My Week of Go Activities

 

Nearly 31 hours were spent on Go Activities this week. I spent a small amount of time on a great number of activities to the extent that in order to do a screen capture of all activities at once I had to cut the hours total from the top of the list and include it as part of my pie chart above.

The Clossius Live Stream once again came in at the number one spot, followed by Live Play, followed by my BenKyo Private Lesson time. 

I had a 90 minute lesson with Ben, which actually ran a bit over time. However, the bulk of the time indicated above was spent reviewing my very first BenKyo Private Lesson from nearly a month ago. Thursday I had my second Private Lesson with BenKyo, and I am scheduled for lessons for the next two weeks. So in February I will have three lessons with Ben Mantle. 

I am only entitled to two lessons a month from Ben on the Tier 7 of his Patreon. However, I developed a slight backlog of lesson time which I am redeeming as quickly as possible, thus the three lessons for February.

Once my backlog time is redeemed a month of instructional time with Ben will look like this template:

I get so much instructional time from Ben at Tier 7 that I felt the need to create a spreadsheet to keep track of redeeming it. The spreadsheet actually has other cells to the right for recording links to lesson videos and VODs from Twitch. I also have cells for notes.

I get 165 minutes of time on Ben's Twitch Stream which can be stacked, which means it can be combined in any way I want. That is not to mention the time that will be devoted to the game review I get which comes with Tier 5.

I can schedule time in advance or ask for it spontaneously when Ben is streaming. I also get three hours of lesson time (two 90 minute lessons). All Tiers include benefits from previous Tiers. The spreadsheet above shows the Tier at which a benefit kicks in.

Here is what my games looked like for this week:

I played 12 games. Seven of them were rated. BuzzKill played four games, all of them after 10:00 PM. I'm tired when I play as BuzzKill so I am amazed that I am at 6k on KGS with this account.

The purpose of the BuzzKill account is to play more aggressively. I'm working on it, but it is definitely baby steps.

In my Friday lesson Clossius reviewed the two most recent BuzzKill games. After that we played a brief game in which I was not allowed to defend in gote. Nor was I allowed to make a big move if there was something to attack. I found the exercise useful.