This is Puddletown’s second End of Summer tournament. Compared to last year, we have much more players, especially in the upper sections. A lot of the players in the upper sections are from the beginner’s section last year. Some even won prizes in the top sections! It’s really amazing to see our players grow stronger. In this tournament, we offered 27 free entries for girls, and 3 free entries for players from rural areas. In addition, 9 players played in their first tournament. Shoutout to those players!
Section C winners:
- Even score medalists: Madelynn Merritt, Saaz Shah, Rishi Kulkarni
- Plus score medalists: Akshaj Aravind, Henry Wark
- 3rd place: Nikhil Krishnan
- 2nd place: Ayden Merritt
- 1st place (perfect score): Adam Tao
Section B winners:
- Even score medalists: Sage McGoogan, Raina Paul, Riya Bala, Aabha Aditya Khanolkar
- Plus score medalists: Zachary Herring, Sara Shah, Alexander Z Dang
- 3rd place: Neil Katira
- 2nd place: Nathan Lu
- 1st place: Yuvan Vutukuri
Section A winners:
- Even score medalists: Shreya Bala, Will Kanarek, Aarav Dang, Prakrithi Balasubramanian, Emilia Smith, Tavish Ware, Nirvaan Chenna, Pragit Arunkumar
- Plus score medalists: Nicole Zhi Yi Lee, Yousef Bkour, Liem Quach, Jensen Yu, Jack Bogle, Vijay Rao, Pranav Balasubramanian, Mason Maddox Sloan, Olivia Maokhampio
- 3rd place: Saaz Doguparthy
- 2nd place (perfect score): Vinh Quach
- 1st place (perfect score): Eevie Tare
Open section winners:
- Even score medalists: Achyut Balaji, Jayden Yu, Sohrab Sabet, Raghav Dang, Weg Shukla, Aksh Singhal, Jesse Yan
- Plus score medalists: David Dandy, Steven Hearn, Neha Narendran
- 1st/3rd place ($30 cash winners for adult): Arjun Shetty, Dash Brier (respectively).
- 3rd place trophy: Raymond Zhao
- 2nd place trophy: Maanika Singh
- 1st place trophy: Dash Brier
Best female: Eevie Tare
The full USCF report can be found: https://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?202408037732.0
Pictures from the event on our google drive at: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1yZJh2HajWPyHZcZ1_C0-SjCVTl-2i1x_
Some pictures of the awards ceremony below:
