Round by Round Results

We are having a great time!

	Round 1	Points
Nick Bruck	Trevor Lee, NY, 1525	0.5
Miles Hendrix	Dw-Naye Johnson, NY, 1375	0.5
Alex Bates	Derek Tu, Illinois, unr.	0.5
Andrew Uriarte	Alexander Kaye, Maryland, 1413	0
Desmond Porth	Rachel Weishaar, Tenn, 1375	0
Shane Bruess	Drew Stone, Florida, 1341	0

	Round 2	Points
Nick Bruck	Christian Muraira, Texas, 1487	0.5
Miles Hendrix	Anoop Gazulapalli, Arkansas, 1371	1.0
Alex Bates	Jason Lantz, Arkansas, unr	1.0
Andrew Uriarte	Joey Santoro, Tenn, 1333	0
Desmond Porth	Prashanth Kumar, Georgia, 1285	0
Shane Bruess	Varun Yerramsetti, Alabama, 1284	0

	Round 3
Nick Bruck	Benjamin Lei, NY, 1459	0
Miles Hendrix	Aia Sarytcheva, NY, 1404	0
Alex Bates	Mitchell Montaleone, Mo, unr.	1.0
Andrew Uriarte	Dwayne Darby, Penn., 1362	1.0
Desmond Porth	John Morphett, Tenn, 1243	1F
Shane Bruess	Foster Ludington, Texas, 1251	1.0

We are only 0.5 point out of the trophies!  Our team is in 26th place after Round 3.

	Round 4	Points
Nick Bruck	Steven Hamburgo, NY, 1516	1.0
Andrew Uriarte	Drew Stone, Florida, 1341	1.0
Alex Bates	Andrew Weinrich, Penn., unr.	0
Miles Hendrix	Joshua Thornton, Az, 1367	0
Desmond Porth	Brandon De La Rosa, NY, 1311	0
Shane Bruess	Ivan Velkovsky, Tenn., 1317	0

After Round 4, we now have moved up to 23rd place and are 1 point behind the next team.  We have 6.5 points total.

	Round 5	Points
Nick Bruck	Samuel Randels, Tenn., 1438	0.5
Andrew Uriarte	Vamshi Gujju, Texas, 1365	0
Alex Bates	Tanner Wray, Kansas, unr.	0
Miles Hendrix	Arjun Srinivasan, Georgia, 1298	1.0
Desmond Porth	Dustin Lee, NY, 1277	0
Shane Bruess	Michael Sutherland, IL., 1264	0

Nick prepares for Round 6

	Round 6	Points
Nick Bruck	Greg Bonvissuto, Tenn., 1469	0
Andrew Uriarte	John Davila, Texas, 1345	1
Alex Bates	Matthew Cabelus, Penn., unr.	1
Miles Hendrix	Eryk Banatt, NJ, 1324	0
Desmond Porth	Elliot Starkman, NY, 1225	0
Shane Bruess	Sohail Bhatt, Tenn.,  1214	0

After Round 6, we dropped to 27th and are only 0.5 points away from making the top 25 and a trophy for our club.

	Round 7	Points
Nick Bruck	Kyle Shefer, Mich., 1163	0.5
Andrew Uriarte	Francis Adu, NJ, 1340	1
Alex Bates	Amanda Ameen, NY, unr.	1
Miles Hendrix	Josh Bresler, Penn., 1277	0
Desmond Porth	Vibhor Kumar, Ohio, 1108	1
Shane Bruess	Destin Whitfield, Penn.,  1228	0

My goal was 10.0 points in this tournament for our team and we exceeded expectations and we scored 11.5 points.  Great job to everyone for a great tournament.

My team DESTROYS! (and other antics)

And I mean literally! Yesterday morning, Miles was getting pumped up for the games, while Andrew, Shane, and Alex laid in bed and decided it was too early to get up.  Miles runs across the room waving his arms wildly, yelling "Get Up!" and performs a triple-gainer, landing spread eagle on Shane.  There is a delayed "crack" and I watch in slow motion as the bed collapses.  Shane goes, "what the hell?", Andrew goes, "nice . . .", Alex chortles a laugh with his toothbrush hanging out of his mouth, Miles goes "Oops."  And they all slowly look at me.  Being that the third round is beginning and I don't want them thinking of the bed they just broke, I go, "I can fix that."

I also spend time trying to find lost items.  Alex left his clock in the tournament hall the day before, another a sweatshirt, multiple-anothers their card keys (we have used nearly 15 keys!), another his wallet, and another a t-shirt.  Andrew forgot his swimming trunks and swims in his boxers.  They all forget to eat or drink enough, so I remind them constantly to stay nourished.  And some even forget that playing an unfamiliar opening may make the matches harder than they already are.

This morning the team meets in my room for breakfast and began playing some warmup games while they fought over the cereal brands and which pawn to push.  Shane gets up to go find his sweatshirt and trips over a board bag, tipping the flatscreen t.v. to at least 75 degrees, and gets tangled up on Miles feet and begins to trample him like mule on a cowboy.  "Shane . . .What the frick!"  yells Miles, and Nick points out that Shane ripped his pants in the fray.  Alex says, "that's the fourth pair in a week . . ."

National High School Scholastics Day 3

Alex(3.5 points) is done with round 6 and is a Boss!

Alex's opponent is dicombobbulated.  "I am pleasantly surprised at all the babage, and I have all this time on my hands."  - Alex Bates

Des starts to separate his forces on move 25.  What was better was 25. ..Bf8.