The Western series of events (Master, Major, Swiss) started last Tuesday. These are 5 round events (round robin for the Masters and Major) over 5 weeks, pitting players with similar ratings against each other. The groupings are below. Only one round has been completed, so I will report once we have 3 rounds done, to see if there is some trend happening.

Master group

1 David Beaumont 1974
2 Matthew Whitford 1550
3 Steven Hogan 1533
4 Sergey Saric 1489
5 Aaryan Galia 1450
6 Eric Maure 1450

Major group

1 Ian Kirk 1435
2 Adem Koci 1300
3 Cijo Paul 1280
4 Julian McIntyre 1247
5 Conrado Cajes 1200
6 Dejan Matijas 1153

Swiss group

 1     Annapureddy,Rheyansh Redd 1133 
 3     Cox,Tyler                  905
 4     Shelev,Petar               891
11     Pasukov,Leo                  0
 2     Condick,Peter             1021
 5     Annapureddy,Dhruthin Redd  866
 7     Davis,Sophie               824
10     Massa,Emmanuel               0
 6     Clerk,Felix                828
 8     Clerk,Max                  725
 9     Cox,Aiden                    0