Went to Seoul on saturday to watch the female team match. A super long banner of the competition outside Korea Baduk Association.

The control room for Baduk TV. Is really interesting to see how a live baduk competition broadcast works. You can see the commentator(a pro player) doing funny face to relax himself minutes before he go live.

I was surprise to see her (the only human in this picture) outside the competition area cause she was my classmate (the one holding toothbrush in my previous blog). Her part time job here is to press clock and count byo-yomi timing, I think is quite a interesting job.

As you can see the lighting in the studio is super bright. The guy behind her is not her bodyguard, is the judge and a pro player too.

There are so many sequence they need to follow. They have to wait in a corner until a certain timing and walk into the competition area while the camera is rolling. Tang Yi look so pale, I think she play too much GO, haha.

The process of nigiri. Is faster than I thought. No wonder they are pro, haha.

If you have notice, instead of switching go bowl after nigiri, they switch places. Maybe moving the bowl might affect the visual effect in TV(live broadcast).

Lee Hajin 3p. When i went to the discussion room, I ask the cyberoro reporter who he think will win. He say without hesitation (he is a korean)"of course rui nai wei". Most people dont think Hajin will be able to win this match because she is now spending more time in university than researching GO.

Rui Nai Wei 9p. Hmmm... yar, ok.

Reporters doing their job.

Outside the discussion room.

Not many people in there. Basically there are 3 camps, chinese, korean and reporter. Huge LCD tv showing the live games. It will be so interesting if SWA have these kind of stuff.

Everyone from the korean team came down to support their team mate.

Their discussion is very relax, not as serious as I thought.

Only 2 chinese representatives. Wang lei looks fierce... and i think he watch too much zhou ren fa movie "god of gambler"

The review after the match. Hmmm... rui nai wei sound quite novice. I mean for a female pro player who has win many top male players and even enter into top few position in international competition, I was expecting her to sound confident but... disappointed.