CHM Nightmare

Last weekend was Lanke Cup.

Qiuping cup was held together at the same place.

The venue was Toa Payoh East CC.

I remember back in my HwaChong days, when Lanke and Qiuping cup was held at NYP Sports Hall, the huge hall was just enough to fill all the participants.

And now, with both the competitions held in a small CC, there are still many empty spaces. This is really saddening. What has happened over the years?

I hear that the popularity of weiqi in Singapore is going up, and I also see many new faces in SWA everytime. But why is it that the number of people joining competitions has decreased?

I'm not an exco but I think this is something they should review...

Anyway, for this year's Lanke, our main opponents were NYP and HCI.

For some reason NUS didn't join this year.

HCI didn't have Jian Zhongfan already, so it was less of a threat.

Hence our main opponent was NYP.

And this year it was very dangerous because we didn't have Xiaojuhua and Wei Ran with us.

But we still wanted to do our best to keep the Lanke trophy.

However, on the first game of the 2nd day...

Shit happened...

I lost a game... to CHM...

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Ok, it was my fault.

I have totally no excuse for the loss.

Because loss means loss.

I only knew about the pairing on the morning itself.

I believed that I could win him.

But the game... turned out very terribly...

Looking back, I don't really know what I was thinking at that game.

I didn't play any strong moves, and I didn't try to increase my territory or attack.

In the end, when I realised that I was losing on territory, the opponent was already too thick and it was already too late.

Seriously, what the hell was I doing?

I don't demand that I play a wonderful game, but at least I want to play a game that I can be content with!

Is that so hard to achieve!?

Haiz, really must go and reflect...

In the end, CHM and Zhaozhen from NYP both got 6 wins.

But their 3rd person, Wen Kang, only got 4 wins.

As for NTU, I got 6 wins, Alvin and Teck Wei got 5 wins.

So, fortunately, we still managed to beat them in terms of score. 

If NYP had sent in another strong player, most likely we would have lost.

And it would be my fault...

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I call this incident the CHM Nightmare.

And I declare that I will not let this happen again!!

P.S. Some photos:

NTU, Champion

SMU, 4th

NYP, 2nd

HCI, 3rd