S5.15 - A Recap of PlayGo.gg's "Battle of the Sexes" Tournament with Gazza & Ratings Quirks in OGS with Nikola | Go / Baduk / Weiqi

This episode is from All Things Go, a podcast about the board game Go, also known as Baduk in Korea and Weiqi in China.

Travis speaks with Gazza White about PlayGo.gg’s inaugural Battle of the Sexes tournament, which featured Shin Jin-seo, Kim Ji-seok, Choi Jeong, and Kim Eun-ji in an unusually fast double-elimination format. They discuss the quality of the event, the challenge of making professional Go engaging for Western audiences, the importance of English-language commentary and player interviews, and whether formats such as 13x13 or social-media streaming could make Go more accessible. In the second half, Nikola Tsarigradski returns to examine perceived rating quirks on the Online Go Server. He explains how format-specific ratings, player behavior, a limited pool of strong players, and previously rated bots can produce confusing results.

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