College student teams in New York Bay Area (NY-NJ-CT) are invited to play in the 2nd Bay Area College Tournament (International) in Shenzhen China on May 25-26, 2024. The organizing committee ("the host") include Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen Sports Promotion Center and Shenzhen Go Association. Each college team should have 3 student players representing their college, and 1 optional coach. The coach can also be one of the three players. The host will provide room and board for teams. Team coach's airfare will also be covered by the host. Top-six teams will earn cash prizes and three additional awards (sportsmanship, best team, VIP) will be recognized with cash prizes. All team players, regardless of ranking, will also receive a certificate of sportsmanship. At least one California college team has committed to travel to Shenzhen China for the tournament. Teams from Singapore and Japan are also joining. The host expects over 20 teams this May. Questions? Click Here for details in Chinese. or Here for details in English (machine translated by Google). Contact: Stephanie Yin 1P (VP of AGA) Email: president@ny-go.org SZTU coordinator: Huang Jia (huangjia@sztu.edu.cn) In 2023, a US student team competed in this tournament in Shenzhen and finished top 6. Here are more photos from 2023. Of course during the trip to China, you may visit beautiful cities there like Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
