We closed out another great season of the Metro Area Chess League on June 1. After eight rounds of online play across five months of competition, four schools qualified for the in-person playoffs held in-person at our Silver Spring office this past weekend.
Montgomery Blair (Silver Spring, MD), Jackson-Reed (northwest DC), Langley (McLean, VA), and West Springfield (Springfield, VA) were the high schools who made up the final four. Congratulations to Langley, who won all three of their playoff matches to take home the season championship for the first time, having also gone unbeaten in their regular season matchups as well.
In the four seasons since we revived the league in the autumn of 2021, the quality of the competition has improved year after year, and that was the case again this year. Over a hundred students from twenty different schools across the District of Columbia, Maryland and Northern Virginia took part in the 2024-25 season, and we hope to draw even more when the next season begins in fall 2025.
Playoff Standings: