I am going on my first state chess tournament

I am going on my first offline chess tournament ever in one week.Can any experienced tournament players suggest some tips to do before going.Wish me luck guys 

Best of luck

My advice is to enjoy the entire event as an experience; the atmosphere as well as the chess. Naturally, do your best, but know that most players do a lot worse than they expect by results because:

a) the players are good and sometimes many are under-rated

b) the atmosphere is a little different than even other rated events

c) time control is a bit longer than some people are accustomed to usually

I remember being a bit nervous during my first few rated OTB events, but doing fairly well results-wise...so I tried going to my first State Championships...

It was classical time control category where we play 3 games Day 1 and 2 games Day 2. I lost all 3 of my games on Day 1 and on Day 2, I got a draw and then lost the last game. Yeah, I scored 0.5/5 in my first rated State event and lost roughly 100 rating points (yikes!)

It was still a good experience though; wishing you good luck and make sure to let us know how it goes (results as well as atmosphere and how you liked it)

Thank you so much.

I need some practice with the chess clock.They said the chess clock is going to be digital like this.

Talk to people!!

And make sure to take your time.

I only did 2 OTB tournaments so far, but this is what I learned:

A) take your time. most tournaments are 45:10 increment more or less, so think it like a puzzle (it won't work like puzzles sometimes, since its not always like there's a best move every time like in puzzles, though)

B) most people are underrated, players that are labeled "Unrated" are sometimes stronger than "800" so don't think some games will be easier/harder it all depends.

C) for some people (including me) the touch move rule and chess clock is probably the hardest part, so practicing OTB chess (for example touch move rule when playing a casual game, or using chess clocks, not only chess.com clocks, or no clocks, but for chess clocks I don't think you would need to practice much, but still having the experience with notation and touch move rule can come handy.) 

D) in some tournaments you can talk, but it depends a LOT some tournaments make it so you can't talk/use phones (15mins taken if your phone makes a sound, kicked if 2-3 times in my last tournament)

Most importantly, have fun! its probably the most important thing. don't worry about rating, think about if it was a good game, maybe analyze it later (I personally take OTB games more important than online games)

Good Luck!

Make sure you take your Budgies, so that when they're perched on your shoulder and you play a winning Queen sacrifice, they won't say, "Polly want a cracker", - they'll squawk out, "Polly, what a Cracker!!!".

when you play otb and have time take all of your time. triple check every move and resist the urge to play instantly even if your first reaction is that it is obvious. if you see a good move look for a better one. if you have lost and have over 30 minutes left on the clock you will curse yourself

Find out what colours and pieces, will be used and practice with those.

Just the perspective of sitting above your pieces as compared to in front of you pieces can be off putting.

Make sure of the type of notations being used, and practice that.

Are snacks and coffee or what have you allowed at the table?

Double check the phone/noise rules, don't need to lose time to a violation you could have prevented.

Good luck, have fun.