2018 NC State Open Checker Tournament
The 128^th Annual North Carolina State Open with American Checker Federation
District IV Checker Tournament held on Friday, May 18^th & Saturday, May 19^th 2018

"IM Tim Laverty Tournament Honoree" 
Comfort Inn Archdale, 10123 N. Main Street, Archdale, NC 27263 (336) 434-4797 ( map )

Results:

Congratulations Ryan!  2018 D4 Champion	Congratulations John! 2018 NC State Champion	Congratulations Michael! 2nd place Winner	Congratulations Vadym! 2nd place Winner	Congratulations Tim! 5th place Winner	Congratulations Teal! 5th place Winner	Congratulations Alex! 7th place Winner	Congratulations Tetiana! 8th place Winner

(Official Cross-table Results)
128^th Annual 2018 North Carolina Open Checker Tournament
May 18^th & 19^th, 2018 - Masters Division 3-Move / Seven 2 game rounds of Round Robin of 1^1/4 hour per game - playing 4 rounds Friday, 3 rounds Saturday

2018 NC State Open Masters By Round, 2Gm

(Round Robin)

before

after

Finish

Name

City, State

ACF#

Rate

Rate

Op

Rd1

Rd2

Rd3

Rd4

Rd5

Rd6

Rd7

Pts

HPts

Cash

Comments

1

M Ryan Pronk

Chesapeake, VA

10125

2067

2074

5

4T3/3

2T2/5

7T2/7

1T2/9

3T2/11

8T4/15

6T2/17

17

$600.00

Ryan wins Open Tournament and our new District 4 Champion

2

M John Webster

Stoneville, NC

10147

2037

2039

7

2T2/2

1T2/4

5T2/6

3T2/8

8T3/11

6T2/13

4T2/15

15

88

$225.00

John is our 2018 NC State Champion (11th time)

2

M Michael Holmes

Carriere, MS

10144

2132

2092

2

7T2/2

5T2/4

3T3/7

8T1/8

6T3/11

4T2/13

1T2/15

15

88

$225.00

3-way tie for 2nd place on game points Split $350+$200+$125=$675/3=$225

2

Vadym Lapin

Kiev, Ukraine

12884

2027

2031

3

6T3/3

4T2/5

2T1/6

7T2/8

5T2/10

1T2/12

8T3/15

15

88

$225.00

3-way tie for 2nd place on game points Split $350+$200+$125=$675/3=$225

5

M Tim Laverty

Graham, NC

10153

2020

2019

4

5T1/1

3T2/3

8T3/6

6T2/8

1T2/10

2T2/12

7T2/14

14

89

$95.00

2-way tie for 5th place on game points Split $100+$90=$190/2=$95

5

M Teal Stanley

Greensboro, NC

10107

1945

1984

6

3T1/1

8T3/4

1T3/7

4T2/9

2T1/10

7T2/12

5T2/14

14

89

$95.00

2-way tie for 5th place on game points Split $100+$90=$190/2=$95

7

E Alex Holmes

Clarksville, IN

10066

2049

2027

1

8T2/2

7T2/4

6T1/5

5T2/7

4T2/9

3T2/11

2T2/13

13

$85.00

8

Tetiana Zaitseva

Kiev, Ukraine

12887

1824

1854

8

1T2/2

6T1/3

4T1/4

2T3/7

7T1/8

5T0/8

3T1/9

9

$80.00

$1,630.00

Total Master Cash Prize ≈ 71% of Total Prize Fund

Results:

Congratulations Glenn! 2018 NC Class B Champion	Congratulations Matthew! 1st place tie Winner	Congratulations Buck! 3rd place Winner	Congratulations Jeff! 4th place Winner	Congratulations Michael! 5th place Winner	Congratulations Richard! 6th place Winner

(Official Cross-table Results)
128^th Annual 2018 North Carolina Open Checker Tournament
May 18^th & 19^th, 2018 - Class B Division 3-Move / Seven 2 game rounds of Round Robin of 1^1/4 hour per game - playing 4 rounds Friday, 3 rounds Saturday

2018 NC State Open Class B By Round, 2Gm

(Round-Robin)

before

after

Finish

Name

City, State

ACF#

Rate

Rate

Op

Rd1

Rd2

Rd3

Rd4

Rd5

Rd6

Rd7

Pts

HPts

Cash

Comments

1

Glenn Fuquay

Elon, NC

12582

1660

1736

4

5T4/4

3T4/8

8T3/11

6T1/12

1T4/16

2T1/17

7T3/20

20

$175.00

Glenn is our 2018 NC State Major Champion

1

Matthew Clark

Fort Mill, SC

10492

1884

1868

2

7T2/2

5T2/4

3T4/8

8T3/11

6T2/13

4T3/16

1T4/20

20

$175.00

2-way tie for 1st place on game points Split $200+$150=$350/2=$175

3

Buck Smith

Millboro, VA

10091

1693

1689

7

2T2/2

1T3/5

5T2/7

3T4/11

8T2/13

6T4/17

4T1/18

18

$100.00

4

Jeff Webster

Stoneville, NC

10218

1868

1786

8

1T3/3

6T4/7

4T1/8

2T1/9

7T2/11

5T2/13

3T4/17

17

$65.00

2-way tie for 4th place on game points Split $75+$55=$130/2=$65

4

Michael O'Hara

Inverness, FL

12844

1608

1640

5

4T0/0

2T2/2

7T2/4

1T4/8

3T4/12

8T2/14

6T3/17

17

$65.00

2-way tie for 4th place on game points Split $75+$55=$130/2=$65

6

Richard Marlowe

Danville, VA

12888

1598

1606

6

3T4/4

8T0/4

1T4/8

4T3/11

2T2/13

7T0/13

5T1/14

14

$40.00

First ACF Sanctioned Checker Tournament

7

Morris Auman

Sophia, NC

12450

1373

1367

1

8T1/1

7T1/2

6T0/2

5TF/2

4T0/2

3T4/6

2T0/6

6

$30.00

Morris Auman forfeited round 4 to Michael O'Hara

8

Patrick Dallas

Sophia, NC

12915

1560

1465

3

6T0/0

4T0/0

2T0/0

7TF/0

5T0/0

1T0/0

8T0/0

0

$20.00

Patrick Dallas forfeited round 4 to Buck Smith

$670.00

Total Class B Cash Prize ≈ 29% of Total Prize Fund

• Congratulations! to Ryan Pronk from Chesapeake, VA for winning the 2018 NC State Open & District 4 and appropriately recognized as the new 2018 ACF District 4 Champion.

• Congratulations! to John Webster from Stoneville, NC as the eligible new 2018 North Carolina State Open Champion in a 3-way tie for 2nd place.  This is his 11th time: 2006 thru 2009, 2011 thru 2014, and 2016 thru 2018.  

• Congratulations! to Glenn Fuquay from Elon, NC as the eligible new 2018 North Carolina Open Class B Champion.  Fuquay was in a 2-way tie for 1st place and a resident of North Carolina which you must be to hold this title.

• Players were welcomed to Comfort Inn Archdale by a nice front desk counter display sign announcing: Welcome!! 128th NC State Open Checker Tournament "IM Tim Laverty Tournament Honoree"  Playing in Conference Room.

• Teal Stanley, NCCA President, opened our 128th Annual North Carolina State & ACF District 4 checker tournament by welcoming 16 players, from 6 States: 7 from NC; 3 from VA; 1 each from MS; IN; SC; and FL and 2 players from Kiev, Ukraine.  Teal lead us in our tournament invocation before opening our annual North Carolina Checker Association (NCCA) business meeting and turning announcements and tournament details over to JR Smith, NCCA Secretary. The Business Meeting was called to order at 8:30am Friday, May 18th in the Comfort Inn - Archdale Hotel conference room.  Members in attendance:  5 NCCA Life-Time members were present: John Webster, Jeff Webster, Teal Stanley, Tim Laverty, and JR Smith all from North Carolina.  We had 3 other NCCA members: Glenn Fuquay, Morris Auman and Patrick Dallas all from NC.  There were 8 other out of state players: Michael Holmes-MS, Alex Holmes-IN, Matthew Clark-SC, Richard Marlowe-VA, Ryan Pronk-VA, and Buck Smith-VA making a total of 16 tournament players present. JR Smith did not participate in the tournament because of back pain.  We also had a NC guest member, Richard Brown and his grandson Caylx Ayres from Pinebluff, NC neither participate, but seem to enjoy seeing old checker friends.

• We especially appreciate and welcome Michael Holmes from Carriere, MS who drove into Archdale, NC for a 750 mile trip / 12 hours on the road, our most distant players. Also making long travels to the tournament were Alex Holmes, who drove in from Clarksville, IN 490 miles / 8.5 hours and Michael O'Hara drove in from Inverness, FL 590 miles / 10 hours. 

• Secretary Smith read last year's minutes which were preprinted and available to members. Smith reviewed the 2017 minutes which were approved as read & presented. 

• Announcements: JR Smith spoke about this year's tournament being in honor of IM Tim Laverty who is our “Tournament Honoree” who was on our display sign as “Honoring IM Tim Laverty for his life-time of dedication and pursuit of Checker Excellence.”  Tim was presented a nice “Tournament Honoree” plaque.  Also announced were two recently deceased checker players, Harvey Kelley, and George Cox. Their obituaries were posted on the playing room wall. Other announcements and reporting were available and displayed on the playroom wall: Tournament Schedule, Playing Rules, & Contributors, NC State Champions, List of Restaurants, Financial Report - yearly history of the fund accounts, and NCCA's total accumulated prize fund withdrawn for anyone who wanted a copy.

• Smith also reported that our 2017 Federal Tax Return (990) was filed 1/01/2018, and our NCCA Trust Fund account as of 5/13/2018 statements: has a market value of $12,516.85 for our Edward Jones (EJ) account + RBC Wealth Management account has a market value of $13,607.85 for a total of $26,124.70 before this year's prize fund withdrawal.  These amounts maybe verified by statements or on-line by any officer who has account ID and password.

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

• We discussed under topic New Business to play a Master division round robin of 8 players and a B Class division round robin of 8 players.  We set the entry fee as $30 for Masters and $20 for B Class Majors, and any NCCA Life-Time member is exempt of a State Tournament entry fee.  Motion made and carried by majority vote on the discussion about Tournament format. We kept our standard round time as 2.5 hours or (1.25 hours per game) and the number of rounds as 7; therefore, playing 4 rounds Friday and 3 rounds Saturday.  Play starts both days at 9:00 AM as posted in Tournament Schedule on the playing room wall.

• The top North Carolina player in the A Class will be recognized as the 2018 NC State Open Checker Champion and the highest finishing NC player in the B Class will be recognized as our 2018 NC State Open Majors Champion. Only a NC residence may be a NC Championship title holder. The 2018 District 4 Champion will be the highest finishing player from District 4.  Rules  

• ACF Titles that precede player's name stand for: GM stands for Grandmaster, MS stands for Master, EX stands for Expert, are earned titles given by The American Checker Federation to distinguish a player's knowledge and skill. For information on ACF Titles, please see Bylaw XII - ACF Titles. 

• We love our new ACF Rating System and appreciate our programming software engineer & rating processor, Clint 0lsen from Kitchener, ON N2A0 OC1OC1 (Canada) who took on the job of design, creation, and maintenance of this excellent & professional system. Our Tournament Ratings data was pulled from this Rating System.  Clint also serves as our ACF website administrator.

• When you are viewing the above cross-tables the "T" separates player's opponent from player's earned game points for that round as: Draw is 1, Win is 2 points, Bye is 3, and Forfeit is 4.  A forward slash "/ " separates earned game points from accumulated (total) game points.  (F) indicates a Forfeit and (wd) designates a Withdrawal.

• Time clocks, game recorder sheets, and extra pens were available on the back table for those players who wanted them.

• All players were emailed a tournament flyer and or mailed a postcard invitation two months prior to the tournament, and of course all known checker players with an email address got a group email about the tournament with a link to the NCCA's checker calendar.

• Smith also announced, next year's 129^th Annual 2019 North Carolina Open Checker Tournament to be held on Friday and Saturday, May 17^th & 18^th 2019.  This is in keeping with the State Tournament dates as in the past, to be held the first weekend after Mother's Day which is the second Sunday in May.  We will use Comfort Inn - Archdale again as our tournament venue location.

• Other Announcements: The next three checker tournaments will be Texas Open & District 8, New England & District 1, and the Southern Open, of course you want to book your flight & room to our National in Las Vegas at least 90 day before September 17-20, 2018.

• Adjournment:  Our meeting adjourned at 8:58 AM and a copy of the Financial Report, Annual Report, and Minutes are available to members on-line.  We started our 2018 NC State Open Tournament at 9:00 AM in the same conference room. 

• We will have local newspaper coverage with pictures next year since we are holding our tournament in a small town and they like local news with a folksy touch.

• We appreciated the donations and contributions, which are added to the entry fees and with our fund account withdrawal, making a total $2,300.00 tournament prize fund. Again this year, Joe McDaniel graciously supported us with $300.00.

• NCCA Life-Time Members are exempt of any State Tournament entry fees, one of the huge benefits of being a life-time member. We welcome and appreciate Glenn Fuquay becoming a Life-Time Member 5/18/2018 at our 2018 NC State Open in Archdale, NC.

• We appreciate Tim Laverty and Gayle Smith serving as our tournament director, referee, and score-keeper.

• All players who wanted a list of the 2018 NC State Open and District 4 players' addresses & emails were available from the tournament director.

• Our oldest player was Buck Smith, age 87 with a birthday on March 16th, and our youngest player was Alex Holmes age 19 with a February 28th birthday.

• We appreciate Gayle Smith who brought a large packed ice chest so we had plenty of water, fruit salad, salsa/cheese dip, chips, dips, veggie trays, dessert salads, cheese & crackers, etc. available throughout the tournament.

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