Elementary National Championship - 2 Championship Wins!

The 2026 Elementary National Championship was held at the Baltimore Convention Center this past weekend welcoming more than 2,000 players from across the country to showcase their skills over the board. We are proud to say that ICN brought almost 500 players from 35 of our programs participated this weekend’s Elementary Nationals.

We are especially proud to have brought home two National Championships. The PS 198 Bulldogs won the K–3 Championship, followed by our first-ever Brooklyn team, the PS 130K Lions, who captured the K–5 Championship.

PS 33 earned 1st place in K–6 Under 1000, and PS 11 secured 1st place in K–3 Under 1000. Many more of our teams placed in the Top 5, including PS 166 (K–1 Championship), NEST+M (K–1 Under 500/Unrated), PS 10 (K–3 Under 600/Unrated), PS 31 and PS 130K (K-3 Under 1000) PS 11 and PS 198 (K–6 Under 800), and PS 11 (K–6 Under 1200).

We couldn’t be more proud of each of you who competed and demonstrated the results of your hard work throughout the fall and spring semesters.

We look forward to finishing the semester strong.

Team Standings

K-1 Under 500 and Unrated

  • NEST+M , 3rd Place

  • PS 33

  • PS 166

  • PS 130M

  • PS 40

  • PS 77

  • BSI

  • PS 59

  • PS 282

  • PS 20

  • PS 11

  • PS 130K

  • PS 124

  • BASIS Brooklyn Independent

  • PS 281

  • Norwood Elementary School

K-1 Championship

  • PS 166, 4th Place

  • PS 77, 5th Place

  • PS 198, 6th Place

  • PS 282, 8th Place

  • PS 20, 9th Place

  • PS 281, 10th Place

  • PS 59

  • PS 118

  • Allen-Stevenson

  • PS 130K

K-3 Under 600 and unrated

  • PS 10, 4th Place

  • PS 282, 6th Place

  • PS 130M, 10th Place

  • PS32

  • PS 20

  • NEST+M

  • PS 130K

  • PS 184M

  • BSI

  • PS 11

  • Harlem Academy

  • PS 33

  • PS 124

  • PS 31

K-3 Under 1000

  • PS 11, 1st Place!

  • PS 130K, 4th Place

  • PS 31, 5th Place

  • NEST+M, 6th Place

  • PS 10, 9th Place

  • PS 124, 10th Place

  • PS 33

  • BSI

K-3 Championship

  • PS 198, 1st Place Champions!

  • PS 77, 2nd Place

  • PS 130M, 8th Place

  • PS 130K, 9th Place

  • PS 59

  • NEST+M

  • PS 166

K-5 Championship

  • PS 130K, 1st Place Champions!

  • PS 77, 4th Place

  • PS 130M, 6th Place

  • NEST+M, 7th Place

  • PS 198, 9th Place

  • PS 11

  • PS 10

  • PS 59

  • PS 281

  • PS32

  • PS 527

K-6 Under 600

  • PS 39, 10th Place

  • PS 198

  • PS 290

  • PS 166

  • PS 527

  • PS 282

K-6 Under 800

  • PS 11, 4th Place

  • PS 198, 5th Place

  • PS 20

  • PS 10

  • PS 77

  • PS 33

  • PS 166

  • NEST+M

  • PS 40

K-6 Under 1000

  • PS 33, 1st Place

  • PS 282K, 7th Place

  • PS 20, 9th Place

  • PS 166

  • PS 31

  • NEST+M

  • PS 130K

  • PS32

  • BSI

K-6 Under 1200

  • PS 11, 4th Place

  • PS 10, 6th Place

  • BASIS Brooklyn Independent, 8th Place

  • PS 130M

  • PS 166

  • PS 184M

  • PS 77

K-6 Under 1400

  • PS 39, 10th Place

  • PS 130K

  • NEST+M

  • PS 40

Individual Winners

K-6 Under 1200

  • Isha Varma, PS 11 7th

  • Nia Zheng, PS 130M 8th

K-6 Under 1000

  • Parsa Edalati, PS 33 8th

  • Emilius Mykolaitis, PS 31 10th

  • Nash Del Rio, PS 20 15th

K-5 Championship

  • Grayson Xiang, PS 130K 5th

  • Kai Waters, PS32 15th

  • Adrian Sommerstein, PS 130K 15th

  • Isaac Lui, PS 130M 15th

  • Jack Boyer-Olson, NEST+M 15th

  • Milo Su, BASIS Independent Brooklyn 15th

  • Alexander Danford, PS 77 2nd Place For Ratings (1200-1299)

K-3 Championship

  • Max Mulholland, PS 198 3rd

  • Harrison Moscona, PS 59 14th

  • Jack Brodersen, PS 59 3rd Place For Ratings (1100-1199)

  • Evan Desai, PS 198 1st Place For Ratings (900-999)

  • Lorenzo Ciccia, PS 166 2nd Place For Ratings (900-999)

  • Ayato Sawada, PS 77 3rd Place For Ratings Under 800

K-3 Under 1000

  • Chloe Yip, PS 11 15th

K-3 Under 600

  • Isaac Son, PS 10 4th

  • Shakked Rudis, PS 282 9th

  • Zooey Lee, PS 124 19th

  • Gurthrie Finney, PS 130K 23rd

  • Theodore Burgel, PS 282 27th

  • Jian Wei Ruan, PS 130M 30th

  • Kerah Wang, PS 184M 30th

K-1 Championship

  • Benjamin Frye, PS 166 4th

  • Maddox Kretschman, PS 118 7th

  • Luca Falk, PS 166 8th

  • Charles Don, NEST+M 10th

  • Austin Schnizer, PS 59 11th

  • Yuvan Choudhury, PS 166 15th

  • Logan Go, PS 281 15th

  • Theo Shao, PS 77 15th

  • Levi Grossberg, PS 282 15th

K-1 Under 500 and Unrated

  • Troy Weng, BSI 7th

  • Estelle Yanxi, NEST+M 18th

  • Miles Auyeung, PS 130M 20th

  • Sampurna Lahiri, NEST+M 20th

  • Jacob Hoelscher, NEST+M 20th

  • Ronan Li, PS 130K 20th

  • Quinton Huang, NEST+M 20th

  • Parker Chen, PS 33 20th

K-6 Blitz Championship

  • Edison Chen, PS 59 2nd Place For Ratings (1200-1299)

Blitz K3 Championship

  • Sebastian Goodrich, PS 77 1st

  • Glenn Gooch-Raushenbush, PS 11 1st Place For Ratings (900-999)

  • Brian Silberman, PS 11 2nd Place For Ratings (800-899)

K-6 Blitz U1400

  • Slone Murphy, PS 11 7th

  • Nicolas Lueng, PS 11 9th

  • Jacob Burkat, NEST+M 3rd Place For Ratings (1100-1199)

Individual Standings

Nashali Paulino