Monday, November 27, 2006

黄埔围棋公开赛 / Whompoa Weiqi Competition

Woah. I had a really fun saturday and sunday. Really enjoyed it man. Let's recap the happenings.

Sat:
1205: I switch off my com and get ready to go onli to realise I hadn't bought lunch for mom. oh damn. Lol. I decide to buy for myself too. So, a quick buy from the coffeshop downstairs and a quick lunch at home b4 i went out at 1230. Oops. I'm 30 mins behind schedule. Lol. okok.

1230: I prepare to go out..... Onli to realise I didn't noe how to go to Whompoa CC. WALAO. Lol. So, I grabbed a bus guide and a street directory and found out that all i needed to do was take 162 to novena b4 changing to 21 or 131. Ok. easy. Lol. So, i went out.

1320: I reach Whompoa b4 the expected time (1400) by 40 mins. Lol. so what do i do? I played with phb. LOL. and i thrashed him once b4 we had an unfinished game which in my opinion was rather close b4 we realised that competition was about to begin. Ok. So let's start......

1400: First match against some guy. Lol. b4 it started we were playing mind games (or at least I think we were). HAHA. Ok. but that's beside the point. So, we started and it started off quite ok in my opinion. It was a rather even game. In the end I still managed to win the game after he made a horrendous series of bad moves for me to eat his whole jiao and centre. lol. ok. HORRENDOUS. hahahaha.

Score after first game:
Grp A: Shi Hao 1/1
PHB 0/1
Grp B: Qi Xu 1/1
Yi Heng 1/1
Benjamin 1/1
Me 1/1
Ernest 1/1

1530: Next game starts and wth. I'm AGAINST QI XU!!! ARGH!!! ok. maybe I shldn't be that scared. I think our skills are about the same just that my track record against him hasn't been very gd. I lost to him in Qiuping cup last year. And it was a rather bad loss too. Sigh. Ok. but the game started. It started off quite ok b4 he attacked my land and i fan-ji-ed. Lol. fanjied means counter attack. Hmm... It ended up quite well for me as I killed his whole jiao and whole centre although it also made his jiao and his shi li much bigger. In the end though, I still won him by a lot with him having 150+ as white. (white needs 177 to win.)

Score after 2nd round:
A grp: Shi Hao: 2/2
Hong Bo: 0/2
B grp: Qi Xu: 1/2
Yi Heng: 2/2
Benjamin: 2/2
Me: 2/2
Ernest: 2/2

1800: the final round for sat began. the 3rd round of the competition. I faced some noob one-pointer and won her easily. Lol. ok. sry for stating the word noob. She isn't that bad but well, definitely not up to standard yet. so...

Score after 3rd round:
A grp: Shi Hao: 2/3
Hong Bo: 0/3
B grp: Qi Xu: 2/3
Yi Heng 2/3
Benjamin: Unsure from this point onwards...
Me: 3/3
Ernest: 3/3

So the day ended. Went home and had 2 matches with yi heng b4 going to slp to prepare for sun's 4 matches...

Sun:
745: Wake up.
800: Eat.
815: Out.

okok... this is boring. let's go straight to the competition...

930: 4th round begins. I'm against..... Heng Yi (the guy who won Yi Heng on 3rd round). Well, this guy is quite ok la. definitely not my standard yet but still can win me on his day i guess. So i was extra careful but...... i still made a few mistakes in the beginning which made him have a slight advantage. However, in mid-game, he lost his whole bian and a bit of the centre and thus, I won quite comfortably with him black 150+. Hmmm... ok.

Score after 4th round:
A grp: Shi Hao: 2/4
Hong Bo: 1/4
B grp: Qi Xu: 3/4
Yi Heng: 2/4
Me: 4/4
Ernest: 4/4

1100: Woah. OMG. I'm against Ernest. ARGH!!! Lol. Thinks back this year qiuping where I so tyco-ly won him. He made a big mistake and I still won him by a bit onli. Well, this time, it started off quite ok b4 he made one slight error for me to take a slight advantage and I held that advantage all the way till the end to win him by a mere 3 seeds. hahaha. heng sia... I really pity Ernest though. He's a really good player. haix...

Score after 5th round:
A grp: Shi Hao: 3/5
Hong Bo: 2/5
B grp: Qi Xu: 4/5
Yi Heng: 3/5
Me: 5/5
Ernest: 4/5

After the 4th round, onli 4 ppl had a 100% record, that is me, Ernest, Chen Le and Chuah. I beat Ernest and Chuah beat Chen Le which meant that after the 5th round onli me and Chuah had a 100% record which made it natural for me to face him next.

1400: 6th round. Me against Chuah. Hmm... From the start of the game, he was leading and i knew my skills were not as gd as his (cuz i played with him online b4 and he won me). So, I knew I had little chance of winning the game. I just kept the advantage he had as slight as possible and waited for him to make an error. Well, no error came until the 7th last move of the game where I da chi and he didn't see and I ate around 12 seeds. WOW. a lot of ppl were looking at that game at that time and everyone started laughing. Lol. I couldn't help but laugh too. I was losing until the last 7 moves. HAHA. ok... Well, in the end I won by 4 seeds to secure my 6th straight victory. WOW. First time ever man. I felt sorry for chuah though. He shld have won and shld be the top in the grp. Sigh. Maybe I shld apologise to him one day. hahaha. ok. anyway, that wasn't the end of the story....

1530: 7th and last round. Me against Chen Le. OMG. I just realised that if i lose this game I will not get champion. ARGH!!! it's hard to get champion man. Must win all ur games. Sigh. Well, the game started off quite ok but in mid game I thought he was leading by a bit. So, when he came into my land, I decided to cut him off and try to kill him inside. Thus began a long fight and in the end, due to time I made a big mistake to let him live. Thus, I resigned. Sigh... He did make his mistakes too though and I must say that it was retribution. I won Chuah tyco-ly and Chen Le won me tyco-ly. In the end Chen Le got 1st, some random person 2nd, me 3rd and Qi Xu 4th. Chuah lost his final game to the 2nd position too and got an an wei jiang. there were 11 an wei jiang and Ernest got one of those too. well, I believe that I deserve a 3rd placing although I must say had I been more careful or had more time, I could have got first. Thus my nick...

Did I just win $100 or lose $300? sigh... haix... haha. ok. nvm. anyway, on a brighter note, here are a few pictures I took of my trophys and vouchers. hahaha. ok. so here they are:


Here is the trophy.... A full one.


Here is the trophy again. This time close up.

This is the trophy (again). This time a side view. Lol.

Lol. and a back view...

And now for the vouchers.

Lol. Here is the cover. Can vaguely see Fairprice. hahahaha. and in case u dont noe, behind it is a poster of Voices of the Dragon. YAY. CO ROX!!! Lol. ><

Lol. and a final picture of the 5 vouchers each worth $20. hahahaha. sigh. I want 20 vouchers. LOL. ok. nvm den. gtg do work now. Bye.

Patrick

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