We had the first round of this event on Tuesday. It was pleasing to see some new faces, and a total of 38 players registered for it (over 7 rounds). Games mostly went with rating, though there were some hard fought or surprising results.
Cross table after round 1, sorted by rating not score
1 Canfell,Gregory J 2225 FM VIC 1.0 +B23 2 Hogg,Dean 2034 VIC 1.0 +W24 3 Beaumont,David 1996 VIC 1.0 +B26 4 Davis,Tony J 1903 CM VIC 1.0 +W27 5 Gusain,Daniel 1868 VIC 0.5 =BYE 6 Szuveges,Narelle S 1735 WIM VIC 1.0 +B28 7 Humphreys,Scott 1713 VIC 1.0 +W29 8 Enano,Ronald 1708 VIC 0.5 =BYE 9 Ilic,Milan 1581 VIC 1.0 +B33 10 Salanowski,Mark 1556 VIC 1.0 +B30 11 Ryan,Isaac 1542 VIC 0.5 =BYE 12 Hogan,Steven 1467 VIC 1.0 +W31 13 Russo,Guy 1464 VIC 1.0 +B35 14 Nowak,Ruben 1439 VIC 1.0 +W36 15 Richards,Derek 1430 VIC 1.0 +B37 16 McIntyre,Charlie 1400 VIC 0.0 -W19 17 Ramos,Antonio 1356 VIC 0.0 -B38 18 Mullen,Chris 1351 VIC 1.0 +W32 19 Downs,Andrew 1277 VIC 1.0 +B16 20 Minichelli,Felice 1251 VIC 0.0 -B25 21 Saric,Sergey 1129 VIC 0.5 =BYE 22 Hunt,Philip E 1090 VIC 0.5 =BYE 23 McIntyre,Julian 1054 VIC 0.0 -W1 24 Whitford,Matthew 1037 VIC 0.0 -B2 25 Johns,Brent 985 VIC 1.0 +W20 26 Kostakakis,Angelo 886 VIC 0.0 -W3 27 Davis,Sophie 845 VIC 0.0 -B4 28 Clerk,Max 631 VIC 0.0 -W6 29 Deraniyagala,Kevin 520 VIC 0.0 -B7 30 Clerk,Felix 436 VIC 0.0 -W10 31 Bejjanki,Pranav Sai 352 VIC 0.0 -B12 32 Liu,William 280 VIC 0.0 -B18 33 Deng,Tina 0 VIC 0.0 -W9 34 Hell,Alex 0 VIC 0.5 =BYE 35 Kurian,Max 0 VIC 0.0 -W13 36 Minic,Branislav 0 VIC 0.0 -B14 37 Nawar,Mena 0 VIC 0.0 -W15 38 Tagala,Randy 0 VIC 1.0 +W17
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