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CCL cleans up at Queen City

April 17, 2013

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

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