Northern California State Senior Championship (Irwin Qualifier)
June 17-19, 2022
As State President and State Scholastic Coordinator I received the e-mail from the office earlier today to submit our nominations which I’ve done. So, be on the lookout for the e-mail and get those nominees named for all five of the invitationals!
You will notice that on the Invitationals Page (From the home page, it’s Play-National State Invitationals) this year’s rules and schedule are published. There is also a template showing the nominees by state. It’s not populated yet, of course, but as nominations come into the office they will populate it periodically. I don’t know for sure who is on point for that, but last year it was Korey Kormick and I believe he is doing it again this year. I will report on the open states periodically on this thread; we would like to see every state represented. To the best of my knowledge the Senior Committee will be able to seek representatives for the missing states, but not until the June 20 deadline for the states. By then, it will certainly be harder and hotel rooms may be unavailable, so getting it on people’s radar screens earlier is helpful. If every state will send in their five nominees earlier, it will certainly benefit their representatives!
Oregon Senior Open results: uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?202205151542.0
Wilson Gibbins has better modified median tiebreaks so he gets the Irwin nomination.
The two players who tied for first have actually agreed to play a two-game playoff to determine the Irwin nomination.
Great! Any idea when that will be played?
June 7 and June 9.
Assuming your earlier statement that Gibbins had better tiebreaks and thus would be the representative, I can only infer that agreeing to a playoff instead was an act of true sportsmanship, which speaks very well of NM Gibbins.
The link to the OFFICIAL Irwin participants list is below. This page has the current list for all of the Invitationals. Note that this list represents everyone for whom the state chapter has submitted the names to the US Chess Office using the prescribed submission forms. Until the state chapter submits the nomination form, they won’t be found on this list. If states emailed the names of their winners when the events occurred, prior to creation of nomination forms, those weren’t tabulated and the state should submit them on the prescribed forms.
https://new.uschess.org/national-state-invitationals-participant-lists
At this point there are a number of states who held qualifiers but have yet to submit their nominees. Of the states that have held qualifiers but haven’t submitted their forms, virtually all of them haven’t submitted them for their scholastic nominees either. So that’s just an administrative thing at the state level and presumably will be sorted out.
There are, of course, many states that did not hold an Irwin qualifier and are selecting their representative in other ways. Most of them haven’t submitted their scholastic representatives either. Exceptions (states which submitted scholastic names but not their Irwin candidate) are Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, Ohio and Rhode Island (the latter two submitted some but not all of their scholastic nominees).
States which have not run a qualifying event to my knowledge or appointed a nominee and don’t have one scheduled are AK, AZ, AR, DE, DC, KY, HI, LA, ME, MD, MS, NE, ND, NY, OH, PA, RI, TX, VT, WY. A few of these have told me they will appoint a nominee, but they have not yet done so, at least not via the official nomination forms. After a couple weeks, by which time I’d expect most states would have submitted their nomination forms, I’ll give a more complete summary of the unfilled state spots. We’d like to see all 52 states represented, and at a minimum we’d like to match the record of 44. That’s a tall order!
The invitational participant lists were updated today. Here is a summary from the standpoint of the Irwin:
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24 states have a name listed (some confirmed, some aren’t), and S-CA has its backup also
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These 12 states held a qualifier or award their spot to the top senior in their state championship but have not submitted a name.
A. States which haven’t submitted any of their scholastic nominees either: AL, IL, OK, SD, FL (5)
B. States which have submitted some but not all of their scholastic nominees: MO, WA (2)
C. States which have submitted all of their other nominees: IA, WV (2)
D. States with other issues. Hawaii hasn’t submitted any scholastic nominees, OR and UT have submitted all of them) (3)
OR had a tie and is holding a playoff, I believe this week.
UT had a tie, I don’t know how they are resolving that.
HI had a qualifier but the winner declined because of the travel. -
These 15 states did not hold a qualifier that I know of.
A. Haven’t submitted any scholastic nominees: AK, AZ, AR, KY, LA, NE, NY, PA, VT, WY (10)
B. Have submitted one or two scholastic nominees: DE, RI (2)
C. Have submitted all of their scholastic nominees: DC, ME, MS (3) -
N-CA has a qualifier scheduled June 17-19.
As of the list the hard-working Korey Kormick posted in the wee hours this morning, these states are unaccounted for:
- States which held a qualifier but have not reported a nominee. While this could mean the state simply hasn’t submitted the form (many of these states haven’t submitted for the Invitationals either), it could also mean the qualifier has declined and they are searching for a candidate. Alabama, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, West Virginia (8 states)
- States who did report a qualifier but that person has decined: Florida, Georgia (2 states)
- States which didn’t hold a qualifier: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wyoming. (15 states)
- State holding a qualifier this coming weekend - Northern California (1 state)
Total states with openings - 26
If you are 50 or over, are from one of these states and are interested in playing in the Irwin, PM me. No promises, but if your state chapter doesn’t submit a candidate by June 20, you could be considered.
As of the list the hard-working Korey Kormick posted in the wee hours this morning, these states are unaccounted for:
- States which held a qualifier but have not reported a nominee. While this could mean the state simply hasn’t submitted the form (many of these states haven’t submitted for the Invitationals either), it could also mean the qualifier has declined and they are searching for a candidate. Alabama, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, West Virginia (8 states)
- States who did report a qualifier but that person has decined: Florida, Georgia (2 states)
- States which didn’t hold a qualifier: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wyoming. (15 states)
- State holding a qualifier this coming weekend - Northern California (1 state)
Total states with openings - 26
If you are 50 or over, are from one of these states and are interested in playing in the Irwin, PM me. No promises, but if your state chapter doesn’t submit a candidate by June 20, you could be considered.
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