The Hello 2025 Tournament was a great success! We were proud to offer free entries to ALL 154 players! Among them, 10 players were attending their first USCF-rated tournament, and 32 were girls. This was our biggest event at Puddletown so far. Looks like everybody’s new year’s resolution was to become better at chess.
Congratulations to our following winners:
Under 400 section winners:
- Even score medalists: Samuel Johnson, Thomas Johnson, Jayden Chen, Ronan Brandon, Isabel Smith, Kion Fletcher, Timothy Zhang, Sophia Nguyen, Noah Julius, Anirudh Kanuparthi, Reyansh Agrawal, Evangeline Yeh, Shaarav Khetan
- Plus score medalists: Aadya Kadali, Ghermy Fidel, Akshaj Aravind, Suhas Javali, Akash Aradhya, Elise Gordon, Vihaan Sharma, Luke Dandy, Trimbakesh Muddagowda
- 5th place: Josiah Cheung
- 4th place: Ruthwikksai Madhan
- 3rd place: Pragnya Vemprala
- 2nd place: Abhiram Ramesh
- 1st place (with a perfect score): Harshith Dasari
Under 700 section winners:
- Even score medalists: August Khan, Liam Pham, Elan Bernstein, Jacksam Tran, Zachary Herring, Colton Edwards, Tanisha Jain, Aarav Hegde, Rajvi Das, Andrew To, Dharsaan Ponmuhilan
- Plus score medalists: Rajita Shadrak, Sharanya Pingale, Kavin Rajesh, Neil Katira, Corina Maokhampio, Stephen Chen, Dax Johnson, Nimay Ranjit, Quy Do, Mokshith Mallapu
- 5th place: Logan Nguyen
- 4th place: Long Tran
- 3rd place: Anisha Jain
- 2nd place: Amartya Kadali
- 1st place (with a perfect score): Ethan Yasher
Under 1000 section winners:
- Even score medalists: Yuvan Vutukuri, Harish Ramesh, Leo Koenig, Vijval Jupudi, Vincent Xie, Tristan Hao
- Plus score medalists: Jaskaran Singh, Nikhil Astekar, Aabha Khanolkar, Jack Bogle, Pragit Arunkumar, Pranav Balasubramanian, Henry Mai, Jeffrey Zhou, Ivy Chen
- 5th place: Beowulf Laughlin-Koch
- 4th place: Prakrithi Balasubramanian
- 3rd place: Olivia Maokhampio
- 2nd place: Kyle Yang
- 1st place: Namish Vikaskiran
Open II section winners:
- Even score medalists: Prahlada Saripalli, Arnav Aggarwal
- Plus score medalists: Rihaan Rahul, William Ho,
- 3rd place: Merrick Liu
- 2nd place: Kevin Abihai
- 1st place: Jesse Yan
Open I section winners:
- Even score medalists: Eshan Aravind, Tyler Cheng, Vihaan Kesavan, Weg Shukla
- Plus score medalists: David Dandy, Luca Hurd, Sriram Badri
- 3rd place: Ekam Sardar
- 2nd place: Bohan Li
- 1st place: Lucas Maokhampio
The USCF rating report can be found here.
More photos from this tournament can be found here.
