Winners by Michael Simon

You have three hours to get your entries in. Three hours until your time is up, until your last chance to enter the Winter Edition of Hey, Hot Shot! passes you by. Are you a winner? Get it in and get it out there.

For a little motivation, I give you Hot Shot hopeful Michael Simon. Michael submitted work from his series taken at the 2005 Supernationals Chess Championship in Nashville. On the project:

With 5,230 kids entered, the event holds the official world record for the largest scholastic chess tournament in history. Chess parents were kept at least fifty yeards away at all times during match play, so the players were left on their own to win or lose the most important chess matches of their young lives. Their faces expressed rage, glee, frustration, isolation, boastfulness, indifference and every other possible emotion as each strove to defeat his or her opponent. But in the end, every child was a winner. Waiting backstage, most of them almost as tall as their intended recipients, were 5,230 trophies.

Get to it. Enter Now

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