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MGIS Chess Three-Peats State Championship!
On March 23, 2024, the Wisconsin State Scholastic Chess Championships took place at UW-Oshkosh with more than 400 students from more than 45 different schools competed – the second largest State Championship tournament (last year’s was the largest ever). The tournament awards State Championships in 3 of the sections: K-5th; K-8th; and High School Varsity plus a Junior Varsity (K-12th) Section (no State JV Championship exists). These schools winning are awarded a permanent trophy and hold the traveling trophy until the next year’s tournament. For K-5th and K-8th, the top 4 scorers of the team are counted for the school’s score.
MGIS students competed in the K-5th Championship Section with Joshua Wormsbacher, Elliot Jagemann, Emerson Trumbull-Holper, and Will Boehm being MGIS’s top 4 scorers. Joshua, Elliot, and Emerson all finished 4-1 and tied for 5th place individually: On tie-breaks, Joshua finished 6th, Elliot 10th, and Emerson 13th; Will finished with 2-1-2 and placed 20th out of 98 competitors. The team scored 15 points out of 20, winning their third straight K-5th State Championship. MGIS is the only MPS school to ever win the K-5th State Championship and the only school to ever win three championships in a row. MGIS has won those 3 State Championships with a different group of top scorers every year.
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MGIS alumni now at Milwaukee School of Languages (MSL) competed in the K-8th Championship Section with Nicholas Signatur (4-0-1), Cameron Hoehnen (4-1), Ben Dames (3-1-1), and Orla Campbell (3-2) being MSL’s top scorers. Nicholas finished 5thindividually, Cameron 9th, Ben 20th, and Orla 32nd out of 114 competitors. The team scored 15 points out of 20, winning their 2nd-ever K-8th State Championship.
MSL’s High School Varsity team competed in the High School Varsity section, placing 3rd overall. Team Captain and Varsity Board 1 Aethelred Templin, MGIS alum, won his 2nd Varsity State Championship with a perfect 4-0; he is the 2024 co-champion and had been the sole individual Varsity State Champion in 2022.
Other MPS schools competing were Golda Meir (5th place team in the K-5th Championship Section and 13th in the K-8th) and Reagan High School (2 teams in the Varsity Championship section finishing 6th and 10th places overall).
Complete results tables can be viewed here: https://mnchess.org/wischolastic24/