Nations Online Oware League Ranking points after 28th edition of the 3rd season’s Saturday 09/03/2024 Practice Contacts Only Online Oware Tournament. 1. Ghana 🇬🇭 (18) - 819.5 2. Nigeria 🇳🇬 (12) - 493.5 3. Uganda 🇺🇬 (9) - 354.5 4. Benin 🇧🇯 (9) - 230.0 5. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 (4) - 147.5 6. Colombia 🇨🇴 (13) - 147.0 7. UK 🇬🇧(4) - 88.5 8. Czech Republic 🇨🇿 (1) - 80.0 9. Mexico 🇲🇽 (1) - 54.5 10. Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 (3) - 52.5 11. Germany 🇩🇪 (1) - 21.0 12. Belarus 🇧🇾 (1) - 16.0 13. China 🇨🇳 (1) - 15.5 14. Poland 🇵🇱 (2) - 10.5 15. Unknown (1) - 5.0 16. Ivory Coast 🇨🇮 (1) - 4.0 17. Austria 🇦🇹 (1) - 4.0 After the 28th tournament of the 3rd season, team Ghana 🇬🇭 continues to stretch its lead, fielding as usual the largest contingent, of 7 players accumulating 30.5 points. This takes its overall tally to 819.5 points, over 1.6 times the nearest contender Nigeria 🇳🇬. Team Nigeria 🇳🇬 accumulated 16.5 points from its 4 players and placed 2nd and is in overall 2nd position with a total of 493.5 points. Uganda 🇺🇬 fielded 4 players, placing 3rd and gaining 14.0 points taking their total to 354.5 points and in 3rd position overall. Well done to these top 3 placed teams 👏👏👏. American Champions team Colombia 🇨🇴 represented by 5 players, gained 13.5 points, placed 4th. It now has a tally of 147.0 points and is in 6th position overall. Asian Champions Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 represented by 2 player gained 8.5 points. Taking its total to 147.5 points and in overall 5th position. European Champions team UK 🇬🇧 represented by one player gained 3.0 points, taking its total to 88.5 points, and is in overall 7th position. This tournament featured 28 players from 10 national teams, participating to claim the weekly title. Players from 4 geopolitical continents: Afrika, America, Asia & Europe were all represented. Featured in the rankings of participating teams are 4 teams from Afrika, 1 from Asia, 3 from Europe, and 2 from the Americas . Well done to all the players from the national teams that participated in this tournament 👏👏👏. We encourage those that haven’t participated yet to do so in the next edition. We also encourage those teams that participated in the last edition of the league to commence their campaign for this new season. Finally we encourage players from those countries that are yet to participate in this league to do so. Participate in these tournaments in preparation for the championships to come. This is a geopolitical overall continental breakdown Afrika - 5 America - 2 Asia - 3 Europe - 6 Unknown - 1 Take advantage of these practice tournaments to practice the signing up process in preparation for championships to come. Participate to gain points for your nations team and place it on the Oware map. Well done to all 16 national teams that have participated so far. 👏👏👏 With the 28th edition played, the half way point in the season has been bypassed’. The countdown to the end of the season begins. 82 players have participated in this league so far. This is more than half the number that participated in last seasons league. So let’s all chip in to get more players & teams participating. With 24 editions to go is there enough time for teams to mount a challenge for the top 5 - 10 positions. With the weeks advancing and each week gone is a missed opportunity to advance, time will tell.

Below are the tally of points after the 28th tournament of the 3rd season’s Individual Online Oware League by each competitor of the Open Online Practice Oware tournament on Saturday 09/03/2024. 1. mrjohnson 🇳🇬 (25) - 153.5 (17) 2. issahfuseinji 🇬🇭 (28) - 146.0 (3) 3. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 (24) - 110.5 4. e17 🇰🇿 (28) - 110.5 (1) 5. roberisco 🇬🇭 (25) - 109.5 (1) 6. abilohre 🇬🇭(21) -106.0 (1) 7. harrison01 🇺🇬 (27) -  97.5 8. josty 🇬🇭 (21) - 94.5 9. paulie42 🇨🇿 (25) - 80.0 10. realionaire 🇳🇬 (24) - 73.0 11. monkftw 🇬🇧 (23) - 65.0 12. kongadji / geotrouvetoute 🇧🇯 (12) - 60.5 13. mcx1 🇬🇭 (16) - 59.0 14. bme 🇺🇬 (19) - 58.5 15. olowolafeabey 🇳🇬 (17) - 58.0 16. vivian256 🇺🇬 (23) - 57.0 17. ddi 🇺🇬 (19) - 56.5 18. daallo 🇲🇽 (24) - 54.5 19. tindan/michae 🇬🇭 (12) - 49.0 (1) 20. ayoboss 🇧🇯 (9) - 51.5 (4) 21. jam314 🇬🇭 (13) -50.0 22. germancali 🇨🇴 (17) - 47.5 23. goldm 🇰🇬 (15) - 41.5 24. aganzua 🇬🇭 (11) - 41.5 25. baobabadji 🇧🇯 (8) - 39.0 26. dnw1236 🇺🇬 (15) - 38.0 27. dokrichardz 🇬🇭 (10) - 37.0 28. senateur 🇧🇯 (7) - 35.0 (1) 29. serikaktayev 🇰🇿 (10) - 33.0 30. eldani45 🇨🇴 (14) - 32.5 31. bonny7777 🇨🇴 (9) - 27.5 32. desmond22 🇬🇭 (7) - 27.0 33. oladele 🇳🇬 (8) - 26.5 34. apol86 / nabdamprof 🇬🇭 (8) - 26.0 35. zezero 🇳🇬 (9) - 23.5 36. elvisaboaya 🇬🇭 (6) - 22.0 37. atingastephen 🇬🇭 (5) - 21.5 38. carlomonte 🇩🇪 (8) - 21.0 39. dalton1 🇺🇬 (8) - 19.5 40. harun1 🇳🇬 (4) - 16.5 41. aogundari 🇳🇬 (9) - 16.0 42. kostyan 🇧🇾 (4) - 16.0 43. 2020peter 🇭🇰 (7) - 15.5 44. tnt9 🇰🇬 (5) - 14.0 45. adetoyeoba 🇧🇯 (4) - 14.0 46. lordsoso 🇬🇧 (3) - 13.0 47. abdu256 🇺🇬 (4) - 13.0 48. anyvil 🇺🇬 (6) - 12.0 49. fajado 🇨🇴 (2) - 10.5 50. ayirungo 🇬🇭 (2) - 10.0 51. vou1 🇬🇧 (4) - 9.0 52. iliassouqueen 🇧🇯 (3) - 9.0 53. ogbomaga48 🇳🇬 (1) - 8.5 54. dogout 🇧🇯 (2) - 8.5 55. gameboy199 🇬🇭 (2) - 7.0 56. andressumnar 🇨🇴 (6) - 7.0 57. manrike 🇨🇴  (4) - 6.0 58. bobstar 🇧🇯 (1) - 5.5 59. masterfisz 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.5 60. prof100 🇬🇭 (2) - 5.0 61. caro377 🇨🇴 (2) - 5.0 62. thesoth 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.0 63. ayostar (?) (1) - 5.0 64. fofo2 🇧🇯 (1) - 4.0 65. acn 🇨🇮 (1) - 4.0 66. adelekepeter 🇳🇬 (1) - 4.0 67. horstaut63 🇦🇹 (2) - 4.0 68. apoovitus 🇬🇭 (1) - 4.0 69. gatoone 🇨🇴 (3) - 4.0 70. kamila17 🇰🇿 (2) - 3.5 71. mustajaaba 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.5 72. msh76 🇰🇿 (1) - 3.0 73. temifelo 🇳🇬 (1) - 2.5 74. h3333 🇺🇬 (2) - 2.0 75. exclusivegh 🇬🇭 (1) - 2.0 76. guidob 🇨🇴 (2) - 2.0 77. sara327 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 78. Iowo23 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 79. evawong1011 🇬🇧 (1) - 1.0 80. wcp2347 🇨🇴 (1) - 1.0 81. 9aat 🇰🇬 (1) - 0.0 82. lamfat 🇳🇬 (1) - 0.0 In the 28th tournament of the 3rd season’s league, 27 players from 10 countries participated. This week there were no new entrants. Thus the total number of players still stands at 82. All the players in the top 10 for this tournament are from Afrika except e17 🇰🇿: Ghana 🇬🇭 - 5,  Nigeria 🇳🇬 - 3, Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 - 1 & Uganda - 1 🇺🇬 issahfuseinij 🇬🇭 won the tournament, with a 6.5 points, drawing a game with olowolafeabey 🇳🇬. Well done to him 👏👏👏. mrjohnson 🇳🇬 placed 2nd with 6.0 points, losing a game issahfuseinij 🇬🇭. I roberisco 🇬🇭 with 5.0 points placed 3rd, losing games to olowolafeabey 🇳🇬 & issahfuseinji 🇬🇭.  e17 🇰🇿 and olowolafeabey 🇳🇬 placed 4th and 5th respectively. In this edition the top 3 positions were occupied by players from two countries: Ghana 🇬🇭 & Nigeria 🇳🇬. Well done to them & everyone else who participated 👏👏👏. We applaud the three female players bme 🇺🇬, vou1 🇬🇧 & vivian256 🇺🇬 for participating in this tournament. They really give the rest of the other countries some food for thought. Let’s make greater efforts to encourage and facilitate new players, especially female and the youth to participate in these tournaments. Overall leader the Oga Ota of Nigeria 🇳🇬 mrjohnson’s lead increased with this victory. With 17 wins out of 28, his score is now at 153.5 points. He is still 7.5 points ahead of issahfuseinji 🇬🇭. The difference between him and the other top positioned players has increased slightly to 43.0, 43.0 & 44.5 points respectively. e17 🇰🇿 now in the 4th position with 110.5 points with a 💯 participation record. He remains on course to become the Asian Champion. He is 43.0 points away from the leading player mrjohnson 🇳🇬, and 69.0 points ahead of goldm 🇰🇬 the nearest Asian contender, who has accumulated 41.5 points. paulie42 🇨🇿 with 80.0 points and in 9th position. His leading margin against incumbent European champion monkftw 🇬🇧 has stretched to 15 points, and is on course to claim the European title. He is 73.5 points away from leading player mrjohnson 🇳🇬. American Continental champion daallo 🇲🇽 with 54.5 points, he is still in the 18th position. He is some 99.0 points off the leading points score. He too is on course to maintain his title, and is 7.0 points ahead of germancali 🇨🇴 the nearest American Continental contender, with 47.5 points & in 22nd position. It is looking less likely that  other players from the different continents will be able to make up the difference and thwart these predictions becoming a reality. New players have been joining the league. These however are not in the main coming from countries that have not participated in the league before. Will there be new players including master & grandmasters joining the league to add more dynamism to it. Time will tell, as the players from Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬, Barbados 🇧🇧, Burkina Faso 🇧🇫, Cape Verde 🇨🇻, The Gambia 🇬🇲 , Guinea 🇬🇳, Guinea Bissau 🇬🇼, Mali 🇲🇱, Niger 🇳🇪, Sierra Leone 🇸🇱, Saint Lucia 🇱🇨, Togo 🇹🇬 are yet to enter the fray. Players from 16 countries: Afghanistan 🇦🇫, Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿, Barbados 🇧🇧, Cape Verde 🇨🇻, Costa Rica 🇨🇷, France 🇫🇷, Italy 🇮🇹, Portugal 🇵🇹, Russia 🇷🇺, Serbia 🇷🇸, Spain 🇪🇸, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰, Togo 🇹🇬, Turkey 🇹🇷 & Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 that participated in last year’s league are yet to participate in this edition of the league. Do well to recruit players from these teams to participate in the upcoming practice tournaments in preparation for the championships to come. Please take note, the top positioned players who are International or Full members of The Oware Society before the league ends, will be awarded cash prizes. Therefore If you place in the top 3, and wish to be considered for a cash award, join The Oware Society before the league ends. The top placed, International or Full members in the female, junior & continental categories will be awarded cash prizes so long as they are Full or International members and enough funds are raised. If enough funds are raised we will consider awarding prizes for country winners, so long as the country is represented by 5 or more players, is not in the top three or a continental champion.

Nations Online Oware League Ranking points after 27th edition of the 3rd season’s Saturday 02/03/2024 Practice Contacts Only Online Oware Tournament. 1. Ghana 🇬🇭 (18) - 789.0 2. Nigeria 🇳🇬 (12) - 477.0 3. Uganda 🇺🇬 (9) - 340.5 4. Benin 🇧🇯 (9) - 226.0 5. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 (4) - 139.0 6. Colombia 🇨🇴 (13) - 133.5 7. UK 🇬🇧(4) - 85.5 8. Czech Republic 🇨🇿 (1) - 77.0 9. Mexico 🇲🇽 (1) - 52.5 10. Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 (3) - 52.5 11. Germany 🇩🇪 (1) - 18.0 12. Belarus 🇧🇾 (1) - 16.0 13. China 🇨🇳 (1) - 15.5 14. Poland 🇵🇱 (2) - 10.5 15. Unknown (1) - 5.0 16. Ivory Coast 🇨🇮 (1) - 4.0 17. Austria 🇦🇹 (1) - 4.0 Having bypassed the half way point with the 27th tournament of the 3rd season, the countdown continues. Team Ghana 🇬🇭 continues to stretch its lead, fielding as usual the largest contingent, of 8 players accumulating 35.0 points. This takes its overall tally to 789.0 points, over 1.7 times the nearest contender Nigeria 🇳🇬. Team Nigeria 🇳🇬 accumulated 24.0 points from its 6 players and placed 2nd and is in overall 2nd position with a total of 478.0 points. Benin 🇧🇯 fielded 3 players, placing 3rd and gaining 15.0 points taking their total to 226.0 points and in 4th position overall. Well done to these top 3 placed teams 👏👏👏. American Champions team Colombia 🇨🇴 represented by 5 players, gained 13.0 points, placed 4th. It now has a tally of 133.5 points and is in 6th position overall. Asian Champions Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 represented by 1 player gained 4.0 points. Taking its total to 139.0 points and in overall 5th position. European Champions team UK 🇬🇧 represented by one player gained 3.0 points, taking its total to 82.5 points, and is in overall 7th position. This tournament featured 29 players from 9 national teams, participating to claim the weekly title. Players from 4 geopolitical continents: Afrika, America, Asia & Europe were all represented. Featured in the rankings of participating teams are 4 teams from Afrika, 2 from Asia, 2 from Europe, and 1 from the Americas . Well done to all the players from the national teams that participated in this tournament 👏👏👏. We encourage those that haven’t participated yet to do so in the next edition. We also encourage those teams that participated in the last edition of the league to commence their campaign for this new season. Finally we encourage players from those countries that are yet to participate in this league to do so. Participate in these tournaments in preparation for the championships to come. This is a geopolitical overall continental breakdown Afrika - 5 America - 2 Asia - 3 Europe - 6 Unknown - 1 Take advantage of these practice tournaments to practice the signing up process in preparation for championships to come. Participate to gain points for your nations team and place it on the Oware map. Well done to all 16 national teams that have participated so far. 👏👏👏 With the 27th edition played, the half way point in the season has now been achieved. The countdown to the end of the season begins. 82 players have participated in this league so far. This is more than half the number that participated in last seasons league. So let’s all chip in to get more players & teams participating. With 26 editions to go is there enough time for teams to mount a challenge for the top 5 - 10 positions. With the weeks advancing and each week gone is a missed opportunity to advance, time will tell.

Below are the tally of points after the 27th tournament of the 3rd season’s Individual Online Oware League by each competitor of the Open Online Practice Oware tournament on Saturday 02/03/2024. 1. mrjohnson 🇳🇬 (24) - 147.5 2. issahfuseinji 🇬🇭 (27) - 139.5 3. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 (23) - 106.5 4. e17 🇰🇿 (27) - 105.5 5. roberisco 🇬🇭 (25) - 104.5 6. abilohre 🇬🇭(20) -101.5 7. harrison01 🇺🇬 (25) -  93.5 8. josty 🇬🇭 (20) - 90.0 9. paulie42 🇨🇿 (24) - 77.0 10. realionaire 🇳🇬 (24) - 73.0 11. monkftw 🇬🇧 (23) - 65.0 12. kongadji / geotrouvetoute 🇧🇯 (12) - 60.5 13. bme 🇺🇬 (18) - 55.0 14. mcx1 🇬🇭 (15) - 55.0 15. vivian256 🇺🇬 (22) - 54.0 16. olowolafeabey 🇳🇬 (16) - 53.5 17. ddi 🇺🇬 (18) - 53.0 18. daallo 🇲🇽 (23) - 52.5 19. tindan/michae 🇬🇭 (12) - 49.0 20. ayoboss 🇧🇯 (8) - 47.5 21. jam314 🇬🇭 (12) -46.0 22. germancali 🇨🇴 (16) - 44.5 23. goldm 🇰🇬 (15) - 41.5 24. aganzua 🇬🇭 (10) - 39.5 25. baobabadji 🇧🇯 (8) - 39.0 26. dnw1236 🇺🇬 (15) - 38.0 27. dokrichardz 🇬🇭 (10) - 37.0 28. senateur 🇧🇯 (7) - 35.0 29. eldani45 🇨🇴 (13) - 29.5 30. serikaktayev 🇰🇿 (9) - 29.5 31. desmond22 🇬🇭 (6) - 27.0 32. oladele 🇳🇬 (8) - 26.5 33. apol86 / nabdamprof 🇬🇭 (8) - 26.0 34. bonny7777 🇨🇴 (7) - 23.5 35. elvisaboaya 🇬🇭 (5) - 22.0 36. zezero 🇳🇬 (7) - 21.5 37. atingastephen 🇬🇭 (5) - 21.5 38. dalton1 🇺🇬 (9) - 19.5 39. carlomonte 🇩🇪 (7) - 18.0 40. harun1 🇳🇬 (3) - 16.5 41. aogundari 🇳🇬 (9) - 16.0 42. kostyan 🇧🇾 (4) - 16.0 43. 2020peter 🇭🇰 (7) - 15.5 44. adetoyeoba 🇧🇯 (4) - 14.0 45. lordsoso 🇬🇧 (3) - 13.0 46. abdu256 🇺🇬 (4) - 13.0 47. anyvil 🇺🇬 (6) - 12.0 48. tnt9 🇰🇬 (4) - 11.0 49. ayirungo 🇬🇭 (2) - 10.0 50. iliassouqueen 🇧🇯 (3) - 9.0 51. ogbomaga48 🇳🇬 (1) - 8.5 52. dogout 🇧🇯 (2) - 8.5 53. fajado 🇨🇴 (2) - 8.0 54. gameboy199 🇬🇭 (2) - 7.0 55. manrike 🇨🇴  (4) - 6.0 56. vou1 🇬🇧 (3) - 6.0 57. bobstar 🇧🇯 (1) - 5.5 58. masterfisz 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.5 59. andressumnar 🇨🇴 (4) - 5.0 60. prof100 🇬🇭 (2) - 5.0 61. caro377 🇨🇴 (2) - 5.0 62. thesoth 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.0 63. ayostar (?) (1) - 5.0 64. fofo2 🇧🇯 (1) - 4.0 65. acn 🇨🇮 (1) - 4.0 66. adelekepeter 🇳🇬 (1) - 4.0 67. horstaut63 🇦🇹 (2) - 4.0 68. apoovitus 🇬🇭 (1) - 4.0 69. gatoone 🇨🇴 (3) - 4.0 70. kamila17 🇰🇿 (1) - 3.5 71. mustajaaba 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.5 72. msh76 🇰🇿 (1) - 3.0 73. temifelo 🇳🇬 (1) - 2.5 74. h3333 🇺🇬 (2) - 2.0 75. exclusivegh 🇬🇭 (1) - 2.0 76. guidob 🇨🇴 (2) - 2.0 77. sara327 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 78. Iowo23 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 79. evawong1011 🇬🇧 (1) - 1.0 80. wcp2347 🇨🇴 (1) - 1.0 81. 9aat 🇰🇬 (1) - 0.0 82. lamfat 🇳🇬 (1) - 0.0 In the 27th tournament of the 3rd season’s league, 29 players from 9 countries participated. This week there were no new entrants. Thus the total number of players still stands at 82. All the players in the top 10 for this tournament are from Afrika: Ghana 🇬🇭 - 5, Benin 🇧🇯 - 3, & Nigeria 🇳🇬 - 2. mrjohnson 🇳🇬 won the tournament, with a 6.0 points, losing a game to issahfuseinij 🇬🇭Well done to him 👏👏👏. issahfuseinij 🇬🇭 placed 2nd with 6.0 points, drawing with zezero & senateur 🇬🇼🇧🇯🇧🇯games to mrjohnson 🇳🇬  & 🇧🇯. geotrouvetout 🇧🇯 also with 5.0 points placed 3rd, losing games to mrjohnson 🇳🇬 & issahfuseinji 🇬🇭.  abilohre 🇬🇭 & roberisco 🇬🇭 placed 4th and 5th respectively. In this edition the top 3 positions were occupied by players from three countries: Nigeria 🇳🇬 Ghana 🇬🇭 & Benin 🇧🇯. Well done to them & everyone else who participated 👏👏👏. We applaud the two female players bme 🇺🇬 & vivian256 🇺🇬 for participating in this tournament. They really give the rest of the other countries some food for thought. Let’s make greater efforts to encourage and facilitate new players, especially female and the youth to participate in these tournaments. Overall leader the Oga Ota of Nigeria 🇳🇬 mrjohnson’s lead increased with this victory. With 17 wins out of 27, his score is now at 147.5 points. He is still 8.0 points ahead of issahfuseinji 🇬🇭. The difference between him and the other top positioned players has increased slightly to 8.0, 41.0 & 42.0 points respectively. e17 🇰🇿 now in 5th position with 105.5 points with  💯 participation record. He remains on course to become the Asian Champion. He is 42.0 points away from the leading player mrjohnson 🇳🇬, and 64.0 points ahead of goldm 🇰🇬 the nearest Asian contender, who has accumulated 41.5 points. paulie42 🇨🇿 remains with 77.0 points and is still in 9th position, maintaining his leading margin of 12 points against incumbent European champion monkftw 🇬🇧 also stationery with 65.0 points, and is on course to claim the European title. He is 70.5 points away from leading player mrjohnson 🇳🇬. American Continental champion daallo 🇲🇽 for the 2nd week has been uncharacteristically absent and thus remains with 52.5 points, he is now in 18th position. He is some 95.0 points off the leading points score. He too is on course to maintain his title, and is 8.0 points ahead of germancali 🇨🇴 the nearest American Continental contender, with 44.5 points & in 22nd position. We continue to observe if other players from the different continents can make up the differences and thwart these predictions becoming a reality. New players have been joining the league. These however are not in the main coming from countries that have not participated in the league before. Will there be new players including master & grandmasters joining the league to add more dynamism to it. Time will tell, as the players from Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬, Barbados 🇧🇧, Burkina Faso 🇧🇫, Cape Verde 🇨🇻, The Gambia 🇬🇲 , Guinea 🇬🇳, Guinea Bissau 🇬🇼, Mali 🇲🇱, Niger 🇳🇪, Sierra Leone 🇸🇱, Saint Lucia 🇱🇨, Togo 🇹🇬 are yet to enter the fray. Players from 16 countries: Afghanistan 🇦🇫, Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿, Barbados 🇧🇧, Cape Verde 🇨🇻, Costa Rica 🇨🇷, France 🇫🇷, Italy 🇮🇹, Portugal 🇵🇹, Russia 🇷🇺, Serbia 🇷🇸, Spain 🇪🇸, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰, Togo 🇹🇬, Turkey 🇹🇷 & Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 that participated in last year’s league are yet to participate in this edition of the league. Do well to recruit players from these teams to participate in the upcoming practice tournaments in preparation for the championships to come. Please take note, the top positioned players who are International or Full members of The Oware Society before the league ends, will be awarded cash prizes. Therefore If you place in the top 3, and wish to be considered for a cash award, join The Oware Society before the league ends. The top placed, International or Full members in the female, junior & continental categories will be awarded cash prizes so long as they are Full or International members and enough funds are raised. If enough funds are raised we will consider awarding prizes for country winners, so long as the country is represented by 5 or more players, is not in the top three or a continental champion.

Nations Online Oware League Ranking points after 26th edition of the 3rd season’s Saturday 24/02/2024 Practice Contacts Only Online Oware Tournament. 1. Ghana 🇬🇭 (18) - 754.0 2. Nigeria 🇳🇬 (12) - 454.0 3. Uganda 🇺🇬 (9) - 332.5 4. Benin 🇧🇯 (9) - 212.0 5. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 (4) - 135.0 6. Colombia 🇨🇴 (13) - 120.5 7. UK 🇬🇧(4) - 82.5 8. Czech Republic 🇨🇿 (1) - 77.0 9. Mexico 🇲🇽 (1) - 52.5 10. Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 (3) - 49.5 11. Germany 🇩🇪 (1) - 16.0 12. Belarus 🇧🇾 (1) - 16.0 13. China 🇨🇳 (1) - 15.5 14. Poland 🇵🇱 (2) - 10.5 15. Unknown (1) - 5.0 16. Ivory Coast 🇨🇮 (1) - 4.0 17. Austria 🇦🇹 (1) - 4.0 Having reached the half way point with the 26th tournament of the 3rd season, the countdown now begins. Team Ghana 🇬🇭 continues to stretch its lead, fielding as usual the largest contingent, of 6 players accumulating 24.5 points. This takes its overall tally to 754.0 points, over 1.7 times the nearest contender Nigeria 🇳🇬. Team Nigeria 🇳🇬 accumulated 23.0 points from its 5 players and placed 2nd and is in overall 2nd position with a total of 454.0 points. Uganda 🇺🇬 fielded 5 player, placing 3rd and gaining 15.0 points taking their total to 332.5 points and in 4th position overall. Well done to these top 3 placed teams 👏👏👏. Team Benin 🇧🇯 represented by 1 player, gained 5.0 points, placed 4th. It now has a tally of 212.0 points and is in 4th position overall. Asian Champions Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 represented by 1 player gained 4.5 points. Taking its total to 135.0 points and in overall 5th position. American Champions Team Colombia 🇨🇴 represented by 3 players gained 5.0 points, placed 5th and is in overall 6th position with a total of 120.5. European Champions team UK 🇬🇧 was absent and thus gained no points, remaining at 82.5 points, and is in overall 7th position. This tournament featured 23 players from 8 national teams, participating to claim the weekly title. Players from 4 geopolitical continents: Afrika, America, Asia & Europe were all represented. Featured in the rankings of participating teams are 4 teams from Afrika, 2 from Asia, 1 from Europe, and 1 from the Americas . Well done to all the players from the national teams that participated in this tournament 👏👏👏. We encourage those that haven’t participated yet to do so in the next edition. We also encourage those teams that participated in the last edition of the league to commence their campaign for this new season. Finally we encourage players from those countries that are yet to participate in this league to do so. Participate in these tournaments in preparation for the championships to come. This is a geopolitical overall continental breakdown Afrika - 5 America - 2 Asia - 3 Europe - 6 Unknown - 1 Take advantage of these practice tournaments to practice the signing up process in preparation for championships to come. Participate to gain points for your nations team and place it on the Oware map. Well done to all 16 national teams that have participated so far. 👏👏👏 With the 26th edition played, the half way point in the season has now been achieved. The countdown to the end of the season begins. 82 players have participated in this league so far. This is more than half the number that participated in last seasons league. So let’s all chip in to get more players & teams participating. With 26 editions to go is there enough time for teams to mount a challenge for the top 5 - 10 positions. With the weeks advancing and each week gone is a missed opportunity to advance, time will tell.

Below are the tally of points after the 26th tournament of the 3rd season’s Individual Online Oware League by each competitor of the Open Online Practice Oware tournament on Saturday 24/02/2024. 1. mrjohnson 🇳🇬 (23) - 141.5 2. issahfuseinji 🇬🇭 (26) - 133.5 3. roberisco 🇬🇭 (25) - 103.5 4. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 (22) - 103.0 5. e17 🇰🇿 (26) - 101.5 6. abilohre 🇬🇭(19) - 96.5 7. harrison01 🇺🇬 (24) -  90.0 8. josty 🇬🇭 (19) - 86.0 9. paulie42 🇨🇿 (24) - 77.0 10. realionaire 🇳🇬 (23) - 70.0 11. monkftw 🇬🇧 (23) - 65.0 12. kongadji / geotrouvetoute 🇧🇯 (11) - 55.5 13. mcx1 🇬🇭 (15) - 55.0 14. olowolafeabey 🇳🇬 (16) - 53.5 15. ddi 🇺🇬 (18) - 53.0 16. bme 🇺🇬 (17) - 53.0 17. daallo 🇲🇽 (23) - 52.5 18. vivian256 🇺🇬 (21) - 52.0 19. ayoboss 🇧🇯 (8) - 47.5 20. jam314 🇬🇭 (12) -46.0 21. tindan/michae 🇬🇭 (11) - 45.0 22. germancali 🇨🇴 (15) - 41.5 23. goldm 🇰🇬 (14) - 38.5 24. dnw1236 🇺🇬 (15) - 38.0 25. dokrichardz 🇬🇭 (10) - 37.0 26. aganzua 🇬🇭 (9) - 36.5 27. baobabadji 🇧🇯 (7) - 34.5 28. senateur 🇧🇯 (6) - 30.5 29. serikaktayev 🇰🇿 (9) - 29.5 30. oladele 🇳🇬 (8) - 26.5 31. apol86 / nabdamprof 🇬🇭 (8) - 26.0 32. eldani45 🇨🇴 (12) - 25.5 33. desmond22 🇬🇭 (6) - 23.0 34. atingastephen 🇬🇭 (5) - 21.5 35. bonny7777 🇨🇴 (7) - 20.5 36. dalton1 🇺🇬 (9) - 19.5 37. zezero 🇳🇬 (7) - 19.0 38. elvisaboaya 🇬🇭 (5) - 18.0 39. carlomonte 🇩🇪 (7) - 16.0 40. aogundari 🇳🇬 (9) - 16.0 41. kostyan 🇧🇾 (4) - 16.0 42. 2020peter 🇭🇰 (7) - 15.5 43. adetoyeoba 🇧🇯 (4) - 14.0 44. abdu256 🇺🇬 (4) - 13.0 45. harun1 🇳🇬 (3) - 12.0 46. anyvil 🇺🇬 (6) - 12.0 47. tnt9 🇰🇬 (4) - 11.0 48. ayirungo 🇬🇭 (2) - 10.0 49. lordsoso 🇬🇧 (3) - 10.0 50. iliassouqueen 🇧🇯 (3) - 9.0 51. dogout 🇧🇯 (2) - 8.5 52. gameboy199 🇬🇭 (2) - 7.0 53. fajado 🇨🇴 (2) - 6.0 54. manrike 🇨🇴  (4) - 6.0 55. vou1 🇬🇧 (3) - 6.0 56. bobstar 🇧🇯 (1) - 5.5 57. masterfisz 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.5 58. andressumnar 🇨🇴 (4) - 5.0 59. ogbomaga48 🇳🇬 (1) - 5.0 60. prof100 🇬🇭 (2) - 5.0 61. caro377 🇨🇴 (2) - 5.0 62. thesoth 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.0 63. ayostar (?) (1) - 5.0 64. fofo2 🇧🇯 (1) - 4.0 65. acn 🇨🇮 (1) - 4.0 66. adelekepeter 🇳🇬 (1) - 4.0 67. horstaut63 🇦🇹 (2) - 4.0 68. apoovitus 🇬🇭 (1) - 4.0 69. gatoone 🇨🇴 (3) - 4.0 70. mustajaaba 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.5 71. msh76 🇰🇿 (1) - 3.0 72. temifelo 🇳🇬 (1) - 2.5 73. h3333 🇺🇬 (2) - 2.0 74. exclusivegh (1) - 2.0 75. guidob 🇨🇴 (2) - 2.0 76. sara327 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 77. Iowo23 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 78. evawong1011 🇬🇧 (1) - 1.0 79. wcp2347 🇨🇴 (1) - 1.0 80. kamila17 🇰🇿 (1) - 1.0 81. 9aat 🇰🇬 (1) - 0.0 82. lamfat 🇳🇬 (1) - 0.0 In the 26th tournament of the 3rd season’s league, 23 players from 8 countries participated. This week there were no new entrants. Thus the total number of players still stands at 82. All the players in the top 10, except for er17 from Asia, for this tournament are from Afrika: Ghana 🇬🇭 - 4, Nigeria 🇳🇬 - 4, Benin 🇧🇯 - 1, & Kazakhstan 🇰🇿- 1. mrjohnson 🇳🇬 won the tournament, with a perfect score of 7.0 points. Well done to him 👏👏👏. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 placed 2nd with 5.0 points, losing games to mrjohnson 🇳🇬  & geotrouvetout 🇧🇯. geotrouvetout 🇧🇯 also with 5.0 points placed 3rd, losing games to mrjohnson 🇳🇬 & issahfuseinji 🇬🇭.  roberisco 🇬🇭 & issahfuseinji 🇬🇭 placed 4th and 5th respectively. In this edition the top 3 positions were occupied by players from two countries: Nigeria 🇳🇬 & Benin 🇧🇯 . Well done to them & everyone else who participated 👏👏👏. We applaud the two female players bme 🇺🇬 & vivian256 🇺🇬 for participating in this tournament. They really give the rest of the other countries some food for thought. Let’s make greater efforts to encourage and facilitate new players, especially female and the youth to participate in these tournaments. Overall leader the Oga Ota of Nigeria 🇳🇬 mrjohnson’s lead increased with this victory. With 16 wins out of 25, his score is now at 141.5 points. He is now just 8.0 points ahead of issahfuseinji 🇬🇭. The difference between him and the other top positioned players has increased slightly to 8.0, 38.0 & 38.5 points respectively. e17 🇰🇿 now in 5th position with 101.5 points with  💯 participation record. He remains on course to become the Asian Champion. He is 40.0 points away from the leading player mrjohnson 🇳🇬, and 63.0 points ahead of goldm 🇰🇬 the nearest Asian contender, who has accumulated 38.5 points. paulie42 🇨🇿 remains with 77.0 points and is still in 9th position, maintaining his leading margin against incumbent European champion monkftw 🇬🇧 also stationery with 65.0 points., and is on course to claim the European title. American Continental champion daallo 🇲🇽 for the 2nd week has been uncharacteristically absent and thus remains with 52.5 points, he is now in 17th position. He is some 89.0 points off the leading points score. He too is on course to maintain his title, and is 11.0 points ahead of germancali 🇨🇴 the nearest American Continental contender, with 41.5 points & in 22nd position. We continue to observe if other players from the different continents can make up the differences and thwart these predictions becoming a reality. New players have been joining the league. These however are not in the main coming from countries that have not participated in the league before. Will there be new players including master & grandmasters joining the league to add more dynamism to it. Time will tell, as the players from Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬, Barbados 🇧🇧, Burkina Faso 🇧🇫, Cape Verde 🇨🇻, The Gambia 🇬🇲 , Guinea 🇬🇳, Guinea Bissau 🇬🇼, Mali 🇲🇱, Niger 🇳🇪, Sierra Leone 🇸🇱, Saint Lucia 🇱🇨, Togo 🇹🇬 are yet to enter the fray. Players from 16 countries: Afghanistan 🇦🇫, Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿, Barbados 🇧🇧, Cape Verde 🇨🇻, Costa Rica 🇨🇷, France 🇫🇷, Italy 🇮🇹, Portugal 🇵🇹, Russia 🇷🇺, Serbia 🇷🇸, Spain 🇪🇸, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰, Togo 🇹🇬, Turkey 🇹🇷 & Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 that participated in last year’s league are yet to participate in this edition of the league. Do well to recruit players from these teams to participate in the upcoming practice tournaments in preparation for the championships to come. Please take note, the top positioned players who are International or Full members of The Oware Society before the league ends, will be awarded cash prizes. Therefore If you place in the top 3, and wish to be considered for a cash award, join The Oware Society before the league ends. The top placed, International or Full members in the female, junior & continental categories will be awarded cash prizes so long as they are Full or International members and enough funds are raised. If enough funds are raised we will consider awarding prizes for country winners, so long as the country is represented by 5 or more players, is not in the top three or a continental champion.

Nations Online Oware League Ranking points after 25th edition of the 3rd season’s Saturday 18/02/2024 Practice Contacts Only Online Oware Tournament. 1. Ghana 🇬🇭 (18) - 729.5 2. Nigeria 🇳🇬 (12) - 431.0 3. Uganda 🇺🇬 (9) - 317.5 4. Benin 🇧🇯 (9) - 207.0 5. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 (4) - 130.5 6. Colombia 🇨🇴 (13) - 115.5 7. UK 🇬🇧(4) - 82.5 8. Czech Republic 🇨🇿 (1) - 77.0 9. Mexico 🇲🇽 (1) - 52.5 10. Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 (3) - 46.5 11. Belarus 🇧🇾 (1) - 16.0 12. China 🇨🇳 (1) - 15.5 13. Germany 🇩🇪 (1) - 13.0 14. Poland 🇵🇱 (2) - 10.5 15. Unknown (1) - 5.0 16. Ivory Coast 🇨🇮 (1) - 4.0 17. Austria 🇦🇹 (1) - 4.0 With the 25th tournament of the 3rd season behind us, team Ghana 🇬🇭 continues to stretch its lead, fielding as usual the largest contingent, of 6 players accumulating 25.5 points gained in this tournament. This takes its overall tally to 729.5 points, over 1.7 times the nearest contender Nigeria 🇳🇬. Team Nigeria 🇳🇬 accumulated 21.5 points from its 4 players and placed 2nd and is in overall 2nd position with a total of 431.0 points. Benin 🇧🇯 fielded 3 players, placing 3rd and gaining 13.0 points taking their total to 207.0 points and in 4th position overall. Well done to these top 3 placed teams 👏👏👏. Team Uganda 🇺🇬 represented by 3 players, gained 8.5 points, placed 4th. It now has a tally of 317.5 points and is in 3rd position overall. Asian Champions Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 represented by 2 players gained 7.0 points. Taking its total to 130.5 points and in overall 5th position. American Champions Team Colombia 🇨🇴 represented by 2 players and gained 1.0 points, placed 9th and is in overall 6th position with a total of 115.5. European Champions team UK 🇬🇧 represented by 1 player gained 1.0 point and now has a total of 82.5 points, and is placed 8th and is in overall 7th position. This tournament featured 24 players from 9 national teams, participating to claim the weekly title. Players from 4 geopolitical continents: Afrika, America, Asia & Europe were all represented. Featured in the rankings of participating teams are 4 teams from Afrika, 2 from Europe, 1 from the Americas and 2 from Asia. Well done to all the players from the national teams that participated in this tournament 👏👏👏. We encourage those that haven’t participated yet to do so in the next edition. We also encourage those teams that participated in the last edition of the league to commence their campaign for this new season. Finally we encourage players from those countries that are yet to participate in this league to do so. Participate in these tournaments in preparation for the championships to come. This is a geopolitical overall continental breakdown Afrika - 5 America - 2 Asia - 3 Europe - 6 Unknown - 1 Take advantage of these practice tournaments to practice the signing up process in preparation for championships to come. Participate to gain points for your nations team and place it on the Oware map. Well done to all 16 national teams that have participated so far. 👏👏👏 With the 25th edition played, the next edition will be  the half way point in the season. 82 players have participated in this league so far. This is more than half the number that participated in last seasons league. So let’s all chip in to get more players & teams participating. With 27 editions to go is there enough time for teams to mount a challenge for the top 5 - 10 positions. With the weeks advancing and each week gone is a missed opportunity to advance, time will tell.

Below are the tally of points after the 25th tournament of the 3rd season’s Individual Online Oware League by each competitor of the Open Online Practice Oware tournament on Saturday 17/02/2024. 1. mrjohnson 🇳🇬 (22) - 134.5 2. issahfuseinji 🇬🇭 (25) - 128.5 3. roberisco 🇬🇭 (24) - 98.5 4. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 (21) - 98.0 5. e17 🇰🇿 (25) - 97.0 6. abilohre 🇬🇭(19) - 96.5 7. harrison01 🇺🇬 (23) -  86.5 8. josty 🇬🇭 (19) - 86.0 9. paulie42 🇨🇿 (24) - 77.0 10. realionaire 🇳🇬 (22) - 66.0 11. monkftw 🇬🇧 (23) - 65.0 12. mcx1 🇬🇭 (15) - 55.0 13. daallo 🇲🇽 (23) - 52.5 14. kongadji / geotrouvetoute 🇧🇯 (10) - 50.5 15. vivian256 🇺🇬 (20) - 50.0 16. ddi 🇺🇬 (17) - 50.0 17. bme 🇺🇬 (16) - 50.0 18. olowolafeabey 🇳🇬 (15) - 49.5 19. ayoboss 🇧🇯 (8) - 47.5 20. jam314 🇬🇭 (11) -42.5 21. tindan/michae 🇬🇭 (10) - 41.0 22. germancali 🇨🇴 (14) - 38.5 23. dokrichardz 🇬🇭 (10) - 37.0 24. goldm 🇰🇬 (13) - 35.5 25. baobabadji 🇧🇯 (7) - 34.5 26. dnw1236 🇺🇬 (14) - 34.5 27. aganzua 🇬🇭 (8) - 32.5 28. senateur 🇧🇯 (6) - 30.5 29. serikaktayev 🇰🇿 (9) - 29.5 30. oladele 🇳🇬 (8) - 26.5 31. apol86 / nabdamprof 🇬🇭 (8) - 26.0 32. eldani45 🇨🇴 (11) - 24.5 33. atingastephen 🇬🇭 (5) - 21.5 34. bonny7777 🇨🇴 (7) - 20.5 35. desmond22 🇬🇭 (5) - 20.0 36. dalton1 🇺🇬 (9) - 19.5 37. zezero 🇳🇬 (7) - 19.0 38. elvisaboaya 🇬🇭 (5) - 18.0 39. aogundari 🇳🇬 (9) - 16.0 40. kostyan 🇧🇾 (4) - 16.0 41. 2020peter 🇭🇰 (7) - 15.5 42. adetoyeoba 🇧🇯 (4) - 14.0 43. carlomonte 🇩🇪 (6) - 13.0 44. abdu256 🇺🇬 (4) - 13.0 45. harun1 🇳🇬 (3) - 12.0 46. iliassouqueen 🇧🇯 (4) - 12.0 47. anyvil 🇺🇬 (6) - 12.0 48. tnt9 🇰🇬 (4) - 11.0 49. ayirungo 🇬🇭 (2) - 10.0 50. lordsoso 🇬🇧 (3) - 10.0 51. dogout 🇧🇯 (2) - 8.5 52. gameboy199 🇬🇭 (2) - 7.0 53. fajado 🇨🇴 (2) - 6.0 54. manrike 🇨🇴  (4) - 6.0 55. vou1 🇬🇧 (3) - 6.0 56. bobstar 🇧🇯 (1) - 5.5 57. masterfisz 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.5 58. ogbomaga48 🇳🇬 - 5.0 59. prof100 🇬🇭 (2) - 5.0 60. caro377 🇨🇴 (2) - 5.0 61. thesoth 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.0 62. ayostar (?) (1) - 5.0 63. fofo2 🇧🇯 (1) - 4.0 64. andressumnar 🇨🇴 (3) - 4.0 65. acn 🇨🇮 (1) - 4.0 66. adelekepeter 🇳🇬 (1) - 4.0 67. horstaut63 🇦🇹 (2) - 4.0 68. apoovitus 🇬🇭 (1) - 4.0 69. gatoone 🇨🇴 (3) - 4.0 70. mustajaaba 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.5 71. msh76 🇰🇿 (1) - 3.0 72. temifelo 🇳🇬 (1) - 2.5 73. h3333 🇺🇬 (2) - 2.0 74. exclusivegh (1) - 2.0 75. guidob 🇨🇴 (2) - 2.0 76. sara327 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 77. Iowo23 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 78. evawong1011 🇬🇧 (1) - 1.0 79. wcp2347 🇨🇴 (1) - 1.0 80. kamila17 🇰🇿 (1) - 1.0 81. 9aat 🇰🇬 (1) - 0.0 82. lamfat 🇳🇬 (1) - 0.0 In the 25th tournament of the 3rd season’s league, 24 players from 9 countries participated. Welcome fofo2 🇧🇯, ogbomaga48 🇳🇬, & evawong1011 🇬🇧 participating in this seasons league for the first time. The total number of players now stands at 82. All the players in the top 10, except for er17 from Asia, for this tournament are from Afrika: Ghana 🇬🇭 - 4, Nigeria 🇳🇬 - 3, Benin 🇧🇯 - 2, & Kazakhstan 🇰🇿- 7. mrjohnson 🇳🇬 won the tournament, with a score of 6.0 points, losing a game to ayirungo 🇬🇭. Well done to him 👏👏👏. issahfuseinij 🇬🇭 placed 2nd with 5.5 points, losing to ogbomaga48 & drawing with ademolaijaya 🇳🇬. ayirungo 🇬🇭 also with 5.5 points placed 3rd, losing a game to ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 & drawing with jam314 🇬🇭.  ogbomaga48 🇳🇬 & geotrouvetout 🇧🇯 placed 4th and 5th respectively. In this edition the top 3 positions were occupied by players from two countries: Nigeria 🇳🇬 & Ghana 🇬🇭. Well done to them & everyone else who participated 👏👏👏. We applaud the two female players vivian256 🇺🇬 &  evawong1011 🇬🇧 for participating in this tournament. They really give the rest of the other countries some food for thought. Let’s make greater efforts to encourage and facilitate new players, especially female and the youth to participate in these tournaments. Overall leader the Oga Ota of Nigeria 🇳🇬 mrjohnson’s lead increase slightly. With 15 wins out of 25, his score is now at 134.5 points. He is now just 6.0 points ahead of issahfuseinji 🇬🇭. The difference between him and the other top positioned players has increased slightly to 6.0, 36.0 & 36.5 points respectively. e17 🇰🇿 now in 5th position with 97.0 points with  💯 participation record. He has overtaken absent abilohre 🇬🇭, &  remains on course to become the Asian champion. He is 37.5 points away from the leading player mrjohnson 🇳🇬, and 61.5 points ahead of goldm 🇰🇬 the nearest Asian contender, who has accumulated 35.5 points. paulie42 🇨🇿 with 77.0 points and still in 9th position, maintains his leading margin from incumbent European champion monkftw 🇬🇧 with 65.0 points. With monkftw 🇬🇧 absent the difference is now 12.0 points between them, and is on course to claim the European title. American Continental champion daallo 🇲🇽 was uncharacteristically absent and thus remains with 52.5 points, he is still in 13th position. He is some 82.0 points off the leading points score. He too is on course to maintain his title, and is 14.0 points ahead of germancali 🇨🇴 the nearest American Continental contender, with 38.5 points & in 22nd position. We continue to observe if other players from the different continents can make up the differences and thwart these predictions becoming a reality. New players have been joining the league. These however are not in the main coming from countries that have not participated in the league before. Will there be new players including master & grandmasters joining the league to add more dynamism to it. Time will tell, as the players from Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬, Barbados 🇧🇧, Burkina Faso 🇧🇫, Cape Verde 🇨🇻, The Gambia 🇬🇲 , Guinea 🇬🇳, Guinea Bissau 🇬🇼, Mali 🇲🇱, Niger 🇳🇪, Sierra Leone 🇸🇱, Saint Lucia 🇱🇨, Togo 🇹🇬 are yet to enter the fray. Players from 16 countries: Afghanistan 🇦🇫, Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿, Barbados 🇧🇧, Cape Verde 🇨🇻, Costa Rica 🇨🇷, France 🇫🇷, Italy 🇮🇹, Portugal 🇵🇹, Russia 🇷🇺, Serbia 🇷🇸, Spain 🇪🇸, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰, Togo 🇹🇬, Turkey 🇹🇷 & Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 that participated in last year’s league are yet to participate in this edition of the league. Do well to recruit players from these teams to participate in the upcoming practice tournaments in preparation for the championships to come. Please take note, the top positioned players who are International or Full members of The Oware Society before the league ends, will be awarded cash prizes. Therefore If you place in the top 3, and wish to be considered for a cash award, join The Oware Society before the league ends. The top placed, International or Full members in the female, junior & continental categories will be awarded cash prizes so long as they are Full or International members and enough funds are raised. If enough funds are raised we will consider awarding prizes for country winners, so long as the country is represented by 5 or more players, is not in the top three or a continental champion.

Nations Online Oware League Ranking points after 24th edition of the 3rd season’s Saturday 18/02/2024 Practice Contacts Only Online Oware Tournament. 1. Ghana 🇬🇭 (18) - 704.0 2. Nigeria 🇳🇬 (11) - 409.5 3. Uganda 🇺🇬 (9) - 309.0 4. Benin 🇧🇯 (8) - 194.0 5. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 (4) - 123.5 6. Colombia 🇨🇴 (13) - 114.5 7. UK 🇬🇧(3) - 81.5 8. Czech Republic 🇨🇿 (1) - 73.5 9. Mexico 🇲🇽 (1) - 52.5 10. Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 (3) - 44.5 11. Belarus 🇧🇾 (1) - 16.0 12. China 🇨🇳 (1) - 15.5 13. Germany 🇩🇪 (1) - 13.0 14. Poland 🇵🇱 (2) - 10.5 15. Unknown (1) - 5.0 16. Ivory Coast 🇨🇮 (1) - 4.0 17. Austria 🇦🇹 (1) - 4.0 With the 24th tournament of the 3rd season behind us, team Ghana 🇬🇭 continues to stretch its lead, fielding as usual the largest contingent, of 8 players accumulating 34.0 points gained in this tournament. This takes its overall tally to 704.0 points, over 1.7 times the nearest contender Nigeria 🇳🇬. Team Nigeria 🇳🇬 accumulated 16.0 points from its 4 players and placed 2nd and is in overall 2nd position with a total of 409.5 points. Benin 🇧🇯 fielded 3 players, placing 3rd gaining 15.5 points taking their total to 194.0 points and in 4th position overall. Well done to these top 3 placed teams 👏👏👏. Team Uganda 🇺🇬 represented by 4 players, gained 11.5 points, placing 4th. It now has a tally of 309.0 points and is in 3rd position overall. Asian Champions Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 represented by 2 players gained 7.0 points. Taking its total to 123.5 points and in overall 5th position. American Champions Team Colombia 🇨🇴 represented by 3 players and gained 8.0 points, placed 7th and is in overall 6th position with 106.5. European Champions team UK 🇬🇧 represented by 2 players gained 7.0 points and now have a total of 81.5 points placed 6th and is in overall 7th position. This tournament featured a record equalling 31 players from 11 national teams, participating to claim the weekly title. Players from 4 geopolitical continents: Afrika, America, Asia & Europe were all represented. Featured in the rankings of participating teams are 4 teams from Afrika, 3 from Europe, 2 from the Americas and 2 from Asia. Well done to all the players from the national teams that participated in this tournament 👏👏👏. We encourage those that haven’t participated yet to do so in the next edition. We also encourage those teams that participated in the last edition of the league to commence their campaign for this new season. Finally we encourage players from those countries that are yet to participate in this league to do so. Participate in these tournaments in preparation for the championships to come. This is a geopolitical overall continental breakdown Afrika - 5 America - 2 Asia - 3 Europe - 6 Unknown - 1 Take advantage of these practice tournaments to practice the signing up process in preparation for championships to come. Participate to gain points for your nations team and place it on the Oware map. Well done to all 16 national teams that have participated so far. 👏👏👏 With the 24th edition played, we are now approaching the half way mark in the season. 79 players have participated in this league so far. This is more than half the number that participated in last seasons league. So let’s all chip in to get more players & teams participating. With 28 editions to go is there enough time for teams to mount a challenge for the top 5 - 10 positions. With the weeks advancing and each week gone is a missed opportunity to advance, time will tell.

Below are the tally of points after the 24th tournament of the 3rd season’s Individual Online Oware League by each competitor of the Open Online Practice Oware tournament on Saturday 10/02/2024. 1. mrjohnson 🇳🇬 (21) - 128.5 2. issahfuseinji 🇬🇭 (24) - 123.0 3. abilohre 🇬🇭(19) - 96.5 4. roberisco 🇬🇭 (23) - 94.5 5. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 (20) - 93.5 6. e17 🇰🇿 (24) - 93.0 7. josty 🇬🇭 (19) - 86.0 8. harrison01 🇺🇬 (22) -  83.5 9. paulie42 🇨🇿 (23) - 73.5 10. monkftw 🇬🇧 (23) - 65.0 11. realionaire 🇳🇬 (21) - 63.0 12. mcx1 🇬🇭 (15) - 55.0 13. daallo 🇲🇽 (23) - 52.5 14. ddi 🇺🇬 (17) - 50.0 15. bme 🇺🇬 (16) - 50.0 16. olowolafeabey 🇳🇬 (15) - 49.5 17. ayoboss 🇧🇯 (8) - 47.5 18. vivian256 🇺🇬 (19) - 47.0 19. kongadji 🇧🇯 (9) - 45.5 20. jam314 🇬🇭 (10) -40.0 21. germancali 🇨🇴 (13) - 37.5 22. tindan/michae 🇬🇭 (9) - 37.0 23. dokrichardz 🇬🇭 (10) - 37.0 24. baobabadji 🇧🇯 (7) - 34.5 25. goldm 🇰🇬 (12) - 33.5 26. aganzua 🇬🇭 (8) - 32.5 27. dnw1236 🇺🇬 (13) - 32.0 28. senateur 🇧🇯 (6) - 30.5 29. serikaktayev 🇰🇿 (8) - 26.5 30. apol86 / nabdamprof 🇬🇭 (8) - 26.0 31. eldani45 🇨🇴 (11) - 24.5 32. oladele 🇳🇬 (7) - 23.5 33. atingastephen 🇬🇭 (5) - 21.5 34. bonny7777 🇨🇴 (7) - 20.5 35. dalton1 🇺🇬 (9) - 19.5 36. zezero 🇳🇬 (7) - 19.0 37. elvisaboaya 🇬🇭 (5) - 18.0 38. aogundari 🇳🇬 (9) - 16.0 39. desmond22 🇬🇭 (4) - 16.0 40. kostyan 🇧🇾 (4) - 16.0 41. 2020peter 🇭🇰 (7) - 15.5 42. carlomonte 🇩🇪 (6) - 13.0 43. abdu256 🇺🇬 (4) - 13.0 44. harun1 🇳🇬 (3) - 12.0 45. iliassouqueen 🇧🇯 (4) - 12.0 46. anyvil 🇺🇬 (6) - 12.0 47. tnt9 🇰🇬 (4) - 11.0 48. adetoyeoba 🇧🇯 (2) - 10.0 49. lordsoso 🇬🇧 (3) - 10.0 50. dogout 🇧🇯 (2) - 8.5 51. gameboy199 🇬🇭 (2) - 7.0 52. fajado 🇨🇴 (2) - 6.0 53. manrike 🇨🇴  (4) - 6.0 54. vou1 🇬🇧 (3) - 6.0 55. bobstar 🇧🇯 (1) - 5.5 56. masterfisz 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.5 57. prof100 🇬🇭 (2) - 5.0 58. caro377 🇨🇴 (2) - 5.0 59. thesoth 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.0 60. ayostar (?) (1) - 5.0 61. ayirungo 🇬🇭 (1) - 4.5 62. andressumnar 🇨🇴 (2) - 4.0 63. acn 🇨🇮 (1) - 4.0 64. adelekepeter 🇳🇬 (1) - 4.0 65. horstaut63 🇦🇹 (2) - 4.0 66. apoovitus 🇬🇭 (1) - 4.0 67. gatoone 🇨🇴 (3) - 4.0 68. mustajaaba 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.5 69. msh76 🇰🇿 (1) - 3.0 70. temifelo 🇳🇬 (1) - 2.5 71. h3333 🇺🇬 (2) - 2.0 72. exclusivegh (1) - 2.0 73. guidob 🇨🇴 (2) - 2.0 74. sara327 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 75. Iowo23 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 76. wcp2347 🇨🇴 (1) - 1.0 77. kamila17 🇰🇿 (1) - 1.0 78. 9aat 🇰🇬 (1) - 0.0 79. lamfat 🇳🇬 (1) - 0.0 In the 24th tournament of the 3rd season’s league, 31 players from 11 countries participated. Welcome msh76 🇰🇿 a veteran from previous seasons, playing for the first time this season The total number of players  stands at 79. All the players placed in the top 10 for this tournament are from Afrika: Ghana 🇬🇭 - 5, Benin 🇧🇯 - 3, Nigeria 🇳🇬 - 2. tindanmichae 🇬🇭 won the tournament, his first ever with a score of 6.0 points, losing a game to kongadji 🇧🇯. Well done to him 👏👏👏. kongadji 🇧🇯 placed 2nd with 5.5 points, drawing with ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 & losing to josty 🇬🇭.  & drawing with baobabadji 🇧🇯. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 also with 5.5 points placed 3rd, losing drawing with kongadji 🇧🇯 & losing to baobabadji 🇧🇯.  baobabadji 🇧🇯 & adetoyeoba 🇧🇯 placed 4th and 5th respectively. In this edition the top 3 positions were occupied by players from three countries: Ghana 🇬🇭, Benin 🇧🇯 & Nigeria 🇳🇬. Well done to them & everyone else who participated 👏👏👏. We applaud the two female players tnt9 🇰🇬 & vivian256 🇺🇬 for participating in this tournament. They really give the rest of the other countries some food for thought. Let’s make greater efforts to encourage and facilitate new players, especially female and the youth to participate in these tournaments. Overall leader the Oga Ota of Nigeria 🇳🇬 mrjohnson’s lead increase slightly. As a result of an uncharacteristic average performance, still being plagued & network issues. With 14 wins out of 23, his score is now at 1248.5 points. He is now just 5.5 points ahead of issahfuseinji 🇬🇭. The difference between him and the three players has as a consequence increased slightly to 5.5, 32.0 & 34.0 points respectively. e17 🇰🇿 now in 6th position with 93.0  💯 participation record remains on course to become the Asian champion. He is 35.5 points away from the leading player mrjohnson 🇳🇬, and 59.5 points ahead of goldm 🇰🇬 the nearest Asian contender, who has accumulated 33.5 points. paulie42 🇨🇿 with 73.5 points and in 9th position, maintains his leading margin from incumbent European champion monkftw 🇬🇧 with 65.0 points. Having gained only one point, the difference is now 8.5 points between them, and is on course to claim the European title. American Continental champion daallo 🇲🇽 with 52.5 points, is now in 13th position. He is some 76.0 points off the leading points score. He too is on course to maintain his title, and is 15.0 points ahead of germancali 🇨🇴 the nearest American Continental contender, with 37.5 points & in 21st position. We continue to observe if other players from the different continents can make up the differences and thwart these predictions becoming a reality. New players have been joining the league. These however are not in the main coming from countries that have not participated in the league before. Will there be new players including master & grandmasters joining the league to add more dynamism to it. Time will tell, as the players from Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬, Barbados 🇧🇧, Burkina Faso 🇧🇫, Cape Verde 🇨🇻, The Gambia 🇬🇲 , Guinea 🇬🇳, Guinea Bissau 🇬🇼, Mali 🇲🇱, Niger 🇳🇪, Sierra Leone 🇸🇱, Saint Lucia 🇱🇨, Togo 🇹🇬 are yet to enter the fray. Players from 16 countries: Afghanistan 🇦🇫, Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿, Barbados 🇧🇧, Cape Verde 🇨🇻, Costa Rica 🇨🇷, France 🇫🇷, Italy 🇮🇹, Portugal 🇵🇹, Russia 🇷🇺, Serbia 🇷🇸, Spain 🇪🇸, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰, Togo 🇹🇬, Turkey 🇹🇷 & Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 that participated in last year’s league are yet to participate in this edition of the league. Do well to recruit players from these teams to participate in the upcoming practice tournaments in preparation for the championships to come. Please take note, the top positioned players who are International or Full members of The Oware Society before the league ends, will be awarded cash prizes. Therefore If you place in the top 3, and wish to be considered for a cash award, join The Oware Society before the league ends. The top placed, International or Full members in the female, junior & continental categories will be awarded cash prizes so long as they are Full or International members and enough funds are raised. If enough funds are raised we will consider awarding prizes for country winners, so long as the country is represented by 5 or more players, is not in the top three or a continental champion.

Nations Online Oware League Ranking points after 23rd edition of the 3rd season’s Saturday 03/02/2024 Practice Contacts Only Online Oware Tournament. 1. Ghana 🇬🇭 (18) - 667.0 2. Nigeria 🇳🇬 (11) - 393.5 3. Uganda 🇺🇬 (9) - 297.5 4. Benin 🇧🇯 (8) - 178.5 5. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 (3) - 116.5 6. Colombia 🇨🇴 (13) - 106.5 7. UK 🇬🇧(3) - 74.5 8. Czech Republic 🇨🇿 (1) - 72.5 9. Mexico 🇲🇽 (1) - 49.5 10. Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 (3) - 41.5 11. Belarus 🇧🇾 (1) - 16.0 12. China 🇨🇳 (1) - 15.5 13. Germany 🇩🇪 (1) - 10.5 14. Poland 🇵🇱 (2) - 10.5 15. Unknown (1) - 5.0 16. Ivory Coast 🇨🇮 (1) - 4.0 17. Austria 🇦🇹 (1) - 4.0 With the 23rd tournament of the 3rd season behind us, team Ghana 🇬🇭 continues to stretch its lead, fielding the largest contingent, of 7 players accumulating 30.5 points gained in this tournament. This takes its overall tally to 667.0 points, over 1.5 times the nearest contender Nigeria 🇳🇬. Team Benin 🇧🇯 accumulated 14.5 points from its 3 players and placed 2nd and overall 4th with a total of 178.5 points. Nigeria 🇳🇬 fielded 4 players, placing 3rd gaining 12.5 points taking their total to 393.5 points and in 2nd position overall. Well done to these top 3 teams 👏👏👏. Team Uganda 🇺🇬 represented by 4 players, gained 11.5 points, placing 4th. It now has a tally of 297.5 points and in 3rd position overall. Asian Champions Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 represented by 1 player gained 4.0 points. Taking its total to 116.5 points and in overall 5th position. American Champions Team Colombia 🇨🇴 represented by 2 players and gained 4.0 points, placed 6th and is in overall 6th position with 106.5. European Champions team UK 🇬🇧 with 74.5 points placed 8th and is in overall 7th position. This tournament featured 26 players from 11 national teams, participating to claim the weekly title. Players from 4 geopolitical continents: Afrika, America, Asia & Europe were all represented. Featured in the rankings of participating teams are 4 teams from Afrika, 3 from Europe, 2 from the Americas and 2 from Asia. Well done to all the players from the national teams that participated in this tournament 👏👏👏. We encourage those that haven’t participated yet to do so in the next edition. We also encourage those teams that participated in the last edition of the league to commence their campaign for this new season. Finally we encourage players from those countries that are yet to participate in this league to do so. Participate in these tournaments in preparation for the championships to come. This is a geopolitical overall continental breakdown Afrika - 5 America - 2 Asia - 3 Europe - 6 Unknown - 1 Take advantage of these practice tournaments to practice the signing up process in preparation for championships to come. Participate to gain points for your nations team and place it on the Oware map. Well done to all 16 national teams that have participated so far. 👏👏👏 With the 23rd edition played, we are now approaching the half way mark in the season. 78 players have participated in this league so far. This is more than half the number that participated in last seasons league. So let’s all chip in to get more players & teams participating. With 29 editions to go is there enough time for teams to mount a challenge for the top 5 - 10 positions. With the weeks advancing and each week gone is a missed opportunity to advance, time will tell.

Below are the tally of points after the 23rd tournament of the 3rd season’s Individual Online Oware League by each competitor of the Open Online Practice Oware tournament on Saturday 03/02/2024. 1. mrjohnson 🇳🇬 (20) - 124.5 2. issahfuseinji 🇬🇭 (23) - 120.0 3. abilohre 🇬🇭(19) - 96.5 4. roberisco 🇬🇭 (22) - 91.5 5. e17 🇰🇿 (23) - 89.0 6. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 (19) - 88.0 7. josty 🇬🇭 (18) - 81.0 8. harrison01 🇺🇬 (21) -  79.5 9. paulie42 🇨🇿 (22) - 72.5 10. monkftw 🇬🇧 (22) - 62.0 11. realionaire 🇳🇬 (20) - 60.0 12. mcx1 🇬🇭 (14) - 51.0 13. bme 🇺🇬 (16) - 50.0 14. daallo 🇲🇽 (23) - 49.5 15. ayoboss 🇧🇯 (8) - 47.5 16. ddi 🇺🇬 (16) - 46.5 17. olowolafeabey 🇳🇬 (14) - 45.5 18. vivian256 🇺🇬 (18) - 45.0 19. kongadji 🇧🇯 (8) - 40.0 20. dokrichardz 🇬🇭 (10) - 37.0 21. jam314 🇬🇭 (9) -35.0 22. germancali 🇨🇴 (12) - 34.5 23. goldm 🇰🇬 (12) - 33.5 24. tindan 🇬🇭 (8) - 31.0 25. senateur 🇧🇯 (6) - 30.5 26. dnw1236 🇺🇬 (12) - 30.0 27. baobabadji 🇧🇯 (6) - 29.5 28. aganzua 🇬🇭 (7) - 27.5 29. serikaktayev 🇰🇿 (8) - 26.5 30. apol86 / nabdamprof 🇬🇭 (8) - 26.0 31. eldani45 🇨🇴 (11) - 24.5 32. oladele 🇳🇬 (7) - 23.5 33. atingastephen 🇬🇭 (5) - 21.5 34. bonny7777 🇨🇴 (7) - 20.5 35. dalton1 🇺🇬 (9) - 19.5 36. zezero 🇳🇬 (7) - 19.0 37. elvisaboaya 🇬🇭 (5) - 18.0 38. aogundari 🇳🇬 (9) - 16.0 39. desmond22 🇬🇭 (4) - 16.0 40. kostyan 🇧🇾 (4) - 16.0 41. 2020peter 🇭🇰 (7) - 15.5 42. abdu256 🇺🇬 (4) - 13.0 43. harun1 🇳🇬 (3) - 12.0 44. iliassouqueen 🇧🇯 (4) - 12.0 45. anyvil 🇺🇬 (6) - 12.0 46. carlomonte 🇩🇪 (5) - 10.5 47. dogout 🇧🇯 (2) - 8.5 48. tnt9 🇰🇬 (3) - 8.0 49. lordsoso 🇬🇧 (2) - 6.0 50. manrike 🇨🇴  (4) - 6.0 51. vou1 🇬🇧 (3) - 6.0 52. bobstar 🇧🇯 (1) - 5.5 53. masterfisz 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.5 54. caro377 🇨🇴 (2) - 5.0 55. thesoth 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.0 56. adetoyeoba 🇧🇯 (1) - 5.0 57. ayostar (?) (1) - 5.0 58. ayirungo 🇬🇭 (1) - 4.5 59. acn 🇨🇮 (1) - 4.0 60. adelekepeter 🇳🇬 (1) - 4.0 61. horstaut63 🇦🇹 (2) - 4.0 62. apoovitus 🇬🇭 (1) - 4.0 63. gatoone 🇨🇴 (3) - 4.0 64. mustajaaba 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.5 65. prof100 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.0 66. gameboy199 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.0 67. fajado 🇨🇴 (1) - 3.0 68. temifelo 🇳🇬 (1) - 2.5 69. andressumnar 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 70. h3333 🇺🇬 (2) - 2.0 71. exclusivegh (1) - 2.0 72. guidob 🇨🇴 (2) - 2.0 73. sara327 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 74. Iowo23 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 75. wcp2347 🇨🇴 (1) - 1.0 76. kamila17 🇰🇿 (1) - 1.0 77. 9aat 🇰🇬 (1) - 0.0 78. lamfat 🇳🇬 (1) - 0.0 In the 23rd tournament of the 3rd season’s league, 26 players from 11 countries participated. We welcome andresmunar 🇨🇴 taking part in this league for the first time. The total number of players now stand at 78. All the players except e17 🇰🇿, placed in the top 10 for this tournament are from Afrika: Ghana 🇬🇭 - 4, Benin 🇧🇯 - 3, Nigeria 🇳🇬 - 2 & Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 1. issahfuseinji 🇬🇭 won the tournament, his second this season with a score of 6.0 points, losing a game to ademolaijaya 🇳🇬. Well done to him 👏👏👏. geotrouvetout 🇧🇯 placed 2nd with 5.5 points, losing a game to abilohre 🇬🇭 & drawing with baobabadji 🇧🇯. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 also with 5.5 points placed 3rd, losing a game to geotrouvetout 🇧🇯 & drawing with senateur 🇧🇯.  abilohre 🇬🇭 & baobabadji 🇧🇯 placed 4th and 5th respectively. In this edition the top 3 positions were occupied by players from three countries: Ghana 🇬🇭, Benin 🇧🇯 & Nigeria 🇳🇬. Well done to them & everyone else who participated 👏👏👏. We applaud the two female Ugandan players bme 🇺🇬 & vivian256 🇺🇬 for participating in this tournament. They really give the rest of the other countries some food for thought. Let’s make greater efforts to encourage and facilitate new players, especially female and the youth to participate in these tournaments. Overall leader the Oga Ota of Nigeria 🇳🇬 mrjohnson’s lead continues to reduce drastically. As a result of being plagued by uncharacteristic absences & network issues. With 14 wins out of 23, his score remains at 124.5 points. He is now just 4.5 points ahead of issahfuseinji 🇬🇭. The difference between him and the three players has as a consequence reduced to 4.5, 28.0 & 33.0 points respectively. e17 🇰🇿 still in 5th position with 89.0  💯 participation record remains on course to become the Asian champion. He is 35.5 points away from the leading player mrjohnson 🇳🇬, and 55.5 points ahead of goldm 🇰🇬 the nearest Asian contender, who has accumulated 33.5 points. paulie42 🇨🇿 with 72.5 and in 9th position, maintains his leading margin from incumbent European champion monkftw 🇬🇧 with 62.0 points. Having gained only one point, the difference is now 10.5 points between them, and is on course to claim the European title. American Continental champion daallo 🇲🇽 with 49.5 points, is now in 14th position. He has been overtaken by the highest ranking female player bme, with 50.0 points. He is some 75.0 points off the leading points score. He too is on course to maintain his title, still being 15.0 points ahead of germancali 🇨🇴 the nearest American Continental contender, with 34.5 points & in 22nd position. We continue to observe if other players from the different continents can make up the differences and thwart these predictions becoming a reality. New players have been joining the league. These however are not in the main coming from countries that have not participated in the league before. Will there be new players including master & grandmasters joining the league to add more dynamism to it. Time will tell, as the players from Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬, Barbados 🇧🇧, Burkina Faso 🇧🇫, Cape Verde 🇨🇻, The Gambia 🇬🇲 , Guinea 🇬🇳, Guinea Bissau 🇬🇼, Mali 🇲🇱, Niger 🇳🇪, Sierra Leone 🇸🇱, Saint Lucia 🇱🇨, Togo 🇹🇬 are yet to enter the fray. Players from 16 countries: Afghanistan 🇦🇫, Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿, Barbados 🇧🇧, Cape Verde 🇨🇻, Costa Rica 🇨🇷, France 🇫🇷, Italy 🇮🇹, Portugal 🇵🇹, Russia 🇷🇺, Serbia 🇷🇸, Spain 🇪🇸, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰, Togo 🇹🇬, Turkey 🇹🇷 & Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 that participated in last year’s league are yet to participate in this edition of the league. Do well to recruit players from these teams to participate in the upcoming practice tournaments in preparation for the championships to come. Please take note, the top positioned players who are International or Full members of The Oware Society before the league ends, will be awarded cash prizes. Therefore If you place in the top 3, and wish to be considered for a cash award, join The Oware Society before the league ends. The top placed, International or Full members in the female, junior & continental categories will be awarded cash prizes so long as they are Full or International members and enough funds are raised. If enough funds are raised we will consider awarding prizes for country winners, so long as the country is represented by 5 or more players, is not in the top three or a continental champion.

Nations Online Oware League Ranking points after 22nd edition of the 3rd season’s Saturday 27/01/2024 Practice Contacts Only Online Oware Tournament. 1. Ghana 🇬🇭 (18) - 636.5 2. Nigeria 🇳🇬 (11) - 381.0 3. Uganda 🇺🇬 (9) - 286.0 4. Benin 🇧🇯 (8) - 164.0 5. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 (3) - 112.5 6. Colombia 🇨🇴 (12) - 102.5 7. Czech Republic 🇨🇿 (1) - 71.5 8. UK 🇬🇧(3) - 71.5 9. Mexico 🇲🇽 (1) - 47.5 10. Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 (3) - 38.0 11. Belarus 🇧🇾 (1) - 16.0 12. China 🇨🇳 (1) - 15.5 13. Poland 🇵🇱 (2) - 10.5 14. Germany 🇩🇪 (1) - 7.5 15. Unknown (1) - 5.0 16. Ivory Coast 🇨🇮 (1) - 4.0 17. Austria 🇦🇹 (1) - 4.0 With the 22nd tournament of the 3rd season behind us, team Ghana 🇬🇭 continues to stretch its lead, fielding the largest contingent, of 8 players accumulating 34.5 points gained in this tournament. This takes its overall tally to 636.5 points, over 1.5 times the nearest contender Nigeria 🇳🇬. Nigeria 🇳🇬fielded a record 6 players, placing 2nd gaining 19.5 points taking their total to 381.0 points and in 2nd position overall. Team Uganda 🇺🇬 accumulated 14.0 points from its 5 players and placed 3rd and overall 3rd with a total of 286.0 points. Well done to these top 3 teams 👏👏👏. Team Benin 🇧🇯 represented by 3 players, gained 13.5 points once again, placing 4th. It now has a tally of 164.0 points and in 4th position overall. Asian Champions Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 represented by 1 player gained 4.0 points. Taking its total to 112.5 points and in overall 5th position. American Champions Team Colombia 🇨🇴 represented by 1 player and gained 3.5 points, placed 8th and is in overall 6th position with 102.5. European Champions team UK 🇬🇧 & teams Czech Republic 🇨🇿 are in 7th & 8th positions, each tournament with 71.5 points. This tournament featured 29 players from 10 national teams from the 2nd season,  participating to claim the weekly title. Players from 4 geopolitical continents: Afrika, America, Asia & Europe were all represented. Featured in the rankings of  participating teams are 5 teams from Afrika, 1 from Asia, 2 from the Americas and from Europe - 2. Well done to all the players from the national teams that participated in this & past tournaments 👏👏👏. We encourage those that haven’t participated yet to do so in the next edition. We also encourage those teams that participated in the last edition of the league to commence their campaign for this new season. Finally we encourage players from those countries that are yet to participate in this league to do so. Participate in these tournaments in preparation for the championships to come. This is a geopolitical overall continental breakdown Afrika - 5 America - 2 Asia - 3 Europe - 6 Unknown - 1 Take advantage of these practice tournaments to practice the signing up process in preparation for championships to come. Participate to gain points for your nations team and place it on the Oware map. Well done to all 16 national teams that have participated so far,  especially Ivory Coast 🇨🇮participating for the first time this season. 👏👏👏 With the 22nd edition played, we are now approaching the half way mark in the season. 77 players have participated in this league so far. This is more than half the number that participated in last seasons league. So let’s all chip in to get more players & teams participating. With 30 editions to go is there enough time for teams to mount a challenge for the top 5 - 10 positions. With the weeks advancing and each week gone is a missed opportunity to advance, time will tell.

Below are the tally of points after the 22nd tournament of the 3rd season’s Individual Online Oware League by each competitor of the Open Online Practice Oware tournament on Saturday 27/01/2024. 1. mrjohnson 🇳🇬 (19) - 124.5 2. issahfuseinji 🇬🇭 (22) - 114.0 3. abilohre 🇬🇭(18) - 91.5 4. roberisco 🇬🇭 (21) - 87.0 5. e17 🇰🇿 (22) - 85.0 6. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 (18) - 82.5 7. josty 🇬🇭 (18) - 81.0 8. harrison01 🇺🇬 (20) -  76.0 9. paulie42 🇨🇿 (21) - 71.5 10. monkftw 🇬🇧 (21) - 59.0 11. realionaire 🇳🇬 (19) - 56.5 12. mcx1 🇬🇭 (13) - 48.0 13. daallo 🇲🇽 (21) - 47.5 14. ayoboss 🇧🇯 (8) - 47.5 15. bme 🇺🇬 (15) - 47.0 16. ddi 🇺🇬 (16) - 46.5 17. vivian256 🇺🇬 (17) - 43.0 18. olowolafeabey 🇳🇬 (13) - 41.5 19. dokrichardz 🇬🇭 (10) - 37.0 20. jam314 🇬🇭 (9) -35.0 21. kongadji 🇧🇯 (7) - 34.5 22. germancali 🇨🇴 (11) - 32.5 23. tindan 🇬🇭 (8) - 31.0 24. goldm 🇰🇬 (11) - 30.0 25. dnw1236 🇺🇬 (11) - 27.0 26. serikaktayev 🇰🇿 (8) - 26.5 27. senateur 🇧🇯 (5) - 26.0 28. baobabadji 🇧🇯 (5) - 25.0 29. eldani45 🇨🇴 (11) - 24.5 30. aganzua 🇬🇭 (6) - 23.5 31. oladele 🇳🇬 (7) - 23.5 32. apol86 / nabdamprof 🇬🇭 (7) - 22.0 33. bonny7777 🇨🇴 (7) - 20.5 34. zezero 🇳🇬 (7) - 19.0 35. elvisaboaya 🇬🇭 (5) - 18.0 36. dalton1 🇺🇬 (9) - 19.5 37. atingastephen 🇬🇭 (4) - 17.5 38. aogundari 🇳🇬 (9) - 16.0 39. desmond22 🇬🇭 (4) - 16.0 40. kostyan 🇧🇾 (4) - 16.0 41. 2020peter 🇭🇰 (7) - 15.5 42. abdu256 🇺🇬 (4) - 13.0 43. harun1 🇳🇬 (3) - 12.0 44. iliassouqueen 🇧🇯 (4) - 12.0 45. anyvil 🇺🇬 (6) - 12.0 46. dogout 🇧🇯 (2) - 8.5 47. tnt9 🇰🇬 (3) - 8.0 48. carlomonte 🇩🇪 (4) - 7.5 49. lordsoso 🇬🇧 (2) - 6.0 50. manrike 🇨🇴  (4) - 6.0 51. vou1 🇬🇧 (3) - 6.0 52. bobstar 🇧🇯 (1) - 5.5 53. masterfisz 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.5 54. caro377 🇨🇴 (2) - 5.0 55. thesoth 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.0 56. adetoyeoba 🇧🇯 (1) - 5.0 57. ayostar (?) (1) - 5.0 58. ayirungo 🇬🇭 (1) - 4.5 59. acn 🇨🇮 (1) - 4.0 60. adelekepeter 🇳🇬 (1) - 4.0 61. horstaut63 🇦🇹 (2) - 4.0 62. apoovitus 🇬🇭 (1) - 4.0 63. gatoone 🇨🇴 (3) - 4.0 64. mustajaaba 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.5 65. prof100 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.0 66. gameboy199 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.0 67. fajado 🇨🇴 (1) - 3.0 68. temifelo 🇳🇬 (1) - 2.5 69. h3333 🇺🇬 (2) - 2.0 70. exclusivegh (1) - 2.0 71. guidob 🇨🇴 (2) - 2.0 72. sara327 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 73. Iowo23 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 74. wcp2347 🇨🇴 (1) - 1.0 75. kamila17 🇰🇿 (1) - 1.0 76. 9aat 🇰🇬 (1) - 0.0 77. lamfat 🇳🇬 (1) - 0.0 In the 22nd tournament of the 3rd season’s league, 29 players from 10 countries participated. We welcome acn 🇨🇮 taking part in this league for the first time. The total number of players now stand at 77. Once again all the players who placed in the top 10 for this tournament are from Afrika: Ghana 🇬🇭-6, Benin 🇧🇯 - 2 & Nigeria 🇳🇬 - 2. senateur 🇧🇯 won the tournament for the first time this season with a perfect score of 7.0 point. His first this season. Well done to him 👏👏👏. issahfuseinji 🇬🇭 placed 2nd also with 6.0 points, losing a game to senateur 🇧🇯. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 placed 3rd with 5.0 points, losing a games to jam314 🇬🇭 & senateur 🇧🇯.  mcx1 🇬🇭 & roberisco 🇬🇭 placed 4th and 5th respectively. In this edition the top 3 positions were occupied by players from three countries: Benin 🇧🇯, Ghana 🇬🇭 & Nigeria 🇳🇬. Well done to them & everyone else who participated 👏👏👏. We applaud the two female Ugandan players anyvil 🇺🇬 & h3333 🇺🇬 & junior player dalton1 🇺🇬 also from Uganda. for participating in this tournament. They really give the rest of the other countries some food for thought. Let’s make greater efforts to encourage and facilitate new players, especially female and the youth to participate in these tournaments. Overall leader the Oga Ota of Nigeria 🇳🇬 mrjohnson’s lead, reduced drastically  due to his uncharacteristic absence from the tournament. With 14 wins out of 22 and 124.5 points. He is now at risk of being over taken and losing the Afrikan & overall title, if absences continue. Th difference between him and the three players has as a consequence reduced to 10.5, 33.0 & 37.5 points respectively. e17 🇰🇿 still in 5th position with 85.0  💯 participation record remains on course to become the Asian champion. He is 39.5 points away from the leading player mrjohnson 🇳🇬, and 55.0 points ahead of goldm 🇰🇬 the nearest Asian contender, who has accumulated 30.0 points. paulie42 🇨🇿 with 71.5 and in 9th position, maintains his leading margin from incumbent European champion monkftw 🇬🇧 with 59.0 points. Having gained an extra point, his lead is now 12.5 points between them, and is on course to claim the European title. American Continental champion daallo 🇲🇽 with 47.5 points, is now in 13th position. He is some 77.0 points off the leading points score. He too is on course to maintain his title, being 15.0 points ahead of germancali 🇨🇴 the nearest American Continental contender, with 32.5 points & in 22nd position. We continue to observe if other players from the different continents can make up the differences and thwart these predictions becoming a reality. New players have been joining the league. These however are not in the main coming from countries that have not participated in the league before. Will there be new players including master & grandmasters joining the league to add more dynamism to it. Time will tell, as the players from Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬, Barbados 🇧🇧, Burkina Faso 🇧🇫, Cape Verde 🇨🇻, The Gambia 🇬🇲 , Guinea 🇬🇳, Guinea Bissau 🇬🇼, Mali 🇲🇱, Niger 🇳🇪, Sierra Leone 🇸🇱, Saint Lucia 🇱🇨, Togo 🇹🇬 are yet to enter the fray. Players from 16 countries: Afghanistan 🇦🇫, Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿, Barbados 🇧🇧, Cape Verde 🇨🇻, Costa Rica 🇨🇷, France 🇫🇷, Italy 🇮🇹, Portugal 🇵🇹, Russia 🇷🇺, Serbia 🇷🇸, Spain 🇪🇸, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰, Togo 🇹🇬, Turkey 🇹🇷 & Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 that participated in last year’s league are yet to participate in this edition of the league. Do well to recruit players from these teams to participate in the upcoming practice tournaments in preparation for the championships to come. Please take note, the top positioned players who are International or Full members of The Oware Society before the league ends, will be awarded cash prizes. Therefore If you place in the top 3, and wish to be considered for a cash award, join The Oware Society before the league ends. The top placed, International or Full members in the female, junior & continental categories will be awarded cash prizes so long as they are Full or International members and enough funds are raised. If enough funds are raised we will consider awarding prizes for country winners, so long as the country is represented by 5 or more players, is not in the top three or a continental champion.

Nations Online Oware League Ranking points after 21st edition of the 3rd season’s Saturday 20/01/2024 Practice Contacts Only Online Oware Tournament. 1. Ghana 🇬🇭 (18) - 602.0 2. Nigeria 🇳🇬 (11) - 361.5 3. Uganda 🇺🇬 (9) - 272.0 4. Benin 🇧🇯 (8) - 150.5 5. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 (3) - 108.5 6. Colombia 🇨🇴 (12) - 99.0 7. Czech Republic 🇨🇿 (1) - 67.5 8. UK 🇬🇧(3) - 65.5 9. Mexico 🇲🇽 (1) - 45.5 10. Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 (3) - 38.0 11. Belarus 🇧🇾 (1) - 16.0 12. China 🇨🇳 (1) - 15.5 13. Poland 🇵🇱 (2) - 10.5 14. Germany 🇩🇪 (1) - 7.5 15. Unknown (1) - 5.0 16. Austria 🇦🇹 (1) - 4.0 With the 21st tournament of the 3rd season behind us, team Ghana 🇬🇭 continues to stretch its lead, fielding the largest contingent, one again, of 9 players accumulating 36.0 points gained in this tournament. This takes its overall tally to 602.0 points, over 1.5 times the nearest contender Nigeria 🇳🇬. Nigeria 🇳🇬 fielded 4 players, placing 2nd gaining 16.5 points taking their total to 361.5 points and in 2nd position overall. Team Uganda 🇺🇬 accumulated 15.5 points from its 6 players and placed 3rd and overall 3rd with a total of 272.0 points. Well done to these top 3 teams 👏👏👏. Team Benin 🇧🇯 represented by 3 players, gained 13.5 points placing 4th. It now has a tally of 150.5 points and in 4th position overall. Asian Champions Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 represented by 1 player gained 4.0 points. Taking its total to 108.5 points and in overall 5th position. American Champions Team Colombia 🇨🇴 represented by 1 player and gained 3.0 points, placed 9th and is in overall 6th position with 99.0. This tournament featured 30 players from 11 national teams from the 2nd season,  participating to claim the weekly title. Players from 4 geopolitical continents: Afrika, America, Asia & Europe were all represented. Featured in the rankings of  participating teams are 4 teams from Afrika, 2 from Asia, 2 from the Americas and from Europe - 2. European Champions United Kingdom 🇬🇧 represented by 1 player who gained 3.0 points, taking its overall tally to 65.5 and in 8th position overall. Team Czech Republic 🇨🇿 with 67.5 points remains in 7th position having overtaken team UK 🇬🇧 the previous week. Well done to all the players from the national teams that participated in this & past tournaments 👏👏👏. We encourage those that haven’t participated yet to do so in the next edition. We also encourage those teams that participated in the last edition of the league to commence their campaign for this new season. Finally we encourage players from those countries that are yet to participate in this league to do so. Participate in these tournaments in preparation for the championships to come. This is a geopolitical overall continental breakdown Afrika - 4 America - 2 Asia - 3 Europe - 6 Unknown - 1 Take advantage of these practice tournaments to practice the signing up process in preparation for championships to come. Participate to gain points for your nations team and place it on the Oware map. Well done to all 15 national teams that have participated so far 👏👏👏 With the 21st edition played, we are now approaching the half way mark in the season. 76 players have participated in this league so far. This is more than half the number that participated in last seasons league. So let’s all chip in to get more players & teams participating. With 31 editions to go is there enough time for teams to mount a challenge for the top 5 - 10 positions. With the weeks advancing and each week gone is a missed opportunity to advance, time will tell.

Below are the tally of points after the 21st tournament of the 3rd season’s Individual Online Oware League by each competitor of the Open Online Practice Oware tournament on Saturday 20/01/2024. 1. mrjohnson 🇳🇬 (19) - 124.5 2. issahfuseinji 🇬🇭 (21) - 108.0 3. abilohre 🇬🇭(18) - 91.5 4. roberisco 🇬🇭 (20) - 82.5 5. e17 🇰🇿 (21) - 81.0 6. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 (17) - 77.5 7. josty 🇬🇭 (17) - 77.0 8. harrison01 🇺🇬 (19) -  72.5 9. paulie42 🇨🇿 (20) - 67.5 10. monkftw 🇬🇧 (20) - 56.0 11. realionaire 🇳🇬 (18) - 54.0 12. ayoboss 🇧🇯 (8) - 47.5 13. bme 🇺🇬 (15) - 47.0 14. ddi 🇺🇬 (16) - 46.5 15. daallo 🇲🇽 (20) - 45.5 16. vivian256 🇺🇬 (17) - 43.0 17. mcx1 🇬🇭 (12) - 43.0 18. dokrichardz 🇬🇭 (10) - 37.0 19. olowolafeabey 🇳🇬 (12) - 37.0 20. jam314 🇬🇭 (8) -31.0 21. goldm 🇰🇬 (11) - 30.0 22. kongadji 🇧🇯 (6) - 30.0 23. germancali 🇨🇴 (10) -29.0 24. tindan 🇬🇭 (7) - 27.5 25. serikaktayev 🇰🇿 (8) - 26.5 26. baobabadji 🇧🇯 (5) - 25.0 27. eldani45 🇨🇴 (11) - 24.5 28. dnw1236 🇺🇬 (8) - 23.5 29. oladele 🇳🇬 (7) - 23.5 30. bonny7777 🇨🇴 (7) - 20.5 31. senateur 🇧🇯 (4) - 19.0 32. aganzua 🇬🇭 (5) - 19.0 33. apol86 / nabdamprof 🇬🇭 (6) - 19.0 34. elvisaboaya 🇬🇭 (5) - 18.0 35. dalton1 🇺🇬 (8) - 17.5 36. atingastephen 🇬🇭 (4) - 17.5 37. zezero 🇳🇬 (6) - 16.5 38. desmond22 🇬🇭 (4) - 16.0 39. kostyan 🇧🇾 (4) - 16.0 40. 2020peter 🇭🇰 (7) - 15.5 41. aogundari 🇳🇬 (8) - 15.0 42. abdu256 🇺🇬 (4) - 13.0 43. iliassouqueen 🇧🇯 (3) - 10.0 44. anyvil 🇺🇬 (5) - 9.0 45. dogout 🇧🇯 (2) - 8.5 46. harun1 🇳🇬 (2) - 8.0 47. tnt9 🇰🇬 (3) - 8.0 48. carlomonte 🇩🇪 (4) - 7.5 49. manrike 🇨🇴  (4) - 6.0 50. vou1 🇬🇧 (3) - 6.0 51. bobstar 🇧🇯 (1) - 5.5 52. masterfisz 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.5 53. caro377 🇨🇴 (2) - 5.0 54. thesoth 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.0 55. adetoyeoba 🇧🇯 (1) - 5.0 56. ayostar (?) (1) - 5.0 57. ayirungo 🇬🇭 (1) - 4.5 58. adelekepeter 🇳🇬 (1) - 4.0 59. horstaut63 🇦🇹 (2) - 4.0 60. apoovitus 🇬🇭 (1) - 4.0 61. gatoone 🇨🇴 (3) - 4.0 62. mustajaaba 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.5 63. prof100 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.0 64. lordsoso 🇬🇧 (1) - 3.0 65. gameboy199 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.0 66. fajado 🇨🇴 (1) - 3.0 67. temifelo 🇳🇬 (1) - 2.5 68. exclusivegh (1) - 2.0 69. guidob 🇨🇴 (2) - 2.0 70. sara327 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 71. Iowo23 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 72. wcp2347 🇨🇴 (1) - 1.0 73. kamila17 🇰🇿 (1) - 1.0 74. 9aat 🇰🇬 (1) - 0.0 75. lamfat 🇳🇬 (1) - 0.0 76. h3333 🇺🇬 (1) - 0.0 In the 21st tournament of the 3rd season’s league, 30 players from 11 countries participated. We welcome ayirungo 🇬🇭taking part in this season’s league for the first time. The total number of players now stand at 76. All the players who placed in the top 10 for this tournament are from Afrika: Ghana 🇬🇭- 5, Benin 🇧🇯 - 3 & Nigeria 🇳🇬 - 2. issahfuseinji 🇬🇭 won the tournament for the first time this season with a score of  6.0 points, in the toughest & most dramatic tournament so far. He drew 2 matches with ayirungo & mrjohnson. Well done to him 👏👏👏. abilohre 🇬🇭 placed 2nd also with 6.0 points, losing a game to ayirungo 🇬🇭. mrjohnson 🇳🇬 placed 3rd with 5.5 points, losing a game to abilohre 🇬🇭 & drawing issahfuseinji 🇬🇭.  baobabadji 🇧🇯 & ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 placed 4th and 5th respectively. In this edition the top 3 positions were occupied by players from two countries: Ghana 🇬🇭& Nigeria 🇳🇬. The Ghanaian players definitely brought their A game to the tournament. Up to round 5 it looked like they would take the top 3 positions, until ayirungo 🇬🇭lost to mrjohnson 🇳🇬. Well done to them & everyone else who participated 👏👏👏. We applaud the three female Ugandan players bme 🇺🇬, vivian256 🇺🇬, anyvil 🇺🇬 & junior player dalton1 🇺🇬 also from Uganda. for participating in this tournament. They really give the rest of the other countries some food for thought.  Let’s make greater efforts to encourage and facilitate new players, especially female and the youth to participate in these tournaments. Overall leader the Oga Ota of Nigeria 🇳🇬 mrjohnson’s lead, reduced slightly due to his 3rd position. With 14 wins out of 21 and 124.5 points. He is still on course to retain the Afrikan & overall title. The overall difference between top four players has as a consequence slightly reduced to 16.5, 33.0 & 42.0 points respectively. e17 🇰🇿 now in 5th position with 81.0  💯 participation record remains on course to become the Asian champion. He is 43.5 points away from the leading player mrjohnson 🇳🇬, and 51.0 points ahead of goldm 🇰🇬 the nearest Asian contender, who has accumulated 30.0 points. paulie42 🇨🇿 with 67.5 and in 9th position, maintains his leading margin from incumbent European champion monkftw 🇬🇧 with 56.0 points. Having both gained 3.0 with 11.5 points between them, and is on course to claim the European title. American Continental champion daallo 🇲🇽 with 45.5 points, drops to the 15th position. He is some 79.0 points off the leading points score. He too is on course to maintain his title, being 21.0 points ahead of eldani45 🇨🇴 the nearest American Continental contender, with 24.5 points & in 27th position. We continue to observe if other players from the different continents can make up the differences and thwart these predictions becoming a reality. New players have been joining the league. These however are not coming from countries that have not participated in the league before. Will there be new players including master & grandmasters joining the league to add more dynamism to it. Time will tell, as the players from Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬, Barbados 🇧🇧, Burkina Faso 🇧🇫, Cape Verde 🇨🇻, The Gambia 🇬🇲 , Guinea 🇬🇳, Guinea Bissau 🇬🇼 Ivory Coast 🇨🇮, Mali 🇲🇱, Niger 🇳🇪, Sierra Leone 🇸🇱, Saint Lucia 🇱🇨, Togo 🇹🇬 are yet to enter the fray. Players from 17 countries: Afghanistan 🇦🇫, Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿, Barbados 🇧🇧, Cape Verde 🇨🇻, Costa Rica 🇨🇷, France 🇫🇷, Italy 🇮🇹, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮, Portugal 🇵🇹, Russia 🇷🇺, Serbia 🇷🇸, Spain 🇪🇸, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰, Togo 🇹🇬, Turkey 🇹🇷 & Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 that participated in last year’s league are yet to participate in this edition of the league. Do well to recruit players from these teams to participate in the upcoming practice tournaments in preparation for the championships to come. Please take note, the top positioned players who are International or Full members of The Oware Society before the league ends, will be awarded cash prizes. Therefore If you place in the top 3, and wish to be considered for a cash award, join The Oware Society before the league ends. The top placed, International or Full members in the female, junior & continental categories will be awarded cash prizes so long as they are Full or International members and enough funds are raised. If enough funds are raised we will consider awarding prizes for country winners, so long as the country is represented by 5 or more players, is not in the top three or a continental champion.

Nations Online Oware League Ranking points after 20th edition of the 3rd season’s Saturday 13/01/2024 Practice Contacts Only Online Oware Tournament. 1. Ghana 🇬🇭 (17) - 566.0 2. Nigeria 🇳🇬 (11) - 345.0 3. Uganda 🇺🇬 (9) - 256.5 4. Benin 🇧🇯 (8) - 137.0 5. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 (3) - 104.5 6. Colombia 🇨🇴 (12) - 96.0 7. Czech Republic 🇨🇿 (1) - 64.5 8. UK 🇬🇧(3) - 62.5 9. Mexico 🇲🇽 (1) - 44.5 10. Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 (3) - 34.5 11. Belarus 🇧🇾 (1) - 16.0 12. China 🇨🇳 (1) - 15.5 13. Poland 🇵🇱 (2) - 10.5 14. Germany 🇩🇪 (1) - 6.5 15. Unknown (1) - 5.0 16. Austria 🇦🇹 (1) - 4.0 With the 20th tournament of the 3rd season behind us, team Ghana 🇬🇭 continues to stretch its lead, fielding the largest contingent, of 9 players accumulating 35.5 points gained in this tournament. This takes its overall tally to 566.0 points, over 1.5 times the nearest contender Nigeria 🇳🇬. Nigeria 🇳🇬fielded 3 players, placing 3rd gaining 14.0 points taking their total to 345.0 points and in 2nd position overall. Team Uganda 🇺🇬 accumulated 16.0 points from its 6 players  and placed 2nd and overall 3rd with a total of 256.5 points. Well done to these top 3 teams 👏👏👏. Team Benin 🇧🇯 represented by 4 players, gained 12.0 points placed 4th. It now has a tally of 137.0 points and in 4th position overall. Asian Champions Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 represented by 2 players gained 7.0 points. Taking its total to 104.5 points and in overall 5th position. American Champions Team Colombia 🇨🇴 represented by 2 players and gaining 4.0 points, placed 6th and is in overall 6th position with 96.0. This tournament featured 28 players from 10 national teams from the 2nd season,  participating to claim the weekly title. Players from 4 geopolitical continents: Afrika, America, Asia & Europe were all represented. Featured in the rankings of  participating teams are 4 teams from Afrika, from Asia - 2, from the Americas - 2 and from Europe - 2. European Champions United Kingdom 🇬🇧 represented by 1 player who gained 2.0 points, taking its overall tally to 62.5 and in 8th position overall. Team Czech Republic 🇨🇿 with 64.5 points now having overtaken team UK 🇬🇧 on points. Well done to all the players from the national teams that participated in this & past tournaments 👏👏👏. We encourage those that haven’t participated yet to do so in the next edition. We also encourage those teams that participated in the last edition of the league to commence their campaign for this new season. Finally we encourage players from those countries that are yet to participate in this league to do so. Participate in these tournaments in preparation for the championships to come. This is a geopolitical overall continental breakdown Afrika - 4 America - 2 Asia - 3 Europe - 6 Unknown - 1 Take advantage of these practice tournaments to practice the signing up process in preparation for championships to come. Participate to gain points for your nations team and place it on the Oware map. Well done to all 15 national teams that have participated so far 👏👏👏 With the 20th edition played, we are now approaching the half way mark in the season. 75 players have participated in this league so far. This is more than half the number that participated in last seasons league. So let’s all chip in to get more players & teams participating. With 33 editions to go is there enough time for teams to mount a challenge for the top 5 - 10 positions. With the weeks advancing and each week gone is a missed opportunity to advance, time will tell.

Below are the tally of points after the 20th tournament of the 3rd season’s Individual Online Oware League by each competitor of the Open Online Practice Oware tournament on Saturday 13/01/2024. 1. mrjohnson 🇳🇬 (18) - 119.0 2. issahfuseinji 🇬🇭 (20) - 102.0 3. abilohre 🇬🇭(17) - 85.5 4. roberisco 🇬🇭 (19) - 79.5 5. e17 🇰🇿 (20) - 77.0 6. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 (16) - 72.5 7. harrison01 🇺🇬 (19) -  72.5 8. josty 🇬🇭 (16) - 72.5 9. paulie42 🇨🇿 (19) - 64.5 10. monkftw 🇬🇧 (19) - 53.0 11. realionaire 🇳🇬 (17) - 52.0 12. daallo 🇲🇽 (19) - 44.5 13. bme 🇺🇬 (14) - 44.0 14. ayoboss 🇧🇯 (7) - 43.0 15. mcx1 🇬🇭 (12) - 43.0 16. ddi 🇺🇬 (15) - 43.0 17. vivian256 🇺🇬 (16) - 41.0 18. olowolafeabey 🇳🇬 (12) - 37.0 19. dokrichardz 🇬🇭 (9) - 33.0 20. jam314 🇬🇭 (8) -31.0 21. kongadji 🇧🇯 (6) - 30.0 22. tindan 🇬🇭 (7) - 27.5 23. goldm 🇰🇬 (10) - 27.5 24. serikaktayev 🇰🇿 (8) - 26.5 25. germancali 🇨🇴 (9) -26.0 26. eldani45 🇨🇴 (11) - 24.5 27. oladele 🇳🇬 (7) - 23.5 28. bonny7777 🇨🇴 (7) - 20.5 29. dnw1236 🇺🇬 (7) - 20.5 30. baobabadji 🇧🇯 (4) - 20.0 31. elvisaboaya 🇬🇭 (5) - 18.0 32. atingastephen 🇬🇭 (4) - 17.5 33. zezero 🇳🇬 (6) - 16.5 34. kostyan 🇧🇾 (4) - 16.0 35. dalton1 🇺🇬 (7) - 15.5 36. 2020peter 🇭🇰 (7) - 15.5 37. aganzua 🇬🇭 (4) - 15.0 38. apol86 / nabdamprof 🇬🇭 (5) - 15.0 39. senateur 🇧🇯 (3) - 15.0 40. aogundari 🇳🇬 (8) - 15.0 41. abdu256 🇺🇬 (4) - 13.0 42. desmond22 🇬🇭 (3) - 12.0 43. iliassouqueen 🇧🇯 (3) - 10.0 44. dogout 🇧🇯 (2) - 8.5 45. tnt9 🇰🇬 (2) - 7.0 46. anyvil 🇺🇬 (4) - 7.0 47. carlomonte 🇩🇪 (3) - 6.5 48. manrike 🇨🇴  (4) - 6.0 49. vou1 🇬🇧 (3) - 6.0 50. bobstar 🇧🇯 (1) - 5.5 51. masterfisz 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.5 52. caro377 🇨🇴 (2) - 5.0 53. thesoth 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.0 54. adetoyeoba 🇧🇯 (1) - 5.0 55. ayostar (?) (1) - 5.0 56. adelekepeter 🇳🇬 (1) - 4.0 57. harun1 🇳🇬 (1) - 4.0 58. horstaut63 🇦🇹 (2) - 4.0 59. apoovitus 🇬🇭 (1) - 4.0 60. gatoone 🇨🇴 (3) - 4.0 61. mustajaaba 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.5 62. prof100 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.0 63. lordsoso 🇬🇧 (1) - 3.0 64. gameboy199 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.0 65. fajado 🇨🇴 (1) - 3.0 66. temifelo 🇳🇬 (1) - 2.5 67. exclusivegh (1) - 2.0 68. guidob 🇨🇴 (2) - 2.0 69. sara327 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 70. Iowo23 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 71. wcp2347 🇨🇴 (1) - 1.0 72. kamila17 🇰🇿 (1) - 1.0 73. 9aat 🇰🇬 (1) - 0.0 74. lamfat 🇳🇬 (1) - 0.0 75. h3333 🇺🇬 (1) - 0.0 In the 20th tournament of the 3rd season’s league, 28 players from 10 countries participated. The total number of players still stands at 75. All the players in the top 10 are from Afrika: Benin 🇧🇯 - 2, Nigeria 🇳🇬 - 2, & Ghana 🇬🇭 - 5. ayoboss 🇧🇯 won the tournament with a perfect 7.0 point score, bringing his wins to 4 so far. Well done to him 👏👏👏. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 placed 2nd with 5.5 points, losing a game to baobabadji 🇧🇯 and drawing with roberisco 🇬🇭. baobabadji 🇧🇯 placed 3rd with 5.0 points, losing a games to ayoboss 🇧🇯 & issahfuseinji 🇬🇭.  olowolafeabey🇳🇬 & issahfuseinji 🇬🇭 placed 4th and 5th respectively. In this edition the top 3 positions were occupied by players from two countries: Benin 🇧🇯 & Nigeria 🇳🇬. Well done to them & everyone else who participated 👏👏👏. We applaud the two female players bme 🇺🇬 & vivian256 🇺🇬 & junior players from dalton1 🇺🇬 & eldani45 🇨🇴 for participating in this tournament. Let’s make greater efforts to encourage and facilitate new players, especially female and the youth to participate in these tournaments. Overall leader the Oga Ota of Nigeria 🇳🇬 mrjohnson’s lead, reduced due to his absence a victim of network issues. With 14 wins out of 20 and 119.0 points. He is still on course to retain the Afrikan & overall title. The overall difference between top four players has as a consequence reduced to 17.0, 33.5 & 39.5 points respectively. e17 🇰🇿 now in 5th position remains on course to become the Asian champion. Having participated in all of this season’s tournament’s with 77.0 points. He is 42.0 points away from the leading player mrjohnson 🇳🇬, and 49.5 points ahead of goldm 🇰🇬 who has accumulated 27.5 points. paulie42 🇨🇿 with 64.5 and now in 9th position, continues to pull away from incumbent European champion monkftw 🇬🇧with 53.0 points, with 11.5 points between them, and is on course to claim the European title. American Continental champion daallo 🇲🇽 with 44.5 points, remains now in 12th position. He is some 74.5 points off the leading points score. He too is on course to maintain his title, being 20.0 points ahead of eldani45 🇨🇴 with 24.5 points & in 26th position. We continue to observe if other players from the different continents can make up the differences and thwart these predictions becoming a reality. New players have been joining the league. These however are not coming from countries that have not participated in the league before. Will there be new players including master & grandmasters joining the league to add more dynamism to it. Time will tell, as the players from Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬, Barbados 🇧🇧, Burkina Faso 🇧🇫, Cape Verde 🇨🇻, The Gambia 🇬🇲 , Guinea 🇬🇳, Guinea Bissau 🇬🇼 Ivory Coast 🇨🇮, Mali 🇲🇱, Niger 🇳🇪, Sierra Leone 🇸🇱, Saint Lucia 🇱🇨, Togo 🇹🇬 are yet to enter the fray. Players from 17 countries: Afghanistan 🇦🇫, Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿, Barbados 🇧🇧, Cape Verde 🇨🇻, Costa Rica 🇨🇷, France 🇫🇷, Italy 🇮🇹, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮, Portugal 🇵🇹, Russia 🇷🇺, Serbia 🇷🇸, Spain 🇪🇸, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰, Togo 🇹🇬, Turkey 🇹🇷 & Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 that participated in last year’s league are yet to participate in this edition of the league. Do well to recruit players from these teams to participate in the upcoming practice tournaments in preparation for the championships to come. Please take note, the top positioned players who are International or Full members of The Oware Society before the league ends, will be awarded cash prizes. Therefore If you place in the top 3, and wish to be considered for a cash award, join The Oware Society before the league ends. The top placed, International or Full members in the female, junior & continental categories will be awarded cash prizes so long as they are Full or International members and enough funds are raised. If enough funds are raised we will consider awarding prizes for country winners, so long as the country is represented by 5 or more players, is not in the top three or a continental champion.

Nations Online Oware League Ranking points after 19th edition of the 3rd season’s Saturday 06/01/2024 Practice Contacts Only Online Oware Tournament. 1. Ghana 🇬🇭 (17) - 530.5 2. Nigeria 🇳🇬 (11) - 331.0 3. Uganda 🇺🇬 (9) - 240.5 4. Benin 🇧🇯 (8) - 125.0 5. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 (3) - 97.5 6. Colombia 🇨🇴 (12) - 92.0 7. Czech Republic 🇨🇿 (1) - 60.5 8. UK 🇬🇧(3) - 60.5 9. Mexico 🇲🇽 (1) - 42.0 10. Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 (3) - 34.5 11. Belarus 🇧🇾 (1) - 16.0 12. China 🇨🇳 (1) - 15.5 13. Poland 🇵🇱 (2) - 10.5 14. Germany 🇩🇪 (1) - 5.5 15. Unknown (1) - 5.0 16. Austria 🇦🇹 (1) - 4.0 With the 19th tournament of the 3rd season behind us, team Ghana 🇬🇭 continues to stretch its lead, fielding the largest contingent, of 7 players accumulating 29.5 points gained in this tournament. This takes its overall tally to 530.5 points, over 1.5 times the nearest contender Nigeria 🇳🇬. Nigeria 🇳🇬fielded 5 players, placing 2nd gaining 19.0 points taking their total to 331.0 points and in 2nd position overall. Team Benin 🇧🇯 accumulated 16.0 points from its 3 players  and placed 3rd and overall 4th with a total of 125 points. Well done to these top 3 teams 👏👏👏. Team Uganda 🇺🇬 represented by 4 players, gained 8.0 points placed 4th. It now has a tally of 240.5 points and in 3rd position overall. American Champions Team Colombia 🇨🇴 represented by 2 players and gaining 5.5 points, placed 5th and is in overall 6th position with 92.0. Well done to them and all the other teams. This tournament featured 26 players from 10 national teams from the 2nd season,  participating to claim the weekly title. Players from 4 geopolitical continents: Afrika, America, Asia & Europe were all represented. Featured in the rankings of  participating teams are 4 teams from Afrika, from Asia - 2, from the Americas - 2 and from Europe - 2. Asian Champions Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 placed 6th with 1 player gaining 4.0 points, totalling 97.5 and is still in overall 5th position. European Champions the UK 🇬🇧 have accumulated 60.5 points and is in overall 8th position, with team Czech Republic 🇨🇿 now equaling team UK 🇬🇧 on points. Well done to all the players from the national teams that participated in this & past tournaments 👏👏👏. We encourage those that haven’t participated yet to do so in the next edition. We also encourage those teams that participated in the last edition of the league to commence their campaign for this new season. Finally we encourage players from those countries that are yet to participate in this league to do so. Participate in these tournaments in preparation for the championships to come. This is a geopolitical overall continental breakdown Afrika - 4 America - 2 Asia - 3 Europe - 6 Unknown - 1 Take advantage of these practice tournaments to practice the signing up process in preparation for championships to come. Participate to gain points for your nations team and place it on the Oware map. Well done to all 15 national teams that have participated so far 👏👏👏 With the 19th edition played, we are now approaching the half way mark in the season. 75 players have participated in this league so far. This is more than half the number that participated in last seasons league. So let’s all chip in to get more players & teams participating. With 33 editions to go is there enough time for teams to mount a challenge for the top 5 - 10 positions. With the weeks advancing and each week gone is a missed opportunity to advance, time will tell.

Below are the tally of points after the 19th tournament of the 3rd season’s Individual Online Oware League by each competitor of the Open Online Practice Oware tournament on Saturday 06/01/2024. 1. mrjohnson 🇳🇬 (18) - 119.0 2. issahfuseinji 🇬🇭 (19) - 97.0 3. abilohre 🇬🇭(15) - 81.5 4. roberisco 🇬🇭 (18) - 75.0 5. e17 🇰🇿 (19) - 74.0 6. josty 🇬🇭 (15) - 69.5 7. harrison01 🇺🇬 (18) -  68.5 8. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 (15) - 67.0 9. paulie42 🇨🇿 (18) - 60.5 10. monkftw 🇬🇧 (18) - 51.0 11. realionaire 🇳🇬 (16) - 48.5 12. daallo 🇲🇽 (18) - 42.0 13. bme 🇺🇬 (13) - 41.5 14. ddi 🇺🇬 (14) - 41.0 15. mcx1 🇬🇭 (11) - 40.0 16. vivian256 🇺🇬 (15) - 39.0 17. ayoboss 🇧🇯 (6) - 36.0 18. olowolafeabey 🇳🇬 (11) - 32.0 19. jam314 🇬🇭 (8) -31.0 20. kongadji 🇧🇯 (6) - 30.0 21. dokrichardz 🇬🇭 (8) - 29.0 22. tindan 🇬🇭 (7) - 27.5 23. goldm 🇰🇬 (10) - 27.5 24. oladele 🇳🇬 (7) - 23.5 25. eldani45 🇨🇴 (10) - 23.5 26. germancali 🇨🇴 (8) -23.0 27. serikaktayev 🇰🇿 (7) - 22.5 28. bonny7777 🇨🇴 (7) - 20.5 29. elvisaboaya 🇬🇭 (5) - 18.0 30. dnw1236 🇺🇬 (7) - 17.5 31. zezero 🇳🇬 (6) - 16.5 32. kostyan 🇧🇾 (4) - 16.0 33. 2020peter 🇭🇰 (7) - 15.5 34. baobabadji 🇧🇯 (3) - 15.0 35. senateur 🇧🇯 (3) - 15.0 36. aogundari 🇳🇬 (8) - 15.0 37. dalton1 🇺🇬 (6) - 13.0 38. abdu256 🇺🇬 (4) - 13.0 39. atingastephen 🇬🇭 (3) - 12.5 40. desmond22 🇬🇭 (3) - 12.0 41. apol86 / nabdamprof 🇬🇭 (4) - 12.0 42. aganzua 🇬🇭 (3) - 11.0 43. iliassouqueen 🇧🇯 (3) - 10.0 44. dogout 🇧🇯 (2) - 8.5 45. tnt9 🇰🇬 (2) - 7.0 46. anyvil 🇺🇬 (4) - 7.0 47. manrike 🇨🇴  (4) - 6.0 48. vou1 🇬🇧 (3) - 6.0 49. carlomonte 🇩🇪 (2) - 5.5 50. bobstar 🇧🇯 (1) -5.5 51. masterfisz 🇵🇱 (2) -5.5 52. caro377 🇨🇴 (2) - 5.0 53. thesoth 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.0 54. adetoyeoba 🇧🇯 (1) - 5.0 55. ayostar (?) (1) - 5.0 56. adelekepeter 🇳🇬 (1) - 4.0 57. harun1 🇳🇬 (1) - 4.0 58. horstaut63 🇦🇹 (2) - 4.0 59. apoovitus 🇬🇭 (1) - 4.0 60. gatoone 🇨🇴 (3) - 4.0 61. mustajaaba 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.5 62. prof100 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.0 63. lordsoso 🇬🇧 (1) - 3.0 64. gameboy199 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.0 65. fajado 🇨🇴 (1) - 3.0 66. temifelo 🇳🇬 (1) - 2.5 67. exclusivegh (1) - 2.0 68. guidob 🇨🇴 (2) - 2.0 69. sara327 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 70. Iowo23 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 71. wcp2347 🇨🇴 (1) - 1.0 72. kamila17 🇰🇿 (1) - 1.0 73. 9aat 🇰🇬 (1) - 0.0 74. lamfat 🇳🇬 (1) - 0.0 75. h3333 🇺🇬 (1) - 0.0 In the 19th tournament of the 3rd season’s league, 26 players from 10 countries participated. The total number of players now stands at 75. With the addition of 2 Nigerian players: adelekepeter & harun1. Once again all the players, except Asian player from the Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 - e17, in the top 10 are from Afrika: Benin 🇧🇯 - 3, Nigeria 🇳🇬 - 3 Ghana 🇬🇭 - 3, & Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 - 1. ayoboss 🇧🇯 won the tournament with a perfect 6.5 point score, bringing his wins to 3 so far. Well done to him 👏👏👏. mrjohnson 🇳🇬 placed 2nd with 6.0 points, losing a game to ayoboss 🇧🇯. abilohre 🇬🇭placed 3rd with 5.0 points, losing a games to ayoboss 🇧🇯 & mrjohnson🇳🇬.  baobabadji  🇧🇯 & issahfuseinji 🇬🇭 placed 4th and 5th respectively. In this edition the top 3 positions were occupied by players from three countries: Benin 🇧🇯, Nigeria 🇳🇬 & Ghana 🇬🇭. Well done to them & everyone else who participated 👏👏👏. We applaud the single female player vivian256 & junior players from Ugandan 🇺🇬 dalton1 & bonny7777 from Colombia 🇨🇴 for participating in this tournament. Let’s make greater efforts to encourage and facilitate new players, especially female and the youth to participate in these tournaments. Overall leader the Oga Ota of Nigeria 🇳🇬 mrjohnson’s continues to stretch his lead, with 14 wins out of 19 and 119.0 points. He is on course to retain the Afrikan & overall title. The overall difference between top four players has increased slightly to 22.0, 37.5 & 44.0 points respectively. e17 🇰🇿 in 6th  position remains on course to become the Asian champion. Having participated in all of this season’s tournament’s with 74.0 points. He is 45.0 points away from the leading player mrjohnson 🇳🇬, and 46.5 points ahead of goldm 🇰🇬 who has accumulated 27.5 points. paulie42 🇨🇿 with 60.5 and in 10th position, continues to pull away from incumbent European champion monkftw 🇬🇧 with 51.0 points, with 9.5 points between them, and is on course to claim the European title. American Continental champion daallo 🇲🇽 with 42.0 points, remains in 13th position. He is some 77.0 points off the leading points score. He too is on course to maintain his title, being 18.5 points ahead of eldani45 🇨🇴 with 23.5 points & in 25th position. We continue to observe if other players from the different continents can make up the differences and thwart these predictions becoming a reality. New players have been joining the league. These however are not coming from countries that have not participated in the league before. Will there be new players including master & grandmasters joining the league to add more dynamism to it. Time will tell, as the players from Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬, Barbados 🇧🇧, Burkina Faso 🇧🇫, Cape Verde 🇨🇻, The Gambia 🇬🇲 , Guinea 🇬🇳, Guinea Bissau 🇬🇼 Ivory Coast 🇨🇮, Mali 🇲🇱, Niger 🇳🇪, Sierra Leone 🇸🇱, Saint Lucia 🇱🇨, Togo 🇹🇬 are yet to enter the fray. Players from 17 countries: Afghanistan 🇦🇫, Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿, Barbados 🇧🇧, Cape Verde 🇨🇻, Costa Rica 🇨🇷, France 🇫🇷, Italy 🇮🇹, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮, Portugal 🇵🇹, Russia 🇷🇺, Serbia 🇷🇸, Spain 🇪🇸, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰, Togo 🇹🇬, Turkey 🇹🇷 & Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 that participated in last year’s league are yet to participate in this edition of the league. Do well to recruit players from these teams to participate in the upcoming practice tournaments in preparation for the championships to come. Please take note, the top positioned players who are International or Full members of The Oware Society before the league ends, will be awarded cash prizes. Therefore If you place in the top 3, and wish to be considered for a cash award, join The Oware Society before the league ends. The top placed, International or Full members in the female, junior & continental categories will be awarded cash prizes so long as they are Full or International members and enough funds are raised. If enough funds are raised we will consider awarding prizes for country winners, so long as the country is represented by 5 or more players, is not in the top three or a continental champion.