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The 2017 Queen's Quest was held for the third consecutive year at Mill Creek Elementary. Elementary students competed in four sections: K-6 Championship, 4th-6th Under 500, K-3 Championship and K-3 Under 300. Many students competed in their first rated chess tournament, and we are very proud of everyone. The United States Chess Federation (USCF) report from the tournament has been issued and can be viewed here. The USCF tournament report shows your child's rating after the tournament. Just a reminder that USCF tournament reports do not list winners in tie-break order. For the tie break/winner list, you can look on the MCCL webpage here.

K-6 Championship Individual winners pictured above (L to R): Xavier Bruni 1st, Geon Park 2nd, Karsten Wallace 3rd, Pranaav Satheesh 4th, Rishi Sethuraj 5th, Steven Pan 6th, Oviya Gowder 7th, Aasim Musani 8th, Henry Holland 9th, and Arnav Maskey 10th.

Team Awards

1st - Rainbow (16.5 pts)

2nd - Madison (11 pts)

3rd - Horizon (10 pts)

4th - Mill Creek (8.5 pts)

5th - Hampton Cove (7.5 pts) & Columbia Elementary (7.5 pts)

The Under 500 (4th-6th grade) Section individual award winners pictured above (L to R front): Mick Tyrrell 1st, Shlok Chatterjee 2nd, May Watson 3rd, Arjun Gaikwad 4th. (L to R back): Kyle Saurman 5th, Alex Fedoseyev 6th, Austin Holden 7th, Nathan Schamban 8th, Sahishnu Saha 9th, Aiden Kohler 10th (not pictured), Christine Wang & Songla Lee - tied for 10th.

Team Awards

1st - Rainbow (13 pts)

2nd - Madison (11.5 pts)

3rd - West Madison (9 pts)

4th - Blossomwood (9 pts)

5th - Horizon (8 pts)

K-3 Championship section individual award winners pictured above (L to R): Landon Drummond 1st, Aadi Saxena 2nd (not pictured), Andrew Nguyen 3rd, Laya Gowder 4th, Hatch Lombardy 5th, Noah Hsu 6th, Joseph Park 7th, Praneel Avula 8th, Parker Demirjian 9th (not pictured).

Team Awards

1st - Rainbow (13 pts)

2nd - Heritage (8 pts)

3rd - Columbia (2 pts)

4th - Mill Creek (2 pts)

Our largest section of the tournament was the newly created K-3 Under 300 section with 43 students competing. Individual award winners pictured above (L to R - front - 1st-10th): Benjamin Benedict, Sarah Rydbom, Asher Kovacs, Louis Johnson, Blaise Bruni, Rayyan Killedar, Rainer Schram (not pictured), Viraat Veeravalli, Tyce Crosswy, and Joyner Livingston. (L to R - back - tied for 10th): Samsara Rajbhandari, Braden Rimes, Emma Kuang, Trenton Holcombe, Nikhita Katragadda, Joshua Nguyen, Saqib Baig, Samuel Nixon.

Team Awards

1st - Rainbow (15.5 pts)

2nd - Horizon (15 pts)

3rd - Madison (11.5 pts)

4th - Heritage (10.5 pts)

5th - Mill Creek (10.5 pts)