American Go E-Journal

Organizing Go Congresses takes a huge amount of hard work by a lot of people who volunteer their time and energy to pull together the annual gathering of hundreds of go players, professionals, go club and AGA volunteers. Here’s a few of the folks who helped make this year’s Go Congress a reality: Karen Jordan, Director; Ken Koester, Co-Director; Deedee Eckles, Pro Coordinator; Paul Barchilon, Youth Coordinator, Redmond Cup & Youth Tournament TD; Jim Michali, Treasurer; Bob Sorenson, Site Manager & Vendor Liaison; Erin Jordan, Registrar; Hal Small, Nakayama Memorial: Steve Colburn, Webmaster; Jon Hilt, web programmer; Cate Harris, Go Congress Book; Carmen Sears, Great Deals Guru; Xingshou Liu, Chinese Translator; Jason Kim, Korean Translator; Yoshi Sawada, Japanese Translator; Sam Zimmerman, Chris Kirschner & Ken Koester, US Open/NAMT Directors; Greg Alexander, Self-Paired TD; Lisa Scott, Women’s Tournament TD; Haskell & Rachel Small, Club Team TDs; Martin Lebl, Midnight Madness & 9×9 TD; Dave Weiss, 13×13 TD; Jim Hlavka, Lightning TD; Terry Benson, Crazy Go. photo (l-r): Karen Jordan, Deedee Eckles, Stan Yamane (Karen’s dad) & Joyce Yamane( Karen’s mom). photo by Chris Garlock