So here is the deal, in the past sign up was done by contacting an admin and he put you in the league and if you played >4 games you were automatically put into next months league.

This month is different because you need an account on the new site and after that you need to join the league with the KGS account you’ve coupled to your ASR account. So take the following steps EVEN IF YOU HAVE PLAYED MORE THEN 4 GAMES IN MAY!!!!!!!!

1. Register an account here. MAKE SURE YOU USE THE KGS ACCOUNT YOU ARE GOING TO USE IN THE LEAGUE IN STEP 2!!
2. Go to leagues page the and sign up for the ASR League!
3. You are now signed up for June league! wait for June and you will be in it!

please do not register multiple accounts as you will be able to couple more KGS accounts to your ASR account in the near future!

This site and the beta site will run parallel until we have enough functionality on the beta site to shut this one down.

new site

Happy spring to all and thanks for playing in the Awesome ASR League ^^ It stopped snowing even up here close to the North Pole.

Big HUGE thanks to all who are donating prizes!

Alpha Prizes:

1. First and second place: skeletor and redreoicy  – one month of access to the Insei League thanks to Alexander Dinerchstein.
2. Third and Fourth Place: compgo74 and prue  – They both win teaching games with ruestyle.
3. Fifth and Sixth:  drgoplayer and bleen  – They both win teaching games with Shavshevet.

Beta Prizes:

Jhyn and UFO reached first place in their class and won two weeks of KGS+ thanks to KGS.

Gamma Prizes:

climu, braket, atheri and elnino94 all are first place winners in their class.  They all get two weeks of KGS+ thanks to KGS’s generosity.

Delta Prizes:

Katake at first place for one audiogolesson.

Activity Prizes (for players in alpha, beta and gamma):

• Alpha/Beta Challenge: Sorry, we didn’t reach it this month. Remember, once you make it to alpha or beta it would be a shame to give up that accomplishment just by not playing enough. Let’s try to make it this month and get a lecture by Cornel!
• Gamma Challenge: Introduced by our favorite admin, stalkor as a way of trying to get gamma to play more too. And it worked! Thanks to our glorious gamma players, ASR got a lecture by Cornel Burzo 7d  on moyo invasion and reduction! Well done, guys and gals! This month the gamma challenge will be 70%. You can do it!!!!!!!!!!
• Most Active Player: Nguyenvu90  with 27 games ! He wins a teaching game with ruestyle.
• Most Active Kyu Player: joenosai and xpillow with 26 games. Joenosai wins teaching game with edu4ever, xpillow wins teaching game with compgo74
• Kyu player with the best result (minimum 15 games) : lowlander. He wins a teaching game with shinichi56
• Kyu player with the worst result (minimum 15 games):  leaves and galthranne. Great fighting spirit! Leaves will get a teaching game with climu, galthranne wins a teaching game with dr4ch3.

Game of the Month

I have not been very good at advertizing the Game of the Month prize. Basically we are looking for a game that is interesting, and would be fun for people to watch. There was only one game nominated this month, so that was easy. Please keep this prize in mind and nominate games! If there are more games nominated there will be a vote for the best one.

Game of the Month April :niscend vs Clemantis. Clemantis is 4d but niscend 4k came close to beating him. Clemantis wins one audiogolesson and niscend wins a teaching game with shavshevet.

Thanks all for playing and contributing and make sure to make the alpha/beta challenge in April and we have a new gamma challenge too. The summary is PLAY PLAY PLAY!!! And have fun

These are the rules:
-45 minutes main time and 5×1 min byo yomi for the players with japanese rules.
-Ruestyle gets 10 minutes extra for every player that signs up. Every player has to manually add time to him.
-Handicap will be go down 1 per every 10 players with 6d as starting rank. example: if 23 players sign up, handicap will be like you are playing a 4d.

If you would like to join in the simul, please leave a message to stalkor with your rank.
If you have not signed up, you will not be admitted to the simul!!
There is NO MAXIMUM on the number of sign ups, so lets set a record!

Please be online at least 15 minutes before the simul starts so you are not late to the party. Also be advised that you need to reserve a couple of hours for the game because of the number of participants.

Signed up players:
randomID 4D
Geser 2D
humblelife 1D
Leothelion 1D
TimK 1k
hernan1987 1k
TreeOfLife 2k
rukis 3k
soutkin 4k
GreyGhost 4k
NH3CH2COOH 4k
hailthorn 6k
kalin1 6k
ChristianB 7k

Jermelle 8k

Want to be in it? It’s real easy! Just be an active player (>4 games per month) in June, July and August and you will be invited! Just one thing though, you may not be in Delta class for more then 1 of those months.

The complete explanation you can find on our tournament page

We are looking into live streaming the last day of the tournament with a high dan (battoussai is pretty cool right?), depending on how much funds we have, therefor we need your help!

We will do 3 of these tournaments per year and our funds (sadly) are not unending. We ask you to please donate to ASR so we can keep giving out great prizes and buy pizza:P We do not keep any money, we give it all back in the form of prizes.

An anonymous sponsor has agreed to match the first 100 dollars donated to the ASR so every dollar you donate is essentially worth 2!

If you want to discuss the tournament system, there is a forum thread here on Life in 19×19.

Best regards,
the Kaya ASR admin team.

Study Group – Kyu are dedicated to the advancement of Kyu level players. We have weekly lectures by 2d+ players, several tesuji/tsumego lessons a week, and a monthly tournament. We are glad to have you with us on the path to Shodan.

Go visit them on KGS (rooms->lessons->Study Group – Kyu) or their site http://www.StudyGroupKyu.org

The past few weeks a few admins have resigned from our team and i’d like to give my greatest thanks for all of them because they have done a great job and it’s sad to see them go.

Thank you Topazg, Sandmann, Kayres and Rberenguel for being a great admin! i wish you all the best of luck!

Because Kayres and Topazg had responsibilities the following changes have been made:

Managing director: stalkor (yay i’m back!)
KGS liaison: drgoplayer

Alpha Prizes:

1. First and second place: redreoicy and compgo74 – one month of access to the Insei League thanks to Alexander Dinerchstein.
2. Third and Fourth Place: hernan1987 and drgoplayer  – They both win a teaching game with RueStyle.
3. Fifth and Sixth:  agzam and nh3ch2cooh  – They both win one audiogolesson.

Beta Prizes:

Edu4ever and skeletor reached first place in their class and won two weeks of KGS+ thanks to KGS.

Gamma Prizes:

Ghaele, plain, zischty and joenosai all are first place winners in their class.  They all get one audiogolesson.

Delta Prizes:

Thesun at first place for one audiogolesson.

Activity Prizes (for players in alpha, beta and gamma):

• Alpha/Beta Challenge: Combined activity of alpha and beta reached 88 % (players with four or more games), which sadly did not qualify us for the challenge prize ( ASR sponsored lecture by Cornel Burzo). We were close though, so we should make it this month! Play play PLAY!
• Most Active Player: Leaves  with 25 games ! She wins a teaching game with dr4ch3.
• Most Active Kyu Player: Nathan and nkrach  with 23 games!  They both get a teaching game with  shavshevet.
• Kyu player with the best result (minimum 15 games) : felix24. He wins a teaching game with shavshevet.
• Kyu player with the worst result (minimum 15 games):  inkognito, great fighting spirit! This wins a teaching game with ruestyle

Thanks all for playing and contributing and make sure to make the alpha/beta challenge in April and we have a new gamma challenge too. The summary is PLAY PLAY PLAY!!! And have fun