Review Contest

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The International Go Newsletter Goama (http://gogame.info/) and the GTL held the GTL review contest from November 2007 until February 2008.

You can still vote for your favourite reviews either anonymously or authenticated.

Winners

Dan section
  1. place: Amygdala for review #4920
    winning a 1 year Go4Go membership (worth $50)
    A. Dinerchtein (3p): "I noticed high respect for players and nice advices on improving. This review is worth publishing in Go books!"
  2. place: Vegetarian for review #4644
    winning a 6 months Go4Go membership (worth $25)
    I. Grishin (3d): "The review is excellent, because the commentator paid a lot of attention to strategy."
  3. place: evella for review #4922
    winning a game review by "breakfast", 1 dan pro (worth $20)
    A. Dinerchtein (3p): "The commentator found all main mistakes and his suggestions were correct. Also I noticed good knowledge of opening theory."
Honorable mention (top 10 finalists, sorted by review number)
Single-Digit-Kyu section
  1. place: jewdan for review #6310
    winning a Go lesson on KGS with "breakfast", 1 dan pro, (worth $35)
  2. place: djna for review #6418
    winning a 6 months Go4Go membership (worth $25)
  3. place: erker for review #6374
    winning a game review by Mace Lee, 6 dan (worth $15)
Double-Digit-Kyu section
  1. place: DavidKay for review #5983
    winning a 6 months Go4Go membership (worth $25)
  2. place: xedover for review #3837
    winning a game review by "breakfast", 1 dan pro (worth $20)
  3. place: Carder for review #6112
    winning a game review by Mace Lee, 6 dan (worth $15)
Audience Price Winners
One month Go4Go memberships for persons who voted (winners were chosen randomly):

Mode

In the kyu sections, the three reviewers who receive the most votes receive the prices.

In the dan section, a panel of top European players in cooperation with the GTL administrators will rate the 10 reviews that received the most votes to find the three winners. The players are (sorted by last name):

Acknowledgements

Our special thanks goes to our expert panel and to the sponsors of this contest: