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Grades Down to Wire |
December 13, 2008 | |
After five rounds of the Grade Nationals (Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Dec.11-14), there are few clear leaders but many perfect scores on Sunday morning. After 2 more rounds, 13 new national champions and 13 new national championship teams will emerge. We already have some new champions: Jared Tan and John Williams won the bughouse championship. Jared Tan also won the Blitz K-12, while there was a 4-way tie in the K-6, in order of tiebreak: David Adelberg, Jacob McClanahan, Brian Li and Joshua Colas. You can watch selected games live on monroi.com. Here are two wins from the big event by two of the co-leaders, Jarod Pamatmat in 6th grade and Christopher Wu in fourth grade. 2711 2710 Grade Nationals Standings after five rounds Click here for complete standings by grade including team standings Kindergarten- Awonder Liang, 5/5 1st- grade- Aravind Kumar, Benjamin Lu and Dawson James Lipman-5/5 2nd grade- William Radak, Zachary Tanenbaum and Albert Lu-5/5 3rd grade- Jonathan Chiang and Alex Liu-5/5 4th grade- Christopher Wu, Matthew Zeitlin, Yash Pershad, Bryce McClanahan, Dillon L.Holder-5/5 5th grade- Kyle Shin and Michael Ainsworth-5/5 6th grade- Jarod Pamatmat, Sarah Chiang and Brian Li-5/5 7th grade-Dipro Chakraborty, John Lodger Hughes, Nicholas Rosenthal, Luciano Aguilar, Peter Fenger-4.5/5 8th grade-Ryan Jospeh Moon, Michael Chiang, Hengyi Wu, Elliot Sam Silberman-4.5/5 9th grade- Andrew Ng and Bob Siyuan Shao-4.5/5 10th grade- Marc Arnold and Alexander Heimann- 4.5/5 11th grade- Dalton Perrine- 5/5 12th grade-Toby Boas-5/5 Look for a list of final winners and more photos tonight, and Elizabeth Vicary's dispatch early next week. Photo Gallery All photos by Betsy Dynako unless noted |