Event Report:  8th Annual Grand Pacific Open

Easter, 2014

The organizers, Brian Raymer, Paul Leblanc, and Roger Patterson were pleased that we managed to break a new record for attendance:  123 players from across Canada, the US, as well as Mexico and Vietnam.  The GPO has only failed to break record attendance twice and it is encouraging to think we can still grow!  Not many weekend tournaments get attendees from such a wide geography - 6 provinces coast to coast, three US states, also coast to coast, and 4 countries.

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Prize Winners:

$5000 guaranteed. (actually, adds up to $5130 due to rounding up and extra prizes) 

Premier section:

1st-2nd: Peter Lessler $925 + Trophy, Jonathan Berry $925 + qualification to BC Closed

3rd: Jason Cao $450

U2100 1st: Michael Murray $475 + Trophy

U2100 2nd-3rd: Robert North, Zachary Burrows $285

Top Women: 1st-2nd: Becca Lampman, Alice Xiao $75 each

Top Women: 3rd: WGM Katerina Rohonyan $60

Top Women: 4th: Rinna Yu $50

Top Women: 5th: Sangeeta Dhingra $40

Most beautiful game:  Daniel Sutherland, Nathan Shao $50 each

U1800 Section:

1st: Mathew Geng $425 + Trophy

2nd-3rd: Robert Hamm, Elroy Deimert $165 each

U1500 1st: Kyle Zheng $350 + Trophy

U1500 2nd: Leo Qu

Top Women: Polly Wright $20

Top Unrated Hannan Lohrasbipeydeh $100

Biggest Upset Aaron Anandji $100

The full report is available here.