2014 NC Open Results

2014 NC State Open Checker Tournament
The 124^thAnnual 2014 North Carolina Open Checker Tournament held on Friday and Saturday, May 16^th & 17^th 2014

"In Memory of Bill McClintock"
Econo Lodge Hotel, 2133 Hanford Rd, Burlington, NC 27215 (336) 227-1270 ( map )

Results:

Congratulations, John Webster!
(1st place - 2014 State Champion)

Congratulations, Tim Laverty!
(2nd place)

Congratulations, Teal Stanley!
(3rd place)

Congratulations, Mike Ross!
(4th place)

Congratulations, Raleigh Johnson!
(5th place - 2014 NC State Majors Champ)

(Official Crosstable Results)
124^thAnnual 2014 North Carolina Open Checker Tournament
May 16 & 17, 2014 - Masters Division 3-Move / Eight 2 game rounds (Swiss) of 1^1/4 hour per game - playing 4 rounds Friday, 4 rounds Saturday

2014 NC State Open
Masters By Round, 2Gm (Swiss) before after

Finish Name City, State
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1 IM John Webster Stoneville, NC 10147 2117 2138 16 14T4 5T4 15T3 7T2 2T4 12T3 3T4 7T2 26 $500.00 2014 NC State Champion (8th time - 14,13,12,11,09,08,07,06)

2 IM Tim Laverty Graham, NC 10153 2111 2108 7 12T2 6T3 4T4 16T2 3T3 2T3 5T4 16T2 23 $300.00

3 Teal Stanley Greensboro, NC 10107 2071 2022 12 7T2 3T3 13T3 15T3 6T2 16T1 2T4 10T2 20 $250.00

4 Mike Ross Burlington, NC 10110 1736 1780 10 2T2 15T0 11T3 5T2 13T3 8T3 14T4 12T2 19 $200.00

5 Raleigh Johnson Murfreesboro, NC 10198 1758 1813 5 4T3 16T0 6T2 10T2 9T3 15T4 7T0 3T4 18 $130.00 2014 NC State Majors Champion

6 Aden Keim Fredericksburg, OH 12609 1744 1793 6 8T2 7T1 5T2 14T3 12T2 3T2 15T2 2T3 17 $95.00

7 Harley Hochsteler Sugarcreek, OH 12531 1540 1575 4 5T1 1T3 7T0 9T0 11T3 13T2 byeT3 13T4 16 $90.00

8 Joe Weaver Dundee, OH 12535 1814 1782 15 3T2 10T4 16T1 12T1 8T3 5T0 6T2 14T2 15 129 $82.50 2-way tie for 8th place on game points Split $85+$80=$165/2

9 John Troyer Millersburg, OH 12533 1555 1607 14 16T0 11T4 2T0 6T1 F1T4 9T4 10T0 15T2 15 116 $82.50 2-way tie for 8th place on game points Split $85+$80=$165/2

10 Matthew Clark Fort Mill, SC 10492 1916 1836 2 10T2 9T2 14T4 F8T4 16T0 7T1 12T0 6T1 14 134 $70.00 3-way tie for 10th place on game points Split $75+$70+$65=$210/3

11 Glenn Fuquay Elon, NC 12582 1761 1758 3 15T2 12T1 1T4 13T4 7T1 6T2 16T0 5T0 14 131 $70.00 3-way tie for 10th place on game points ''

12 Grover Minor Greensboro, NC 12659 1659 1611 9 1T2 2T2 8T0 4T4 5T1 14T0 13T1 11T4 14 98 $70.00 3-way tie for 10th place on game points ''

13 Trey Stanley Greensboro, NC 10234 1599 1572 13 11T3 8T2 12T1 3T0 10T1 4T2 9T3 4T0 12 $60.00

14 J.R. Smith Greensboro, NC 10098 1585 1506 11 13T1 14T0 10T1 1T3 4T1 byeT3 8T2 9T0 11 $55.00

15 Larry Michael Lexington, NC 10059 1596 1625 8 6T2 13T2 9T4 F2T0 15T1 10T1 11T2 wd 12

16 Morris Auman Sophia, NC 12450 1349 1361 1 9T2 4T1 3T0 11T1 F14T0 wd wd wd 4 withdrew after the fourth round

$2,045.00 Total Cash Prize $2,970 = $1,800 + $1,170

Congratulations! To IM John Webster from Stoneville, NC as winner of the 2014 North Carolina State Open Checker Tournament, his eighth time winning this title.

Congratulations! To IM Tim Laverty from Graham, NC as the 2014 North Carolina State Open Checker Tournament second place finisher.

Congratulations! To Teal Stanley from Greensboro, NC as the 2014 North Carolina State Open Checker Tournament third place finisher.

Congratulations! To Mike Ross from Burlington, NC as the as the 2014 North Carolina State Open Checker Tournament fourth place finisher.

Congratulations! To Raleigh Johnson of Murfreesboro, NC as winner of the 2014 North Carolina State Open Majors Checker Tournament.

The Majors Champion is the winner of the Majors Division, or selected from the middle of the contestant field as their finishing final positions in a single division tournament.

When the mid place finishers is a non-resident then the next place NC finisher above him is selected. Only a NC residences may be a NC Championship title holder. Rules

GM stands for Grand Master, IM for International Master, and CM for Candidate Master, which are earned titles given by WCDF to distinguish players.

ACF Rating - Ratings supplied by ICH Checkers www.icheckers.net Program written by Vadim Khavinson, calculated by Joe Moore/Eric Strange, and updated by Joe Moore, our ACF ratings processor. icheckers ratings Rating Load Table

"T" separates player's opponent from player's round game points: Draw is 1, Win is 2 points, Bye is 3, and Forfeit is 4. (F) indicates a Forfeit and (wd) designates a Withdrawal.

Players were welcomed to Econo Lodge - Burlington by a nice front desk counter display sign announcing: Welcome!! 124th NC Open State Checker Tournament "In Memory of Bill McClintock" Playing in Conference Room 247.

Mrs. Frances McClintock visited with the players Friday morning before the NCCA meeting. We were happy she came by and spent some time with us since this State Tournament was in honor and memory of her late husband, Bill McClintock. All the NC players got a big hug and we all were definitely glad to see Frances again!

Teal Stanley gave our tournament invocation before opening our 124th Annual 2014 North Carolina Association business meeting.

In the 9:00am business meeting, NCCA President Teal Stanley welcomed 16 players to the 124th Annual 2014 North Carolina Open Checker Tournament from 3 States: 11 from NC; 4 from OH; and 1 from SC. We especially appreciate and welcome the Ohio players who drove over 500 miles, making a long 9 hour trip to be here.

Teal Stanley, NCCA President opened the meeting by call to order at 9:02am Friday, May 16th in the Econo Lodge Hotel conference room 247. Members in attendance: Life-Time members present were: John Webster, Tim Laverty, Teal Stanley, JR Smith, Raleigh Johnson, and Larry Michael all from North Carolina. Mike Ross, Glenn Fuquay, Grover Minor, Morris Auman, Trey Stanley were the 5 other member-players from NC. Matthew Clark from Fort Mill, SC; Joe Weaver from Dundee, OH; John Troyer from Millersburg, OH; Harley Hochsteler from Sugarcreek, OH; and Aden Keim of Fredericksburg, OH were the 5 out of state players making a total of 16 players present.

Teal, called for Secretary JR Smith to read last years minutes which were preprinted and available to members. Smith reviewed the 2013 minutes which were approved as presented and read.

Announcements: JR Smith spoke about this year's tournament being in memory of Bill McClintock and how much we missed him at our Tuesday afternoon playing sessions at McDonald's. As you know Bill was an active tournament player who traveled the circuit for over 25 years. Bill loved, played, promoted, supported checker, and was our NCCA Treasurer from 2005 until his death October 6, 2012.

We honor him by reading a list of his many checker accomplishments in playing and winning tournaments (Read List). We discussed under topic New Business at our 2013 NCCA Business Meeting to to add “Billy McClintock Memorial” to the "Greensboro Open" in honor of Billy who organized and directed this tournament from the mid-1990s until 2009. His last tournaments were at his home and included Mrs. Frances McClintock's wonderful home cooked dinners. Before Billy, Howard Amos was the Greensboro Tournament organizer. This would be a fitting tribute to honor and remember Bill by naming the tournament for him. A motion was made, seconded, and unanimously carried. Its hard to think of a man you respect more, enjoyed being around, and playing checkers with, than Bill McClintock.

Smith continued under announcements: Remembering recent deaths of our NC checker players and others we played against: Dr. Robert Lilburn Shuffett, Green County, KY - 4/1/2014, Gayle Helterbrand, Cabool MO - 10/13/2013, Leonard Hickman, Culleoka, TN - 1/2/2013, James W. Bracnaro, Shelton, CT - 2/5/2013, Benny Jackson "BJ" Vaughn, Burlington, NC - 9/4/2013, Roger L. Sample - New Bern, NC retired in Midlothian, VA - 11/8/2013, Benjamin P. "Ben" Jones, Hubert, NC - 7/3/2013, Gene M. Rader, O'Fallon, MO and moved to New Haven, KY - 8/13/2013, Steven Leslie Buntin, Chapel Hill, NC - 1/1/2013, Jimmy Reliford, Columbia, KY - 8/10/2013. This is continuing the traditional announcements like Bill McClintock would do at our annual business meetings.

Smith also announced, This next year... The 125^thAnnual 2015 North Carolina Open Checker Tournament will be held on Friday and Saturday, May 15^th & 16^th 2015. This is in keeping the State Tournament dates as in the past, the first weekend after Mother's Day which is the second Sunday in May. This tournament will be named the “Cecil Lowe Memorial State Tournament” in honor of our past president. We will try to have our State Tournament in Eastern North Carolina.

Smith also mentioned the June 21st Missouri GAYP Open in Branson, MO with a $4,000 purse. We have invitation / announcement sheets available on the back table.

Financial Reporting: JR Smith, acting as NCCA Treasurer, as Mike Ross's assistant, reported on the financial status of the security accounts, saying the RBC balance was $15,360.12 as of EOY December, 2013, and the Edward Jones account was $13,064.02 for the combined total of $28,424.14. Smith stated that the last statement as of 4/30/2014 Edward Jones was $13,873.48 and RBC was $16,674.46 for a combined total of $30,0547.94 before this year's $1,500 tournament withdrawal. The fund accounts were in pretty good shape considering the market was up and we where in mutual funds, corporate bond funds, and ETFs that offered safety with good dividends and interest, which is much higher than we would be getting from CDs. The shares' value might fluctuate a little with the market but we are not concentrating as much on growth but after safety and yield. Smith also had printed statements of NCCA fund accounts for anyone who wanted a copy. He also said our 2013 Federal Tax Return (990) was filed 2/17/2014. Two other reports were available: a list of tournament withdrawals and yearly history of the fund accounts.

Election of officers: We voted to keep the current officers another year. Teal-president, Jeff-vice-president, JR-secretary, and Mike-treasurer.

New Business: Because of our low attendance we reduced the playing field to one group instead of our planned three and set the entry fee at $20.00 for a single class division. We voted to play a single Swiss division using the mid-field player's finish position as our Majors Champion as we have done in the past when there wasn't enough players to have multiple divisions. Tournament Playing Rules were posted on the bulletin board, as well as: tournament schedule, pay-out schedule, up coming checker tournaments, a list of all the NC State Champions, and a list of local restaurants were all there on the back wall. Time clocks, game recorder sheets, and extra pens were available on the back table for those players who wanted them.

The tournament was advertised to start play at 9:00am Friday morning and again at 8:00am Saturday morning. We expected it to conclude Saturday evening at approximately7:00pm; however, several local NC players who drive in to play ask if we could start Saturday's play an hour later. We discuss a Saturday 1 hour delay time, a motion was made, voted, and carried as 10 to 6 to start Saturday play at 9:00am. Raleigh Johnson spoke up and ask, "why advertise and publish a start time and then change it?" Point well taken! we will stick with what is published in the future, provided its not a mistake or extremely inconvenient.

Adjournment: Our meeting adjourned at 9:30am and a copy of the Financial Report, Annual Report, and Minutes are available to members on-line. We started our 2014 NC State Open at 9:31am in the same conference room # 247.

We appreciated the donations and contributions which with the entry fees and fund account withdrawals totaled $2,150.00. Normally we deposit the withdrawn player’s cash in next year’s tournament fund account.

NCCA Life-Time Members are exempt of any State Tournament entry fees, one of the benefits of being a life-time member. These 6 Life-Time Members attended this State Tournament: Larry Michael, JR Smith, Tim Laverty, Teal Stanley, John Webster, and Raleigh Johnson.

Obviously the Ohio fellows were the furthers traveling players, Raleigh Johnson the oldest player, 90 on July 12 and Trey Stanley the youngest at 19 on April 5th.

We appreciate Gayle Smith who made sure we had plenty of water, drinks, fruit salad, chips, cheese & crackers, etc. available throughout the tournament. Also we appreciate Caroline Minor for making the delicious strawberry cake. It seems the strawberry cake, grape, and blueberry salads were hits with the players. We appreciated these delightful treats!

Mike Ross brought us a basket of his frozen muscadines & scuppernongs for the players to enjoy.

We appreciate Tim Laverty officiating as score-keeper and tournament referee, and of course doing a fantastic job as usual.

Referee Tim Laverty gave a forfeit for Morris Auman's fourth round and withdrawals for the remainder of rounds. Larry Michael's fourth round was considered a forfeit since he planned to return Saturday and play the remaining rounds.

NCCA has a tournament policy requiring a player to finish the tournament in order to get their prize money. We don't pay a cash prize to withdrawals; however, there have been exceptions when a player had to leave the last round and performed exceptionally well in his class, so we have awarded the player by forwarding the prize to him. Larry Michael requested that his prize money be distributed to the finishing players, or deposited for next year. The payout reflected in the results cross table was adjusted to handle this situation. The scorekeeper drops the withdrawn player or players to the bottom which has no effect on their rating. Their rating is figured only from their performance from games they actually played with another rated player.

We appreciate Econo Lodge for hosting our tournament, their meeting room, and free coffee throughout our tournament.

This years tournament was announced in Americantowns Greensboro News-Record GoTriad Scene and a 2014 Flyer was mailed out.

A delightful tournament & wonderful fellowship was had by all who attended.


Congratulations, John Webster! (1st place - 2014 State Champion)	Congratulations, Tim Laverty! (2nd place)	Congratulations, Teal Stanley! (3rd place)	Congratulations, Mike Ross! (4th place)	Congratulations, Raleigh Johnson! (5th place - 2014 NC State Majors Champ)