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2012 WA State Team Championship

Posted on March 3, 2012 by barry

The 2012 State Team Championships were held on February 24-25. It was a rainy weekend at Issaquah High School, but their freshly remodeled school provided a wonderful and comfortable facility for the event. We have a huge photo album and … Continue reading →

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2012 WA State Individual Championship

Posted on February 8, 2012 by barry

The 2012 State Individual Championships were held on January 27-28 at Ferndale High School up in the far northwest corner of Washington State. Congratulations to our winners: State champion Michael Omori from Lakeside School, scoring of 4.5 out of 5.0. … Continue reading →

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Mini-Teams Results

Posted on November 22, 2011 by barry

The 2011 Mini-Teams Tournament was held on Nov 19th on a crisp Fall day at Interlake High School in Bellevue. Congratulations to the winning team of Michael Wang, Abinav Viswanathan and Andrew Porisch! You can view and download photos here … Continue reading →

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Streamlined Navigation

Posted on March 15, 2011 by barry

Good news, web traffic shows that practically everyone has updated their bookmarks to go directly to ratings and reports! So I’ve expired the last few placeholder pages on whsca.org. I replaced them with automatic redirection to the corresponding new page … Continue reading →

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Time to Update Your Bookmarks

Posted on December 30, 2010 by barry

Happy New Year! If you haven’t already, it’s time to update your bookmarks. I’ve been watching you (almost as closely as Santa Claus!) and noticed many of you are still finding your ratings by clicking through from WHSCA.org. This isn’t … Continue reading →

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USCF Ratings and Adjustments

Posted on September 29, 2010 by barry

A note about USCF ratings and adjustments: We will continue Ollie’s practice of updating NWSRS ratings to match USCF ratings if: the USCF rating is established (i.e.; no rating adjustment is made based on USCF provisional ratings), and the USCF … Continue reading →