The Winter Wonderland II 2025 (February) Puddletown Chess Tournament was a resounding success! Among them, 8 players were attending their first USCF-rated tournament, and 31 were girls. This was one of our biggest event at Puddletown so far. We hope to keep serving the community with high quality chess tournaments and training!
Congratulations to our following winners:
Under 400 section winners:
- Even score medalists: Ellery Bish, Benjamin Nguyen, Sebastian Burbank, Ghermy Fidel, Wilhelm Orendorff, Elias Pickard, Stephen Orendorff, Vince Weedman, Daniel Burbank, Siddhartha Berkey, Mylee Johnson
- Plus score medalists: Reya Tare, Akshaj Aravind, Dhruv Epur, Sophia Nguyen, Pragnya Sri Vemprala, Elise Gordon, Kennan James Crans, Olivia Burbank, Evangeline Yeh, Luke Wang, Dev Patnam, Kyle Song, Trapper Malcolm, Kenan Qusay Bkour, Jayden Chen
- 5th place: Akshaj Aravind
- 4th place: Reya Tare
- 3rd place: Navilan Balamurugan
- 2nd place(with a perfect score): Dhruvan Muppalla
- 1st place(with a perfect score): Aadya Kadali
Under 700 section winners:
- Even score medalists: Nathan Lu, Lakota Miller, Erin Burbank, August Khan, Yunhan Xiao, Isabel Smith
- Plus score medalists: Rajvi Das, Abhiram Ramesh, Dax Johnson, Shaarav Khetan, Aarna Hegde, Corina Maokhampio, Tanisha Jain, Jocelyn Cattone
- 5th place: Nirvaan Chenna
- 4th place: Vishnu Chetanna
- 3rd place: Neil Katira
- 2nd place: Benjamin Pierce
- 1st place(with a perfect score): Liam Pham
Under 1000 section winners:
- Even score medalists: Dhruv Pavan, Desmond C Henry, Vincent Xie, Nikhil Astekar, Lasya Sri Vemprala, Harish Ramesh, Olivia Maokhampio, Jensen Yu, Caiden Walker, Tim Hu, Anisha Jain, Korbett Miller, Matisse Jamil
- Plus score medalists: Gage Simpson, Joseph Raid-Zuhair Ayoub, Pranav Balasubramanian, Prakrithi Balasubramanian, Mikhail Fomin, Yousef Bkour, Lucas Teoh, Sohum V Paranjpe
- 5th place: Liam Walker Salinas
- 4th place: Ryan Yashar
- 3rd place: Jason Zhang
- 2nd place(with a perfect score): Jeffrey Zhou
- 1st place(with a perfect score): Kingston Miller
Open section winners:
- Even score medalists: Lucas Maokhampio, Weg Shukla
- Plus score medalists: John F Hart, Anson Pfeiffer, Luca Hurd, Aksh Singhal, Henry Rodgers, Oscar Baldivieso
- 3rd place: Arjun Shetty
- 2nd place(with a perfect score): David Dandy
- 1st place(with a perfect score): Kevin Abihai
USCF rating report : https://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?202502087682.0
More photos from the event : click this link
