Queen City is the best scholastic tournament in the Midwest and was held on Saturday March 23rd. Due to a splitting of our forces that weekend, with us having two teams compete at MOTCF, CCL did not win either 1st place individual or 1st team in the Open section. Something that we have been very accustomed to doing. The team barely missed 1st, finishing in 2nd place to a Cleveland team with five 12th graders on their team. Our top individual score was by Vikram, finishing 4-1 and coming in 3rd place. Great courage was shown by Timothy, a new CCL 2nd grader who fought amongst the tall trees in the K-12 section. His courageous efforts were rewarded by gaining 142 rating points. The winner of the tournament was Jonathan Clinton. CCL was matched up to him in rounds 2 (Alex, who probably lost to do a bad TD call), 3 (Tim), 4th (Vikram). In all three of these games we were better with our opponent being in bad time pressure. However, we lost all of them. That is why during our O-1600 camp this May, we will be discussing and practicing how to avoid time pressure and how to take advantage or your opponent’s time pressure. This is a very important topic which has proven to be the Achilles heel of many of us.
In the other 3 open sections (K-3, 4-6, and 7-9) CCL was its typical dominate self, easily winning 1st place team and 1st place individual in each of these sections. Below are all of the individual trophy winners:
K-3
1st Rusty 5 beating 1st grader Emma in round 5 and regaining his swagger
3rd Viktor 4 1st grader
4th Lainie 4
5th Emma 4 1st grader
6th Elton 3.5 was not in CCL then but in CCL now
7th Doc 3.5
10th Gavin 3.5 1st grader
4-6
1st Sujan 5 riding a rocket ship to the top
2nd ArvindSP 4.5
3rd Sourjya 4.5
6th Arvi 4
7th Om 4
9th Jeremy 3.5
11th Kunal 3.5
13th Stella 3.5
7-9
1st Miles 5 Need two hands to take up the 1st place team and individual
3rd Cody F 4
7th Kaushal 4
