Educational: Chess

Registration is INVITE ONLY.

Each school must bring one line judge. Submit your workers name to Dani Walking Eagle one week in advance.

All other tournament positions will be staffed by LNI.

Head Referee – Joe Drabb

Each school must submit a 15 player rooster and team photo two weeks prior to the tournament. Please send to Katie at Clark Printing, katie@clarkprinting.com. If the deadline is missed, schools will not be in the program.

There will be not practice times as games being Friday morning.

Locker rooms will be available.

Please turn in your rooster to the announcers before game starts.

The LNI Chess Tournament is open to chess players in grades 8th through 12th. Swiss rules, 20 minutes for the timers. A player can lose if they run out of time before their opponent. The winner of each match receives one point, and a draw or stalemate gives half a point for each player. There will be at least 5 or 6 rounds. The school with the most points at the end of the final round is in 1st place. The school with second most points is 2nd place and the same goes with third. Teams can have a minimum of two players with no maximum because of the scoring metric; the top 4 scores will be used to decide the winning team. If a team decides to bring more than 5 players they should know that only the Top 5 Scorers on the winning teams will receive jackets. Tiebreaks may be used to determine the top winning teams.

Awards given to the top three schools.

Submitting your plan. Students must submit their business idea by mailing to OST Credit and Finance Program – P.O. Box 413, Pine Ridge, SD 57770, faxing to 605-867-1563 or emailing their completed plan to ostfsloans@oglala.org. Completed applications and business plan must be received by OST Credit and Finance Program before Friday, December 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM. No extensions will be granted.

In developing your application for your business idea, you will cover important points that entrepreneurial professionals (entrepreneurs, bankers, venter capitalists) want answered.

These important points include:

• What problem will your business idea address?
• What is the product or service that you are going to sell?
• What are unique aspects of your product or service?
• What is your sales and distribution plan?
• What is the market you are targeting?
• How many prospective customers are there and how many units will you sell?
• Who are your competitors?
• What are the strengths and weaknesses of your competitors?
• Who are the key persons to manage the operation of your idea?

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