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The 2022 President’s Cup returns to over-the-board for the first time since 2019, and the best four teams from the 2022 Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Championship have been invited to Texas Tech University to compete for the U.S. College Championship. The games will be live-streamed on Twitch for the first time in its 21-year history. Below are all the details of the event and information on how to follow all the action.
How to watch?
Format
The President’s Cup is a round-robin event between the top four teams from the Pan Ams. The Final Four features Saint Louis University, who won the Pan Ams tournament with a perfect score of 6/6, the University of Texas at Dallas and Texas Tech University, who both went 5/6 to tie for second, and Webster University, who went 4.5/6 and earned the fourth and final spot on tiebreaks.
The winner of the President’s Cup is determined by board points, not by team wins. Since it’s a round-robin event, there will be three rounds. Each team has four players, and every match has four games with each game being worth a point. The team with the most points at the end of the three rounds wins.
Teams
These are the rosters of the teams from the Pan Ams along with their national ratings at the time of the competition, points scored, and the number of games they played. You can find the full list of the Pan-American results here.
| SLU | Player | Rating | Pts. | Games |
| 1 | GM Dariusz Swiercz | 2740 | 2.5 | 4 |
| 2 | GM Nikolas Theodorou | 2664 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | GM Benjamin Bok | 2668 | 5.5 | 6 |
| 4 | GM Robby Kevlishvili | 2556 | 2.5 | 3 |
| 5 | GM Akshat Chandra | 2566 | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | GM Cemil Can Ali Marandi | 2626 | 1 | 4 |
| UTD | Player | Rating | Pts. | Games |
| 1 | IM Guillermo Vazquez | 2574 | 3.5 | 5 |
| 2 | IM Ivan Schitco | 2578 | 3.5 | 5 |
| 3 | IM Brian Escalante | 2591 | 1.5 | 3 |
| 4 | IM Aaron Grabinsky | 2482 | 2.5 | 3 |
| 5 | IM David Brodsky | 2592 | 4 | 5 |
| 6 | IM Rahul Srivatshav Peddi | 2476 | 3 | 3 |
| TTU | Player | Rating | Pts. | Games |
| 1 | GM Aleksey Sorokin | 2643 | 4.5 | 6 |
| 2 | GM Pavlo Vorontsov | 2589 | 5 | 6 |
| 3 | IM Viktor Matviishen | 2571 | 5.5 | 6 |
| 4 | IM Samuel Arthur Schmakel | 2509 | 4.5 | 6 |
| Webster | Player | Rating | Pts. | Games |
| 1 | GM Lazaro Bruzon Batista | 2712 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | GM Benjamin Gledura | 2728 | 5 | 6 |
| 3 | GM Aram Hakobyan | 2679 | 5 | 6 |
| 4 | GM Jose Martinez Alcantara | 2684 | 4.5 | 6 |
Broadcast Schedule
The President’s Cup will be streamed live on the official Collegiate Chess League Twitch channel at twitch.tv/CollegiateChessLeague.
- Round one begins on April 2 at 8 a.m. PT/17:00 CET hosted by NM Alex King and WGM Jennifer Yu.
- Round two begins on April 2 at 2 p.m. PT/23:00 CET hosted by NM Alex King and NM Matan Prilleltensky.
- Round three begins on April 3 at 8 a.m. PT/17:00 CET hosted by NM Alex King and WGM Jennifer Yu.
Be sure to tune in and watch the hotly contested championship between these powerhouse teams. Can SLU continue their dominance from the Pan Ams and win their first-ever President’s Cup? Will Webster pick up where they left off in 2017 after they won a record five straight championships? Or will the cup stay in Texas with UT Dallas or TTU? Find out this weekend!
For any questions about the event, feel free to contact tournament organizer Alex Onischuk at Alex.Onischuk@ttu.edu
