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Mississauga CYCC Qualifier 2014
April 27, 2014
U of T Mississauga Campus, Faculty Lounge, 3rd floor
Sponsor and host: Mississauga Chess Club
5 round, Swiss pairings
Register by April 22nd to rgillanders@cogeco.ca
Onsite check in: 12-12:30pm, Round Times: 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm
Entry fee: $25, Time Control: 25 minutes
Prizes: Trophies, score of 2.5 or better qualify for the CYCC (Montreal July 2014)
for updates and pre registered list: www.miltonchess.ca
Last edited by Bob Gillanders; Monday, 7th April, 2014, 11:00 AM.
Good luck to all the kids playing at the OYCC in Kitchener this weekend.
If you don't get enough chess this weekend, remember there is next weekend in Mississauga.
Our Mississauga CYCC qualifier is Sunday April 27.
We only have 15 registered to date. :(
Preregistered list at www.miltonchess.ca
Registrations are trickling in. We are at 34 now.
Remember, today is the early registration deadline.
I will be disappointed if we don't reach 50. :(
Please don't make me email everyone again!
The player count stands at 36.
A preregistration list can be found at www.miltonchess.ca
It appears we have enough players for 4 viable sections:
U8, U10, U12, U18 (includes U14 & U16)....
but hopefully we'll get a few more tonight at the Mississauga Junior Club.
We did recently hit a new high attendance record of 154. :)
The late fee is being waived for anyone emailing me by midnight saturday.
Last edited by Bob Gillanders; Thursday, 24th April, 2014, 12:15 PM.
It was a light turnout of just 44 kids, but enough for 4 viable sections.
The tournament ran on time, parents were well behaved (lol) and helpful,
no crying kids, so just a wonderful day for everyone.
Trophies were awarded for the top 3 in each section.
The tiebreak system employed was "opposition cumulative scores".
We added two 4th trophies to avoid anyone loosing out on a tiebreak.
Congratulations to the following winners:
Under 8
1st Zack Dinatolo 4.5
2nd Harry Liu 4.0
3rd Shaun Jiang 3.5
Under 10
1st Michael Xie 5.0
2nd Matias Verges 4.0
3rd Rowell Ocampo 3.0
4th Patrick Wojewodka 3.0
1st Vaanie Kathirkamar 4.0
2nd Mahip Singh 4.0
3rd Simon Domenic Santos 4.0
4th Joseph Silva 4.0
Thanks to everyone for participating.
We will post a list of CYCC qualified players as
soon as we can confirm it with the CFC office.
We expect everyone with a score of 2.5 or better will qualify.
Thanks to Gordon Gooding who did a spendid job as chief arbiter.
Thanks to Paul Roschman for onsite registrations, and various
other duties. Thanks to Lynda Lei for helping the new kids with
keeping a scoresheet, and Warren Wong our student volunteer for
helping set up the room.
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