The 1st Asia Amateur Baduk Championship

I hereby announce that I'll be leaving for my long awaited Korea trip on Friday 1am midnight flight (have to be in the airport at Thursday 10pm something...ahhhh sleepy). Will be in Korea, Jeonju city for 5 days starting from Friday morning and be back on 19th late night.

I will be representing Malaysia to enter "The 1st Asia Amateur Baduk Championship" in the individual tournament. My good friend Alex will be playing the pairs together with an auntie.

Last month (03/05/07) in Japan Club of Malaysia we had a selection tournament locally to pick 2 male and 2 female contender to enter the Korea Baduk championship. Unfortunately there are a number of males sign up for the tournament and unfortunately there aren't any females fighting for the spot (we need more female players). And worst is, some of the females parents refuse to let their daughter to enter the tournament, such a waste of talent & opportunity.

Male selection list:-
- Chew Shih Yuin
- Philip Cher
- Violet
- Wynes
- Ang
- JimmyCKY
- LIM HONG KENG
- CALVIN LEONG KAR WA
- Yang Gou Ping

Unfortunately again, not everyone who sign up came for the selection and made the end results predictable who will defiantly be going. So it end up Chew, Philip (me), Violet, Wynes, Yang Gou Ping showed up that day. And the president made a slight changes to the selection requiring each of us to play against everyone that showed up.

Without wasting time, everyone of us proceed to play our games so that we finish off the selection on that day. Winner will play in the individual and the runner-up will be playing the pair-go

My 1st opponent was Chew.
My 2nd opponent was Wynes.
My 3rd opponent was Violet. My good friend in the club (You can take a look at the pic linked to the page at the bottom)
My 4th opponent was Yang Gou Ping.

Results
COMPLETE VICTORY - I'll be playing the individual.
Violet is the runner-up and will be in the pair.

Female are selected by the president, he was trying hard to find 2 female to join, SN Fong and Lau Hia (you can take a look at the link at the bottom)/

Playing Types
1 male & 1 female - Individual
1 male & 1 female - Pair Go (means that total 4 ppl will be playing 1 game)

Oh and there is 1 official guest and act as the Team Leader. Total 5 people will be heading to Korea and everything is sponsored by the Korea Amateur Baduk Association (KABA). Here's the schedule:-

Friday, June 15th - Arrival, Registration and Check-in

Saturday, June 16th
11:00-12:00 Orientation
12:00-13:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 Opening Ceremony
15:00-17:00 Individual Tournament Round 1 & Pair Tournament Round 1
17:30-21:00 Celebration Performance & Reception

Sunday, June 17th
10:00-12:00 Individual Tournament Round 2 & Pair Tournament Round 2
12:00-13:00 AGF General Meeting (during lunch)
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-15:00 Individual Tournament Round 3 & Pair Tournament Round 3
15:00-17:00 Individual Tournament Round 4 & Pair Tournament Round 4
17:30-21:00 Prize giving & Closing Ceremony

Monday, June 18th Sightseeing (including visit to Pro Baduk Tournament) & Rest

Tuesday, June 19th Check-out and Departure

Gonna go venture everywhere nonstop in those 5 days :) , riding the trains, walking down the streets, checking out social life over there and many many more things that I wanna know. Be making sure to carry a small notebook to note down everything & not forgetting my camera.

Lastly, am really excited and happy about the trip and my achievements this year alone. Will be working even harder to improve more so that I can be the top player in Malaysia in few years time. I'll be expecting more frequent trips to Korea, Japan, China, Thailand and some other parts of the world that might organized events like this in the future. I hereby sincerely invite all my friends to join and learn together.

Thanks for reading & have a nice & wonderful day if you finish everything from top to bottom.

P.S. Am looking for a qualify female as my student to train. So that Malaysia Weiqi Association (MWA) can spread weiqi towards the female gender. She'll be directly trained by me and study directly under my supervision.

P.S. P.S. Anyone that is or are interested to know what is weiqi, you can come to me or to www.weiqi.org.my for more information. Playing weiqi is meaningful, it lets everyone make more friends, sharpen our mind so that we can be a better person in life. Don't worry, there will never be any bad people playing weiqi, or any form of chess.

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