All-Star Awards, by Ken Larsen

All-Star Points

Players acquire "Star-Points" by competing in League Matches and other scholastic events. As players compete in different sections, against different levels of opposition, the Star-Point system accommodates those players in the Top sections specifically. After the completion of the fifth and final All-Star event, each players' Star-Points are tallied, dropping the lowest score (or, taking only the four highest). The tables for determining Star-Points are listed below. Because we hold events with such different formats, entirely different systems are used. But each system is calculated to approximately assign equal weight or importance to each event.

All-Star awards are handed out at the State Regional Championships, in each division (Primary, Elementary, and Junior High).

To determine each player's score, wins count as a tournament point, and draws count as half a point. Unplayed games do not count as any points, except in cases in LM #3 where a player receives a BYE.

* STAR-POINT TABLE, for LM #1 and #2, our two TEAM events:

Premier board 1 each tournament point yields 5 Star-Points
Premier board 2 each tournament point yields 4 Star-Points
Premier board 3 each tournament point yields 3 Star-Points
Premier board 4 each tournament point yields 2 Star-Points
Premier board 5 each tournament point yields 1 Star-Points

Gold board 1 each tournament point yields 3 Star-Points
Gold board 2 each tournament point yields 1 Star-Points
Below Gold board 2 no Star-Points

* STAR-POINT TABLES, for LM #3, our INDIVIDUAL event:

JH A score of 3 yields 10 Star-Points
JH A score of 2.5 yields 7 Star-Points
JH A score of 2 yields 4 Star-Points

JH B score of 3 yields 3 Star-Points
JH B score of 2.5 yields 1 Star-Points

Elem Top (Elite) score of 3 yields 12 Star-Points
Elem Top (Elite) score of 2.5 yields 9 Star-Points
Elem Top (Elite) score of 2 yields 6 Star-Points

Elem A score of 3 yields 9 Star-Points
Elem A score of 2.5 yields 6 Star-Points
Elem A score of 2 yields 3 Star-Points

Elem B score of 3 yields 3 Star-Points
Elem B score of 2.5 yields 1 Star-Points

Pri A score of 3 yields 5 Star-Points
Pri A score of 2.5 yields 3 Star-Points
Pri A score of 2 yields 1 Star-Points

Pri B score of 3 yields 2 Star-Points
Pri B score of 2.5 yields 1 Star-Points

* STAR-POINT TABLE, for the League Championships, a four-round TEAM event:

JH and Elem:
Board one each tournament point yields 4 Star-Points.
Board two each tournament point yields 3 Star-Points.
Board three each tournament point yields 2 Star-Points.
Board four each tournament point yields 1 Star-Point.

Primary:
Board one each tournament point yields 2 Star-Points.
Board two each tournament point yields 1 Star-Point.

* STAR-POINT TABLE, for the Tucson Scholastics, a five-round INDIVIDUAL event:

JH and Elem:
Score of 5 yields 16 Star-Points
Score of 4.5 yields 12 Star-Points
Score of 4 yields 8 Star-Points
Score of 3.5 yields 4 Star-Points

Primary:
Score of 5 yields 7 Star-Points
Score of 4.5 yields 5 Star-Points
Score of 4 yields 3 Star-Points
Score of 3.5 yields 1 Star-Point