Twin Cities Chess League 🏟️
🌳 2024-2025 Season
Fridays 7:00pm 🕖️
Minnesota Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
10715 Zenith Avenue South, Bloomington, MN (map)
R1: Oct 11, 2024
R2: Nov 8
R3: Dec 13
R4: Jan 10, 2025
R5: Feb 7
R6: Mar 14
R7: Apr 11
May 2024 TBD 🗓️ Party 🎉 Awards 🏆️ Casual Chess 🐴
🟡 Gold Division Qualifiers
• MCJ4
• Myshkin & the Holy Idiots
• Uptown Funk
• RAJJ
• Rochester Knights
• Rook Stars
• The A-Team*
• Law and Worms*
* Promoted from last year's Open division! 🟣
Format
Registration is limited to 24 teams. (Last year there were 21 teams. We have 8 teams this year as of Sept 10.) The upper Gold division will be an 8 team Round Robin. Average ratings will be used to determine lower divisions, using RR or Swiss, depending on the field size.
⌛️ Time Control:
G/90 d5
🎟️ Entry Fee:
Teams:
☀️ $160 by Sep 27
🌤️ $200 by Oct 10
🌥️ $240 onsite Oct 11 5:30-6:30 🕠️
Individuals registering without a team:
☀️ $50 by Sep 27
🌤️ $60 by Oct 10
🌥️ $70 onsite Oct 11 5:30-6:30 🕠️
(Fill out the form and then Eric will contact you to arrange payment.)
Captains, please try to register your whole team at once, but you can submit the Google registration form again to add more players later.
You are encouraged to form a team ahead of time but we will also try to assemble teams. Register today to lock in your rate! You’ll only pay if you make it onto a team.
Substitutes will play for free, so be sure to indicate your interest in subbing.
🚀 Organizer:
Eric Bell
🎬️ Tournament Directors:
Ionatan Giurgiu & Sofia Doroshenko
Send email to belleric79@gmail.com with any questions. 📧
🏟️ TCCL is a fun casual event focused on the team and social aspects of our chess community. It has been part of Minnesota chess each year for the last 7 decades. 💫 Playing 7 high quality games of chess for $40 is a bargain price compared to most chess tournaments. 🉐
The MSCA is not managing the league in ’24-’25, but has selected Eric's team to run the show. Thank you for keeping the tradition going!
👋 New/unrated players and teams welcome!
Scholastic teams welcome! 🍎
👤 Individual player? Need a team? NO PROBLEM! Register as an individual and if there are enough other individuals we can make a team. 💪 Many teams will be looking for players (substitutes or permanent team members) or we can form a new team of those available in round 1 on the spot. 🙌 Individual players should come to opening night on Oct 11 between 5:30-6:30pm.
🔎 Not on a team? Only playing one game? Throughout the season, teams may be short-handed and looking for substitutes, so show up and get in a game. 🎲
Prizes! 🏆️ 🎁
🟡 Gold
🏆️ Trophies for 1st & 2nd Place Team
🎁 Individual Board Prizes for Top 2 Players at Each Board
📉 Bottom two teams are demoted to a lower division next year
🟣 Open (or Silver & Bronze)
🏆️ Trophies for 1st & 2nd Place Team
🎁 Individual Board Prizes for Top 2 Players at Each Board
📈 Top two teams get promoted to Gold next year!
All handed out at the May awards party!
💝🍕🎉🐴
Ideally we'll have full registration of 24 teams and can have Gold/Silver/Bronze divisions, with promotion and relegation of top/bottom 2 teams between them. Trophies and board prizes would be the same for each division.
More Stuff...
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👥 When registering, please list your “core” players. Those that will participate in most of the rounds.
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Teams consist of four players, unlimited substitutions. Not rated, no US Chess memberships required! ✨
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🗒️ September US Chess supplement will be used for team ratings and board placement (can be changed before round 1 with TD approval or within 50 points).
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Team Chess: Your team of 4 boards plays another team of 4 boards. 🟥 🟩 🟧 🟦
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Scoring: Teams accumulate match points for winning the match and game points for winning each individual game. Final standings are based on match points, with game points as the tiebreaker. 🎲
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Forfeit time: 30 minutes from the start of the round. ⏱️