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Twin Cities' Successful AGA Membership Drive Boosts Tourney Turn-Out

"At the Twin Cities Go Club (TCGO) club winter tournament in February we started an initiative to have members get AGA memberships so we could begin holding regular ratings tournaments," reports local organizer Aaron Broege in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "That initiative was highly successful, as we went from around four players with AGA memberships to over 25 now with active memberships." Nineteen players ranging from 2 dan to 20 kyu participated in the spring AGA ratings tournament on April 20. "The format was modeled off of the Bay Area Go Club format for ratings days, where there were no strict rounds and new pairings were created as opponents became available," Broege tells the E-Journal. "Though no tournament winner was declared, John Armstrong 7k won all three of his games." - photo: Mark Gerads 12k (left) and Michael Alberts 14k assess a capturing race in the corner; photo courtesy Aaron Broege