Saturday, February 27, 2016

State Qualifier Part 2

Cam participated in the team chess regional for Bethany Christian today.  He, JJ, Kayden and a six grader all played very well.  Cam won four of his five matches and beat some tough opponents.  Cam was the #1 board and team leader.  They competed in the 6th grade and under portion of the tournament.

I had been getting several updates from Doug throughout the day.  To qualify for state they had to finish in the top ten out of the twenty-four teams registered.  I knew from Doug that they had been in the 9th or 10th position most of the day.  He said it would come down to the last round and he was right.  Cam's team did not win a game at the end and finished with 2.5 points overall.  This put them in a six way tie for 10th place.  Chess has an elaborate set of rules for it's tie break system all of which came out in Bethany's favor.  They had scored enough wins against ranked opponents to beat out the other five teams and earned the final spot in qualifying for the state tournament in March.

Doug and Cam were pretty happy when they called.  From what they were told last year Bethany finished 23.  Cam has really worked on his chess game this year and has a great coach.  Proud of him for his accomplishments ~ now on to state!!!

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