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By 3:30 PM today, Thursday, July 11, 3 rounds had been completed. SCC juniors ( we have 25 at the CYCC!!) are continuing to do well. Here are those in the top three places in their sections after 3 rounds:
U 8 Open - 31 players
Nicholas Wu and Jonathan Zhao in a 6-way tie for 2nd.
U 8 Girls - 8 players
Harmony Zhu in sole 1st
U 10 Open - 64 players
Daniel Liu and Thomas Guo in 3-way tie for 1st
U 12 Girls - 24 players
Mathanhe Kaneshalingam and Varshini Paraparan are in a 3-way tie for 2nd
Rd. 4 was played this afternoon, Thursday, July 11. SCC has 25 juniors who qualified for and are playing in the CYCC - an excellent showing from one club. Here are the SCC juniors who are in 1st to 5th in their sections:
U 8 Open - 31 players/ 4 SCC'ers
4th/7th - Nicholas Wu; Aahil Noorali; Patrick Huang
U 8 Girls - 8 players/1 SCC'er
1st - Harmony Zhu
U 10 Open - 54 players/4 SCC'ers
1st/2nd - Thomas Guo
4th/13th - Daniel Liu
U 12 Open - 49 players/7 SCC'ers
2nd/4th - Daniel Zotkin
5th/14th - Jeffery Xu; Harry Zhao; Jason Cai
Oops, it looks like Mississauga has only 16 kids at CYCC. Imagine my surprise when one of them showed up at the club last night! It turns out I got confused between two kids with very similar names.
Anyhow, the Mississauga team took it on the chin in round 4, only 4 points.
So now the cumulative scores thru 4 rounds for the gang of 16, 30/64 = 47%.
Still pretty good for an underdog team. Good luck today! :)
Rd. 5 was played this morning, Friday, July 12. SCC has 26 juniors who qualified for and are playing in the CYCC - an excellent showing from one club. Here are the SCC juniors who are in 1st to 5th in their sections after 5 rounds:
U 8 Open - 31 players/ 5 SCC'ers
1st/2nd - Nameer Issani
3rd/4th - Aahil Noorali
5th/7th - Jonathan Zhao; Patrick Huang
... U 8 Girls - 8 players/1 SCC'er
1st - Harmony Zhu is Canadian Champion!! (she cannot be caught, even if she loses rd. 6, and the second place player wins). Congratulations - picture below by Egis Zeromskis
U 10 Open - 54 players/4 SCC'ers
3rd/8th - Thomas Guo
U 12 Open - 49 players/7 SCC'ers
1st/2nd - Daniel Zotkin
3rd/8th - Jeffery Xu; Harry Zhao
Rd. 6 was played yesterday afternoon, Friday, July 12. SCC has 26 juniors who qualified for and are playing in the CYCC - an excellent showing from one club. And we have 2 Canadian Champions!!
Here are the SCC juniors who are in 1st to 5th in their sections after the final 6 rounds of regular play:
U 8 Open - 31 players/ 5 SCC'ers
1st & Canadian Champion! - Nameer Issani - Congratulations Nameer!!
3rd/4th - Jonathan Zhao
5th/7th - Nicholas Wu; Aahil Noorali
U 8 Girls - 8 players/1 SCC'er
1st & Canadian Champion! - Harmony Zhu - Congratulations Harmony!!
U 10 Open - 54 players/4 SCC'ers
2nd/5th - Thomas Guo
U 12 Open - 49 players/7 SCC'ers
1st/4th - Daniel Zotkin; Jeffery Xu
U 12 Girls - 24 players/3 SCC'ers
3rd/5th - Constance Wang
Where there are ties for the top three places, the ties are broken by tie-break matches on Sat. AM.
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