All in all there are 6 Quebec Circuit tournaments throughout the season which spans from September to June. The last Quebec Circuit of the year 2016 was Circuit #3 and it was played in Laval, Qc on the weekend of 17-18 December.

Despite a very snowy weekend, many GTTA players decided to make the trip to compete against the other athletes from Montreal and Toronto. Most of GTTA players have showed an improvement: for some it was their first gold medal or even two as was the case for Daniel Lu. For others, it was winning gold in a higher rated category than the previous gold as it was for Sabrina Chen by winning the U-2200.

In the last month Maggie Jin made a great jump in her rating from 500 to 600+ and proved herself by reaching the final of the U-800.

Notable mentions go to Rickey Deng who got a silver medal in the teams and Judy Zhong who got a silver medal in the U-11 ( mixed group of boys and girls ).

In the Open Team event Howard Chen of GTTA together with Felix Dumoulin of Montreal went on to capture the gold medal by defeating in the final the team consisting of Howard’s sister Sabrina Chen    ( GTTA ) and Canadian National Team player Antoine Bernadette.

Congratulations to allimg_2808    Daniel Lu Gold Medal in the U-400img_2816

Rickey Deng (second from left ) Silver medal in teams, Daniel Lu ( third from left ) Gold in teams

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Sabrina Chen happy winner of the U-2200

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Maggie Jin silver in the U-800judy-color-adjusted

Judy Zhong, silver medalist in the U-11