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BGA Organisers' Handbook
Organisers' Handbook
The British Go Association
April 5, 2006
Contents
1
Introduction
1.1
Overview
1.2
The British Go Association
I
Running a Club
2
Starting A Club
2.1
Setting Up
2.2
Club Management
3
Publicity For Clubs
3.1
Publicity for New Go Clubs
3.2
Regular Publicity
3.3
Club Web Site
3.4
Open Evenings and Freshers' Fairs
4
Teaching Beginners
4.1
Teaching the rules
4.2
Starting To Play
5
Competitions for Clubs
5.1
Club Ladder
5.2
Club Championship
5.3
Club Tournaments
6
Teaching Events
6.1
Demonstration games
6.2
Game analyses
6.3
Visits by stronger players
6.4
Study sessions
6.5
Teaching Exercises
6.6
Other possibilities
II
Running a Tournament
7
Planning a Tournament
7.1
Date and Venue
7.2
Format
7.3
Publicity
7.4
Timetable
7.5
Prizes
7.6
Entry Fee
7.7
Miscellaneous Points
7.8
Longer Events
7.9
British Go Congress
8
Running a Tournament
8.1
Before the Tournament
8.2
General Points
8.3
Organising The Draw
8.4
Presenting The Results
8.5
Side Events
8.6
After the Tournament
9
The McMahon System
9.1
Overview
9.2
The Bar
9.3
Handicaps
9.4
Sleeping Players
9.5
Forfeits
9.6
Overall winner
10
Producing the Draw
10.1
Schedule
10.2
Pre-registration
10.3
Workplace
10.4
Registration On The Day
10.5
Closing The Register
10.6
Changes to the Register
10.7
Pairing For Round 1
10.8
Results
10.9
Finale
11
Other Tournament Systems
11.1
Simple knockout
11.2
Double elimination knockout (Judan system)
11.3
Generalised knockout
11.4
Zone systems
11.5
Swiss system
11.6
Zoned Swiss system
11.7
Round Robin
11.8
Swiss knockout
11.9
Mixed Systems
A
Default Rules for BGA Tournaments
A.1
Komi
A.2
Triple Ko
A.3
Overtime
B
Useful Contacts
B.1
Email addresses
B.2
Links
C
Sample Press Release
The 2001 Three Peaks Go Tournament
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