The Koç University Trophy corresponds to the World Kids Teams Championship. This competition is by invitation and it is for players who must not have achieved their 15th birthday by 31st December of the year prior to the year in which the competition is to take place.
1. POLAND: Aleks Bukat, Szymon Grabala, Kacper Kisielewski, Milena Klimiuk, Jan Luczeczko, Jakub Michalski, Roland Lippik (cpt), Marcin Kuflowski (coach)
2. USA2: Daniel Balof, Jack Boge, Claire Cao, Ethan Derman, Avery Silverstein, Jeffrey Yin, Kent Mignocchi (cpt)
3. USA1: Andrew Chen, Charlie Chen, Kayden Ge, Eric Xiao, Jeff Xiao, Brian Zhang, William Watson (cpt)
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1. CHINA3: Tie Chen, Zanchao Cui, Xihong Dai, Sicheng Liu, Yiping Lu, Zichen Wang, Guoqiang Chen npc, Feng Qu coach
2. FRANCE: Romain Bloch, Aurele Gallard, Leo Rombaut, Thibaut Zobel, Benoit Deveze npc
3. USA: Michael Hu, Harrison Anders Luba, Rory Xiao, Michael Xu, Jonathan Yue, Arthur Zhou, Jim Munday npc.
A record of 18 Teams representing 5 Zonal Conferences participated in the 3rd edition of the Championship. After comfortably winning the round robin, China were the favourites to take the gold medals and they did not disappoint their supporters. Playing France in the 48-board final, they were down by 6 imps after the first quarter and 1 at halftime. But China had a good third set to jump ahead by 21 imps. In the last session, they gained another 6 imps to win by 114 imps to 87.In the battle for the bronze medals, Sweden led by 8 imps at the two-thirds mark, but USA gained 15 imps in the third and last session to win by 7 (95-88).
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1. ISRAEL: Aviv Zeitak, Nir Khutorsky, Gilad Lifshitz, Gal Matatyahou, Gilad Ofir (npc), Tomer Loonstein, Danny Loonstein, Shahar Dank
2. CHINA2: Silver Medallists: Cheng Deng, Yizhou Liu, Xiaochen Kong (npc) Yunpeng Chen, Xinyao Ruan, Liping Wang (coach), Penghao Wang, Ruizhe Wang
3. FRANCE: Bronze Medallists: Maxence Fragola, Romaric Guth, Christophe Oursel (npc), Hugo Rabourdin, Clement Teil, Benoit Deveze (coach)
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1. POLAND: Michal Kaleta, Kacper Kopka, Michal Maszenda, Jakub Patreuha, Patryk Patreuha, Tomasz Pawelczyk, Leszek Nowak (NPC), Roland Lippik (Coach).
2. FRANCE: Luc Bellicaud, Theo Guillemin, Romaric Guth, Victor Le Lez, Christophe Oursel (NPC).
3. CHINA: Zhiyu Cheng, Dongke Fang, Baozhuo Jiang, Randy Pan, Jiahe Shen, Zihan Wang, Jichao Hu (NPC), Tong Jiang (Coach).
The inaugural, very successful, World Kids Team Championship, for the Koç University Trophy, had participation from eight teams, China, France, India, Israel, Italy, Poland, Sweden and Turkey. Thanks to the generous support of the Koç Holding and other sponsors-friends, all the teams were hosted at the Koç University. France and Poland finished neck and neck at the end of the round robin, but in the final Poland defeated France, winning the gold medal. For the bronze China defeated Sweden.
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