We had a full house today with 40 players. Our new venue, Village Church – Beaverton was perfect with the right amount of space for players and their families. We had exactly 10 quads with many new returning players. Great job to Cody, Devan, Alexander, Austin, Andrew, and Rajvi for competing in their very first […]
2023 May Spring Festival Tournament Report
Our May chess tournament was unlike any other tournament we have held before. This time, we decided to do a “Spring Festival”, which is a regular Swiss tournament and not quads styled. We had an outstanding turnout with over 80 players coming to the tournament. We had 3 big sections, divided into U600, U900, and […]
2023 April Quad Report
The April quad was another successful event for Puddletown Chess. The 32 player limit was reached 8 days before the event started. For the first time, we also hosted a raffle. Four lucky players won a Chesskid gold membership. Shoutout to Escher Lin and Ben Choi for playing their first USCF-rated tournament. Huge thanks to […]
2023 March Quad Report
Records were broken again at this month’s Puddletown quads. 36 players showed up to test their skills, and registration had to be closed two weeks early because maximum capacity had been reached (so make sure to sign up quickly for the April quads!). We had 6 girls attend our tournament this time! That’s almost triple […]
Tournament Report For February Quads 2/12/23
This month’s quads was great! 30 people came to the tournament, even though it was the same day as the superbowl! Great job to Winston, Edwin, Derek, Carter, Lohit, Navneeth, and August for competing in their first USCF tournament! Congratulations to our following winners: Quad #1 – EMEL BAYRAMBEYLI, Quad #2 – ANSON PFEIFFER, Quad #3 – PRISHA […]
2023 January Quad Report
The January Quad was a great start to the new year for Puddletown Chess! Our tournament reached maximum capacity two days before the registration deadline. Shoutout to Preston, Jasper, James, Dhruv, and Jeramiah for playing in their first-ever tournament. Congratulations to our following winners: Quad #1 – ETHAN TAMMER, Quad #2 – SEBASTIAN SMITH and […]
2022 December PTC Quads
The December Quad was another wonderful event for Puddletown Chess. It wasn’t as big as last month’s with 26 players. but we did have 24 people join this time which means we are getting a stable amount of players. We also had our first twins in this tournament, and they both won their sections! Shout […]
2022 November Quad Report
The November Quad was another successful event for Puddletown Chess. Fun fact: this was our biggest quad ever so far, with 26 total players in 5 quad sections and 1 small swiss! Shoutout to our youngest competitor Cormac Tseng, who is only 4 years old! Congratulations to our following winners: Quad #1 – NEEV KODARAPU […]
2022 October Quad Report
The October Quad was another successful event for Puddletown Chess. We did the quad at the same location, Godfather’s Pizza on October 2nd, 2022. Zoey was our Chief TD this time. There were 16 total players who played in 4 quad sections. Quad#1 Winner was BOB LIU, Quad#2 Winner was ANSON PFEIFFER, Quad#3 Winner was […]
2022 September Quad Report
Puddletown’s first-ever quad-style tournament was a grand success! The event happened on September 11th, 2022 at Godfather’s Pizza in Cedar Mill. Our Chief TD for this tournament was Maolong Tang. We had 20 players in attendance, organized into 5 sections/quads. Quad#1 Winner was ARNOLD TIANYI YANG, Quad#2 Winner was ADITYA CHANDRASHEKARAN, Quad#3 Winner was MR. […]