The paywall went up on PlayGo.gg at the beginning of May, and I have been getting the most I can out the site without subscribing since that time. However, last week they made everything free for just one week, which accounts for the 8.63 hours you see on my Go Activities Beach Ball above. Most of that time was spent binging on lessons. Without a subscription you can usually only watch one lesson per day. If you click to watch a second lesson, you will get a notification telling you about two options for membership.
One day last week I didn't get the notification to subscribe when I clicked on a second lesson. At first I thought there was glitch on the website. Thinking that the glitch might get fixed soon, I decided to watch as many lessons as time would allow. Eventually, I learned that the week was being offered for free, and there was no glitch after all. This knowledge came to me near the end of the week, so it was too late to put up a blog post inviting you all to the party.
If I had been paying attention I would have seen the notice in the upper right corner of the site each time I logged in. Actually, it wasn't that obvious.
Last night was my last chance to binge on lessons. My week was going to end at 8:00 pm ET. At 7:45 pm ET it became clear to me that there was no way I was going to finish the 12 kyu lessons before my free week ended. There were five more lessons to complete and I was pretty tired after devoting the better portion of the day to working through lessons.
I managed to complete the lessons for a full ten ranks in one week, 23 kyu through 13 kyu. That is not too shabby. Without the free week, that would have taken me the better part of a year because each rank level has multiple lessons. If I get a heads up about it the next time they offer you a free week, I will let you all know. If you have not tried PlayGo.gg, though, it is worth it to create an account to take advantage of what is available to you without a subscription. Keep your eye on the upper right of the site and you'll know if another free week is offered.
Playing games and watching games is always free. Plus you can do 20 Practice Puzzles, two Puzzle Runs, one Lesson, one AI Game Review, and one game with a 10d Bot. If you log on every day you can get a lot of value from the site even with the restrictions in place. If I were to subscribe it would probably be to get the unlimited Practice Puzzles that come with the Pro membership.
Now for my usual weekly go activities report:
It was a fairly active week with over twenty hours of go activity, most of which was spent on PlayGo.gg doing lessons.
I played five games, all of which were played on Thursday night. I won my NAOL game and went on to play four games in a row afterwards on PlayGo.gg.
Given that I played four games in a row Thursday night with only two people, I tend to think I might have been playing with bots. I'll have Clossius review these games from PlayGo.gg in our next lesson using the review tools on the site.
I didn't do a blog post last week so I have one more week of activities on which to report:
The previous week also had over 20 hours of go activity. My top activity was Live Play, which is always a good thing to report.
I delighted Clossius with nine games in one week, five of which were played on PlayGo.gg
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