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New attendance record for CYCC (non Ontario edition)
At the OYCC, the qualifying requirement was reduced from 2½/5 to 2/5, and I hear that at the Fraser Valley and Vancouver Regionals (often a player's first tournament) scoring 2/5 was good enough to qualify for the CYCC. Those BC regionals were sectioned off by grades not age and gender. The Alberta YCCs and OYCC had a “slow” time control, unlike many others which were active chess.
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The ratings of many players are very low... in U18, a player is rated 732. In U16, a player is 972. Many players are shown as unrated – presumably they have never played a regular-rated game. This is, I believe, a direct consequence of the YCC system encouraging inexperienced players by allowing them to qualify with low scores at their first tournament.
Apparently no changes are planned for the YCC qualifying system.
1 Jason Cao BC W17 W11 W6 W3 D2 W14 W13 6.5 100 26.5 28.5
2 Joseph Bellissimo ON W42 W23 W7 W10 D1 W6 W3 6.5 100 26.5 28.5
Tie-breaks:
Based on the fact that they tied on:
Direct encounter
Sum of progressive score
Buchholz
They played 3 more games in order to decide the champion:
- 2 games 15min+5 sec inc (if I remember correctly) - both games were draw
- Armageddon: Jason won the coin toss and choose Black (4 min and in case of a draw he wins, White had 5 min) ... and he won on the board. The Armageddon game was taped and will be available shortly on Monroi webpage.
Re: New attendance record for CYCC (non Ontario edition)
Andrei, when you have recovered from your work last week, could you post on the website the winners rest of the awards... junior trophies, bughouse winner, best game winners, etc. The PGN of the best games would be nice, too.
Re: New attendance record for CYCC (non Ontario edition)
PGN's (and the viewable games) of 30-35 games from each round are available on Monroi. I am going through them - making corrections where necessary - and can post a "clean" file eventaully.
Re: New attendance record for CYCC (non Ontario edition)
Thank you, Hugh, did the event use duplicate scoresheets for the rest of the games? Also, I was interested in the games chosen for the "outstanding game" prizes... does anyone know what they were?
Re: New attendance record for CYCC (non Ontario edition)
Andrei wrote:
We did provide duplicate scoresheets, please contact Ken for them.
As I am not sure which "Ken" you are referring to, could you get him to send me an email at my-first-name.my-last-name@mcgill.ca (making the obvious substitutions)?
As I am not sure which "Ken" you are referring to, could you get him to send me an email at my-first-name.my-last-name@mcgill.ca (making the obvious substitutions)?
Thanks for doing this! We may have some more here from the Canadian Open if you are still looking to assist -- Roger Patterson would welcome the assistance I am sure!:)
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