2022 Black is the New Black

Hosted by: Gold Coast

7 rounds, 26 teams

Place Club Board Points Match Points
1 Excessive Epicness 34 14
2 Brisbane Blunders 1 32.5 10
3 Bullwinkle’s Team Shadier 29 11
7 Bullwinkle’s Team Shady 23.5 9

The Queensland Teams Championship returned to the chess calendar this year, having last been held in 2019. Tyson’s flamboyantly attired Excessive Epicness were convincing in defending their title. Club Bullwinkle, obviously forgetting where we finished in 2019, defended third place!

If there was any team that could derail Bullwinkle’s campaign, it was Bullwinkle.
  Team Shadier  
1 David Smerdon 5.5
2 Bruce Williams 6
3 Tom Slater-Jones 4.5
4 Jacob Edwards 5
5 Henry Slater-Jones 4
6 Nik Stawski 4

Team Shadier

Sat 26 Nov, 11:00 AM A Suncoast Mackay 6 - 0
Sat 26 Nov, 12:00 PM A (Club Bullwinkle) 3 - 3
Sat 26 Nov, 1:00 PM A Logan City 6 - 0
Sat 26 Nov, 2:00 PM A Brisbane Blunders 3.5 - 2.5
Sat 26 Nov, 3:00 PM A Gen Y 2 - 4
Sat 26 Nov, 4:00 PM A Gold Coast 5 - 1
Sat 26 Nov, 5:00 PM A Gold Coast 3.5 - 2.5
  Team Shady  
1 Brian Thomas 2.5
2 Michael D’Arcy 3
3 Michael Van Pelt 6
4 Jason Chan 6
5 Dominic Olm-Milligan 4
6 Regina Edwards 2

Team Shady

Sat 26 Nov, 11:01 AM A Brisbane Blunders 5 - 1
Sat 26 Nov, 1:01 PM A Redcliffe 3 - 3
Sat 26 Nov, 2:01 PM A Suncoast Mackay 4.5 - 1.5
Sat 26 Nov, 3:01 PM A King and Queen 3 - 3
Sat 26 Nov, 4:01 PM A Logan City 1 - 5
Sat 26 Nov, 5:01 PM A Brisbane Blunders 4 - 2
  Board Prizes
2 Bruce Williams
3 Michael Van Pelt (=)

Bullwinkle as a club contested its 200th rapid match!

Next year we are determined to devise team names in advance. We neglected to do this in 2019 and 2022, thus drifting from the formula that saw us score a hat-trick of titles from 2016-2018. Given the rustiness of our play, team names are most assuredly the key to success…