My Week of Go Activities - BenKyo League is Growing Quickly

 

The BenKyo League (BKL) is really taking off. In this past month alone seven new members have been added to the roster and more are on the way. There is no better time to join BenKyo League as we head into November likely to add one or even two new leagues to our Main Leagues.

Take a look at Tier 3 of Ben's Patreon to see what you get for $25.00 a month. You get three interactive group classes a month and access to all of the previous Group Class Videos. There are currently twelve of them to study. 

You get special sgf files too. You get participation in a Main League where you get games with players close to your rank, handicapped as appropriate. You compete in the main league for prizes of Twitch Lesson Time with Ben. First and second place in each Main League get a prize. You are guaranteed at least one review of a Main League game from Ben for the month and likely more if you play a lot of games.

The Title Tournament is a chance to compete for fun titles against all league players. You can play each one up to three times in the course of the month.  

You get a game with Ben either one-on-one if you are in the A League, or a simul game if you are in B or C league.

I could go on, but check out his Patreon for more details.

If you decide to join BenKyo League tell him that buzzsaw sent you.

Now for my usual content...

This is what my week looked like.

I've gotten tired of showing only my Essential Go Activities and have decided to start sharing all of my activities again. 

I recently watched a video about Michael Redmond. At the end of the video he said that if you are not a professional you should do what you like when studying go. I'm going to take that advice to heart concerning my blogging, and I'm going to show all my activities in my blog content.

For a while I was showing only Essential Go Activity. Now I am going to show it all.

I spent over 27 hours on Go Activity this week.

Much of it was not Essential Go Activity.

I spent over six hours Watching Others Play. While doing so I was practicing reading. I think it was a worthwhile use of my time, and it was also fun.

I played 9 games last week and lost five of them. It is a fairly even result, but it didn't feel that way. I'm not counting the teaching games with Clossius and BenKyo Baduk.

As for Essential Go Activities... 

It was pretty one sided with all of my time spend on Live Play.

I definitely need to start spending some time on Go Problems again, and also Reviewing My Games.