Talk:Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship

Age of participants
The 2002 Pan Am winner, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County has Alex Wojtkiewicz age 39 as their 1st board for their A Team and Alex Sherzer age 31 as their 1st board for their B Team. Alex Sherzer played 1st Board for Rhode Island College back in 1990 twelve years ago when he was 19. Why do we have 31 and 39 year old playing in a College Tournament? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Robertyt1 (talk • contribs) 20:30, 26 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Read the rules section. AlexW and AlexS were full-time, degree-seeking students;  they satisfied all eligibility requirements established by the CCC.  AlexS was an A-student taking up to 21 credits hours majoring in UMBC's highly-acclaimed emergency health sciences program, with intention of completing his college degree.  As do many schools, UMBC embraces students of all ages.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alantsherman (talk • contribs) 02:11, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

table of individual winners
to do: Add table of individual winners 1945-1974 Alantsherman (talk) 05:06, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

"Cup" winners?
It is not explained in the article what the "Cup" is that lists winners. Is there a permanent cup (perhaps at US Chess headquarters) that lists winners/co-winners? Because it clearly can't refer to the first place trophy. For example, in 1986, Harvard and Chicago played a blitz playoff for the first place trophy, which Chicago won 3 1/2 - 1/2. I think this may be mentioned in Eric Schiller's article in Chess Life on the tournament, which would make it verifiable.