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Thank you to Mill Creek Elementary and volunteers for hosting another wonderful Queen's Quest Chess Tournament! This year's tournament saw kids from across Madison County and as far as Mobile compete for trophies and medals. Sponsor Lockheed Martin raised excitement by handing out some great prizes after each round such as sunglasses, spinners, poppers, and color changing pencils. They even used a 3D printer to create additional prizes for our 1st place individual winners (a model F-35 jet) and gold queen chess pieces for the top 4 scores on each team. Lockheed Martin also created a 3D printed chess set and board that was given away after a silent auction raising money for the Madison City Chess League. Congratulations to Amy Fruchtnicht for winning the chess set.

Tournament results in tie-break order can always be found on the MCCL webpage under the event. Queen's Quest results can be found here. The USCF tournament report (which is not in tie-break order) providing players updated ratings can be found here.

We appreciate our student volunteers who worked with elementary chess team members throughout the day.

The gym served as the playing area for all sections.

Pictured above L to R: Kyle Zou 1st, Jacob Kuang 2nd, James Tatum 3rd, Nathan Dong 4th, Sawyer Wright 5th, Abhinav Parupalli 6th, Grace Lee 7th, Eiliyah Hafiez 8th, Giovanni Gonzalez 9th, Sydney Kelley 10th, and Annabelle Hsu top female who did not otherwise place.

Pictured above L to R: Jethro Jones 1st, Isaac Kreusser 2nd, Noah Hsu 3rd, Blaise Bruni 4th, Samsara Rajbhandari 5th, Emma Kuang 6th, Xander Yem 7th, Luke Day 8th, Shravan Balaji 9th, Daksh Sunil 10th, Hank Tyrrell and Aidan Chua - tied for 10th.

Pictured above front row L to R: Landon Drummond 1st, Tim Lee 3rd, Caden Jordan 4th, Kavi Amrhein 5th, Alex Choi 6th, Joseph Park 7th. Back row: Shawn Choi 2nd, Jacob New 8th, Asher Kovacs 9th, Joyner Livingston 10th. Tied for 10th place medal: Samuel Billions, Eashan Padur, Christina Yang, Laya Gowder (not pictured), Austin Stark and Ellie Chan. Anna Ai (top female who did not otherwise place).

Pictured above L to R: Nirvana Rajbhandari 1st, Marek Fries 2nd, Owen Lang 3rd, Andrew Yang 4th, Rachael Ehrman 5th, William Billions 7th, Swetha Jakka 6th, Zachary Calinsky 8th, Artem Starenki 9th, Caroline Wang 10th. Tied for 10th place medals: Shruti Kadam (not pictured) and Christine Wang. Sahithi Mynampally (top female who did not otherwise place.

Our K-12 Open section had the tightest competition all day with the lead changing back and forth. At the end of five rounds, the team from James Clemens beat Bob Jones by half a point to win the section. Receiving individual awards were: William Spanier 1st, Shreya Sunil 2nd, Sherwood Dong 3rd, Pranav Somu 4th, Neha Chopade 5th. Tied for 5th place medal: Hugh Mitchell. Puja Chopade: top female who did not otherwise place.