Sixty-eight bughouse teams with names like Cheeseburger Cats, Buzzing Monkeys, and One Smart Fellow He Felt Smart battled it out to see who would take home the unique and lovely bughouse trophies and who would have to settle for eating worms (gummy worms, that is). The 68 teams were divided into 17 quads for a double round-robin tournament.
Notable results…
- Most of the teams in the A Quad were named after famous people of dubious character: Charlie Sheen, Tiger Woods, and Mel Gibson. The fourth team, M&M, was an amusing contrast of players: Chess Master and recent HS graduate, Steven Breckenridge, teamed up with 3rd grader Andrea Botez to form a formidable team. However, Tiger Woods (Calvin Parnon and Caleb Kesey) was on his game and won the section with relative ease.
- In Quad B, brothers Aaron and Ben Pikus called themselves the generic “A Bughouse Team” but turned in a performance that was anything-but-generic — a perfect 6/6.
- The only other perfect score was turned in by another pair of “Flabbergasted” brothers, Robert and Tommy Piwonka in the Quad M.
- One other pair of brothers, David and Jacob DeKlyen, teamed up to become a “Chess Monster” and win their section (Quad Q).
- Section O ended with all teams at 3/6. After a series of tiebreak matches, the Seahawks (Eric Gibbs and Jordan Lyda) triumphed.
Players Prepare For Bughouse
Full lineups:
| Team name | TmRat | Player 1 | Rating | Player 2 | Rating | |
| A | Charlie Sheen | 1743 | Alex Piatski | 1728 | Steven Witt | 1758 |
| A | M&M | 1710 | Andrea Botez | 1210 | Steven Breckenridge | 2210 |
| A | Tiger Woods | 1639 | Calvin Parnon | 1750 | Caleb Kesey | 1527 |
| A | Mel Gibson | 1609 | Takuma Sato-Duncan | 1529 | Erik Skalnes | 1689 |
| B | Fried Chicken | 1536 | Gabriel Skoro | 1519 | Dhruva Chatterjee | 1553 |
| B | The Wasps | 1521 | David Kruse | 1534 | Collin Goldman | 1507 |
| B | A Bughouse Team | 1499 | Aaron Pikus | 1462 | Benjamin Pikus | 1536 |
| B | The U.S. Army | 1447 | Pranav Sharan | 1417 | Dillon Winter | 1476 |
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1441 | Dmitri Murphy | 1471 | Cameron Kocher | 1410 |
| C | Fire breathin rubber flamingos | 1405 | Zach Koontz | 1303 | Jimmy Kelly | 1506 |
| C | Awesome Possums | 1387 | Josiah Perkins | 1396 | Aaron Grabinsky | 1378 |
| C | You do that again, you’re dead | 1387 | Matt Dalthorp | 1737 | Thomas Kneeland | 1036 |
| D | Just 4 Fun | 1362 | Brian Yang | 1452 | Leo Deng | 1271 |
| D | CGS | 1326 | Dashiell Shulman | 1222 | Jonathan Yau | 1429 |
| D | Cocky 4th Graders | 1325 | Liam Booth | 1472 | Jake Winkler | 1178 |
| D | Two and a Half Idiots | 1302 | Valentin Molchanov | 1255 | Jacob Slavik | 1348 |
| E | Purple Dragons | 1241 | Marshal Xu | 1146 | James Chen | 1336 |
| E | Victory Over Knight | 1221 | Elena Allen | 1385 | Sequoia Allen | 1057 |
| E | Purple Ninjas | 1189 | Seth Talyansky | 1357 | Everett Carstens | 1021 |
| E | Wibblesnobbles | 1182 | Casey Ford | 1181 | Tucker Price | 1183 |
| F | :/A | 1182 | Johannes Freischuetz | 900 | Clemen Deng | 1463 |
| F | Discombobulated Flesh Eaters | 1169 | Jessica Ross | 1436 | Tanner Flood | 901 |
| F | The Three Idiots | 1152 | Richard Jiang | 906 | Rory Soiffer | 1397 |
| F | Dragon Force Master Tiger Swan | 1148 | Leo Barrios | 1044 | Quinn Stearns | 1252 |
| G | FBGM | 1137 | Carson Denison | 1266 | Gil Parnon | 1008 |
| G | Weirdos | 1135 | Duncan Soiffer | 1152 | Colin Liu | 1118 |
| G | The Snobblewibbles | 1125 | Alexander Schoen | 1054 | Alex Petersen | 1195 |
| G | The Moching Trolls | 1122 | Jacob Moch | 1136 | Alex Leong | 1107 |
| H | Checkmate with a Smile | 1098 | Jolan Hutchinson | 1025 | Luke Hutchinson | 1171 |
| H | Rainbow Curmudgeons | 1075 | Henry Weiner-Lininger | 1008 | Tommy Case | 1141 |
| H | A | 1066 | Kory Schneider | 943 | Ben Larson | 1188 |
| H | Galapagos Meerkats | 1059 | Hunter Murphy | 805 | Torrey Gage-Tomlinson | 1313 |
| I | Killer Bees | 1059 | John Ornes | 1163 | Lance Roy | 954 |
| I | Purple People Catens | 1023 | Craig Still | 1206 | Nicholas Kapple | 840 |
| I | Cheeseburger Cats | 1016 | Nathan Jewell | 1271 | Alexander Duley | 760 |
| I | Forest Park | 996 | Bryce Lutz | 950 | Andrew Sheiman | 1042 |
| J | Raptus Regaliter | 968 | Ricardo Marroquin | 922 | Sam Robbins | 1014 |
| J | Guide | 967 | Griffin Allensis | 1033 | Kyle Liu | 901 |
| J | Buzzing Monkies | 961 | Hailey Riley | 1147 | Noelani Daily | 774 |
| J | Team Name | 938 | Riley Baney | 1007 | Keshav Siddhartha | 869 |
| K | LOL My Stomach Hurts | 923 | Devin Kruse | 1028 | Erick Trujillo | 818 |
| K | Mockingjay | 893 | Marjorie Sheiman | 1007 | Dylan Huard | 779 |
| K | c to the 4th power | 881 | Sierra Bechdoldt | 830 | Zia Wiles | 932 |
| K | Discombobulated Belly-Buttons | 872 | Sarai Perkins | 1103 | Dovovan Taylor-Blower | 640 |
| L | Fire Breathing Duckys of Doom | 871 | Elliot Roberts | 906 | Nathan Smith | 836 |
| L | Chess Freaks | 850 | Kaitlyn Davidson | 1129 | Angelina Morones | 570 |
| L | Decker | 827 | Angela Decker | 638 | Michael Decker | 1015 |
| L | Bob Chess | 822 | Harvey Beleiciks | 782 | Tommy Eblen | 862 |
| M | Rich Men | 791 | Marino Santoro | 981 | Dane Ramirez | 600 |
| M | Flabbergasted | 790 | Robert Piwonka | 785 | Tommy Piwonka | 795 |
| M | Us | 776 | Evan Kooyman | 892 | Atticus Crow | 659 |
| M | Bughouse Champions | 772 | Edward Puls | 591 | Isaiah Lee | 953 |
| N | Knights of the Square Table | 766 | Sean-Michael Riesterer | 914 | Samantha Riesterer | 617 |
| N | Then There Was One | 736 | Neal Ornes | 905 | Victoria Kapple | 566 |
| N | Crystal Quinn | 718 | Crystal Still | 699 | Quinn Reynolds | 737 |
| N | Awkward Bumblebees | 717 | Paul Denison | 606 | James Peterson | 828 |
| O | Seahawks | 695 | Eric Gibbs | 797 | Jordan Lyda | 592 |
| O | Chess Titans | 667 | Colby Martinot | 686 | Jesse Norgren | 648 |
| O | Treelanders | 626 | Lane Crabtree | 651 | Taylor Rowland | 601 |
| O | Screaming Monkeys | 622 | Kira Dobbins | 628 | Michael Schuff | 616 |
| P | Girl Power | 615 | Farayah Martinot | 625 | Andrea Durdel | 604 |
| P | Trouble x2 | 612 | Trevor Thibert | 727 | Cody Campbell | 497 |
| P | Yellow Jackets | 607 | Collin Good | 676 | Ike Sugitani | 537 |
| P | Knights | 570 | Brandon Good | 628 | Logan Parrish | 512 |
| Q | One Smart Fellow, He Felt Smart | 566 | Mark Dalthorp | 650 | Jared Stucky | 482 |
| Q | Chess Monster | 537 | David DeKlyen | 400 | Jacob DeKlyen | 674 |
| Q | The Tornados | 471 | Jacob Rautenkranz | 542 | Zachary Rautenkranz | 400 |
| Q | Bugs | 408 | Forrest Fee | 400 | Riley Fee | 416 |
