Evan Tan 4d swept the North American Youth Open on September 4th, posting a 4-0 perfect score. The third edition of the North American Youth Open (NAYO) was hosted by the New York Go Association and sponsored by the American Go Foundation, and took place online on KGS. The tournament games were monitored through video meeting on Zoom. Sixty youth players of all different levels from across North America participated, ranging in strength from 19k to 6d. Players were split into six divisions based on their rank.
Notably, the results of the 3rd NAYO broke the record of having the most number of tied players, with three players tied for second place in Division C and two players tied for second place in Division E.
“As the situation of the pandemic is getting better, our in-person tournaments will resume very soon,” says NYIF president Stephanie Yin.
Below are the results of all six divisions:
Division A (4d – 6d)
1st Place: Evan Tan
2nd Place: Minhao Shen
3rd Place: Yuqing Zhang
Division B (1k – 2d)
1st Place: Jiayang Su
2nd Place: Daniel Luo
3rd Place: Jenny Li
Division C (4k – 2k)
1st Place: Matthew Wang
2nd Place: Juliet Zhang, Enzo Aozono-Araldi, Chenhui Zhang (tie)
Division D (7k – 5k)
1st Place: Maria Aozono-Araldi
2nd Place: Zoe Tan
3rd Place: Anna Zhou
Division E (10k – 8k)
1st Place: Yiting Liu
2nd Place: Benjamin Lo, Jeremy Wong
Division F (19k – 12k)
1st Place: Christine Guo
2nd Place: Donovan Chen
3rd Place: Jayden Lai
Report by Rachel Li, photo by Stephanie Yin
