GP 4 – Gravesend Grammar School – 2014/15
Our fourth GP of the 2014/15 season attracted another excellent turn out with 72 players participating across 4 sections. The event was held on Sunday 8th February 2015 at Gravesend Grammar School in North Kent.
A special mention must go to the children of Steephill School, a new primary school to the KJCA grand prix
circuit, many playing in their first ever competitive tournament. The children
conducted themselves with great decorum and maturity throughout the day and
showed what a strong force they could be for the future.
A big thank you to everyone who
volunteered their time to help out at Gravesend – without your help and support
we would not be able to run our GPs.
Congratulations to all the children who
played at GP 4, although there were some big rivalries and some tough battles being
fought across all the sections, the whole day was conducted in a very strong sporting-like
atmosphere.
Special congratulations go in particular
to the top three and prize winners in each section:
U9: 1st Mihika Verma (5.5/6), 2nd equal
Theodore Panchev, Arjun Javagal, Jai Singh Chaturvedi and Suriya Velayudham
(4.5/6), the second place trophy going to Theodore and the third place trophy going to Arjun on the performance tie breaker.
U11: 1st equal David Dallakyan and Saahil Bansal (5.5/6),
3rd Alex Garfield (4.5/6) with David winning the first place trophy on the performance tie
breaker.
U14 (which was merged with the U18s on the day): 1st equal
Aryan Narayan, Aurideep Nayak, Alex Thompson and Nikhil Chidipothu (3/5) with Aryan winning
the first place trophy, Alex winning
the second place trophy and Aurideep
winning the third place trophy on the performance tie breaker.
U18: 1st Anantha Anilkumar (5.5/5), 2nd
equal Rohan Shiatis and Ximan Mao.
Top performing school groups were:
Primary: The Pointers
School (63.6)
Secondary: St Olave’s School
(61.2)
Full cross tables can be found on: http://www.kjca.org/result/96
Current leaders of the GP tables after this event are as follows:
U9: Ciaran Brightley-Davies
U11: Kiran
Shiatis
U14: Anantha Anilkumar
U18: Rohan Shiatis
Primary: Claremont
Primary School
Secondary: St
Olave’s Grammar
Full GP tables can be found on: http://www.kjca.org/site/page?view=GPTables.
Many thanks to Gravesend Grammar School for accommodating us and for letting us
use their beautiful school and once again a big thanks you to all our
volunteers.
Please note: GP 5 will be held at Dulwich College on Sunday 8th March
2015. We hope to see many of you there once again.
Best
wishes
KJCA