Congrats to FM’s Tom Bartell and Eric Rosen. Both scored 6.5/9 to achieve their IM norms. This was the final IM norm necessary for Tom who also has met his rating requirement. This was Eric’s second IM norm.

Complete event PGNs

Round 9 Results

FM Eric Rosen - FM Awonder Liang: 1 - 0
IM Florin Felecan - FM Tom Bartell: 0 - 1
FM Gauri Shankar - IM Vitaly Neimer: 1/2 - 1/2
NM Adithya Balasubramian - WIM Viktoria Ni: 1/2 - 1/2
IM Angelo Young - FM Kostya Kavutskiy: 1/2 - 1/2

Final Standings

1st - 2nd (6.5/9)

FM Tom Bartell (IM norm scored!)
FM Eric Rosen (IM norm scored!)

3rd (5.5/9)

IM Vital Neimer

4th (5/9)

IM Florin Felecan

5th - 6th (4.5/9)

WIM Viktoria Ni
NM Adithya Balasubramian

7th - 9th (4/9)

IM Angelo Young
FM Gauri Shankar
FM Kostya Kavutskiy

10th (.5/9)

FM Awonder Liang

Here is the PGN through Rd 8…

Results

FM Kavutskiy - FM Rosen: 1/2 - 1/2

IM Neimer - IM Young: 1 - 0

FM Bartell - NM Balasubramian: 1/2 - 1/2

WIM Ni - FM Shankar: 1/2 - 1/2

FM Liang - IM Felecan: 0 - 1

Standings and norm hunt

1st - 2nd (5.5/8)

FM Tom Bartell (needs a win over IM Felecan in the final round)
FM Eric Rosen (needs a win over FM Liang in the final round)

3rd - 4th (5/8)

IM Vitaly Neimer
IM Florin Felecan

5th - 6th (4/8)

WIM Viktoria Ni
NM Adithya Balasubramian

7th - 9th (3.5/8)

IM Angelo Young
FM Gauri Shankar
FM Kostya Kavutskiy

10th - (.5/8)

FM Awonder Liang

FM Shankar - NM Balasubramian: 1 - 0

FM Liang - FM Bartell: 0 - 1

FM Rosen - IM Neimer: 1 - 0

IM Young - WIM Ni: 1/2 - 1/2

IM Felecan - FM Kavutskiy:

PGN for all 7 rounds!

Standings and norm hunt

1st - 2nd (5 / 7)

FM Tom Bartell (needs 1.5/2 for final IM norm - must play Balasubramian and Felecan)
FM Eric Rosen (needs 1.5/2 for 2nd IM norm - must play Kavutskiy and Liang)

3rd - 4th (4 / 7)

IM Vitaly Neimer
IM Florin Felecan

5th - 7th (3.5 / 7)

IM Angelo Young
WIM Viktoria Ni
NM Adithya Balasubramian

8th - 9th (3 / 7)

FM Gauri Shankar
FM Kostya Kavutskiy

10th (.5 / 7)

FM Awonder Liang

NM Balasubramian - IM Young: 1 - 0

IM Neimer - FM Felecan: 1/2 - 1/2

WIM Ni - FM Rosen: 1/2 - 1/2

FM Kavutskiy - FM Liang: 1 - 0

FM Bartell - FM Shankar: 1 - 0

Here is the PGN file!

Standings and Norm Hunt

1st - 3rd (4 / 6)

IM Vitaly Neimer
FM Tom Bartell (needs 2.5/3 for final IM norm)
FM Eric Rosen (needs 2.5/3 for 2nd IM norm)

4th - 5th (3.5 /6)

IM Florin Felecan
NM Adithya Balasubramian (needs 3/3 for 1st IM norm)

6th - 7th (3/6)

IM Angelo Young
WIM Viktoria Ni (needs 3/3 for WGM norm)

8th (2.5/6)

FM Kostya Kavutskiy

9th (2/6)

FM Gauri Shankar

10th (.5/6)

FM Awonder Liang

FM Rosen - NM Balasubramian: 1 - 0

FM Liang - IM Neimer: 0 - 1

FM Kavutskiy - FM Bartell: 0 - 1

IM Young - FM Shankar: 1/2 - 1/2

IM Felecan - WIM Ni: 1 - 0

Here is the link for the PGN for all rounds.

1st - 2nd (3.5 / 5)

IM Vitaly Neimer
FM Eric Rosen (needs 3/4 for IM norm)

3rd - 5th (3 / 5)

IM Florin Felecan
IM Angelo Young
FM Tom Bartell (needs 3.5/4 for IM norm)

6th - 7th (2.5 / 5)

WIM Viktoria Ni (needs 4/4 for IM norm)
NM Adithya Balasubramian (needs 4/4 for IM norm)

8th (2 / 5)

FM Gauri Shankar (eliminated from the norm hunt)

9th (1.5 / 5)

FM Kostya Kavutskiy (eliminated from the norm hunt)

10th (.5 / 5)

FM Awonder Liang (eliminated from the norm hunt)