2011 KWCC Teams Active Challenge

[Bob Gillanders]

This is a wonderful fun event that never seems to get the publicity is deserves. Always, people are scrambling at the 11th hour to arrange teams. Plan ahead and don't miss it. :)

2011 KWCC Teams Active Challenge

City: Kitchener
Contact: Ed Thompson, 68 Evelyn Crescent, Kitchener, ON N2A 1G9 edthompson@netflash.net For info call 519-893-1920.
Date: Saturday June 18th, 2011
Place: Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St., Kitchener, ON (Learning Room and Conestoga Room)
Intro & History: This annual event has been popular with clubs and groups from Toronto to Windsor, Hamilton, Sudbury. Teams have been made up of players with a wide range of chess experience. Last year's 2010 rating crosstable here
Rds: 5
Start Times: 10:30am, Lunch, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm
Type: Active, Swiss with teams of 4 players from same club, company, or region. Pairing will be by team scores. Board positions are determined by the team captains or players.
TC: Game in 25 minutes plus 10 seconds added per move (Bronstein)
EF: $40 for team of four. CFC membership required for each player, can be paid on site; Adult $43, Junior $27, One-time tournament $20
Payment: Cash only at site. There is an ATM on site.
Prizes: Team prize determined by matches won, lost, and drawn. $$Based on entries, trophies and cash.
Reg: 10am
Information: http://www.kwchess.com
Misc: Clocks and sets will be supplied. Several restuarants are near the site. Free parking available in Manulife parking lot at corner of Charles St., and Water St., one block from the site.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: 2011 KWCC Teams Active Challenge

crosstable here

here should be a link http://www.chess.ca/xtableSQL.asp?TNum=201006060

[Hans Jung]

Re: 2011 KWCC Teams Active Challenge

Bumping! Thanks Bob!

[Marcus Wilker]

Re: 2011 KWCC Teams Active Challenge

Is there a teams cross-table? What team won last year?

[Hans Jung]

Re: 2011 KWCC Teams Active Challenge

Crosstable supplied at link above

[Marcus Wilker]

Re: 2011 KWCC Teams Active Challenge

Crosstable supplied at link above

Yeah, but that just shows individual games. What about the match scores?

[Marcus Wilker]

Re: 2011 KWCC Teams Active Challenge

OK... saw the other thread. So it's Windsor (2008), Kitchener (2009), Kitchener (2010).

[Hans Jung]

Re: 2011 KWCC Teams Active Challenge

and (Im going by memory here and as its not chess moves it could be wrong:) 2007 U of Waterloo, 2005 Brantford, 2003 Concordia, 2001 Hamilton, 1999 Concordia and thats all I can remember.

[Kai G. Gauer]

Re: 2011 KWCC Teams Active Challenge

This is a wonderful fun event that never seems to get the publicity is deserves. Always, people are scrambling at the 11th hour to arrange teams. Plan ahead and don't miss it. :)

2011 KWCC Teams Active Challenge

City: Kitchener
Contact: Ed Thompson, 68 Evelyn Crescent, Kitchener, ON N2A 1G9 edthompson@netflash.net For info call 519-893-1920.
Date: Saturday June 18th, 2011
Place: Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St., Kitchener, ON (Learning Room and Conestoga Room)
Intro & History: This annual event has been popular with clubs and groups from Toronto to Windsor, Hamilton, Sudbury. Teams have been made up of players with a wide range of chess experience. Last year's 2010 rating crosstable here
Rds: 5
Start Times: 10:30am, Lunch, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm
Type: Active, Swiss with teams of 4 players from same club, company, or region. Pairing will be by team scores. Board positions are determined by the team captains or players.
TC: Game in 25 minutes plus 10 seconds added per move (Bronstein)
EF: $40 for team of four. CFC membership required for each player, can be paid on site; Adult $43, Junior $27, One-time tournament $20
Payment: Cash only at site. There is an ATM on site.
Prizes: Team prize determined by matches won, lost, and drawn. $$Based on entries, trophies and cash.
Reg: 10am
Information: http://www.kwchess.com
Misc: Clocks and sets will be supplied. Several restuarants are near the site. Free parking available in Manulife parking lot at corner of Charles St., and Water St., one block from the site.

The 2011 event had 18 teams of 4 players (occasionally, a reserve would sub in for a single floater game on one of the extra float teams, so the cross-tables might have seen more than 72 players involved this year to fill out 2 rooms for this year's larger than average tournament). After 5 rounds, a team from Windsor seems to have emerged as the team winner. Mr Thompson had still been calculating the best individuals' performances at home later tonight, and since that calculation is more complicated, he says that those prizes will be in the mail in the future. A couple of players went undefeated, and there were (at least) 3-4 teams down to the wire in the last round to see whether a tie-break was necessary to decide on how close the Willowdale, Annex and/or Kitchener clubs (probably a couple of others watched too) were to catching that runaway team that picked up the title a few years ago as well. Keep an eye out in the forthcoming weeks for the cross-table version that eventually shows rankings on the CFC site.