Congrats to Shreya Mangalam!

And Vikram Oberai, Owen Zhang, and Anshul Shetty.

All four are now Illinois state champions thanks to their stellar performances at the 2017 Illinois K-8 Championships completed March 12 in Normal, IL.

By a slender tiebreak differential, Avery Coonley School won the Junior High team championship over Chiddix Junior High. Both had 19.5 tallies based on the top four scores, with ACS earning a 121.0 Solkoff to Chiddix 118.0.

Aidan Carey contributed 5.5 to the ACS total while Alex Turk (5.0), Ojas Vasisht (4.5) and Annika Geiersbach (4.5) contributed to the team tally.

Jason Daniels lead the Chiddix team with 5.5, supported by 5.0's from Joseph Suh and Saisuhas Nelaturi, and a handful of 4.0's.

Wilmette Junior High was just a half-point behind, lead by Justin Weinzweig's 6.0 and 4.5's from Roger Li and Sarah Lin and a 4.0 from Ethan Salazar-Sobin.

In the Elementary (Grades 4-5) section, three teams tied with 18.5 points while two more posted 18.0's.

Once again, tiebreaks helped Avery Coonley win the top team prize, edging Evanston's Lincoln and Normal's Glenn Elementary.

In the (Grades 2-3) Upper Primary, Westbrook denied ACS a sweep of team championships, with a 21.0 tally, a point better than Colene Hoose and ACS, both with 20.0's.

In the Lower Primary (Grades K-1), ACS edged Colene Hoose 19.0 to 18.5 to win the top team award.

More results -- and photos -- will be added soon.

Thanks to the BNASC for running another fantastic event. Complete results are posted here. If players or the parents have any feedback on the event they would like included in the ICA liaison report, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

		Lower Primary					Upper Primary
		Grades K-1					Grades 2-3
1		Anshul Shetty	7.0		1st		Owen Zhang	7.0		1st		1
2		Lucas Prainito	6.5		2nd		Kaya Turgut	6.5		2nd		2
3		Liam Scott	6.0		T-3rd		Michael Li	6.0		T-3rd		3
4		David Liu	6.0		T-3rd		Ekansh Mehrotra	6.0		T-3rd		4
5		Jake Izhaky	6.0		T-3rd		Adam Elgat	6.0		T-3rd		5
6		Nandini Prakash	5.5		6th		Liam Murray	6.0		T-3rd		6
7		Hudson Lutifyya	5.0		T-7th		Ryan Kong	6.0		T-3rd		7
8		Akshith Narava	5.0		T-7th		Sohum Mehta	5.5		T-8th		8
9		Pragyan Misra	5.0		T-7th		Max Drees	5.5		T-8th		9
10		Christopher Sakaliyski	5.0		T-7th		Alex Popham	5.5		T-8th		10
11		Harshvardhan Bhangale	5.0		T-7th		Harshal Joshi	5.5		T-8th		11
12		Henry Shirley	5.0		T-7th		Mohit Bayyarapu	5.0		T-12th		12
13		Ren Lutfiyya	5.0		T-7th		Ria Raj	5.0		T-12th		13
14		Siddharth Krishnan	5.0		T-7th		Yuvraj Chennareddy	5.0		T-12th		14
15		Eliot Ash	5.0		T-7th		Nisha Salian	5.0		T-12th		15
16		Shane Asbra	5.0		T-7th		Dimitrios Deligiannis	5.0		T-12th		16
17		Simon Hunter	5.0		T-7th		Anthony Tsyganov	5.0		T-12th		17
18		Ajitesh Ramamurthy	4.5		T-18th		Wiliam Khazen	5.0		T-12th		18
19		Ken Yang	4.5		T-18th		Rajeeth Ganesan	5.0		T-12th		19
20		Jackson Caruso	4.5		T-18th		Lily Meegoda	5.0		T-12th		20
21		Cruz Martin	4.5		T-18th		Jacob Plotnick	5.0		T-12th		21
22		Sukhi Doddi	4.0		T-22nd		Benjamin Newman	5.0		T-12th		22
23		Will Geiersbach	4.0		T-22nd		Alex Daniels	5.0		T-12th		23
24		Jacob Myers	4.0		T-22nd		Vincent Fang	5.0		T-12th		24
25		Eric Gorokhovsky	4.0		T-22nd		Saatvik Kailasj	5.0		T-12th		25
		Also tying for 22nd place with 4.0:					Also tying for 12nd place with 5.0:
		Colin Wicks, Nihal Mallipudi, Animish Amaravadi, Yutesh Ammu, Julian Norton, Anya Liu, Zachary Borne, Vamsi Munaganuri, Kristen Hou, Victor Kirchev, Lucas Means, Michael Rusu, Prapanj Suresh, Siddhartha Thuppal					Journey Jackson, Benjamin McKendall, Austin Lok, Ronak Potnis, Aya Yasumoto, Nikhil Kavutarapu
		93 entries					171 entries
		Elementary					Junior High
		Grades 4-5					Grades 6-8
1		Vikram Oberai	6.0		T-1st		Shreya Mangalam	7.0		1st		1
2		Rahul Bammidi	6.0		T-1st		Neel Jay	6.0		T-2nd		2
3		Avi Kaplan	6.0		T-1st		Justin Weinzweig	6.0		T-2nd		3
4		Jonah Chen	6.0		T-1st		Emmett Madigan	6.0		T-2nd		4
5		Chris Von Hoff	6.0		T-1st		Aidan Carey	5.5		T-5th		5
6		William Cahill	5.5		T-6th		Jason Daniels	5.5		T-5th		6
7		Samraat Zagade	5.5		T-6th		Nicholas Ladan	5.5		T-5th		7
8		Kaushal Khumal	5.5		T-6th		Jacob Davis	5.5		T-5th		8
9		Advait Vijay	5.5		T-6th		Shreyas Reddy	5.5		T-5th		9
10		Austin McMurtrie	5.5		T-6th		Aria Hoesley	5.0		T-10th		10
11		Sohan Bendre	5.0		T-11th		Harry Heller	5.0		T-10th		11
12		Jack Heller	5.0		T-11th		Nicholas Bruha	5.0		T-10th		12
13		Sam Fayn	5.0		T-11th		Kevin Ho	5.0		T-10th		13
14		Andrey Bovikov	5.0		T-11th		Benajim Chen	5.0		T-10th		14
15		Kamalesh Sureshkumar	5.0		T-11th		Anusha Nadkarni	5.0		T-10th		15
16		Junliang Liu	5.0		T-11th		Joseph Suh	5.0		T-10th		16
17		Brooklyn Li	5.0		T-11th		Casimir Kash	5.0		T-10th		17
18		Alice Fan	5.0		T-11th		Stefan Mueller	5.0		T-10th		18
19		Aditya Oberai	5.0		T-11th		Elijah Plantnick	5.0		T-10th		19
20		Avighnavn Vaudevan	5.0		T-11th		Layla Rodrigquez	5.0		T-10th		20
21		Jazz Anders	5.0		T-11th		Jim Nguyen	5.0		T-10th		21
22		Matthew Hunter	5.0		T-11th		Kai Dubauskas	5.0		T-10th		22
23		John Waldo	5.0		T-11th		Alex Turk	5.0		T-10th		23
24		Shlok Kinikar	5.0		T-11th		Saisuhas Nelaturi	5.0		T-10th		24
25		Keoni Osborne	5.0		T-11th		Roger Li	4.5		25th		25
		Also tying for 11th place with 5.0:					Also tying for 25th place with 4.5:
		Advaith Kodipparambil, Anisha Oberai, Yash Desai, Kunal Karra, Max Gurinas,  Saanvi Adusumalli, Sadkrith Malladi					Deepak Salian, Spencer Vincent, Ojas Vasisht, Sreyansh Mamidi, Aswath Ramesh, Ivan Mitkov, Annika Geiersbach, Sarah Lin
		171 entries					132 Entries

 

In addition the top 25 finishers for each section, the ICA mandates that awards go to top finishers by grade and by ratings.

For the Lower Primary section:

Kindergarten: Zachary Borne, Anya Liu

Grade 1: Nihal Mallipudi, Thomas Liu

Ratings 500-699: Colin Wicks, Jack Kerr

Ratings 300-499: Yuktesh Ammu, Animish Amaravadi

Ratings Under 300: Lucas Means, Prapanj Suresh

For the Upper Primary section:

Grade 2: Austin Lok, Tucker Bowhall

Grade 3: Aya Yasumoto, Nikhil Kavutarapu

Ratings 600-799: Benjamin McKendall, Journey Jackson

Ratings 400-599: Evan Chui, Joshua Rariden

Ratings Under 400: Alex Ivascu, Mireya Maiewski 

For the Elementary section:

Grade 4: Saanvi Adusumalli, Sadkrith Malladi

Grade 5: Kunal Karra, Advaith Kodipparambil

Ratings 700-899: Anisha Oberai, Mengzi Yang

Ratings 500-699: Elton Huang, Alexander Lubinski

Ratings Under 500: Sujith Ramasetti, Stan Okesson

For the Junior High section:

Grade 6: Deepak Salian, Spencer Vincent

Grade 7: Ivan Mitkov, Siddharta Kyaw

Grade 8: Aswath Ramesh, Ojas Vasisht

Ratings 800-999: Donald Valencia, Mahabaleshwar Ammu

Ratings 600-799: Remo Khuri, Osita Achufusi

Under 600: Meris Goldfarb, Zachary Popham