McKinley Shines at Elmwood

K-3 Takes First Place at Elmwood

Over 180 were pre-registered for the annual Elmwood tournament, including a huge k3 section... New Berlin has a strong tradition of chess, and some very good players.  This is a "harder" tournament than most we attend - and in the K-3 section, we were up against several strong and large teams.  Elmwood had 15 kids on their k3 team, for example.   Our K-3 team had 10 players - Zach, Louis, Henry Rom., Jack, Henry Rio., Max, Kate, Mitchell, Charlie and Nolan.  We were tied with Elmwood after 5 rounds at 15 points... We went into round 6 very focused on our mission - and almost every single player on our team won their final game... We had 19 points (top 4 scores) and took 1st Place over Elmwood by 2 points.
Zach Brunow missed game 1 (half point bye) and won all his remaining games to go 5.5.  Louis Liu lost his first and won his next 5.  Henry Rommelfanger had 4.5 points.  A few kids had 4 points, and nobody had any less than 2 on both of our teams.
Most notably (pun intended)... Just about everybody took notation!!   This allowed us to go through several games and learn from them!  Very impressive day for our kids.  I'm seeing a state champ contender in next couple years if we can keep it rolling! 
We only had 3 kids in k6 so werent in the team trophy hunt, but the team of Alex, Vishist,and John did very well.

I will edit this post to add more details after I receive the results sheet from Randy.  Thanks to all players, parents and McKinley for their support of the program.