Nations Online Oware League Ranking points after 33rd edition of the 3rd season’s Saturday 13/04/2024 Practice Contacts Only Online Oware Tournament. Results by country 1. Ghana 🇬🇭 (6) - 26.5 2. Nigeria 🇳🇬 (5) - 23.0 3. ⁠Benin 🇧🇯 (4) - 16.0 4. Uganda 🇺🇬 (5) - 15.0 5. Colombia 🇨🇴 (3) - 8.0 6. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 (2) - 7.0 7. German 🇩🇪 (1) - 3.0 8. Mexico 🇲🇽 (1) - 3.0 9. Czech Republic 🇨🇿 (1) - 2.5 10. China 🇨🇳 (1) - 1.0 Total tally of points 1. Ghana 🇬🇭 (18) - 936.0 2. Nigeria 🇳🇬 (12) - 608.5 3. Uganda 🇺🇬 (9) - 410.0 4. Benin 🇧🇯 (9) - 263.5 5. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 (4) - 188.5 6. Colombia 🇨🇴 (13) - 186.5 7. Czech Republic 🇨🇿 (2) - 97.5 8. UK 🇬🇧(4) - 91.0 9. Mexico 🇲🇽 (1) - 64.5 10. Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 (3) - 58.5 11. Germany 🇩🇪 (1) - 29.0 12. China 🇨🇳 (1) - 16.5 13. Belarus 🇧🇾 (1) - 16.0 14. Poland 🇵🇱 (2) - 10.5 15. Unknown (1) - 5.0 16. Ivory Coast 🇨🇮 (1) - 4.0 17. Austria 🇦🇹 (1) - 4.0 After the 33rd tournament of the 3rd season, team Ghana 🇬🇭 fielding the largest contingent of 6 players, accumulated 26.5 points, won this week’s Nations title. They are way ahead in the lead with a total of 936.0 points over 1.5 times the nearest contender Nigeria 🇳🇬. Team Nigeria 🇳🇬 continues to make a valiant attempt to catch up, coming in close 2nd place with 23.0 points with its 5 players. This takes its overall tally to 608.5 points. 3rd positioned Benin 🇧🇯 gained 16.0 points by its 4 players. This takes its overall total to 263.5 points and in overall 4th position. Team Uganda 🇺🇬 represented by 5 players gained 15.5 points taking its total tally to 410.0 and in overall 3rd position. Team Colombia 🇨🇴 represented by 3 players gained 8.0 points and is in overall 6th position. Team Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 represented by 2 players gained 7.5 points placing it in 6th position. Taking its overall total to 188.5 points and in overall 5th position. Team Czech Republic 🇨🇿 gained 2.5 points by its single player, placing 9th. This takes its total to 97.5 points and in 7th position overall. Well done to the top 3 placed teams 👏👏👏. This tournament featured 29 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, 2 from the Americas, 2 from Asia, and 2 from Europe, . Well done to all the players from the national teams that participated in this tournament and have done so to date 👏👏👏. 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 33rd edition played, the end of the season is in sight. The countdown to the end of the season is well advanced. 83 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 19 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 33rd tournament of the 3rd season’s Individual Online Oware League by each competitor of the Open Online Practice Oware tournament on Saturday 13/04/2024. 1. mrjohnson 🇳🇬 (30) - 184.5 (19) 2. issahfuseinji 🇬🇭 (32) - 166.5 (5) 3. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 (29) - 135.0 4. roberisco 🇬🇭 (31) - 130.5 (1) 5. e17 🇰🇿 (33) - 130.5 (1) 6. abilohre 🇬🇭(25) -124.5 (1) 7. harrison01 🇺🇬 (32) -  114.5 8. josty 🇬🇭 (23) - 103.5 9. paulie42 🇨🇿 (30) - 95.5 10. realionaire 🇳🇬 (27) - 82.0 11. kongadji / geotrouvetoute 🇧🇯 (16) - 78.5 12. olowolafeabey 🇳🇬 (21) - 75.0 13. vivian256 🇺🇬 (28) - 69.0 14. ddi 🇺🇬 (23) - 68.5 15. bme 🇺🇬 (22) - 65.5 16. monkftw 🇬🇧 (23) - 65.0 17. daallo 🇲🇽 (29) - 64.5 18. tindan/tindanmichae 🇬🇭 (14) - 62.0 (1) 19. germancali 🇨🇴 (21) - 59.5 20. mcx1 🇬🇭 (16) - 59.0 21. ayoboss 🇧🇯 (10) - 56.5 (4) 22. jam314 🇬🇭 (14) - 54.0 23. serikaktayev 🇰🇿 (15) - 52.0 24. goldm 🇰🇬 (17) - 47.5 25. oladelefire 🇳🇬 (12) - 45.5 26. dnw1236 🇺🇬 (18) - 45.5 27. aganzua 🇬🇭 (12) - 45.5 28. eldani45 🇨🇴 (19) - 43.5 29. desmond22 🇬🇭 (11) - 42.0 30. senateur 🇧🇯 (8) - 40.0 (1) 31. bonny7777 🇨🇴 (13) - 40.0 32. dokrichardz 🇬🇭 (11) - 39.0 33. baobabadji 🇧🇯 (8) - 39.0 34. carlomonte 🇩🇪 (11) - 29.0 35. atingastephen 🇬🇭 (7) - 26.5 36. apol86 / nabdamprof 🇬🇭 (8) - 26.0 37. zezero 🇳🇬 (9) - 23.5 38. ogbomaga48 🇳🇬 (4) - 22.0 39. elvisaboaya 🇬🇭 (6) - 22.0 40. dalton1 🇺🇬 (8) - 19.5 41. harun1 🇳🇬 (5) - 17.5 42. 2020peter 🇭🇰 (8) - 16.5 43. aogundari 🇳🇬 (9) - 16.0 44. kostyan 🇧🇾 (4) - 16.0 45. lordsoso 🇬🇧 (5) - 15.5 46. iliassouqueen 🇧🇯 (5) - 14.5 47. ayirungo 🇬🇭 (3) - 14.5 48. tnt9 🇰🇬 (5) - 14.0 49. adetoyeoba 🇧🇯 (4) - 14.0 50. fajado 🇨🇴 (4) - 13.5 51. abdu256 🇺🇬 (4) - 13.0 52. anyvil 🇺🇬 (6) - 12.0 53. vou1 🇬🇧 (4) - 9.0 54. dogout 🇧🇯 (2) - 8.5 55. apoovitus 🇬🇭 (2) - 8.0 56. andressumnar 🇨🇴 (7) - 8.0 57. gameboy199 🇬🇭 (2) - 7.0 58. manrike 🇨🇴  (4) - 6.0 59. kamila17 🇰🇿 (3) - 5.5 60. bobstar 🇧🇯 (1) - 5.5 61. masterfisz 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.5 62. prof100 🇬🇭 (2) - 5.0 63. caro377 🇨🇴 (2) - 5.0 64. thesoth 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.0 65. ayostar (?) (1) - 5.0 66. fofo2 🇧🇯 (1) - 4.0 67. acn 🇨🇮 (1) - 4.0 68. adelekepeter 🇳🇬 (1) - 4.0 69. horstaut63 🇦🇹 (2) - 4.0 70. gatoone 🇨🇴 (3) - 4.0 71. mustajaaba 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.5 72. msh76 🇰🇿 (1) - 3.0 73. temifelo 🇳🇬 (1) - 2.5 74. mankalacz 🇨🇿 (1) - 2.0 75. h3333 🇺🇬 (2) - 2.0 76. exclusivegh 🇬🇭 (1) - 2.0 77. guidob 🇨🇴 (2) - 2.0 78. sara327 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 79. Iowo23 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 80. evawong1011 🇬🇧 (1) - 1.0 81. wcp2347 🇨🇴 (1) - 1.0 82. 9aat 🇰🇬 (1) - 0.0 83. lamfat 🇳🇬 (1) - 0.0 In the 33rd tournament of the 3rd season’s league, 29 players from 10 countries participated. There were no new players added to the league. The number of participants in the league remains 83. All the players in the top 10 for this tournament were from Afrika. The breakdown is Ghana 🇬🇭 - 4, Nigeria 🇳🇬 - 3, & Benin 🇧🇯 - 3. mrjohnson won the tournament, with a perfect 7.0 points. His wins now stand at 19 with 184.5 points. Well done to him 👏👏👏.  senateur 🇧🇯 placed 2nd with 5.0 points, losing a game to mrjohnson 🇳🇬 & josty 🇬🇭.  josty 🇬🇭 also with 5.0 points placed 3rd, losing games to mrjohnson 🇳🇬 & ayoboss 🇧🇯.  ayoboss 🇧🇯 and ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 placed 4th and 5th respectively. In this edition the top 3 positions were occupied by players from three countries: Nigeria 🇳🇬 1st and Benin 🇧🇯 2nd & Ghana 🇬🇭 3rd. Well done to them & everyone else who participated 👏👏👏. We applaud the two female players vivian256 🇺🇬 & bme 🇺🇬 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 against all player with this spectacular performance. His wins are now 19 out of 33. His score is now at 184.5 points. He is now 18.0 points ahead of issahfuseinji 🇬🇭. The difference between him and the other top positioned players has increased to 49.5, 54.0 & 54.0 points respectively. e17 🇰🇿 is now in the 5th position with 130.5 points with a 💯 participation record, remains on course to become the Asian Champion. He is 54.0 points away from the leading player mrjohnson 🇳🇬, and 83.0 points ahead of goldm 🇰🇬 the nearest Asian contender, who has accumulated 47.5 points. paulie42 🇨🇿 with 95.5 points is still in 9th position. His leading margin against incumbent European champion monkftw 🇬🇧 has now extended to 30.5 points. He is on course to claim the European title. He is 89.0 points away from leading player mrjohnson 🇳🇬. American Continental champion daallo 🇲🇽 with 64.5 points, is now in the 17th position. He is some 120.0 points off the leading points score. He too is on course to maintain his title, still with a 5.0 points lead ahead of germancali 🇨🇴 the nearest American Continental contender, with 59.5 points now in the 20th 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, except possibly that of Continental America. New players have not been joining the league in their numbers. Will there be a late surge of 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, subscribe  for a paid The Oware Society membership 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, and is not in the top three or a continental champion.

Nations Online Oware League Ranking points after 32nd edition of the 3rd season’s Saturday 06/04/2024 Practice Contacts Only Online Oware Tournament. 1. Ghana 🇬🇭 (18) - 909.5 2. Nigeria 🇳🇬 (12) - 585.5 3. Uganda 🇺🇬 (9) - 395.0 4. Benin 🇧🇯 (9) - 247.5 5. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 (4) - 181.5 6. Colombia 🇨🇴 (13) - 178.5 7. Czech Republic 🇨🇿 (2) - 95.0 8. UK 🇬🇧(4) - 91.0 9. Mexico 🇲🇽 (1) - 61.5 10. Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 (3) - 58.5 11. Germany 🇩🇪 (1) - 26.0 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 32nd tournament of the 3rd season, team Ghana 🇬🇭 fielding the largest contingent of 8 players, who accumulated 32.5 points, won this week’s Nations title. They are ways ahead in the lead with a total of 909.5 points over 1.5 times the nearest contender Nigeria 🇳🇬. Team Nigeria 🇳🇬 continues to make a valiant attempt to catch up, coming in 2nd place with 22.0 points by its 5 players. This takes its overall tally to 585.5 points. 3rd positioned Colombia 🇨🇴 gained 10.0 points by its 3 players. This takes its overall total to 178.5 points and in overall 6th position. Team Uganda 🇺🇬 represented by 3 players gained 6.0 points taking its total tally to 395.0 and in overall 3rd position. Team Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 represented by 2 players gained 7.5 points placing it in 5th position. Taking its overall total to 181.5 points and in overall 5th position. Team Czech Republic 🇨🇿 gained 3.5 points by its single player, placing 7th. This takes its total to 95.0 points and in 7th position overall. Well done to the top 3 placed teams 👏👏👏. This tournament featured 25 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 the Americas, 1 from Asia, and 2 from Europe, . Well done to all the players from the national teams that participated in this tournament and have done so to date 👏👏👏. 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 32nd edition played, the end of the season is in sight. The countdown to the end of the season is well advanced. 83 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 20 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 32nd tournament of the 3rd season’s Individual Online Oware League by each competitor of the Open Online Practice Oware tournament on Saturday 06/04/2024. 1. mrjohnson 🇳🇬 (29) - 177.5 (18) 2. issahfuseinji 🇬🇭 (31) - 162.5 (5) 3. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 (28) - 130.0 4. e17 🇰🇿 (32) - 127.0 (1) 5. roberisco 🇬🇭 (30) - 126.0 (1) 6. abilohre 🇬🇭(24) -120.5 (1) 7. harrison01 🇺🇬 (31) -  111.0 8. josty 🇬🇭 (22) - 98.5 9. paulie42 🇨🇿 (29) - 93.0 10. realionaire 🇳🇬 (27) - 79.0 11. olowolafeabey 🇳🇬 (21) - 75.0 12. kongadji / geotrouvetoute 🇧🇯 (15) - 74.5 13. vivian256 🇺🇬 (27) - 66.0 14. ddi 🇺🇬 (22) - 65.5 15. monkftw 🇬🇧 (23) - 65.0 16. bme 🇺🇬 (21) - 62.5 17. tindan/michae 🇬🇭 (14) - 62.0 (1) 18. daallo 🇲🇽 (28) - 61.5 19. mcx1 🇬🇭 (16) - 59.0 20. germancali 🇨🇴 (20) - 56.5 21. jam314 🇬🇭 (14) - 54.0 22. ayoboss 🇧🇯 (9) - 51.5 (4) 23. serikaktayev 🇰🇿 (13) - 48.5 24. goldm 🇰🇬 (17) - 47.5 25. dnw1236 🇺🇬 (16) - 43.0 26. oladelefire 🇳🇬 (11) - 41.5 27. aganzua 🇬🇭 (11) - 41.5 28. eldani45 🇨🇴 (18) - 40.5 29. dokrichardz 🇬🇭 (11) - 39.0 30. baobabadji 🇧🇯 (8) - 39.0 31. bonny7777 🇨🇴 (12) - 38.0 32. desmond22 🇬🇭 (10) - 37.0 33. senateur 🇧🇯 (7) - 35.0 (1) 34. atingastephen 🇬🇭 (7) - 26.5 35. carlomonte 🇩🇪 (10) - 26.0 36. apol86 / nabdamprof 🇬🇭 (8) - 26.0 37. zezero 🇳🇬 (9) - 23.5 38. elvisaboaya 🇬🇭 (6) - 22.0 39. dalton1 🇺🇬 (8) - 19.5 40. ogbomaga48 🇳🇬 (3) - 18.0 41. harun1 🇳🇬 (5) - 17.5 42. aogundari 🇳🇬 (9) - 16.0 43. kostyan 🇧🇾 (4) - 16.0 44. lordsoso 🇬🇧 (5) - 15.5 45. 2020peter 🇭🇰 (7) - 15.5 46. ayirungo 🇬🇭 (3) - 14.5 47. tnt9 🇰🇬 (5) - 14.0 48. adetoyeoba 🇧🇯 (4) - 14.0 49. fajado 🇨🇴 (4) - 13.5 50. abdu256 🇺🇬 (4) - 13.0 51. iliassouqueen 🇧🇯 (4) - 12.5 52. anyvil 🇺🇬 (6) - 12.0 53. vou1 🇬🇧 (4) - 9.0 54. dogout 🇧🇯 (2) - 8.5 55. apoovitus 🇬🇭 (2) - 8.0 56. andressumnar 🇨🇴 (7) - 8.0 57. gameboy199 🇬🇭 (2) - 7.0 58. manrike 🇨🇴  (4) - 6.0 59. kamila17 🇰🇿 (3) - 5.5 60. bobstar 🇧🇯 (1) - 5.5 61. masterfisz 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.5 62. prof100 🇬🇭 (2) - 5.0 63. caro377 🇨🇴 (2) - 5.0 64. thesoth 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.0 65. ayostar (?) (1) - 5.0 66. fofo2 🇧🇯 (1) - 4.0 67. acn 🇨🇮 (1) - 4.0 68. adelekepeter 🇳🇬 (1) - 4.0 69. horstaut63 🇦🇹 (2) - 4.0 70. gatoone 🇨🇴 (3) - 4.0 71. mustajaaba 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.5 72. msh76 🇰🇿 (1) - 3.0 73. temifelo 🇳🇬 (1) - 2.5 74. mankalacz 🇨🇿 (1) - 2.0 75. h3333 🇺🇬 (2) - 2.0 76. exclusivegh 🇬🇭 (1) - 2.0 77. guidob 🇨🇴 (2) - 2.0 78. sara327 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 79. Iowo23 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 80. evawong1011 🇬🇧 (1) - 1.0 81. wcp2347 🇨🇴 (1) - 1.0 82. 9aat 🇰🇬 (1) - 0.0 83. lamfat 🇳🇬 (1) - 0.0 In the 32nd tournament of the 3rd season’s league, 25 players from 9 countries participated. There were no new players added to the league. The number of participants in the league remains 83. All the players in the top 10 for this tournament are from Afrika except e17 🇰🇿. The breakdown is Ghana 🇬🇭 - 5, Nigeria 🇳🇬 - 3, Benin 🇧🇯 - 1 & Kazakhstan 🇰🇿- 1. Issahfuseinij 🇬🇭 won the tournament, with 6.5 points, drawing with tindanmachae 🇬🇭. His wins now stand at 5 with 162.5 points. Well done to him 👏👏👏.  mrjohnson 🇳🇬 placed 2nd with 6.0 points, losing a game to issahfuseinij 🇬🇭. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 with 5.0 points placed 3rd, losing games to atingastephen 🇬🇭 & mrjohnson 🇳🇬.  abilohre 🇬🇭 and ayirungo 🇬🇭placed 4th and 5th respectively. In this edition the top 3 positions were occupied by players from two countries: Ghana 🇬🇭 1st and Nigeria 🇳🇬 2nd & 3rd. Well done to them & everyone else who participated 👏👏👏. We applaud the single female player vivian256 🇺🇬 for participating in this tournament. She really gives 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 against all players except Issahfuseinij 🇬🇭 with this performance. His wins still stand at 18 out of 32. His score is now at 177.5 points. He is now 15.0 points ahead of issahfuseinji 🇬🇭. The difference between him and the other top positioned players has increased slightly to 47.5, 50.5 & 55.5 points respectively. e17 🇰🇿 is still in the 4th position with 127.0 points with a 💯 participation record, remains on course to become the Asian Champion. He is 50.5 points away from the leading player mrjohnson 🇳🇬, and 79.5 points ahead of goldm 🇰🇬 the nearest Asian contender, who has accumulated 47.5 points. paulie42 🇨🇿 with 93.0 points is still in 9th position. His leading margin against incumbent European champion monkftw 🇬🇧 has now extended to 28.0 points. He is on course to claim the European title. He is 84.5 points away from leading player mrjohnson 🇳🇬. American Continental champion daallo 🇲🇽 with 61.5 points, is now in the 18th position. He is some 116.0 points off the leading points score. He too is on course to maintain his title, with slightly reduced 5.0 points lead ahead of germancali 🇨🇴 the nearest American Continental contender, with 56.5 points now in the 20th 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, except possibly that of Continental America. New players have not been joining the league in their numbers. Will there be a flood 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 31st edition of the 3rd season’s Saturday 30/03/2024 Practice Contacts Only Online Oware Tournament. 1. Ghana 🇬🇭 (18) - 877.0 2. Nigeria 🇳🇬 (12) - 563.5 3. Uganda 🇺🇬 (9) - 389.0 4. Benin 🇧🇯 (9) - 243.0 5. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 (4) - 174.0 6. Colombia 🇨🇴 (13) - 168.5 7. Czech Republic 🇨🇿 (2) - 91.5 8. UK 🇬🇧(4) - 91.0 9. Mexico 🇲🇽 (1) - 59.5 10. Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 (3) - 58.5 11. Germany 🇩🇪 (1) - 23.0 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 31st tournament of the 3rd season,   team Nigeria 🇳🇬 fielding the largest contingent of 5 players, who accumulated 20.0 points, won this week’s Nations title. They are still in overall 2nd position with a total of 563.5 points. Team Ghana 🇬🇭 continues to stretch its lead, coming in 2nd place with 16.0 points won by 4 players. This takes its overall tally to 877.0 points, over 1.5 times the nearest contender Nigeria 🇳🇬. 3rd positioned Uganda 🇺🇬 gained 13.5 points by its 4 players. This takes its overall total to 389.0 points and in overall 3rd position. Team Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 represented by 2 players gained 7.0 points each. Taking their total to 174.0 points and in overall 5th position. Team Czech Republic 🇨🇿 gained 2.5 points by its 1 player, placing 5th. This takes the it’s total to 91.5 points and in 7th position overall. Well done to these top 3 placed teams 👏👏👏. This tournament featured 18 players from 7 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 3 teams from Afrika, 2 from the Americas, 1 from Asia, and 1 from Europe, . 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 31s edition played, the half way point in the season has been bypassed’. The countdown to the end of the season is well advanced. 83 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 21 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 31st tournament of the 3rd season’s Individual Online Oware League by each competitor of the Open Online Practice Oware tournament on Saturday 30/03/2024. 1. mrjohnson 🇳🇬 (28) - 171.5 (18) 2. issahfuseinji 🇬🇭 (30) - 156.0 (4) 3. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 (27) - 125.0 4. e17 🇰🇿 (31) - 123.0 (1) 5. roberisco 🇬🇭 (28) - 118.0 (1) 6. abilohre 🇬🇭(23) -115.5 (1) 7. harrison01 🇺🇬 (30) -  108.0 8. josty 🇬🇭 (22) - 98.5 9. paulie42 🇨🇿 (28) - 89.5 10. realionaire 🇳🇬 (26) - 76.0 11. olowolafeabey 🇳🇬 (20) - 71.0 12. kongadji / geotrouvetoute 🇧🇯 (14) - 70.0 13. ddi 🇺🇬 (22) - 65.5 14. vivian256 🇺🇬 (26) - 65.0 15. monkftw 🇬🇧 (23) - 65.0 16. bme 🇺🇬 (21) - 62.5 17. daallo 🇲🇽 (27) - 59.5 18. mcx1 🇬🇭 (16) - 59.0 19. tindan/michae 🇬🇭 (13) - 58.5 (1) 20. jam314 🇬🇭 (14) -54.0 21. germancali 🇨🇴 (19) - 53.5 22. ayoboss 🇧🇯 (9) - 51.5 (4) 23. goldm 🇰🇬 (17) - 47.5 24. serikaktayev 🇰🇿 (13) - 45.0 25. aganzua 🇬🇭 (11) - 41.5 26. dnw1236 🇺🇬 (16) - 41.0 27. baobabadji 🇧🇯 (8) - 39.0 28. oladelefire 🇳🇬 (11) - 37.5 29. eldani45 🇨🇴 (17) - 37.5 30. dokrichardz 🇬🇭 (10) - 37.0 31. senateur 🇧🇯 (7) - 35.0 (1) 32. desmond22 🇬🇭 (9) - 34.0 33. bonny7777 🇨🇴 (11) - 34.0 34. apol86 / nabdamprof 🇬🇭 (8) - 26.0 35. zezero 🇳🇬 (9) - 23.5 36. carlomonte 🇩🇪 (9) - 23.0 37. atingastephen 🇬🇭 (6) - 22.5 38. elvisaboaya 🇬🇭 (6) - 22.0 39. dalton1 🇺🇬 (8) - 19.5 40. ogbomaga48 🇳🇬 (3) - 18.0 41. harun1 🇳🇬 (5) - 17.5 42. aogundari 🇳🇬 (9) - 16.0 43. kostyan 🇧🇾 (4) - 16.0 44. lordsoso 🇬🇧 (5) - 15.5 45. 2020peter 🇭🇰 (7) - 15.5 46. tnt9 🇰🇬 (5) - 14.0 47. adetoyeoba 🇧🇯 (4) - 14.0 48. fajado 🇨🇴 (4) - 13.5 49. abdu256 🇺🇬 (4) - 13.0 50. iliassouqueen 🇧🇯 (4) - 12.5 51. anyvil 🇺🇬 (6) - 12.0 52. ayirungo 🇬🇭 (2) - 10.0 53. vou1 🇬🇧 (4) - 9.0 54. dogout 🇧🇯 (2) - 8.5 55. apoovitus 🇬🇭 (2) - 8.0 56. andressumnar 🇨🇴 (7) - 8.0 57. gameboy199 🇬🇭 (2) - 7.0 58. manrike 🇨🇴  (4) - 6.0 59. kamila17 🇰🇿 (3) - 5.5 60. bobstar 🇧🇯 (1) - 5.5 61. masterfisz 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.5 62. prof100 🇬🇭 (2) - 5.0 63. caro377 🇨🇴 (2) - 5.0 64. thesoth 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.0 65. ayostar (?) (1) - 5.0 66. fofo2 🇧🇯 (1) - 4.0 67. acn 🇨🇮 (1) - 4.0 68. adelekepeter 🇳🇬 (1) - 4.0 69. horstaut63 🇦🇹 (2) - 4.0 70. gatoone 🇨🇴 (3) - 4.0 71. mustajaaba 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.5 72. msh76 🇰🇿 (1) - 3.0 73. temifelo 🇳🇬 (1) - 2.5 74. mankalacz 🇨🇿 (1) - 2.0 75. h3333 🇺🇬 (2) - 2.0 76. exclusivegh 🇬🇭 (1) - 2.0 77. guidob 🇨🇴 (2) - 2.0 78. sara327 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 79. Iowo23 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 80. evawong1011 🇬🇧 (1) - 1.0 81. wcp2347 🇨🇴 (1) - 1.0 82. 9aat 🇰🇬 (1) - 0.0 83. lamfat 🇳🇬 (1) - 0.0 In the 31st tournament of the 3rd season’s league, 18 players from 7 countries participated. There were no new players added to the league. The number of participants in the league remains 83. All the players in the top 10 for this tournament are from Afrika except serikaktayev 🇰🇿. The breakdown is Nigeria 🇳🇬 - 3 & Ghana 🇬🇭 - 4 & Uganda 🇺🇬 - 2 & Kazakhstan 🇰🇿- 1. mrjohnson🇳🇬 the tournament, with 7.0 points. Well done to him 👏👏👏. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 2nd with 5.0 points, losing a game to mrjohnson 🇳🇬 & olowolafeabey.  olowolafeabey 🇳🇬 with 5.0 points placed 3rd, losing a games to mrjohnson 🇳🇬 & e17 🇰🇿 in the final round due to absence.  tindanmichae 🇬🇭 and Issahfuseinij 🇬🇭placed 4th and 5th respectively. In this edition the top 3 positions were occupied by players from one country: Nigeria 🇳🇬. Well done to them & everyone else who participated 👏👏👏. We applaud the single female player vivian256 🇺🇬 for participating in this tournament. She really gives 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 against all players with this convincing win. His wins now stand at 18 out of 31. His score is now at 171.5 points. He is now 15.5 points ahead of issahfuseinji 🇬🇭. The difference between him and the other top positioned players has increased slightly to 46.5, 48.5 & 53.5 points respectively. e17 🇰🇿 is still in the 4th position with 123.0 points with a 💯 participation record, remains on course to become the Asian Champion. He is 48.5 points away from the leading player mrjohnson 🇳🇬, and 75.5 points ahead of goldm 🇰🇬 the nearest Asian contender, who has accumulated 47.5 points. paulie42 🇨🇿 with 89.5 points is still in 9th position. His leading margin against incumbent European champion monkftw 🇬🇧 has now extended to 24.5 points. He is on course to claim the European title. He is 82.0 points away from leading player mrjohnson 🇳🇬. American Continental champion daallo 🇲🇽 with 59.5 points, is now in the 17th position. He is some 112.0 points off the leading points score. He too is on course to maintain his title, with slightly increased 6.0 points lead ahead of germancali 🇨🇴 the nearest American Continental contender, with 53.5 points & still in the 21st 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, except possibly that of Continental America. New players have not been joining the league in their numbers. Will there be a flood 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 30th edition of the 3rd season’s Saturday 23/03/2024 Practice Contacts Only Online Oware Tournament. 1. Ghana 🇬🇭 (18) - 861.0 2. Nigeria 🇳🇬 (12) - 543.5 3. Uganda 🇺🇬 (9) - 375.5 4. Benin 🇧🇯 (9) - 243.0 5. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 (4) - 167.0 6. Colombia 🇨🇴 (13) - 166.5 7. UK 🇬🇧(4) - 91.0 8. Czech Republic 🇨🇿 (2) - 89.0 9. Mexico 🇲🇽 (1) - 58.5 10. Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 (3) - 58.5 11. Germany 🇩🇪 (1) - 23.0 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 30th tournament of the 3rd season, team Ghana 🇬🇭 continues to stretch its lead, back to its dominant ways by 37.0 points won by the largest contingent of 9 players. This takes its overall tally to 861.0 points, over 1.5 times the nearest contender Nigeria 🇳🇬. Runner up Nigeria 🇳🇬 fielded 6 players, who accumulated 27.0 points, placing 2nd and is in overall 2nd position with a total of 543.5 points. 3rd positioned American Champions Team Colombia 🇨🇴 gained 10.0 points by its 4 players. This takes its overall total to 166.5 points and in overall 6th position. Team Benin 🇧🇯 & Asian Champions Team Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 each represented by 2 players gained 7.5 points each. Taking their totals to 243.0 & 167.0 points and in overall 4th & 5th positions respectively. Team Uganda 🇺🇬 gained 9.5 points by its 4 players, placing 6th. This takes Uganda’s total to total to 375.5 points and in 3rd position overall. Well done to these top 3 placed teams 👏👏👏. European Champions team UK 🇬🇧 was represented,m by one player and gained 2.5 points. Taking its total to 91.0 points, and is in overall 7th position. This tournament featured 32 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, 2 from Asia, 2 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 30th edition played, the half way point in the season has been bypassed’. The countdown to the end of the season is well advanced. 83 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 22 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 30th tournament of the 3rd season’s Individual Online Oware League by each competitor of the Open Online Practice Oware tournament on Saturday 23/03/2024. 1. mrjohnson 🇳🇬 (27) - 164.5 (17) 2. issahfuseinji 🇬🇭 (29) - 152.0 (4) 3. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 (26) - 120.0 4. e17 🇰🇿 (30) - 120.0 (1) 5. abilohre 🇬🇭(23) -115.5 (1) 6. roberisco 🇬🇭 (27) - 114.0 (1) 7. harrison01 🇺🇬 (29) - 104.0 8. josty 🇬🇭 (22) - 98.5 9. paulie42 🇨🇿 (27) - 87.0 10. realionaire 🇳🇬 (26) - 76.0 11. kongadji / geotrouvetoute 🇧🇯 (14) - 70.0 12. olowolafeabey 🇳🇬 (19) - 66.0 13. monkftw 🇬🇧 (23) - 65.0 14. bme 🇺🇬 (21) - 62.5 15. ddi 🇺🇬 (21) - 62.5 16. vivian256 🇺🇬 (25) - 61.5 17. mcx1 🇬🇭 (16) - 59.0 18. daallo 🇲🇽 (26) - 58.5 19. jam314 🇬🇭 (14) -54.0 20. tindan/michae 🇬🇭 (12) - 53.5 (1) 21. germancali 🇨🇴 (19) - 53.5 22. ayoboss 🇧🇯 (9) - 51.5 (4) 23. goldm 🇰🇬 (17) - 47.5 24. aganzua 🇬🇭 (11) - 41.5 25. baobabadji 🇧🇯 (8) - 39.0 26. dnw1236 🇺🇬 (15) - 38.0 27. serikaktayev 🇰🇿 (12) - 41.0 28. dokrichardz 🇬🇭 (10) - 37.0 29. oladelefire 🇳🇬 (10) - 35.5 30. eldani45 🇨🇴 (16) - 35.5 31. senateur 🇧🇯 (7) - 35.0 (1) 32. bonny7777 🇨🇴 (11) - 34.0 33. desmond22 🇬🇭 (8) - 31.0 34. apol86 / nabdamprof 🇬🇭 (8) - 26.0 35. zezero 🇳🇬 (9) - 23.5 36. carlomonte 🇩🇪 (9) - 23.0 37. atingastephen 🇬🇭 (6) - 22.5 38. elvaboaya 🇬🇭 (6) - 22.0 39. dalton1 🇺🇬 (8) - 19.5 40. ogbomaga48 🇳🇬 (3) - 18.0 41. harun1 🇳🇬 (4) - 16.5 42. aogundari 🇳🇬 (9) - 16.0 43. kostyan 🇧🇾 (4) - 16.0 44. lordsoso 🇬🇧 (5) - 15.5 45. 2020peter 🇭🇰 (7) - 15.5 46. tnt9 🇰🇬 (5) - 14.0 47. adetoyeoba 🇧🇯 (4) - 14.0 48. fajado 🇨🇴 (4) - 13.5 49. abdu256 🇺🇬 (4) - 13.0 50. iliassouqueen 🇧🇯 (4) - 12.5 51. anyvil 🇺🇬 (6) - 12.0 52. ayirungo 🇬🇭 (2) - 10.0 53. vou1 🇬🇧 (4) - 9.0 54. dogout 🇧🇯 (2) - 8.5 55. apoovitus 🇬🇭 (2) - 8.0 56. andressumnar 🇨🇴 (7) - 8.0 57. gameboy199 🇬🇭 (2) - 7.0 58. manrike 🇨🇴 (4) - 6.0 59. kamila17 🇰🇿 (3) - 5.5 60. bobstar 🇧🇯 (1) - 5.5 61. masterfisz 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.5 62. prof100 🇬🇭 (2) - 5.0 63. caro377 🇨🇴 (2) - 5.0 64. thesoth 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.0 65. ayostar (?) (1) - 5.0 66. fofo2 🇧🇯 (1) - 4.0 67. acn 🇨🇮 (1) - 4.0 68. adelekepeter 🇳🇬 (1) - 4.0 69. horstaut63 🇦🇹 (2) - 4.0 70. gatoone 🇨🇴 (3) - 4.0 71. mustajaaba 🇬🇭 (1) - 3.5 72. msh76 🇰🇿 (1) - 3.0 73. temifelo 🇳🇬 (1) - 2.5 74. mankalacz 🇨🇿 (1) - 2.0 75. h3333 🇺🇬 (2) - 2.0 76. exclusivegh 🇬🇭 (1) - 2.0 77. guidob 🇨🇴 (2) - 2.0 78. sara327 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 79. Iowo23 🇨🇴 (1) - 2.0 80. evawong1011 🇬🇧 (1) - 1.0 81. wcp2347 🇨🇴 (1) - 1.0 82. 9aat 🇰🇬 (1) - 0.0 83. lamfat 🇳🇬 (1) - 0.0 In the 30th tournament of the 3rd season’s league, a record 32 players from 10 countries participated. This week mankalacz representing the Czech Republic 🇨🇿 participated taking the total number of players to 83. All the players in the top 10 for this tournament are from Afrika except. The breakdown is Nigeria 🇳🇬 - 5 & Ghana 🇬🇭 - 5 issahfuseinij 🇬🇭 won the tournament, with a 6.0 points, losing a game to abilohre 🇬🇭. Well done to him 👏👏👏. mrjohnson 🇳🇬placed 2nd with 6.0 points, losing a game to issahfuseinij 🇬🇭. abilohre 🇬🇭 with 5.0 points placed 3rd, losing a game to mrjohnson 🇳🇬 & losing a game in the final round due to absence. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 and ogbomaga48 🇳🇬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 mankalacz 🇨🇿, vivian256 🇺🇬 & bme 🇺🇬 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 against all players but remained the same against issahfuseinij 🇬🇭. His wins still stand at 17 out of 30. His score is now at 164.5 points. He is still 12.5 points ahead of issahfuseinji 🇬🇭. The difference between him and the other top positioned players has increased slightly to 44.5, 44.5 & 49.0 points respectively. e17 🇰🇿 now in the 4th position with 120.0 points with a 💯 participation record, remains on course to become the Asian Champion. He is 44.5 points away from the leading player mrjohnson 🇳🇬, and 72.5 points ahead of goldm 🇰🇬 the nearest Asian contender, who has accumulated 47.5 points. paulie42 🇨🇿 with 87.0 points is still in 9th position. His leading margin against incumbent European champion monkftw 🇬🇧 is now 22 points, and is on course to claim the European title. He is 77.5 points away from leading player mrjohnson 🇳🇬. American Continental champion daallo 🇲🇽 with 58.5 points, is still in the 18th position. He is some 106.0 points off the leading points score. He too is on course to maintain his title, and is a reduced 5.0 points ahead of germancali 🇨🇴 the nearest American Continental contender, with 53.5 points & now in the 21st 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, except possibly that of Continental America. New players have not been joining the league in their numbers. Will there be a flood 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 29th edition of the 3rd season’s Saturday 16/03/2024 Practice Contacts Only Online Oware Tournament. 1. Ghana 🇬🇭 (18) - 824.0 2. Nigeria 🇳🇬 (12) - 516.5 3. Uganda 🇺🇬 (9) - 366.0 4. Benin 🇧🇯 (9) - 235.5 5. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 (4) - 159.5 6. Colombia 🇨🇴 (13) - 156.5 7. UK 🇬🇧(4) - 88.5 8. Czech Republic 🇨🇿 (1) - 84.0 9. Mexico 🇲🇽 (1) - 56.5 10. Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 (3) - 55.5 11. Germany 🇩🇪 (1) - 22.0 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 29th tournament of the 3rd season, team Ghana 🇬🇭 continues to stretch its lead, though by just 4.5 points. Uncharacteristically team Ghana 🇬🇭 fielded just one player abilohre 🇬🇭. This takes its overall tally to 824.0 points, over 1.5 times the nearest contender Nigeria 🇳🇬. It was Nigeria 🇳🇬 that fielded the largest contingent of 5 players, who accumulated 23.0 points, placing 1st and is in overall 2nd position with a total of 516.5 points. Asian Champions Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 represented by 3 players gained 12.0 points. Taking its total to 159.5 points and in overall 5th position. Uganda 🇺🇬 (11.5 points) fielded 4 players, placing 3rd. This takes Uganda’s total to total to 366.0 points in 3rd position overall. Well done to these top 3 placed teams 👏👏👏. American Champions team Colombia 🇨🇴 represented by 4 players gained 9.5 points and now has a tally of 156.5 points and is in 6th position overall. European Champions team UK 🇬🇧 was unrepresented ,has a total to 88.5 points, and is in overall 7th position. This tournament featured 22 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, 2 from Asia, 2 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 29th edition played, the half way point in the season has been bypassed’. The countdown to the end of the season is advanced. 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 23 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 29th tournament of the 3rd season’s Individual Online Oware League by each competitor of the Open Online Practice Oware tournament on Saturday 16/03/2024. 1. mrjohnson 🇳🇬 (26) - 158.5 (17) 2. issahfuseinji 🇬🇭 (28) - 146.0 (3) 3. e17 🇰🇿 (29) - 116.5 (1) 4. ademolaijaya 🇳🇬 (25) - 115.0 5. abilohre 🇬🇭(22) -110.5 (1) 6. roberisco 🇬🇭 (27) - 109.5 (1) 7. harrison01 🇺🇬 (28) -  101.5 8. josty 🇬🇭 (21) - 94.5 9. paulie42 🇨🇿 (26) - 84.0 10. realionaire 🇳🇬 (24) - 73.0 11. kongadji / geotrouvetoute 🇧🇯 (12) - 66.0 12. monkftw 🇬🇧 (23) - 65.0 13. olowolafeabey 🇳🇬 (18) - 62.0 14. bme 🇺🇬 (20) - 60.5 15. ddi 🇺🇬 (20) - 59.5 16. vivian256 🇺🇬 (23) - 59.5 17. mcx1 🇬🇭 (16) - 59.0 18. daallo 🇲🇽 (25) - 56.5 19. ayoboss 🇧🇯 (9) - 51.5 (4) 20. germancali 🇨🇴 (18) - 50.5 21. jam314 🇬🇭 (13) -50.0 22. tindan/michae 🇬🇭 (12) - 49.0 (1) 23. goldm 🇰🇬 (15) - 44.5 24. aganzua 🇬🇭 (11) - 41.5 25. baobabadji 🇧🇯 (8) - 39.0 26. dnw1236 🇺🇬 (15) - 38.0 27. serikaktayev 🇰🇿 (11) - 37.0 28. dokrichardz 🇬🇭 (10) - 37.0 29. senateur 🇧🇯 (7) - 35.0 (1) 30. eldani45 🇨🇴 (15) - 33.0 31. oladelefire 🇳🇬 (9) - 31.0 32. bonny7777 🇨🇴 (9) - 30.5 33. desmond22 🇬🇭 (7) - 27.0 34. apol86 / nabdamprof 🇬🇭 (8) - 26.0 35. zezero 🇳🇬 (9) - 23.5 36. carlomonte 🇩🇪 (9) - 23.0 37. elvisaboaya 🇬🇭 (6) - 22.0 38. atingastephen 🇬🇭 (5) - 21.5 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. ogbomaga48 🇳🇬 (3) - 13.5 47. fajado 🇨🇴 (4) - 13.5 48. lordsoso 🇬🇧 (3) - 13.0 49. abdu256 🇺🇬 (4) - 13.0 50. anyvil 🇺🇬 (6) - 12.0 51. ayirungo 🇬🇭 (2) - 10.0 52. vou1 🇬🇧 (4) - 9.0 53. iliassouqueen 🇧🇯 (3) - 9.0 54. dogout 🇧🇯 (2) - 8.5 55. gameboy199 🇬🇭 (2) - 7.0 56. andressumnar 🇨🇴 (6) - 7.0 57. manrike 🇨🇴  (4) - 6.0 58. kamila17 🇰🇿 (3) - 5.5 59. bobstar 🇧🇯 (1) - 5.5 60. masterfisz 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.5 61. prof100 🇬🇭 (2) - 5.0 62. caro377 🇨🇴 (2) - 5.0 63. thesoth 🇵🇱 (2) - 5.0 64. ayostar (?) (1) - 5.0 65. fofo2 🇧🇯 (1) - 4.0 66. acn 🇨🇮 (1) - 4.0 67. adelekepeter 🇳🇬 (1) - 4.0 68. horstaut63 🇦🇹 (2) - 4.0 69. apoovitus 🇬🇭 (1) - 4.0 70. gatoone 🇨🇴 (3) - 4.0 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 29th tournament of the 3rd season’s league, 22 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 🇰🇿 who won the tournament. The breakdown is Nigeria 🇳🇬 - 5, Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 - 2, Benin 🇧🇯 - 1, Ghana 🇬🇭 - 1, & Uganda - 1 🇺🇬 e17 🇰🇿 won the tournament, with a 6.0 points, losing a game to ogbomaga48 🇳🇬. Well done to him, his first win of the season 👏👏👏. geotrouvetout 🇧🇯 placed 2nd with 5.5 points, drawing with ogbomaga48 🇳🇬 losing a game to e17 🇰🇿. mrjohnson 🇳🇬 with 5.0 points placed 3rd, losing games to geotrouvetout 🇧🇯 & e17 🇰🇿.  ogbomaga48 🇳🇬 and abilohre 🇬🇭 placed 4th and 5th respectively. In this edition the top 3 positions were occupied by players from three countries: Kazakhstan 🇰🇿, Benin 🇧🇯 & Nigeria 🇳🇬. Well done to them & everyone else who participated 👏👏👏. We applaud the three female players vivian256 🇺🇬, kamila17 🇰🇿 & bme 🇺🇬 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 wins still 17 out of 29. His score is now at 158.5 points. He is now 12.5 points ahead of issahfuseinji 🇬🇭. The difference between him and the other top positioned players has increased slightly to 42.0, 43.0 & 48.0 points respectively. e17 🇰🇿 now in the 3rd position with 116.5 points with a 💯 participation record. He remains on course to become the Asian Champion. He is 42.0 points away from the leading player mrjohnson 🇳🇬, and 72.0 points ahead of goldm 🇰🇬 the nearest Asian contender, who has accumulated 41.5 points. paulie42 🇨🇿 with 84.0 points is still in 9th position. His leading margin against incumbent European champion monkftw 🇬🇧 is now 19 points, and is on course to claim the European title. He is 74.5 points away from leading player mrjohnson 🇳🇬. American Continental champion daallo 🇲🇽 with 56.5 points, is still in the 18th position. He is some 102.0 points off the leading points score. He too is on course to maintain his title, and is a reduced 6.0 points ahead of germancali 🇨🇴 the nearest American Continental contender, with 50.5 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 not been joining the league. 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 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.