Team Los Angeles won the Pandanet-AGA City League A-League finals Saturday at the U.S. Congress in Tacoma, WA, defeating the Washington team 2-1 in hard-fought games. Beumgeon (Evan) Cho defeated Jie Li on Board 1, while Seung Hyun (Kevin) Hong beat Yuan Zhou on Board 3 in the afternoon games, broadcast live on Pandanet. Eric Lui, playing via Pandanet from Seoul Korea, where he’s playing in the Samsung Cup preliminaries for the AGA, scored DC’s only win by defeating Dae Hyuk (Daniel) Ko. Andy Okun captained the LA team. “We’re tremendously pleased with the results of our first year of the Pandanet AGA City League,” League Project Co-Manager Jon Boley reported to Congress attendees Saturday night at a brief awards ceremony. Twenty eight teams competed in four leagues: LA won the A League, Toronto won the B League, Chicago won in C League, and Brentwood, TN won the D League.

Board 1: Beomgeun Cho vs Jie Li – Winner: Beomgeun Cho Game Record
Board 2: Daniel Ko vs Eric Lui – Winner: Eric Lui Game Record
Board 3: Seung Hyun Hong vs Yuan Zhou – Winner: Seung Hyun Hong Game Record

Board 1 game reviewed by Myungwan Kim 9p – Game Record

Photos of the final round that took place in Tacoma on August 3rd, 2013.

Picture by Phil Straus, story from the E-Journal

Watch the finals for the City League on July 28th starting at 1PM EST for the finals for these leagues. They will play their games then. Watch for more information about the broadcast of the LIVE A league finals at the Us Go Congress.

The 10th, and for most teams, final round is scheduled for this Sunday, July 14 on Pandanet IGS. At the conclusion of this round, the top two teams in the A League will be invited to play one final playoff round to take place in person at the 2013 US Go Congress on Saturday afternoon, August 2.

Watch all four leagues starting at 1PM EST for the City League. C & D Leagues will play at 1PM and the A & B Leagues will start at 2PM. Be sure to root for your local team.

The Pandanet-AGA City Leagues A & B will play round 8 on Sunday June 16th. For the A League Greater Washington is just edging out the team from Los Angeles by one board point. Both teams have 8 points all together and records of 4-2. Los Angeles will play New York City, Greater Washington will play Boston, and Seattle will play Vancouver. With the field so strong in the league at this point Boston could come out and challenge LA and GW for the top slot. . In the B League Toronto has come out with a strong record and is leading the league with San Francisco hot on their tails. Toronto has 10 points and a record of 5-1 and San Francisco with 8 points and a record of 4-2. Southern California will take on the leading San Francisco in a tough matchup. Massachusetts will play Washington DC and Toronto will play Montreal. It will be exciting to see if Toronto will gain another win to stay on top of the standings or will there be a tight playoff the last two rounds to see who the winner is.

Rounds will be played on IGS at 2PM on June 16th. As always the most up to date standings are found on the to your right.

This Sunday the Pandanet/AGA City League plays Round 7 for the A & B Leagues and Round 5 for the C & D Leagues. Watch LIVE on IGS starting at 1PM EST/10AM PST on Sunday March 26th.

A and B Leagues play round 6 today at 2PM EST today. Tune in to watch these exciting matches.

Pandanet AGA City League rounds 4 and 5 will be played this Sunday, April 28. Leagues A and B will play their Round 5 games at 2p EST, while Leagues C and D will play their round 4 games starting at 1p EST. Find the pairings on the Pandanet schedule page.

Watch for all of the leagues to play this weekend with rounds starting at 1PM and 3PM. We hope to see you there.

The A & B Leagues played on March 17th. Results have been posted on the round pages. All Leagues will play again on March 31st. Watch the rounds LIVE starting at 1PM EST in two weeks.