We had 14 students from Spicewood Elementary participate in the Meridian Scholastic Chess tournament on September 14th, 2019. The tournament consisted of 5 rounds of games each worth 1 point. In total, our kids scored a total of 35 out of a possible 70 points. (50%)
This tournament kind of snuck up on us as we did not do a great job of promoting it in the weeks leading up to it. We will do a better job for the next tournament at Casis Elementary.
We got FIRST place in the K-1 under 400 section with 2 students getting a total score of 8 points!. Congratulations to Yashas Veerapaneni for winning all 5 of his games and getting 1st place in the section (Trophy). Benjamin Yu came in 6th with 3 wins (Medal). This two person team received the 1st place trophy at the awards ceremony and you can see it at our next club meeting.
We got FOURTH place in the K-3 under 700 section with 3 students gaining a total score of 5 points. (Devin Liu, Julian Joseph and Tiffany Teoh)
We got THIRD place in the K-5 under 1000 section with 2 students gaining a total score of 8 points. Joyce Song came in 3rd place with 4 wins and Gavin Wang came in 5th place with 4 wins each getting a trophy!
For the individual awards:
We had three students receive trophies for 4 or more points in their sections: Yashas Veerapaneni, Joyce Song and Gavin Wang.
We had 1 student receive a medal for scoring between 3.0 and 3.5 points in their sections: Benjamin Yu.
Congratulations to all of our students who competed at this year’s Meridian chess tournament. Each student will get $5 chess bucks for their participation.
We also note that Canyon Vista Middle school got first place in the K-12 Any rating section. We were happy to see many Spicewood Elementary chess club alumni in the group that won!
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