Loser 2-D

Round 3 (Loser's round)

BYE - Winner's 2-(A-D)
Loser 2-A versus Loser 1-A = Winner 3-A & Loser 3-A
Loser 2-B versus Loser 1-B = Winner 3-B & Loser 3-B
Loser 2-C versus Loser 1-C = Winner 3-C & Loser 3-C
Loser 2-D versus Loser 1-D = Winner 3-D & Loser 3-D

* Pairings will be adjusted to avoid repeat opponents

Round 4

Winner's bracket

Winner 2-A verus Winner 2-D = Winner 4-A & Loser 4-A
Winner 2-B versus Winner 2-C = Winner 4-B & Loser 4-B

Loser's bracket

Winner 3-A versus Winner 3-D = Winner 4-C & Loser 4-C
Winner 4-B versus Winner 4-C = Winner 4-D & Loser 4-D

* Pairings will be adjusted to avoid repeat opponents

Actual Pairings

Round 1

BYE - Sarah Yu, Andrew Huang, Jianing Gan, Philip Waldron

Round 2 (Winner's round)

BYE - Daniel Gourdeau, Amira Song, Francois Gourdeau, Wei Cheng

Round 3 (Loser's round)

BYE - Sarah Yu, Jianing Gan, Andrew Huang, Hai Cheng

Round 4

Places 9-12 - Philip Waldron, Amira Song, Daniel Gourdeau, Francois Gourdeau
Winner's bracket
Loser's bracket
* Loser's bracket pairings adjusted to avoid a repeat of James Sedgwick- Wei Cheng

Round 5

Places 7-8 - James Sedgwick, Wei Cheng
BYE - Jin Yu, Jianing Gan

Round 6

Places 5-6 - Andrew Huang, Patrick Lung

Time controls

Time controls are 45 minutes basic time. Players can choose 25 stones in 10 minutes, or 10 stones per 5 minutes Canadian byo-yomi. If the players do not agree use 10/25. Komi is 6.5. Games are being played on KGS, and game times will be posted here when they become available.
Last updates : 
overall : 2009-08-22 
membership : 2009-07-23 
ratings : 2009-07-04 

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