The 2010 Washington Junior Open & Reserve was held at Somerset Elementary School in Bellevue, WA on the MLK Day holiday (January 18). There were 197 kids in all, 47 in K-3 U800, 32 in 46 U800, 17 in K-3 U1200, 4-6 U1200, 5 7-12 U1200 and 66 in the Open section.

The winners were:

K-3 U800, 1st Ajay Pai 5-0, 2nd Karun Mokha, 3rd Michael Bi, 4th Kavi Singh, 5th Henry Zhu, 6th Nathan Ford 4-1 each.
Teams, 1ST Blackwell, 2nd Puesta Del Sol.

4-6 U800, 1st Justin Cabanos 5-0, 2nd Andrew Williams, 3rd Marcus Peng, 4th Zachary Ruble, 5th Will Merrill, 6th Alex Elevathingal 4-1 each. Teams, 1st Puesta Del Sol.

K-3 U1200 1st Benjamin Jee 4.5, 2nd Andrew Yuen 4-1, 3rd Jacob Zhang, 4th Colin Tang, 5th Timmy Wang 3.5 each.
Teams, 1st Stevenson.

4-6 U1200, 1st Jordan Lam 4.5, 2nd Trevor Christensen, 3rd Olga Cherepakhin, 4th Sean Burzynski, 4-1 each.
Teams, 1st Somerset, 2nd Puesta Del Sol, 3rd Stevenson.

7-12 U1200 1st Trey Ascheman 5-0, 2nd Jimmy Andrus 4-1, 3rd Charlie Merrill 3-2.

Open Section, 1st Igor Ummel, 2nd Abinav Viswanather, They were both 4-0. Ummel won the playoff round for 1st. 3rd Roland Fang, 4th Aviv Caspi, 5th Kate Tokareva, 6th Samuel He, 3.5 each.

TD, David Hendricks. Photos of some of the winners:

The Washington High School Individual Championship was held on January 30, 2010 at Lakeside High School in Shoreline. There were 91 players in all. Alex Guo, 5-0, won the Open section. He will represent Washington at the Denker Tournament this August. Other winners were: 2nd Michael Omori, 3rd Thomas Witecki, Ryan Ackerman, 4-1 each. In the Reserve section 1st William Vanderveen 4.5, 2nd David DeFrates, 3rd Andrew Thatcher, 4th Travis Olson, 5th Conor Bronsdon 4-1 each.

TD, Randy Walther.