CSC Teesside at the 2015 Megafinals: Part 2

Following on from the previous Megafinal report, here is a summary of our Gigafinal qualifiers.


Northumbria Megafinal

U-7 Suprema: Emily Lynn

U-8 Suprema: Libby Ogden

Gigafinal qualifiers

The two above, plus Kaitlin Eglintine (U-11 G) and James Vasey (U-11 B)


York Megafinal

U-9 Suprema:  Leia McCusker (Westgarth)
Co-champion: Lili-Grace Giles (Westgarth)

U-10 Co-champion: Jack Blackburn (Errington)

Gigafinal qualifiers

All of the above, plus...

Nathan Li (Whale Hill) (U-8 B)

Brogan Atkinson (Ings Farm), Daniel Palmer (Wheatlands), Finlay Wardle (Ings Farm), Ashton Dawkin (Errington) (all U-9 B)

Zoe Hill (Westgarth), Zoe Coates (Errington) (both U-10 G)


Yarm School at the York Megafinal

U-7 Suprema: Grace Crawford
U-7 Supremo: Ajay Selvan
Co-champion: Ben Meager

U-8 Suprema: Sara Tryambake

U-10 Supremo: Jake Meager

U-13 Supremo: Yash Gulve

Gigafinal qualifiers

All of the above, plus...

Ammar Soni, Adhithyan Dinakaran, Gaurav Kannan (all U-9 B)

Edward Adams, Ihsaan Mahmood, Matthew Anthony (all U-10 B)

James Thomson, Abhinav Ramisetty (both U-11 B)

Here are a few more photos from the Megafinals.

Back in 2011, Victoria Lynn won the Northumbria Megafinal. This year, her younger sister Emily repeated the success, so we repeated the photo poses too.

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2015

CSC Teesside at the 2015 Megafinals

The chess stars of CSC Teesside were recently in action at two of the UK Chess Challenge Megafinals.

We had players from Billingham South, St. Mark's and Throston at the Northumbria Megafinal on 16 May and four of our players qualified for the next stage of the challenge, the Manchester Gigafinal.

Emily Lynn: Under-7 Suprema

Libby Ogden: Under-8 Suprema

Gigafinalists: Kaitlin Eglintine and James Vasey

The rest of our schools - Brambles, Whale Hill, Sacred Heart, Dormanstown, Wheatlands, Ings Farm, Westgarth, John Emmerson Batty, Pennyman, New Marske and Errington - had representatives at thew York Megafinal on 7 June, where we enjoyed great success, taking numerous titles, trophies and rosettes.

Leia McCusker: Under-9 Suprema

Jack Blackburn: =1st in the Under-10 Boys' Section

Lili-Grace Giles: =1st in the Under-9 Girls' Section

 Yarm School were out in force and had a truly memorable day.

Grace Crawford: Under-7 Suprema

Sara Tryambake: Under-8 Suprema (with 6/6!)

Ajay Selvan: Under-7 Supremo

Ben Meager: =1st in the Under-7 Boys' Section

Jake Meager: Under-10 Supremo

Yash Gulve: Under-13 Supremo

Well done, everyone!