There are a number of organisations running junior championships of one sort or another, individual or school team or county team, primary of secondary school age, standard play or rapidplay. One such organisation is EJCOA (English Junior Coaches andOorganisers Association) is one. Under the name EJCOA National Youth Championships it runs (usually) rapidplay individual championships for age groups under-8, under 10, under-12, under-14, under-16, under-18 and under-20. There are initially regional “Zonal” competitions from each of which one boy and one girl can qualify for the finals. Players may enter more than one Zonal, but most participants are local.

In NCCU territory there have been advertised Zonal events in Greater Manchester, York (7th April), Newcastle-upon-Tyne (14th April) and Sheffield (20th April).

The Greater Manchester EJCOA NYC Zonal, organised by David Hardy, was played on Sunday 24th of March 2024 at Broadoak & Smallshaw Community Centre, 160 Broadoak Road, Ashton-under-Lyne. Round-by-round results and final placings were as follows. (The details have come from ECF rating database wherein colours are displayed not as letter but as logos which get lost in translation when copied and pasted into Excel for processing to create the following table.)

No	Name	Rating		R1			R2			R3			R4			R5		SPS

1	Komronbek Bakhtiyorov		1		23	1		32	1		13	1		3	½		2
				1			2			3			4			4½		14½
2	Samidh Saxena	1284K	1		31	1		15	1		5	½		4	½		1
				1			2			3			3½			4		13½
3	Dylan Prothero	1408A	1		33	1		30	1		9	0		1	1		10
				1			2			3			3			4		13
4	Matthew Grimley	1337P	1		29	1		17	½		8	½		2	1		11
				1			2			3			3			4		12½
5	Mahin Rughani	1695A	1		21	1		6	0		2	1		18	1		8
				1			2			2			3			4		12
6	Vidhyuth Kavin Sudagar	1508A	1		27	0		5	1		17	1		15	1		12
				1			1			2			3			4		11
7	Om Reddy Jayar	1596K	1		19	0		8	1		23	1		13	1		14
				1			1			2			3			4		11
8	Nodirabegim Bakhtiyorova		1		14	1		7	½		4	1		20	0		5
				1			2			3			3½			3½		12½
9	Ved Sudeep Boganadham	1369A	1		36	½		11	0		3	1		30	1		20
				1			2			2			2½			3½		10
10	Darsev Singh	653P	1		37	1		16	½		11	½		12	0		3
				1			2			3			3			3		11½
11	Hasana Garuda	1325A	1		24	½		9	½		10	1		16	0		4
				1			2			2			3			3		10½
12	Pak Yu Jasper Chow	888P	½		20	1		37	1		25	½		10	0		6
				1			2			3			3			3		10½
13	Walter Gunder	1214K	1		35	1		22	0		1	0		7	1		28
				1			2			2			2			3		10
14	Jake Hutchinson	1391K	0		8	1		28	1		24	1		22	0		7
				0			1			2			3			3		9
15	Ben Threlfall	1148K	1		34	0		2	1		27	0		6	1		31
				1			1			2			2			3		9
16	Shifa Hussain	626K	1		bye	0		10	1		37	0		11	1		26
				1			1			2			2			3		9
17	Leo Cheung	1319A	1		18	0		4	0		6	1		27	1		24
				1			1			1			2			3		8
18	Mukil Balamurugan	1291A	0		17	1		31	1		21	0		5	1		22
				0			1			2			2			3		8
19	Pranav Arunprasath	1359K	0		7	1		33	0		22	1		25	1		23
				0			1			1			2			3		7
20	Aaron Tong	569K	½		12	1		25	1		26	0		8	0		9
				1			2			3			2½			2½		9½
21	Reece White	970K	0		5	1		36	0		18	½		31	1		30
				0			1			1			1½			2½		6
22	Oliver Yeadon	1042K	1		28	0		13	1		19	0		14	0		18
				1			1			2			2			2		8
23	Saatvik Aggarwal	1173P	0		1	1		35	0		7	1		33	0		19
				0			1			1			2			2		6
24	Ryan Chattopadhyay	1254A	0		11	1		34	0		14	1		29	0		17
				0			1			1			2			2		6
25	Adam S Y Ling	696K	1		26	0		20	0		12	0		19	1		37
				1			1			1			1			2		6
26	Ivan Shut	721K	0		25	1		bye	0		20	1		37	0		16
				0			1			1			2			2		6
27	Noah Hicks	1065A	0		6	1		29	0		15	0		17	1		34
				0			1			1			1			2		5
28	Tyler Sweeney	1327A	0		22	0		14	1		35	1		36	0		13
				0			0			1			2			2		5
29	Eric Chen		0		4	0		27	1		32	0		24	1		33
				0			0			1			1			2		4
30	Charlie English		½		32	0		3	1		36	0		9	0		21
				1			1			2			1½			1½		5½
31	Hlib Shut	807K	0		2	0		18	1		34	½		21	0		15
				0			0			1			1½			1½		4
32	Pratik Jayar	739P	½		30	0		1	0		29	0		34	1		35
				1			1			1			½			1½		3½
33	Harry Hayes	917K	0		3	0		19	1		bye	0		23	0		29
				0			0			1			1			1		3
34	Chun Yu Jarvis Chow	906P	0		15	0		24	0		31	1		32	0		27
				0			0			0			1			1		2
35	Lewis Sharples	988P	0		13	0		23	0		28	1		bye	0		32
				0			0			0			1			1		2
36	Felix Alloway		0		9	0		21	0		30	0		28	1		bye
				0			0			0			0			1		1
37	Sami Hussain	460P	0		10	0		12	0		16	0		26	0		25
				0			0			0			0			0		0