Senior Tournaments Are a Whole Different Beast

Played in my first ever Senior Tournament (all players must be age 50 or over), and it is vastly different than open events.  Two things I learned:

1) If chess is football, senior tournaments are prevent defense.  When I heard people answer "why didn't you do this?", it was usually to prevent say, an opposing knight to get a meaningless outpost, or things similar in nature.  They don't burn bridges at all.

2) You cannot make it through a senior tournament without a senior moment.  Someone in the 3rd round on board 8 (I was on board 6 that round) left his queen hanging by move 10.  My senior moment below was Round 3, move 42 (42.Kc3 draws) and my opponent had a senior moment round 5 (37...e4 wins for Black)

What was the rating of the guy who left his queen hanging in round 3?

I go to a high school that doesn't have scholastic chess

1529, and yes, he is expected to lose to a 2028, but not via just leaving your queen hanging to a knight, and it was in no way trapped, not even tactically.