Inter-School Battles 2023-24: Winter and Lent term so far

Introduction:

Since I began playing the inter-school battles - to date one of my favourite parts about being an ECF junior, the ability to compete for my school vs others and a tracker by performance of my improvement at chess - I have always been interested in the statistics behind the arenas. Last academic year, I tracked the cumulative school points across the year, and during the tense back-and-forth between Dulwich and Tiffin, I was delighted to see Dulwich emerge victorious!

I have not done this this year to much extent, but by the end of the academic year I will have a full recap including the final standings. In the meantime, here are some smaller-scale stats I collected! Statistics for all-time are counted from April 2021 onwards, due to there being 3 inter-school split arenas before, making it too complicated/speculative to conclude results.

Schools:

School Points:

With an increase in popularity to berserk more in inter-school arenas, there has been an increase in points amongst schools. This can be shown by the top 2 school individual points records all being set in the past 12 months, above KCS's April 22 2022 record of 173 points.

1. City Of London School - 179 points December 8th 2023
2. Dulwich College - 173 points March 1st 2024
3. King's College School - 173 points April 22nd 2022
The Current record:

School Streaks:

The past records of school win-streaks are legendary, however it is surprising to see that there are not many win-streaks in Inter-School history. Here are all the streaks that have ever happened since April 2021:

• King's College School- 5 (April-September 2022) INTER-SEASONAL
• Dulwich College Senior School- 3 (February-present 2024)
• Wilson's School Chess Club- 3 (October-December 2021)
• Reading School Chess Club- 2 (April-May 2021)
• St Paul's School Chess Club- 2 (May-June 2021)
• St Paul's School Chess Club- 2 (September-October 2021)
• Queen Elizabeth Barnet- 2 (April-May 2023)
• Dulwich College Senior School- 2 (November 2023)

Dulwich College Currently holds a streak of 3 wins as of today, the biggest streak in 2 years. Let's see if that continues into the summer term...

Total Inter-School Wins by Team:

Here are the total inter-school wins by team since April 2021.14 Schools have ever won an inter-school in this period:
1. Dulwich College Senior School- 8
2. King's College School- 7
3. St Paul's School Chess Club- 6
4. Queen Elizabeth Barnet- 4
5. Wilson's School Chess Club- 3
6. Reading School Chess Club- 3
7. City of London School- 2
8. Dame Alice Owen's Chess- 2
9. Tiffin School- 2
10. Brighton College- 2
11. St Olave's Grammar School- 1
12. Westminster School- 1
13. Sutton Grammar School- 1
14. Habsdashers Boys- 1

Dulwich College took the overall crown today, winning all 8 of their wins in the past 12 months, from March 24th 2023 to March 15th 2024.
Dulwich's First victory in March 2023

Players:

Less extremely strong chess players are playing inter-school, with players such as ViktorStoyanov and Zendalith leaving their respective schools, yet the average strength of an inter-school has increased in the current day, due to a significany increase in 1900+ rated players playing inter-school. With an average of 160 players per battle, the most recent March 15th battle nearly broke the 1400 average rating thresholds (1399), something almost never seen in inter-school!
Regardless, top level players still appear. The 2 strongest players to play inter-school in the past 12 months are CM @Stanbad1 and @Dulwich_College_SG, with blitz peaks of 2679 and 2645 respectively.
CM Stanbad1's recent appearance in July 2023

Points:

With the implement of berserk, players have soared in point scores over the past 2 years, peaking at Liam Clery's Legendary 61 points in 1 hour, all acquired in one single streak! The real record is 67 points by CM @UKchessbomber, but in a 3+2v format so I credit this separately!
Here are the individual 50+ points scores in 5+3 inter-schools of all time:
Liam Clery' stunning cingle-streak points record

My less impressive tieing of the record, not in 1 streak lol

1.LiamCleryChess- 61 December 2nd 2022
2.Purple1szed- 61 March 1st 2024
3.LiamCleryChess- 58 March 24th 2023
4.Ice48- 53 May 6th 2022
5.CM Stanbad1- 52 November 5th 2021
6.CM Stanbad1- 52 July 14th 2023
7.Zendalith- 52 March 10th 2023
8.AcridLeaf- 52 December 8th 2023
9.Someguy11- 52 January 13th 2023
10.ViktorStoyanov- 51 March 19th 2021
11.ViktorStoyanov- 51 May 28th 2021
12.LB2008- 51 June 30th 2023
13.LongRoadTo2000- 50 September 29th 2023
14.Shavs_7- 50 June 30 2023

Player Wins:

And now I present all the inter-school individual player wins leaderboard:
CM Stanbad1- 5 Fortisimere
LongRoadto2000- 5 QEB
Zendalith- 4 Westminster
LiamCleryChess- 4 St Paul's
ice48- 3 KCS
Someguy11- 3 DAOS
ViktorStoyanov- 2 St Paul's
EdenHazard8- 2 Brentwood
Purple1szed- 2 Dulwich College
ViolinChess2006- 2 St Paul's
ronush- 2 Tiffin
CM Ukchessbomber- 1 St Olave's
Dulwich_College_SG- 1 Dulwich College
NicolaiWoltery- 1 Westminster
jdy_4tlr- 1 City of London
Hari_uk- 1 KCS
AcridLeaf- 1 City of London
GKB38- 1 Dulwich College
TeddyOnslow- 1 St Paul's
LB2008- 1 KCS
kian1shah- 1 Habs

THIS YEAR'S TOP POINTS PERFORMANCES:

This leaderboard of the top 10 "elite" players shows both a consistency as well as high level performances, that can be compared using TPR's and average opponent ratings, to show the 10 highest contributing players in points with a rating above 2200 at some point in an inter-school.
Credit to @Turtleboss, @Clucey19, @Sussyimpostorbaka111 and @shisha25 for being quite consistent, strong players that couldn't make this list.

Top 10 elite Inter-School points + stats 2023-24 academic year:
(Elite = >2200 during a battle)

• Number of arenas played in brackets with total points next to them
• avgTPR is average performance
• avgOPP is average opponent rating
• avgBZR is average berserk rate

1.Purple1szed- 404 (12)
avgTPR: 1950
avgOPP: 1786
avgBZR: 86.7%

2.SigmaMuscle/GKB38- 295 (10)
avgTPR: 1983
avgOPP: 1749
avgBZR: 82.85%

3.Owenian- 285 (10)
avgTPR: 2064
avgOPP: 1738
avgBZR: 69.4%

4.Edenhazard8- 146 (6)
avgTPR: 2124
avgOPP: 1708
avgBZR: 89.9%

5.Longroadto2000- 143 (3)
AvgTPR: 2100
avgOPP: 1777
avgBZR: 100%

6.Anixton- 136 (5)
avgTPR: 1883
avgOPP: 1684
avgBZR: 95.4%

7.AcridLeaf- 130 (3)
avgTPR: 2041
avgOPP: 1767
avgBZR: 94.66%

8.LiamCleryChess- 130 (5)
avgTPR: 1888
avgOPP: 1635
avgBZR: 100%

9.Dulwich_College_SG- 66 (3)
avgTPR: 2087
avgOPP: 1775
avgBZR: 51.33%

10.Ice48- 47 (1)
avgTPR: 2120
avgOPP: 1853
avgBZR: 100%

Future results:

Once this academic year ends with the final inter-school, i will give a final recap with cumulative points by school, updating any statistics from these lists as well.

Thank you to everyone who has played inter-school! I was first introduced to the ECF community through these, and I continue to enjoy to play these events, 2.5 years and a 1050 rating point difference later.
The more people that play inter-school, the more exciting, intense and fun they are! I ask that we continue this to be a casual and fun tradition that we partake in, for the enjoyment of all players regardless of strength. I thank this event to motivating me to get to this point in strength, so anyone who enjoys these events have the same opportunity! See you all after Easter Break!