VA scholastic chess is doing great!

take a look at the outstanding field in the VA scholastic chess championships. Very intimidating with all the players. https://vschess.org/state-championships/main-entry-list.php

no u

pls lose so I can win

boi u 10th highest rated

boi u 38th and I 5th 

imagine writing a forum post about a weak playing field only to withdraw

boi u 38th

But everybody still failed: Skyler loses to a 1500 and Jason somehow loses to Brian Tay and goes under 2300 for the first time ever...

And the qualifier was decided by tiebreaks which is dumb

31th by rating.

31th

*31st not th 

lol yep I am under 2300!

My argument:    

It’s getting quite bad, so much I didn’t attend this year.     

First of all, splitting a grade level into two sections supports the proletariat ONLY. Second, 6 games was good enough, but 5 is pathetic, as I could just enter any old open tournament and hopefully get some money. (States like Texas have seven.) Third, for some reason the tournament was held on Daylight Savings, and though it is quite doable, I nearly got upsetted last year against someone more than 500 points below me. And that would have been the trophy I’ve pursued for a zillion years.

Okay, maybe scholastic chess isn’t getting sucky, but whatever is running these events...

I think by now I used up all my gas, having come for four years, it was fun, especially crushing everyone in Giant Bullet Chess.

Ah, well those upsets I saw in the results... quite obvious why they occurred.

I would suggest to go back to the old 6-round format.  For K12 and K8, use playoff games to determine the final champions.

Totally agree.

another small thing is that they changed the trophies to wood instead of marble, didn't even put table cloth on the tables, reduced the trophies from top 25 to top 10... also reduced the number of rounds. Also there was a church service that got rid of the skittles room for a day. Looks like va chess is running out of money.

Was thinking the same thing but didn't want to openly claim they are bankrupt... 

time change this year sucked, especially having a round at 8:30 AM the day after the time change? Plus having a church barricading the entrances and throughways, and preventing any skittles room.  This was one of the worst planned tournaments I have ever been to. 

true

Hearing these reports, I didn't go to the Virginia Open. They had 60 something players in the amateur section while last year there were 91 players. Goodbye VCF.