Saturday saw 293 students descend upon Madison Meadows Middle school for the Tsunami Scholastic Chess Tournament. 22 of which were my students.
In Kindergarten Section I had the awesome Sts Simon & Jude player of Alex Feix entering his first tournament and scoring 1.5 points!!
K-3 U500 Section I had the teams of:
Sts Simon & Jude – Jordan Hidalgo 4.0, Zeke Hernandez 2.5, Aiden Randall 2.0, Carlos Ramos 1.0 & Maryjayne Barriente 0.5 which brought the 5th place trophy back to the school.
Jordan Hidalgo ended up in a 5-way tie for first place and took the second place trophy home on tie breaks!!
My Madison Simis – Ian Hurley 2.5, Lola Saxe 2.0, Alexander Weiss 2.0, Max Fishleder 1.5, Michael Ulan 1.0, Olivia Liv Demarse 1.0, Rowan Bain 1.0, Cael McMahon 1.0 & Maxwell Johnson 1.0 did a great job ending up in 8th place!
From Desert Sun Academy, Hudson Palmer scored 2 pts for a 50% score!
K-6 U600 Section saw another 5th place team win. This one from Madison Simis team of
Allison Kemp 3.0, Sean Hurley 2.5, Ian Kirkman 2.0, Avery Lopez 2.0, Uli Kohrt 1.0 & Brody Cobb 1.0
Allison was able to take home the 20th place trophy for herself.
In this section I had Aiden Brockway 1.0 representing SSJ, Arianna Fairchild 0.5 representing Esparanza Kyrene and Cade Jones 0.5 of DSUN
In the K-6 Champ section Delaney Scott-Martin 2.0 scored her 50%
These kids couldn’t do any more to make me more proud of them then I already am!!
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