iExcell Open/Scholastic Tournament, November 2013
We had 22 Players come to play at iExcell on November 2nd.
In the Under 600 section, Aatmodhee Goswami placed first with a perfect 5.0 score. Sreeansh Vakiti placed second, and Zachary Gross received the third place trophy on tiebreaks. Ayush Banerjee and Nathan Donohue tied Zachary with 3.0 points each. With an amazing turnout, Colene Hoose took the top school team trophy. All other players took home medals.
In the Under 1200, six players with five rounds led to a Swiss paired all-play-all. Arnav Sriram placed 1st with 4.0 points. Siblings Naaman and Kyra Rivera placed 2nd and 3rd with 3.5 and 3.0 points respectively. With two of the six players present, Benjamin took the school team trophy. All other players took home medals.
In the Open section, Joseph Alford managed a perfect 4.0 plus score for $100; Mihir Bafna and Narayan Karthik Karra tied for 2.5 points (drawing their last game against each other) for $25.
Link to ratings at USCF for this tournament are at this link.
The next iExcell tournament will be on December 7th.
Final Results:
Players:U600 Page 1 Plc Name ID Exp. St Gr Rate Pts Rnd1 Rnd2 Rnd3 Rnd4 Rnd5 1 Goswami,Aatmodhee 15005635 1113 IL 574 5.0 W5 W3 W4 W2 W7 2 Vakiti,Sreeansh R 14747680 1014 IL 504 4.0 W9 W8 W3 L1 W5 3 Gross, Zachary 15065112 1012 IL 378 3.0 W11 L1 L2 -B- W4 4 Banerjee, Ayush 15029187 1113 IL 559 3.0 W7 W6 L1 W8 L3 5 Donohue,Nathan 15061213 0114 IL 397 3.0 L1 -B- W11 W10 L2 6 Billingsly,Cora 15262370 1014 IL 2.5 W10 L4 L9 D11 W8 7 Vanguru,Rishith 15041748 IL 2.0 L4 W10 L8 W9 L1 8 Karra,Kunal Prath 14744151 1213 IL 305 2.0 -B- L2 W7 L4 L6 9 Ravi,Ishita 15260518 1014 IL 2.0 L2 L11 W6 L7 -B- 10 Tummala,Shritan 15264340 1114 IL 2.0 L6 L7 -B- L5 W11 11 Sreekanth,Arun 15256753 IL 1.5 L3 W9 L5 D6 L10 Players:U1200 Page 1 Plc Name ID Exp. St Gr Rate Pts Rnd1 Rnd2 Rnd3 Rnd4 Rnd5 1 Sriram,Arnav 14353916 0214 IL 795 4.0 W4 D2 W3 W5 D6 2 Rivera, Naaman Jos 14303281 0214 IL 900 3.5 W3 D1 L5 W6 W4 3 Rivera, Kyra Elian 14572996 0214 IL 722 3.0 L2 W6 L1 W4 W5 4 Nadkarni,Anusha 14789160 0214 IL 642 2.0 L1 W5 W6 L3 L2 5 Bhamidipati,Nishant 14815241 0114 IL 585 1.5 D6 L4 W2 L1 L3 6 Wang,Jaden 14818345 1015 IL 774 1.0 D5 L3 L4 L2 D1 Players:OPEN Page 1 Plc Name ID Exp. St Gr Rate Pts Rnd1 Rnd2 Rnd3 Rnd4 1 Alford,Joseph O 10279241 9999 IL 1900 4.0 W3 W2 W4 W5 2 Bafna,Mihir 13737414 1113 IL 1363 2.5 W4 L1 -B- D3 3 Karra,Narayan Karthik 12988332 1213 IL 1391 2.5 L1 -B- W5 D2 4 Prabu,Advaith 14378111 0214 IL 1487 2.0 L2 W5 L1 -B- 5 Bafna,Aarushi 14289595 1113 IL 734 1.0 -B- L4 L3 L1
PreTournament (Before November 2) Info:
The next tournament to be held at iExcell will be on Saturday, November 2, 2013. Details in “TLA” (“Tournament Life Announcement”) format follow, then a “plain language” explanation. The tournament flyer can also be found here.
TLA Information:
Nov. 2, IEXCELL BLOOMINGTON/NORMAL OPEN/
SCHOLASTIC NOVEMBER 2013
iExcell, 2416 East Washington Street, Suite B3, Bloomington IL 61704.
For new players, see http://laughingvulcan.org/TCCCBlog/iexcell/ for more
comprehensive explanations. In 3 Sections Open: 4SS, G/60;d5, EF:
$30.00 if Prepaid by Oct. 30; $35.00 Onsite. $$: $100.00 for 4.0 score;
$75.00 for 3.5 score; $50.00 for 3.0 score, $25.00 for 2.5 score. Only
zero point byes allowed, all rounds. Floor repairings will be done for
any player 15 minutes after round start if opponent not present.
U1200 Scholastic: 5SS, G/30;d5, Open to 1200 & under. Open to
Scholastic Players Only. EF: Scholastic sections: $15 if paid by October
30; $20 Onsite. Prizes: 1st-3rd Place Trophy, 1st Place School Team
Trophy. All players receive at least one’goodie.’ All scholastic players
receive participation medals. ½ point bye available any single round
*except final round*; zero point byes only in final round. We reserve
the right to combine the U600/U1200 sections or reduce rounds if
number of players is low. U600 Scholastic: 4SS, G/30;d5, Open to
600 & under. Open to Scholastic Players Only. EF: Scholastic sections:
$15 if paid by October 30; $20 Onsite. Prizes: 1st-3rd Place Trophy,
1st Place School Team Trophy. All players receive at least one’goodie.’
All scholastic players receive participation medals. ½ point bye available
any single round *except final round*; zero point byes only in final
round. We reserve the right to combine the U600/U1200 sections or
reduce rounds if number of players is low. ALL: Rds: Check-In and
Door Registration Ends 8:30 AM; 1st Round begins play ASAP after
registration closes at 8:30. Lunch break provided, all other rounds ASAP.
Preregistered players are expected to check-in. ENT: Rahul Bafna, iExcell
(309) 287 -0293 or admin@iexcellkids.com. INFO: admin@iexcellkids.com.
DIR: See http://goo.gl/maps/w1SnT for Google Map to site.
Some explanation in English:
This will be a United States Chess Federation rated tournament at iExcell. There are three sections, one for scholastic players under 600 USCF rating, one for scholastic players under 1200 USCF rating, and an open section for scholastic and adult players. If the scholastic attendance (U600/U1200) is too small we reserve the right to either shorten the number of rounds or combine the two sections together.
All sections have the following in common:
Everyone must be present and either have checked in, or be in the check in line, by 8:30 AM. Late arrivals, even those preregistered, may or may not have a first round game. It pays to be early!
All players must be paid members of the USCF (because we are not separating by grade, all players must have current expirations or pay a minimum three month USCF membership fee, in addition to the tournament registration fee.)
We will take a lunch break when possible and the start time for the post-lunch round will be announced. Otherwise, all rounds begin as soon as possible after the last game in the prior round is finished. In practice there’s about a fifteen minute break after the last game finishes and when play in the next round starts.
Typically the scholastic sections end at around 4:30 PM. (A perfect day would have rounds approximately start at 9:00 AM, 10:30 AM, 12:30 PM, 1:50 PM, and 3:15 PM.) The open section usually ends at 6:00 PM, (rounds start at 9:00 AM, 12:oo PM, 2:15 PM, and 4:15 PM.) Things, however, rarely come out perfectly.
To preregister, or if you have any questions, please contact Rahul Bafna of iExcell at (309) 287 -0293 or email admin@iexcellkids.com.
The scholastic sections share the following in common (even though they are two separate sections):
It is a total of 5 rounds in Swiss system format (all players play 5 games of chess during the day.) Each side has thirty minutes each to play the game (bringing/buying a clock is recommended,) and each there will be 5 seconds of delay each move before time starts counting down. If neither player has a clock, we will place a clock on the board with both times equally split based on availability (this typically happens in the last 10-20 minutes of the round.)
The top 3 players by tiebreak score receive trophies, and the school with the four best players takes a team trophy. All players take home a medal.
Players may take up to one half point bye for any round except the last round. This counts as a draw for pairing and prize purposes.
The entry fee is $15.00 if prepaid by October 30, and $20.00 if paid after October 30 / at the site.
The open section has the following characteristics:
It is a total of 4 rounds in Swiss system format (all players play 4 games of chess during the day.) Each side has sixty minutes each to play the game (bringing/buying a clock is recommended,) and there will be 5 seconds of delay each move before the time starts counting down. If neither player has a clock, we will place a clock on the board with both times equally split based on availability (this typically happens in the last 10-20 minutes of the round.)
This is a plus-scores section. A player scoring a perfect 4.0 score receives $100.00. A player who scores 3.5 receives $75.00. A player scoring 3.0 receives $50.00. A player who scores 2.5 points receives $25.00. Scores less than 2 points receive nothing.
Because we’re playing plus scores, all elected byes count for zero points, not a half point. Also, to avoid more than one (possible) full point bye in a round, we may do floor repairing of any player whose opponent is more than 15 minutes late for the round start.
The entry fee is $30.00 if prepaid by October 30, and $35.00 if paid after October 30 / at the site.
