2019 Elementary Kicks off with Bughouse and Blitz

While the 2019 National Elementary (K-6) Championship officially kicks off today, the competition has really been underway since Thursday’s ever-popular Blitz and Bughouse events. 24 teams turned out for the 2019 Bughouse Tournament, and when the dust settled, two teams – Dylan Dollata / Reagan Pearl and Neel Bhaskar / Owen Levine – finished at the top of the list with 8/10 points. Three teams followed at 7/10, good for shared 3rd-5th places. https://twitter.com/USChess/status/1126550041118879745 With a later start time of 5pm, instead of 11am for Bughouse, turnout for Thursday’s  K-6 Blitz and K-3 Blitz Tournaments grew to a total of 300 players. https://twitter.com/USChess/status/1126609871712002048 Doruk Emir and Troy Cavanah shared first place in the K-6 Blitz, with each player scoring 11/12. Two players – Alexander Rutten and Evan Park – tied for 3rd-4th place, finishing a half-point behind the leaders with 10.5/12. Three New York Teams swept the top team trophies in the K-6. Speyer Legacy School took first place, followed by Dalton and Hunter College Campus School. Anjaneya Rao and Austin Tang tied for first place in the K-3 Blitz at 11/12. There was a 1.5 gap between Rao and Tang and the shared 3rd-5th place finishers Christopher Williams, Krishna Kishore Rallabandi, and Oliver Boydell. Teams from New York also cleaned up in the K-3 Blitz Team standings. Speyer Legacy School will be bringing home the first place trophy in the K-3 along with the K-6 hardware, while Rodeph Sholom School and PS 166M are the second and third place winners. The Main Event kicks off today at 12:45pm’s Opening Ceremonies, followed by the first round of all thirteen sections shortly thereafter! Check back with CLO all weekend for updates and photos from Nashville.

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