American Go E-Journal » Pandanet-AGA City League

Play in the fifth round of the AGA City League is set for this Saturday, May 17, to determine which two teams will meet at the Pandanet City League Finals in New York City at the US Go Congress. As previously reported (Canwa Vancouver 1, Chicago & Katy TX 1 Lead AGA City League After 4th Round 5/7 EJ), Canwa Vancouver 1 is leading the A League, with Seattle 1 and Greater Washington hot on their heels. Chicago is leading the B League with NY City their only contender and Katy TX 1 leads the C League.

Catch the action live on game day at 3p EST on Pandanet using the new GoPanda2 software. Games will be played in the AGA City League room. See below for current standings. 

After four rounds in the AGA City League, Canwa Vancouver 1 is leading the A League. Hot on their heels are Seattle 1 and Greater

 Washington with one match behind. May’s final matches will decide which two teams will meet at the Pandanet City League Finals in New York City at the US Go Congress. Chicago is leading the B League with NY City their only contender. Can Raleigh take down Chicago in their match up in just a few weeks? The teams in the C League were closer matched before this round. Now Katy TX 1 has come way out ahead in their matches. Katy TX 2 and Memphis are in the 2-3 seed respectively. With three more rounds to go the lineup could change a lot before the end. See right for an exciting 4th-round game between Eric Lui (W, Greater Washington) vs Bill Lin (B, Canwa Vancouver 1) from the A League. See below for complete 4th-round results.
– Steve Colburn, TD

A League: Los Angeles Def Toronto (3-0), Seattle 1 def Boston (2-1), Canwa Vancouver 1 def Greater Washington (2-1)
B League: Washington DC 1 def NC Raleigh (2-1), Chicago def San Francisco 1 (2-1), New York City def Washington DC 2 (3-0)
C League: West Tennessee/Memphis def Katy TX 2 (2-1), Brentwood/Nashville def Seattle 2 (3-0), Katy TX 1 def Lincoln (2-1)
Still in progress: Central New York/Syracuse vs Canwa Vancouver 2 (0-2)

The second round of the AGA City League is set for February 22. The first round concluded on February 10 with a win by Katy TX 1 defeating Syracuse to complete the round. “As always catch the action live on game day at 3PM EST on Pandanet using the new GoPanda2 software,” says TD Steve Colburn. Games will be played in the AGA City League room.

The second season of the Pandanet AGA City League is set to begin shortly. “We have 18 teams of players ranging from professionals to 12-kyu players,” reports TD Steve Colburn. The first round will start on January 25 at 3p EST on Pandanet.

The A League teams include Boston (Ke Lu, Huiren Yang, Jie Liang, Yunzhe Zhang and Chun Sun), Greater Washington (I-Han Lui, Eric Lui, Jie Li, Yuian Zhou and Daniel Chou), Toronto (Colin Zheng, Xiaofei Deng, Tiger Gong, Sarah Yu and Hank Xie), Vancouver 1 (Cathy Li, Tianyu Lin, Juyong Koh, Leo Tian and Michael Ma), and Seattle 1 (Michael Cho, Dong Baek Kim, Edward Kim, Ho Son and Sung-Chui Cho).

B League teams include Washington DC 1 (Edward Zhang, Lin Lu, Liang Yu and Yangan Li), Chicaho (Laura Scott, Bill Chen, Albert Yen and Kevin Zhou), Raleigh (Owen Chen, Liqun Liu, Changlong Wu, Feng Ye and Bradley Jones), Washington DC 2 (Zhenging Gu, Justin teng, Kevin Wang, Zhixiong Shi and Zhenying Gu), San Francisco 1 (Steven Burrall, Matthew Burrall, Aaron Ye, Jeremy Chiu and Hugh Zhang) and New York City (William Lockhart, Stephanie Yin, Zhaonian Chen and Yingzhi Qian).

The C League teams include West Tennessee/Memphis (Daniel Miller, Wangqian Li, Liang Zhao, Xue Li and Yixian Chen), Seattle 2 (Oren Laskin, Bert Hallonquist, Andrew Jackson, Nick Sibicky and Steve Stringfellow), Katy TX 1 (Pete Henninger, Shijiang Lu, Jurn Kwan, Ji Lian and Yuanbiao Li), Katy TX 2 (Pete Henninger, Yue Wu, Bao Doan, Katherine Zhang and Chris Clark), Vancouver 2 (Cathy Li, Jack Yang, Qi Zheng, David Lu and Harrison Dow), Lincoln (Joshua Edmonds, Grant Brownyard, Chris Rodgers and Mitchell Allen), Brentwood/Nashville (Anthony Long, Anna Liu, Shawn Ray, Seth Cardew & Michael Miceli) and Syracuse (Richard Moseson, Xinde Ji, Chang Kim, Jared Beck and Richard Sollish).

The captains of each teams are listed first. Leagues A and B will have five rounds and League C will have seven. Click here for the 2014 schedule.
photo of the 2013 Pandanet-AGA City League finals by Steve Colburn