Mississauga Juniors Chess Club - Bursaries

[Bob Gillanders]

Beginning this week, we are implementing a new bursary program at the Mississauga Junior Chess Club. We wish to encourage our juniors to consider tournament chess beyond just our chess club. Upon completion of each junior tournament (every 6 weeks), we will award 6 bursary prizes of $10 each. The bursaries can be redeemed solely to pay entry fees to the Ontario Youth Chess Championships (OYCC). The bursaries are not redeemable for cash.

Winners will be chosen based on performance rating, attendance, and keeping an accurate game record. The program will generate a fund of about $500 per year (less in the first year) to support the OYCC and CYCC programs.

[Bob Gillanders]

I am pleased to congratulate the first winners of our OYCC bursary program for the tournament completed Sept 15th.

The six winners of $10 each bursary are:

Joe Mattekatt
Yujie Wong
Jason Liu
Daniel Niu
Ken Huang
Pablo Llanos

[Bob Gillanders]

I am pleased to congratulate our OYCC bursary winners for the tournament completed on October 27, 2011.

The six winners of $10 each bursary are:

Junwen Jiang
Daniel Niu
Ken Huang
Kevin Liao
Kevin Lu
Charles Zhang

This time we are awarding special prizes of $5 each bursary to:
Yujie Wang
Jason Liu
for diligently keeping game scores.

The junior club continues to grow. We had just 103 last night.

We did achieve our record high attendance last week of 109 kids.

[Bob Armstrong]

You guys are doing amazing! - congratulations and keep up the good work.

Bob A

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

The junior club continues to grow. We had just 103 last night.

Do you keep track on how many of them are the CFC members?

[Bob Gillanders]

Do you keep track on how many of them are the CFC members?

No, not really. Didn't I already answer a variation of this question?
Anyway, I was curious myself.

As our juniors improve, they graduate to the adult club and most stop playing with the juniors. We do keep an active junior member rating list which includes only those who have attended the junior club at least once in the last 20 weeks. So it would include some kids who only came out for one visit and never joined, but excludes some junior members who have been absent recently. That list has 167 names on it, of which 103 attended this week.

Depending on how you define a graduate, we have 10-15 graduates.

Regulars at the adult club = 9
Current CFC members = 7
Listed on the junior rating list = 5

Our OYCC bursary program is intended to boost these numbers.

I know some of them are looking forward to the CMA grand prix event tomorrow.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Didn't I already answer a variation of this question?

There is never too much good news

[Bob Gillanders]

There is never too much good news

More good news. We hit a new attendance record last night at the Mississauga Chess Club. With help from the adults this time.
Our previous high 130. (Nov 3rd, 2011, Kids 109, adults 21)
Last night 131. (Kids 101, adults 31, less 1 duplicate)

Attendance at the junior club took a dip after the new year, but we cracked 100 again for the first time this year. The juniors have now completed 4 bursary award tournaments, and I will announce the latest winners shortly. I get questions regularly now about the OYCC, the kids are looking forward to the big tournament in Kitchener.

The OYCC in Kitchener will be held April 28 & 29, 2012.
Details at www.oycc.ca

[Bob Armstrong]

Hi Bob G:

It is a great compliment to the governors that the CYCC qualifiers are taking on such significance! It helps support the notion that the qualifier system was a definite upgrade in CFC junior chess.

Bob A

[Erik Malmsten]

No, not really. Didn't I already answer a variation of this question?
Anyway, I was curious myself.

As our juniors improve, they graduate to the adult club and most stop playing with the juniors. We do keep an active junior member rating list which includes only those who have attended the junior club at least once in the last 20 weeks. So it would include some kids who only came out for one visit and never joined, but excludes some junior members who have been absent recently. That list has 167 names on it, of which 103 attended this week.

Depending on how you define a graduate, we have 10-15 graduates.

Regulars at the adult club = 9
Current CFC members = 7
Listed on the junior rating list = 5

Our OYCC bursary program is intended to boost these numbers.

I know some of them are looking forward to the CMA grand prix event tomorrow.

What a great turnout and rewards program. It is a model for other local clubs -- why can't Scarborough, Oriole and Willowdale also bring out 100 kids? I haven't seen that many kids at the Annex CC on Monday nights, but they do hold regular CFC-rated one-day tournaments such as yesterday (school closed for teacher development day) which has resulted in over 100 new CFC-rated players.