Judges' Contest 5th Place

FM Monokroussos continues to hold a solid lead, and time is running out for everyone else. As mentioned last week, FM Young had an inevitable big hit coming to him when his 16th Place Game happened to be eliminated, and it didn't disappoint his competitors in knocking him from 2nd down to 4th. Given the rankings left (which I've noted below), it's very unlikely for anyone to catch Monokroussos at this stage though WGM Shahade who's been near the bottom for most of the contest might have the best chance given that she's the only one to rank the Top Four Games exactly as the Top Four actually are. This is how things look.


1st Place: Dennis Monokroussos (20, 13, 19, 18, 12, 17, 7, 11, 16, 14, 10, 9, 6, 3, 15, 2): 48 Points (Rankings Left: 1, 4, 5, 8)

2nd Place: Alex Shabalov (20, 12, 16, 15, 17, 10, 18, 9, 13, 19, 4, 14, 11, 8, 3, 2): 55 Points (Rankings Left: 1, 5, 6, 7)

3rd Place: Jennifer Shahade (18, 20, 8, 12, 17, 19, 5, 14, 16, 7, 10, 15, 11, 13, 9, 6): 60 Points (Rankings Left: 1, 2, 3, 4)

4th Place: Ron Young (20, 19, 13, 9, 7, 18, 14, 17, 11, 12, 15, 10, 1, 2, 8, 16): 62 Points (Rankings Left: 3, 4, 5, 6)

5th Place: Robby Adamson (20, 12, 19, 16, 17, 6, 18, 10, 5, 4, 14, 3, 15, 13, 1, 9): 72 Points (Rankings Left: 2, 7, 8, 11)


and the two non-judges,


Arun Sharma (20, 19, 18, 11, 12, 15, 5, 9, 13, 17, 16, 4, 6, 3, 2, 10): 56 Points (Rankings Left: 1, 7, 8, 14)

Braden Bournival (19, 20, 9, 17, 7, 4, 18, 14, 15, 16, 12, 11, 8, 13, 2, 1): 63 Points (Rankings Left: 3, 5, 6, 10)


There is a good chance this contest will be mathematically decided as of next week so tune in to see if that's true!