Congratulations to Dmitry Nikitin, Brian Wong, Alex Leon, Charles Leon, Justin Easterday, and Wayne Liu on their well-played upsets.
Rank will be determined once all the games have been received and then analyzed. Games will be posted as well.
Special Notice goes to Laufer, who played well and had a strong initiative against Gupta in his game. (good game!)
Special Notices goes to Brian Wong, who so far, has been the only upset where the lower rated played Black. (congrats!)
Special Notice goes to Charles Chen (1315) who beat Oren Gazit (1653). Although, almost an upset, I cannot change the rules so that this game is also amended into the list of contention games. However, congratulations to Charles, nonetheless.
NOTE: Unrated players for the purpose of the upset prize are considered as being rated 1000. An upset is a game where a person, lower rated by 400 pts. managed to win his/her game.