Top 10 pre-qualified players of January 1st, 2017
The following players have pre-qualified for the 2017 Quebec Chess Challenge.
All invitations will be emailed or mailed out to these students in January.
| Grade | First Name | Family Name | Rating |
| 1 | Luca | Georgescu | 660 |
| 1 | Elson | Yin | 629 |
| 1 | Nikita | Ramamonjisoa | 624 |
| 1 | Yunqi (Lucas) | Liu | 556 |
| 1 | Saad | Memon | 540 |
| 1 | Max | Bergman | 528 |
| 1 | Eliot | Hagege | 526 |
| 1 | William | Benzacar | 516 |
| 1 | Antoine | Roy | 505 |
| 1 | Liam | Groden | 494 |
| 2 | Matheo | Huard | 1124 |
| 2 | Alex Jikai | Yan | 1026 |
| 2 | Eric | Liu | 963 |
| 2 | James | Li | 960 |
| 2 | Barron Jiyu | Jiang | 837 |
| 2 | Éric | Deng | 818 |
| 2 | Lucy | Wang | 763 |
| 2 | Christophe | Dufresne | 756 |
| 2 | Gabriel | Berezin | 705 |
| 2 | Jayson | Li | 694 |
| 3 | Kevin | Zhong | 1551 |
| 3 | Alexander | Chang | 1292 |
| 3 | Kevin | Omichi | 1142 |
| 3 | Gwyn | Chapdelaine | 1139 |
| 3 | Neilson | Tao | 1088 |
| 3 | Mathieu | Béliveau | 1062 |
| 3 | Ze Yue | Li | 1049 |
| 3 | Richard | Bocan | 997 |
| 3 | Toma | Suda Lafontaine | 923 |
| 3 | Zekai | He | 921 |
| 3 | Benjamin | Roy | 875 |
| 3 | Freddy | Xue | 834 |
| 3 | Olivier | St-Gelais | 804 |
| 3 | Kenneth | He | 798 |
| 3 | Annie Le Yi | Li | 788 |
| 4 | Prince Eric Jr | Guipi Bopala | 1901 |
| 4 | Richard Q. | Zheng | 1706 |
| 4 | Chuhang | Zhang | 1359 |
| 4 | Kevin | Liu | 1343 |
| 4 | Zhong Xuan | Li | 1237 |
| 4 | Edouard | Fernandez Busto | 1219 |
| 4 | Edgar | Cao | 1178 |
| 4 | Daniel | Orejuela Liu | 1159 |
| 4 | Guang Zhu | Cui | 1148 |
| 4 | Rachel | Wang | 1115 |
| 5 | Haruaki | Omichi | 1438 |
| 5 | David | Craciun | 1363 |
| 5 | Julia | Kuleshova | 1328 |
| 5 | Ziyi | Zhong | 1320 |
| 5 | Tristan | Gonzalez | 1203 |
| 5 | Storm | Lei | 1199 |
| 5 | Yu Xi | He | 1114 |
| 5 | Kevin | Deng | 1082 |
| 5 | Edouard (Eddie) | Slive | 1079 |
| 5 | Jiaqi | He | 1077 |
| 6 | Qiuyu | Huang | 2158 |
| 6 | Tyler | Tanaka | 1645 |
| 6 | Léo | Richard | 1520 |
| 6 | Tani | Bercuvitz | 1465 |
| 6 | Daniel-Tianqi | Yu | 1391 |
| 6 | Isabelle | Wang | 1266 |
| 6 | Owen | Liu | 1251 |
| 6 | Louis | Arcand | 1179 |
| 6 | Alexander | Mocanu | 1177 |
| 6 | Nikolas | Guzzo | 1137 |
| 7 | Shawn | Rodrigue-Lemieux | 2242 |
| 7 | Francis | Durette | 2194 |
| 7 | Wenxuan | Zhong | 1944 |
| 7 | Xi Ming | Yu | 1532 |
| 7 | Robert | Liu | 1421 |
| 7 | Alexis | Demers | 1370 |
| 7 | Mathias | Grandmont | 1355 |
| 7 | Leo | Shi | 1309 |
| 7 | Dustin | Zuo | 1246 |
| 7 | Caroline | Wang | 1221 |
| 8 | Gabriel Philip | Tinica | 1732 |
| 8 | Allison | Tsypin | 1607 |
| 8 | Zi Yu | Guan | 1512 |
| 8 | William | Zhao | 1478 |
| 8 | Muyuan | Yang | 1395 |
| 8 | Alec | Yu | 1332 |
| 8 | Marin | Kiryakov | 1332 |
| 8 | Tony | Li | 1186 |
| 8 | Andrei | Stratulat | 1172 |
| 8 | Yida | Wang | 1153 |
| 9 | Maïli-Jade | Ouellet | 2219 |
| 9 | Run Kun | Fan | 2074 |
| 9 | Yoakim | Turgeon | 1316 |
| 9 | Justin | Dyell | 1286 |
| 9 | Debo | Huang | 1269 |
| 9 | Catherine | Gao | 1268 |
| 9 | Yizhou | Li | 1268 |
| 9 | Yu Xiang | Pan | 1245 |
| 9 | Etienne | Latreille | 1205 |
| 9 | Colin | Lesage | 1150 |
| 10 | Ananda | Saha | 2090 |
| 10 | Matthieu | Johnson-Constantin | 1912 |
| 10 | Yi Lin | Li | 1898 |
| 10 | Eddie | Yang | 1739 |
| 10 | Evan | Zhang | 1724 |
| 10 | Zachary | Saine | 1724 |
| 10 | Olivier | Audet | 1455 |
| 10 | Xin Yi (Cindy) | Yu | 1376 |
| 10 | Christopher | Zhang | 1374 |
| 10 | Xin Cheng | Shen | 1355 |
| 11 | Ling Yun (Linda) | Shi | 1767 |
| 11 | Wei Han | Luo | 1718 |
| 11 | Christine | Gao | 1686 |
| 11 | Alan | Luo | 1636 |
| 11 | Sabina | Tinica | 1379 |
| 11 | Roselyn | Lu | 1198 |
| 11 | Farouk | Benadada | 1184 |
| 11 | Zi Long | Xue | 1162 |
| 11 | Wei Hang | Hu | 1151 |
| 11 | Jonathan | Morcos | 938 |
| 12 | Zong Yang | Yu | 2516 |
| 12 | Olivier Kenta | Chiku-Ratté | 2513 |
| 12 | Hong Rui | Zhu | 2240 |
| 12 | Yu Qing | Liu | 2181 |
| 12 | Rubayat | Munshi | 1455 |
| 12 | George | Li | 1310 |
| 12 | Yin Lai | Wang | 1278 |
| 12 | George Cheng-Long | Wu | 1224 |
| 12 | Eloi | Morin-Pare | 1219 |
| 12 | Songtao | Zhang | 1175 |