National "Youth" Team Selection

Saturday and Sunday was the selection for the Weiqi National Youth Team. Even though there was a word "Youth" inside, people who are older than 20 and even one guy who was older than 50 joined the competition... Well, never mind about that, since I think the definition of "Youth" can vary. Anyway, we played 5 games in 2 days, and for the high dan group 12 out of 13 people will  be selected to be in the National Team. It also means only 1 person will be eliminated. Upon knowing that, I was able to play with much less stress, though I still wanted to achieve the best result possible.

In the end I won 4 games out of 5. I lost 1 game to JC, by 3.5 pts. This game was quite smooth for me and I was sort of leading until middle game. Even after I made a serious mistake I still had a chance to win. But then due to byo-yomi I played a move that became a gote and after that I also lost some more points in yose, resulting in him leading the game. Haiz, I got to improve more in byo-yomi and judgement skills... Always cannot calculate the points properly...

I was able to win Sionghwai, Yuxiang, Damo, and Mr Zhao. Some games were really dangerous, but luckily I still managed to win in the end. As a result I got into Group A of the National Team. If I'm not wrong, those who are also in Group A include Sionghwai, Yuxiang, Shihao, Chee Hiong and JC. Alvin unfortunately got 7th so he got into Group B. Sad... 

When the training starts, I guess it's also time for me to seriously start honing my weiqi skills...