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Good evening Gobaneros! It is time to be surprised as the first week of September hasn't even passed yet and the league update for August is already out! Boom!

After welcoming BoneSaw to the team last month everyone disappeared into summer holidays while I am still sitting here, mumbling "wörk wörk" into my Radler and writing an other blog post. You may have noticed that the first half of the year is already over again and with the passing of June we (at least around here in central Europe) survived the first heat-wave of the year with temperatures of up to 40°C. Weather like this calls for afternoons in the park or the pool which shows in the activity charts of our leagues.

As some of you have already noticed there has been a huge delay in this months update due to a very limited availabilty of our admin team. A number of team members are currently away from home for extended amounts of time and others are busy with offline projects and work. We are always looking for additional staff members - so if you are enjoying the Open Study Room and would like to help please get in touch.

However - for now, since I am free to do some writing while traveling in a train across Europe, finally the results of our monthly leagues:

With the end of March we have also reached the end of our month-long event series to celebrate welcoming the 1000th member to the Open Study Room. We hope you enjoyed some of the events we tried to put together for you and are now ready to return to our regular schedule. Which of course includes our monthly leagues and the due results.

Despite the extra cold winter and the extra hot summer some of you are currently experiencing, you have been actively playing league games and are surely waiting for the overdue results of the January leagues. This month saw a lot of activity including a new 9x9 league, the launch of a new external community run by the Chilean Go Federation, and many new members bringing the total OSR membership to over 1000!