James Hutchinson won this afternoon in the first game in the group stage against Brunei by 83.5 points.

James’ thoughts are here: https://online-go.com/game/35824133

The entire game can be found here: https://online-go.com/demo/715704 (Some of the comments are maybe wrong as the game seems to have mistranscribed due to technical errors on the WBaduk server.)

Next up the winner between Chinese Taipei (7 dan) and Ecuador (4 kyu) A win will take Ireland through to the knockout stages, but there will still be another chance to progress, as in the event of a defeat, there will be one more game against the winner of the other second round game.