Washington High School
Chess Association

2019 Washington State
Mini-Teams Championship
Saturday, November 16, 2019

 

Register by email before Friday, November 15th at 2:00 pm.

Site

Seattle Preparatory School, Adelphia Hall 2400 11th Ave E, WA 98012    (See Google maps driving directions)

Directions

From north: On I-5 take the Roanoke (Exit 168A). At light, take a left on Roanoke. Go straight through two lights then take the first right on to 11th Ave E. The parking garage entrance is on the left at the top of the hill.

From south: On I-5 take the Lakeview (Exit 167). At the stop sign, take a left on to Lakeview and follow under the freeway. At the second right, turn right on to Roanoke. Go straight through two lights then take the first right on to 11th Ave E. The parking garage entrance is on the left at the top of the hill.

From east: On 520 westbound, take the Roanoke exit. Turn right on Roanoke. Go straight through one light then take the first right on to 11th Ave E. The parking garage entrance is on the left at the top of the hill.

Parking

Please make every attempt to park in Seattle Prep's underground parking garage when attending the Mini Teams tournament. There you can park your vehicle for FREE in any open space except for the few 24/7 reserved parking spots. Seattle Prep and its residential neighbors greatly prefer that you do NOT use the limited street parking!

See the Seattle Prep Parking Map Seattle Prep Parking Map

Eligible

Any Washington High School, Middle School or Junior High School is eligible to enter as many teams as desired.

Extra players or singles are welcome! WHSCA staff will compose teams from the extra players.

All players on a team should be from same school, except for composed teams approved and/or made by WHSCA staff. WHSCA staff will try to keep teams of two together by adding an extra player from another school.

Private school coaches may propose a composed team consisting of high school and middle school players from the same private school. Public school coaches may propose a composed team consisting of high school and middle school players that will feed into that public high school. This should not result in the creation of a super team. For instance if a coach has five high school players and four middle school players. The coach needs to make one all high school mini team and one all middle school mini team. The coach can't have their highest rated high school player or highest rated middle school player on the composed team. WHSCA staff will have final approval for all composed teams in an effort to maintain fairness.

Format

One section. It will be a five round, Swiss system section, pairings by TEAMS of three players each.

Schedule

Doors open at 8:30 am.

All pre-registered teams must check in no later than 9:20 a.m. to play in Round 1.

Players' meeting 9:40.

Rounds: 10:00, 11:20, 1:20 pm, 2:40, 4:00. Awards soon thereafter.

Be patient with tournament directors – team events are difficult to run.

Time Control

Game/30 with 5 second delay (30 minutes per player per game).

Recording of moves required until one player has less than 5 minutes on the clock, when both players may stop recording. Touch-move rules apply throughout entire game.

Registration

100% advanced registration only by e-mail. Only E-mail entries will be accepted!

To register, compose your email message as follows:

To: tannerf@bellinghamyouthchess.com

Subject: *School Name Here* Mini Teams Registration

If you are entering multiple mini teams designate the first team as your school code’s “A” team and the second team as your school code’s “B” team and so on.

To enter individual or extra players:
Extra Player’s first and last name
Extra player’s NWSRS ID (If player is unrated include the player’s grade)

Send all entries to Tanner Feemster at tannerf@bellinghamyouthchess.com. You will receive a confirmation email within three days. If you don’t receive the confirmation email resend in your entry making sure you sent it to the correct email address. Only E-mail entries will be accepted.

All player entries must be received by Friday, November 15th at 2:00 pm.

No completely new team registrations on site (except for WHSCA composed teams).

Entry Fee

$30.00 per team ($10.00 individual)

Make Checks Payable To

WHSCA (Washington High School Chess Association).

All payment for entry fees is to be paid at check-in. Do not mail your entry fees.

Rated

Northwest Scholastic Rating System (NWSRS). No memberships are required.

Bring

Your own writing utensils, sets, boards and especially your chess clocks. Please do not come unprepared to WHSCA tournaments.

Awards

An appropriate amount of team trophies.

WHSCA Staff

Swiss-Sys Pairings Director: Tanner Feemster

Floor Judge: Randy Walther & Randy Kaech

Questions or Concerns

Randy Kaech at kaechster@gmail.com.

Day of tournament, call the TD's cell phone: 360-201-7694