Hello everyone, we are pleased to be posting this prizes report for the 2019 Canada Zonal & Easter Sectionals!
First, BIG THANKS to the 100 players who joined us for this first edition. Your strong support MADE this event!
The prize winners:
Zonal Section
$2000 GM Evgeny Bareev (+ entry to 2019 World Cup in Russia + $1000 travel subsidy)
$1000 GM Aman Hambleton (+ entry to 2019 American Continental in Brazil + $500 travel subsidy)
$500 IM Nikolay Noritsyn
$84 IM Artiom Samsonkin
$84 FM Mark Plotkin
$84 IM Shiyam Thavandiran
U2200 Section
$1000 Ruoying Xu
$500 Bill Doubleday
$125 Daniel Xu
$125 Max England
U1900 Section
$1000 Sanjay Ramesh
$188 Michelle Hua
$188 Hal Bond
$188 Yiwei Dong
$188 Edward Xiao
U1600 Section
$1000 Gary Hua
$500 Arman Azroy
$250 Carl-William Bilodeau-Savaria
FIDE titles:
CONGRATULATIONS to FM Mark Plotkin for an IM norm!
The following players scored at least 4.5 over 9 PLAYED games (they may claim and pay their CM title via the CFC Office):
Zachary Dukic, Sergey Noritsyn, Rejean Tremblay, Ananda Saha, Hou Ji Yao, William Li
Max Rusonik achieved "CM elect" and now just needs to reach FIDE rating of 2000
LET'S DO THIS AGAIN! The 2020 edition will be over the 2020 Easter long weekend, specifically April 9th-13th
Between now and when I officially announce it and open registrations, please feel free to email me any ideas.
Aris Marghetis, Organizer
arismarghetis at rogers dot com
First, BIG THANKS to the 100 players who joined us for this first edition. Your strong support MADE this event!
The prize winners:
Zonal Section
$2000 GM Evgeny Bareev (+ entry to 2019 World Cup in Russia + $1000 travel subsidy)
$1000 GM Aman Hambleton (+ entry to 2019 American Continental in Brazil + $500 travel subsidy)
$500 IM Nikolay Noritsyn
$84 IM Artiom Samsonkin
$84 FM Mark Plotkin
$84 IM Shiyam Thavandiran
U2200 Section
$1000 Ruoying Xu
$500 Bill Doubleday
$125 Daniel Xu
$125 Max England
U1900 Section
$1000 Sanjay Ramesh
$188 Michelle Hua
$188 Hal Bond
$188 Yiwei Dong
$188 Edward Xiao
U1600 Section
$1000 Gary Hua
$500 Arman Azroy
$250 Carl-William Bilodeau-Savaria
FIDE titles:
CONGRATULATIONS to FM Mark Plotkin for an IM norm!
The following players scored at least 4.5 over 9 PLAYED games (they may claim and pay their CM title via the CFC Office):
Zachary Dukic, Sergey Noritsyn, Rejean Tremblay, Ananda Saha, Hou Ji Yao, William Li
Max Rusonik achieved "CM elect" and now just needs to reach FIDE rating of 2000
LET'S DO THIS AGAIN! The 2020 edition will be over the 2020 Easter long weekend, specifically April 9th-13th
Between now and when I officially announce it and open registrations, please feel free to email me any ideas.
Aris Marghetis, Organizer
arismarghetis at rogers dot com