Our
2012 Holiday Season Chess tournament drew 31 players from Global, Timon Bishop,
and other local schools. We divided into three sections according to their
December ratings. First a word about ratings before we mention the winners of
the tournament. The USCF takes the last rating of a player right up to the
third Friday of every month and then uses that rating to update their rating
supplement at the beginning of the next month. For example if you play a
tournament on Saturday December 15th,
and get a new rating of let's say 1200 then on the following Saturday
the 22nd your rating goes down to 1149.
When you play your next tournament in January your rating according to the USCF
rating supplement will show 1200 and not 1149. Sounds simple enough, but there
are other contingencies like the tournament director (TD) sending in the
tournament on time or if the TD uses the latest rating supplement in the
tournament one plays in; I hope this clarifies some of the confusion about what
rating is being used for you in the tournaments. QueensKnight will always use
the latest USCF rating supplement available for our tournaments.
Okay
enough of that jargon, here are the winners of the 2012 Holiday Season
Tournament.
In
the Unrated section:
Winner was JOSHUA CAMPBELL
Second place went to MEGAN MELOON
Third COREY McCOOEY
Fourth KYLE FULLONE
Fifth TYLER OLROGG
In
the U-750 section:
Winner ROMAN CASTLE
Second NICHOLAS RZEZNIK
Third ENYA CIRILLO
In
the U-1500 section:
Winner BENJAMIN RUMMELL
Second JOSHUA BENHAM
Third TIM KEANE
Our
next tournament will be the Blizzard Challenge on January 12th. This is a FREE
tournament, so stay tuned for more info. Till next year.
I
WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON
FELIZ
NAVIDAD
