2022 Southern California SuperStates

March 26, 2022

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2022 Southern California Superstates - Online

1-day sections:Saturday, March 26, 2022 on chess.com
2-day sections: Saturday, March 26 - Sunday, March 27, 2022 on chess.com

Google Sheet -- Pairings & Standings (Click)

 

Event is open for all scholastic players from any state!

Only players from 2022 SoCA are eligible for the state championship title and to be the representatives for the Invitationals.

Quick Links

Sponsors -- Platform -- Sections -- Time Control -- Pairing -- Round Times -- Byes

Fair Play -- Entry Fee -- Membership Requirements -- Prizes -- Tie Breaks

Additional Information -- Contact Us

 

NEWS:

1. Recording of the Town Hall on 3/14 can be accessed here: Click for recording HERE (Passcode: chessiscool1!)
2. Updated the scholarship description with "school of choice"
3. Updated fair play with details on score adjustments.

4. Recording of the Town Hall on 3/23 can be accessed here: Click for recording HERE (Passcode: chessiscool1!)

5. Need something updated? Submit your request via the Change Form: https://forms.gle/GCvxQoa3knqTFgKR8

6. Practice session on Friday @ 4PM:
        Join Zoom Meeting
        https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85339862042?pwd=aHloWklkQ29qeGkyMytaeGVtZjRqdz09
        Meeting ID: 853 3986 2042.    Passcode: 679008 

7. Zoom links for the Tournament weekend
               2-day Sections:   Click HERE         Meeting ID: 824 7705 4246    Passcode: 249441

               1-day sections:   Click HERE         Meeting ID: 970 1673 1670     Passcode: 033129


8. Welcome and Instructions Email has been sent out on 3/24 @ 6:30PM. Please check your spam folder if you do not see it in your inbox. You can also download it from HERE. If this email is not received, please contact the Organizers listed at the bottom right away!

9.Communication for Parents/Coaches/Spectators during the event
Please join the event's Slack channel to ask questions:
https://join.slack.com/t/2022superstates/shared_invite/zt-166n49z7l-ZbK6eqwv2Lq3Ee32dMjjLw
 

 
Sponsors:

1) Chess Prodigies is proud to announce the following financial support:
- offering two $3,000 scholarships for school of choice: one for the 2022 K-12 SuperStates Champion, and one for the top finishing player of the opposite gender. This prize and the one below are reserved for residents of Southern California.
- $400 stipends awarded to the highest achieving students at Super States 2022 to support their attendance at the National Invitationals and US Open to be held in Palm Springs this year. Four stipends will be awarded to the representatives to the Denker, Barber, Rockefeller and Ruth Haring Invitational tournaments. The other four stipends will be awarded to the alternates that will hold the important duty of filling in for any missing representatives. All students must complete in the respective tournaments or complete their duties as alternates before the stipends will be released.

2) American Chess Equipment

3) The Southern California Chess Federation (SCCF):
- The highest scoring Southern Cal player in the K-12 Championship section of SuperStates will be seeded into the 2022 Southern Cal State Championship, which will be held some time in the fall of this year.
- the SCCF leadership has indicated willingness to support additional stipend funding as well.

 

*** Email communications will be coming from judit.sztaray@gmail.com -- Make sure to mark this email as safe sender to avoid emails landing in the spam folder.  ***

 

Platform: Chess.com

Players will use their Chess.com username.
Those who do not have one will need to obtain one from Chess.com -- Free account is sufficient.
 

** PLEASE CHECK DETAILS AS FORMAT OF CHAMPIONSHIP SECTIONS HAS CHANGED! **

 

Sections:

Championship sections:

Kindergarten - Grade1 -- 1-day event
Primary School (K-3) -- 2-day event
Elementary School (K-5) -- 2-day event
Middle School (K-8) -- 2-day event
High-School (K-12) -- 2-day event

Junior Varsity sections:

Primary School (K-3 u600) -- 1-day event
Elementary School (K-6 u600) -- 1-day event
Middle School (K-8 u1000) -- 1-day event
High School (K-12 u1400) -- 1-day event

Sections based on player's grades and USCF 2022 March supplemental rating (US Chess Regular, Quick, Regular Online or Quick Online, whichever the highest.
Check the March supplemental on the player's MSA page: http://www.uschess.org/datapage/player-search.php


Winners or the top SoCal residents of Championship Sections will be declared 2022 Southern California State Champions. 

The Winners of the following sections will represent SoCal in the following events:

Alternates must meet same requirements.
 

Time Control:

All Championship sections (except K-Gr1): G/60+5 affecting US Chess Online Regular rating

K-Grade1 Championship & All JV Sections: G/25+5 inc affecting US Chess Online Regular rating 

Pairings:
This tournament is not an automatically run tournament on chess.com.
Tournament Directors will pair players based on their USCF ratings, and post pairings on a google sheet. (Link to the google sheet will be posted as we get closer to the event. For an example, please see last year's google sheet.)
Games will be manually started by Tournament Directors at the announced round times.
Players must be on chess.com/live and wait for their game to appear on their screen.

Round Times -- All times are in Pacific Time (PT)

1-day sections

  • Round 1:  9:30AM
  • Round 2: 11:30AM
  • Round 3:  1:00PM
  • Round 4:  2:30PM
  • Round 5:  4:00PM
  • Round 6:  5:30PM
    Forfeit time for each round is 15 minutes.
    Players arriving late will receive time deduction.

2-day sections

  • Round 1: Saturday 9:00AM
  • Round 2: Saturday 12:00PM
  • Round 3: Saturday 3:00PM
  • Round 4: Sunday 9:00AM
  • Round 5: Sunday 12:00PM
  • Round 6: Sunday 3:00PM
    Forfeit time for each round is 15 minutes.
    Players arriving late will receive time deduction.



Byes: Half-point byes are available for players who can't make any rounds. Max 2 half-point byes, and must be requested by the start of the tournament. Any byes requested after the start of Round 1 will be a zero point bye.


Fair Play -- Zoom monitoring requirements:

Organizers will take fair play measures and screening very seriously.

Players, parents and coaches will be given detailed and careful explanation on the fair play measures, importance of fair play and consequences on not following fair play guidelines. 

During tournament selected TDs will act as instant game review personnel, and post tournament all games will be sent for full analysis by Dr. Ken Regan, a recognized expert at University of Buffalo.
Results and awards will only be finalized after the fair play analysis has been completed.
Any players who found to violate fair play will be reported to US Chess Ethics committee, and their tournament result will be adjusted based on US Chess rules.
All players must be on zoom with at least one camera.

Score adjustment:
Organizers reserve the right to remove from the tournament any player whose play is indicative of fair-play violations.
When a player is removed, scores will be adjusted as follows:
If two or more rounds remain, all opponents of the disqualified player will receive a win by forfeit, unless they defeated the disqualified player, in which case they will retain a rated win.
If the tournament has concluded, or if there is only one round remaining:
     The last opponent of the disqualified player will receive a win by forfeit.
     Other opponents who lost to the disqualified player will receive a half-point bye.
     Other opponents who drew with the disqualified player will receive a win by forfeit.
     Anyone who defeated the disqualified player will retain a rated win, instead of a forfeit win.

Entry Fee:

  • Championship section: $40 by 3/20, $50 by 3/24  **Must be current member of SCCF. Click here to purchase membership**
  • JV sections: $35 by 3/20, $45 by 3/24
  • No entries accepted after midnight March 24.
  • Cancellations: $5 processing fee. No refunds after March 24.

Membership requirements:

Players must ensure their membership status is up to date, otherwise they'll be automatically withdrawn on Thursday (3/24) midnight, and their entry fee refunded minus $5 cancellation fee.


Prizes:

Championship sections:

Kindergarten - Grade1: Plaques to Top 3 School Teams, Top 3 Club Teams, Top 5 individuals.
                                     Special medals to 6-10th Place finishers.
Primary School (K-3): Plaques to Top 3 teams, Top 3 clubs, Top 5 individuals.
                                   Special medals to 6-10th Place finishers, and Top player u1200, u1000, and u600.
Elementary School (K-5): Plaques to Top 3 School Teams, Top 3 Club Teams, Top 5 individuals.
                                        Special medals to 6-10th Place finishers, and Top player u1600, u1200, and u600.
Middle School (K-8): Plaques to Top School Team, Top 3 Club Teams, Top 5 individuals.
                                 Special medals to 6-10th Place finishers, and Top player u1800, u1400, and u1000.
High-School (K-12): Plaques to Top School Team, Top 3 Club Teams, Top 5 individuals.
                                 Special medals to 6-10th Place finishers, and Top player u1800, u1400, and u1000.

Junior Varsity sections:

Primary School (K-3 u600): Plaques to Top 3 School Teams, Top 3 Club Teams, Top 10 individuals.
                                            Special medals to 11-25th Place finishers, and Top player u400 and u200.
Elementary School (K-6 u600): Plaques to Top 3 School Teams, Top 3 Club Teams, Top 10 individuals.
                                                 Special medals to 11-25th Place finishers, and Top player u400, and u200
Middle School (K-8 u1000): Plaques to Top 3 School Teams, Top 3 Club Teams, Top 5 individuals.
                                            Special medals to 6-10th Place finishers, and Top player u800, u600, and u400.
High School (K-12 u1400): Plaques to Top 3 teams, Top 3 clubs, Top 5 individuals.
                                           Special medals to 6-10th Place finishers, and Top player u1000, u600, and u400.


Team Prizes: Top 4 players count towards team total. Minimum 2 players required to form a team.
 ** Please note that the field that's collecting the school information can be used to indicate clubs. Players may play for either a school team or a club team. ***


Tie-Breaks:
When individual scores are equal, the following order of tie-break systems will be used to designate individual awards:  1) Modified Median, 2) Median, 3) Solkoff, 4) Sonneborn-Berger 5) Cumulative

When school team scores are equal, the following order of tie-break systems will be used to designate team awards:  1) Total Individual Median, 2) Total Solkoff, 3) Total Sonneborn-Berger, 4) Total Cumulative

All results - including tiebreaks - are tentative, pending the Fair Play review, until the 3-week review period has been completed. 


Fair Play monitoring will be in effect during and after the tournament. 

Crosstable results on Chess.com are NOT final until the Fair Play Analysis is completed,
normally up to three weeks after completion of event.

  

Additional Information:

 

Organizers:

Dr. Judit Sztaray, judit.sztaray@gmail.com 919-265-7560 (btw 8AM-7PM PT)

Coach Jay Stallings, coachjay@cycl.org