Judges' Contest 12th Place

Once again, a very small change in the overall make-up of the judges' standings, though for the third consecutive week the lead has switched between GM Shabalov and NM Monokroussos. I continue to maintain the overall lead, but I fear I may have a rather tenuous hold of it as the two games I would have ranked 17th and 16th (Molner vs Kaufman and Smith vs Perelshteyn) have yet to make their exit and obviously at this point where ever those games do wind up being eliminated is going to cause me a fair hit in the standings (while for the five judges, the only rankings between 16th and 20th which remain are GM Shabalov's 19th place game and FM Young's 16th place game). Nevertheless, it's basically impossible for me to not emerge victorious in the end so I'm not overly concerned. Here's how things look now.



1st Place: Alex Shabalov (20, 12, 16, 15, 17, 10, 18, 9, 13): 26 Points

2nd Place: Dennis Monokroussos (20, 13, 19, 18, 12, 17, 7, 11, 16): 27 Points

3rd Place: Ron Young (20, 19, 13, 9, 7, 18, 14, 17, 11): 30 Points

4th Place: Robby Adamson (20, 12, 19, 16, 17, 6, 18, 10, 5): 33 Points

5th Place: Jennifer Shahade (18, 20, 8, 12, 17, 19, 5, 14, 16): 37 Points


and the two non-judges,


Arun Sharma (20, 19, 18, 11, 12, 15, 5, 9, 13): 24 Points

Braden Bournival (19, 20, 9, 17, 7, 4, 18, 14, 15, 16): 45 Points


We'll see if my theory of my inevitable triumph can hold true through the following week!