MeritPoint© Explanation

Merit Points accumulate for every School Chess Association sponsored tournament that you play in. A minimum of 1 Merit Point is awarded for all tournaments.

In a 4 round tournament, each win is 1.25 points and each draw is 0.5 point. In a 5 round tournament, each win is 1 point and each draw is 0.5 point.

For a 4 or 5 round tournament first place means 6 merit points and other trophies mean 5 merit points. Players who win a trophy get the trophy points, they do not also get points for their wins.

The STATE Elementary/Primary tournament is 7 rounds and hands out 1 merit point for each win or 8 merit points for 1st place and 7 merit points for other trophies.

For Team vs. Team tournaments Merit Points are equal to a player’s score. An additional Merit Point is awarded if the player is undefeated and played all rounds.

Double Bughouse and Doubles tournaments are normalized to 5 merit points. That means if a player wins all of their games it's worth 5 Merit Points from play. This can result in fractional Merit Points. Fractional Merit Points are rounded up to 0.25 increments.

For Double Bughouse tournaments the first place team players get 6 MPs total each and all other metal winners get 5 MPs total.

For Doubles tournaments each medal winner is awarded 1 additional Merit Point.

Achievement awards are:
10 points:	Bronze Medal	200 points:	Super Wall Plaque
25 points:	Silver Medal	300 points:	Crystal Award
50 points:	Gold Medal	400 points:	Engraved Wooden Chess Clock
100 points:	Wall Plaque	500 points:	Special Engraved Wooden Chess Set

Check your merit points on the web page.

Every student walks out of our tournaments a winner!!