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City: Kitchener, Ontario
Dates: Saturday, Sept 19 - Sunday, Sept 20, 2015
Place: Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St.
Rds: 5, Swiss
Round Times: SAT 10:00am, 1:00pm, 6:00pm SUN 10:00am, 3:00pm
Register at City Hall from 9:00 - 9:45 am. on Sept 19.
Preregister: ralphdeline@gmail.com
TC: 90 + 30 second increment (rd 1- game 60 minutes and 10 sec increment)
EF: $50 entry fee and $40 for juniors and masters
TD: Brian Clarke
Note: Chess sets and clocks will be provided.
Preregistered for KW Tournament
Mario Piccinin
Ralph Deline
Eugene Hua
Gary Hua
Wayne Proudlove
George Dragusanu
Jamie Macinnis
Hans Jung
David Atanasov
Anthony Atanasov
Atharva Srinivas (bye rd. 3)
Kylie Tan (junior) (bye rd. 1)
James Tan (bye rd. 1)
Caleb Petersen
Brian Cameron (bye rd. 3)
Doug Gillis
Tianyi Shen
Eric Li
Yiwei Dong
Bob Gillanders
Stefano Lee
Dennis Shamroni
Eric Ning
Agastya Kalra
Istvan Kiss
Qalib Ladhani (bye rd. 1)
Patrick Phillips (bye rd. 3)
Hazel Guo
Roger Guo
Mate Milinkovic
Yu Xiang (Howard) Gong
Lucas Lu
Yulun (Tony) Wu
Zhixing (Daniel) Wang
Henry Hughes
Last edited by Ralph Deline; Friday, 18th September, 2015, 03:56 PM.
Two and three years ago, we had attendance around 80 for the September tournament and now we are approaching twenty people. Is there a reason why people have stopped attending the Kitchener tournament? Please comment if you have a reason for not attending as it may be something that can be "fixed" for future events.
Two and three years ago, we had attendance around 80 for the September tournament and now we are approaching twenty people. Is there a reason why people have stopped attending the Kitchener tournament? Please comment if you have a reason for not attending as it may be something that can be "fixed" for future events.
Thanks,
Ralph Deline
I don't see a late fee announced. I think you will get a lot of on-site registrations without one.
Thanks Hugh. I cut and pasted last years ad, made the necessary date changes, and added other information. I will have to be more alert next time and bring this up with the club executive. In the past, we had a discount for preregistering and that may also be a factor.
We did drop the entry fee from last year as some of the club executive thought this could be the reason for the poor attendance last year.
People are familiar with the City Hall, a great venue for chess tournaments, chess sets & clocks provided, and most of the money returned as prize money for the winners. It doesn't get much better than that. And you may be correct, we may have more on-site registrations since there is no late fee or discount provided for early registration.
Last edited by Ralph Deline; Monday, 7th September, 2015, 03:28 PM.
Two and three years ago, we had attendance around 80 for the September tournament and now we are approaching twenty people. Is there a reason why people have stopped attending the Kitchener tournament? Please comment if you have a reason for not attending as it may be something that can be "fixed" for future events.
Thanks,
Ralph Deline
I usually look on the CFC website to find tournaments and the Kitchener chess community hasn't been quick to advertise there. Sometimes I will go to the effort of finding the Kitchener website in the case of tournaments like OYCC but this is not always the case. Kitchener is definitely a destination that I would be interested in playing chess at. It seems to me that it is more difficult to find where and when the tournaments are being held. I did advertise the tournament in the upcoming tournaments on the Windsor Chess website. There is a competing event in Dearborn, the Harold Steen Memorial which I and most of the Windsor players will be attending. I find it more taxing to travel recently and the fact that I can sleep in my own bed to play in this tournament played a role in deciding which tournament I would play in.
I think if you advertise the event in the CFC coming events section on a timely basis you can easily return to the numbers of two or three years ago. People fall out of the habit of attending your tournaments and you just have to give them the opportunity to fall back into the habit. I will probably be playing in more tournaments this year to make up for the fact that I am not playing in the Tuesday once a week chess league in Windsor any longer.
Thanks Vlad for your reply. I sent the posting to CFC the same time I put the ad on chesstalk but I never checked to see whether or not it was posted on CFC. Someone mentioned that it wasn't so I resent it. We are definitely going to have the club executive involved in rectifying our past errors and hopefully we will be able to have decent size tournaments again.
In yesteryear, there was a major tournament every month or so it seemed. I would like to get back to those times. :)
My request to the TD, Brian Clarke, was for two sections and I'm sure "everyone" is in agreement. So I would say there are two sections. Have I ever been wrong before? ;)
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