2025 Prizes

• Wheelzy gave away over 100 free tournament T-shirts to participants.

• Two tournament participants won the opportunity to appear at center court before the Magic vs Raptors basketball game and were introduced with the team captains.

• Top finishers from all sections won trophies. 

• Cash prizes were awarded to the top finishers in the Open USCF Rated Section. The prize pool was 50% of the entry fees for that section. 

• Chessbook donated 3-month memberships for its app. 

• Grandmaster Aryam Abreu Delgado donated a free lesson to three of our Scholastic section winners. 

• Chess.com is donated Chess.com diamond memberships (or ChessKid gold memberships if under 13 years old). 

• Life Master Theo Slade donated a free lesson to one of our Scholastic section winners.

• NM Ryan Hamley donated 2 lessons to our Scholastic section winners. 

• CM Phil Durand donated 3 lessons to our Scholastic section winners.

• Local chess coach Todd Kay donated 2 chess lessons to our Scholastic winners.

• Local chess coach Zoe Zelner donated 90 minutes of lesson time to Scholastic winners. 

• US Chess Federation donated a free entry to SuperNationals for the top-placing Scholastic player.

• Florida Chess Association donated a free entry to the FL State Scholastic Championship for the 2nd place finishing Scholastic player.

• NM Bryan Tillis donated a Chessable course to 2 finishers. 

• Backyard Chess Club donated a T-shirt and free BYC chess lesson to the top 3 finishers in the Scholastic under 600 section.

• WIM Jen Hansen donated 2 of her digital chess art pieces.

• Exclusive Orlando Magic merchandise was also awarded.