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Kurebayashi's Top Youth-Adult Pair Go

Miein Kurebayashi 2P, and her son Eiryu 1d won the top table at the Youth Adult Pair Go Tourney at the US Go Congress. Twelve pairs competed in the event, and winners received prizes at each table.  AGA Pair Go Coordinator Rachel Small was on hand, with t-shirts, fans, and other goodies from the World Pair Go Association, who have agreed to sponsor next year's pair go events at the Go Congress.  She also debuted the new international Pair Go Passports, which have places for stamps for each pair go event a player attends.  Rubber stamps were designed for this year's Youth Adult Pair Go and the North American Pair Go Championship. 

Table winners were Miein 2P and Eiryu Kurebalyashi 1d; Kevin Cho 3k and Jesy Felicca 7k; single game winners were: April Ye 1k and Willis Huang 3d, Justin Ching 4d and Wan Chen 4d; Mizuki Masuda 15k and  Kaoru Hidaka 18k; Sarah Amano 20k and Weitan Liu 18k; Yukino Takehara 2k and William Xu 2k;  Rengo winning pairs were Justin Teng 6d and Robert Tirak 5d, and Bob Liu 13k and Samuel Suastegui 18k.  More photos can be seen on the AGA Pair Go Facebook page. -  Story and photos by Paul Barchilon, E-J Youth Editor. Top left: Jay Chan and Yukino Takehara vs. Sammy Zhang and Yunyen Lee; Lower right: Miein and Eiryu Kurebayashi vs. Wan Chen and Hugh Zhang.