“The team competition was fierce” at the April 22 Carolina Spring Go
Tournament, reports organizer Owen Chen. The team competition for youth players was one of the unique features of the annual tournament in Raleigh, NC, organized by the Cary Go Club and the Chinese-American Friendship Association of North Carolina. The event drew 34 go players ranging from 6 to 70 years old.
Four teams representing the Raleigh Academy of Chinese Language (RACL), Cary Chinese School (CCS) and the Chinese School at Chapel Hill (CSCH) competed in the team tournament. “Young players kept reporting and checking the team scores posted on the wall after each round,” Chen tells the E-Journal. In the end, two teams from CCS – CCS Team 1, consisting of Alvin Chen, John Zhu and their teacher Jeff Kuang, and CCS Team 2, consisting of Byron Qi, Larry Zhang and David Hao, tied for the first place in the team competition with each 
team scoring 8 wins.
In the individual competition, Chen himself, a 5-dan, won the open section. Jeff Kuang 5d and Guojun Zhu 4d tied for the second place of the open section, each with three wins.
Brian Wu 1d won Section A (6k-1d) with a score of 3-1. Ralph Abbey 10k, Alvin Chen 12k and Jeff Martyn 10k all won 3 games and tied for the first place in Section B (15k-10k). In the beginner section of Section C (27k-19k), Byron Qi 20k, Anna Wiggins 19k and Larry Zhang 20k tied for the first place, each with 3 wins.
Photos: top right: CCS teams 1 & 2; above left: Owen Chen (at left in photo) plays Jeff Kuang. Photos courtesy Owen Chen
