{"id":2281,"date":"2015-01-09T16:34:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T00:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2017-05-12T19:11:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T03:11:59","slug":"kingco-scholastic-chess-league-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/kingco-scholastic-chess-league-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingco Scholastic Chess League report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Patrick Van Dyke Reports on Facebook<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>KingCo Chess League Week 5 Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Only five weeks in our regular season, and Interlake A won the KingCo regular season title in rather anticlimactic fashion, with a 5-0 drubbing of their D team.<\/p>\n<p>Redmond looked well on their way to locking up second place in the league, but stumbled a bit with a 3-2 loss to Bellevue.<\/p>\n<p>The race was on for the final two spots in the Championship Round Robin. Issaquah A made a huge statement early with a 5-0 defeat of their own B team. Mercer Island made their case with a 4-1 win over Bothell. Overlake also tried to get into the conversation with a 3-2 win over Interlake C.<\/p>\n<p>Two matches were still quite unclear quite late. Interlake B looked better much of the match before eventually falling 3-2 to Skyline. Meanwhile, ICS and Eastlake were deadlocked 2-2 before 3rd board Rohan Bhatt of Eastlake created a nifty little mating net in the N+Ps ending over ICS&#8217;s Eli Smith.<\/p>\n<p>This created a tie for the final spot in the Round Robin between Eastlake and Bellevue, setting up a blitz playoff when we realized the unthinkable had happened: three of Bellevue&#8217;s five players went home! Eastlake won the blitz tiebreak by forfeit, and hopefully will send a much-needed lesson about sticking around for tiebreaks.<\/p>\n<p>In the KingCo playoffs, four teams will square off for the first four places:<br \/>\n(1) Interlake A [23\/25], (2) Redmond [16\/25], (3) Issaquah A [14.5\/25], (4) Eastake [13.5\/25]. They&#8217;ll play a round-robin over the next three matches for the right to be called the KingCo Champion.<\/p>\n<p>To determine the remaining playoff berths, a double-elimination &#8220;bracket&#8221; (it&#8217;s not strictly a bracket) features the following Round 1 matchups:<\/p>\n<p>(12) Bothell [4.0] versus (5) Bellevue [13.5]<br \/>\n(8) Mercer Island [12.5] versus (9) Skyline [12.0]<\/p>\n<p>(The winners of these two matches face-off in a winner-to-state match, while the losers of these two matches face-off in a loser-out match.)<\/p>\n<p>(7) ICS [12.5] versus (10) Interlake B [12.0]<br \/>\n(11) Issaquah B [5.5] versus (6) Overlake [12.5]<\/p>\n<p>(The winners of these two matches face-off in a winner-to-state match, while the losers of these two matches face-off in a loser-out match.)<\/p>\n<p>Team pages and more tiebreak information is available at kingcochessleague.wordpress.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Van Dyke Reports on Facebook KingCo Chess League Week 5 Update: Only five weeks in our regular season, and Interlake A won the KingCo regular season title in rather anticlimactic fashion, with a 5-0 drubbing of their D team. Redmond looked well on their way to locking up second place in the league, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-2281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholastic","tag-kingco-chess-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}