This annual event was held yesterday at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. A bus leaves Toronto and another bus leaves Montreal on Saturday morning to bring teams to Kingston for a noon start. Everyone plays 5 games...and then the buses leave for home at 6 pm.
Teams are selected based on their performance at the respective Provincial Team Championships held earlier in the school year. This year, thanks to Corinna Wan of Toronto, we also added a girls championship with each province being represented by 1 girl in each grade from grade 1-6.
It was a nice day in Kingston and the event ran smoothly. I would like to thank the parent volunteers who helped make this event successful: Andrew Giblon, Ron Knox and Vladimir Birarov. I would also like to thank Tyler Longo of the Queen's University Chess Club for handling the arrangements at Queen's.
A few comments:
Each team is asked to choose a name in the same way as sports teams. e.g. the Toronto Maple Leafs. I have to give the award for best name to FACE school of Montreal...they came up with POKER FACE :) BTW, FACE stands for Fine Arts Core Education.
The High School division finished in a tie for first between College Jean Eudes and Thornhill with 4 match points out of 5. Our tie-break system then goes to the team that has scored the most points in the competition. In this case Jean Eudes won out and was awarded the championship. However, when the two teams met in regular competition, Thornhill actually beat College Jean Eudes.
The event was organized and sponsored by the Chess'n Math Association.
And now for the results:
K-3 Division:
1st Place - Seneca Hill (Ontario)
(Team members in board order from 1-4: Benjamin Lin, Eugene Zhang, Daniel Liu & Ray Liu)
2nd Place - College Charlemagne (Quebec)
(Team members in board order from 1-4: Gabriel Philip Tinica, Allison Tyspin, Patrick Yang & Johnson Li)
3rd Place - Hillmont (Ontario)
(Team members in board order from 1-4:Andrew Liang, Richard Feng, Richard Hanxu & Leo Zeng)
K-6 Division:
1st Place - Seneca Hill (Ontario)
(Team members in board order from 1-4: Benedict Cheung, Joey Zhong, Harry Zhao & Kyle Truong)
2nd Place - College Charlemagne (Quebec)
(Team members in board order from 1-4: Eddie Yang, Muhan Luo, Diana Marie Serban, Sabina Tinica)
3rd Place - FACE School (Quebec)
(Team members in board order from 1-4: Daisy Lu, Roselyn Lu, Jasmine Lu & Marek Cauchy-Vaillancourt)
High School Division
1st Place - College Notre-Dame (Quebec)
(Team members in board order from 1-4: Zong Yang Yu, Oleksandr Nikulich, Santiago Plante & Andrey Nikulich)
2nd Place - Thornhill (Ontario)
(Team members in board order from 1-4: David Itkin, Ben Blium (Spelling), Rebecca Giblon & Alexander Grynszpan)
3rd Place - U. of Toronto Schools (Ontario)
(Team members in board order from 1-4: Christopher Knox, Jackie Peng, Hanyuan Ye & Guangyu Song (Spelling?)
GIRLS CHAMPIONSIP
Ontario beat Quebec by the score of 17-8.
The grade winners were:
Grade 1 - Maya Kamath (ON)
Grade 2 - Kylie Tan (ON)
Grade 3 - Tiffany Tan (ON)
Grade 4 - Maili-Jade Ouellet (QC)
Grade 5 - Dora Liu (ON)
Grade 6 - Janet Peng (ON)
Teams are selected based on their performance at the respective Provincial Team Championships held earlier in the school year. This year, thanks to Corinna Wan of Toronto, we also added a girls championship with each province being represented by 1 girl in each grade from grade 1-6.
It was a nice day in Kingston and the event ran smoothly. I would like to thank the parent volunteers who helped make this event successful: Andrew Giblon, Ron Knox and Vladimir Birarov. I would also like to thank Tyler Longo of the Queen's University Chess Club for handling the arrangements at Queen's.
A few comments:
Each team is asked to choose a name in the same way as sports teams. e.g. the Toronto Maple Leafs. I have to give the award for best name to FACE school of Montreal...they came up with POKER FACE :) BTW, FACE stands for Fine Arts Core Education.
The High School division finished in a tie for first between College Jean Eudes and Thornhill with 4 match points out of 5. Our tie-break system then goes to the team that has scored the most points in the competition. In this case Jean Eudes won out and was awarded the championship. However, when the two teams met in regular competition, Thornhill actually beat College Jean Eudes.
The event was organized and sponsored by the Chess'n Math Association.
And now for the results:
K-3 Division:
1st Place - Seneca Hill (Ontario)
(Team members in board order from 1-4: Benjamin Lin, Eugene Zhang, Daniel Liu & Ray Liu)
2nd Place - College Charlemagne (Quebec)
(Team members in board order from 1-4: Gabriel Philip Tinica, Allison Tyspin, Patrick Yang & Johnson Li)
3rd Place - Hillmont (Ontario)
(Team members in board order from 1-4:Andrew Liang, Richard Feng, Richard Hanxu & Leo Zeng)
K-6 Division:
1st Place - Seneca Hill (Ontario)
(Team members in board order from 1-4: Benedict Cheung, Joey Zhong, Harry Zhao & Kyle Truong)
2nd Place - College Charlemagne (Quebec)
(Team members in board order from 1-4: Eddie Yang, Muhan Luo, Diana Marie Serban, Sabina Tinica)
3rd Place - FACE School (Quebec)
(Team members in board order from 1-4: Daisy Lu, Roselyn Lu, Jasmine Lu & Marek Cauchy-Vaillancourt)
High School Division
1st Place - College Notre-Dame (Quebec)
(Team members in board order from 1-4: Zong Yang Yu, Oleksandr Nikulich, Santiago Plante & Andrey Nikulich)
2nd Place - Thornhill (Ontario)
(Team members in board order from 1-4: David Itkin, Ben Blium (Spelling), Rebecca Giblon & Alexander Grynszpan)
3rd Place - U. of Toronto Schools (Ontario)
(Team members in board order from 1-4: Christopher Knox, Jackie Peng, Hanyuan Ye & Guangyu Song (Spelling?)
GIRLS CHAMPIONSIP
Ontario beat Quebec by the score of 17-8.
The grade winners were:
Grade 1 - Maya Kamath (ON)
Grade 2 - Kylie Tan (ON)
Grade 3 - Tiffany Tan (ON)
Grade 4 - Maili-Jade Ouellet (QC)
Grade 5 - Dora Liu (ON)
Grade 6 - Janet Peng (ON)
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