USCF G/30 Nationals results

The USCF G/30 Nationals took place on Sunday at the same location as the G/60 Nationals the day before, at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara. Since the G/30 is more or less considered to be a scholastic-type of time control, it stood to reason that many more kids would show up for the U1000 scholastic portion of the event rather than the regular event. As such, the regular over-1000 portion of the tournament moved back to the upstairs ballroom of the Hyatt as opposed to being in the Convention Center as it was on Saturday. This was a 5 round tournament, but even with the extra round, with the shorter time control, the event lasted 2 hours shorter than the day before - no doubt to the delight of the legions of parents hording around at the tournament.

Most of the Weibel team participants played in the U1000 portion of the tournament. This makes sense since we generally encourage the Weibel kids rated over 1000 to play in longer time control tournaments. There's a lot of work to be done for most, but a couple of good results did come out of this. I am glad though that so many did come out in the 2 days for this event. A Swiss tournament, especially a tournament with lots of players in a section, will always be a much better gauge of the strength of the player. This is valuable for the Weibel coaches to judge where the improvement needs to come from. The Weibel team overall did win first place in the U1000 section.

Results for Weibel instructors and team members (perfect score 5.0):

Open:
Francisco Anchodo - 3.0
Uyanga Byambaa - 2.0

U1800
Steven Li - 1.5

U1400
Kia Sadeghi - 1.5

U1000
7th grader Rohan Koka - 4.0 - won the 8th place trophy
3rd grader Aditya Tadimeti - 3.5
3rd grader Atri Surapaneni - 3.0
3rd grader Anvi Surapaneni - 3.0
3rd grader Jaden Wei - 2.5
4th grader Sashrika Pandey - 2.0
1st grader Louis Law - 1.5
3rd grader Kevin Zhu - 1.5
3rd grader Surya Teja Mandadi - 0.0

U600
3rd grader Enya Mistry - 3.5 - won the 21st place trophy
3rd grader Pranav Ramesh - 3.0
3rd grader Amirah Rafi - 3.0
4th grader Aria Lakhmani - 3.0
3rd grader Privthi Nagamanivel - 2.0
1st grader Suyash Lahkmani - 2.0
1st grader Aileen Zheng - 2.0
1st grader Eshaan Mistry - 1.5
4th grader Avi Khanna - 1.5
3rd grader Rahul Ravishankar - 1.0