We kicked off the year without the traditional icebreaker blitz. Instead straight into a six round 20 + 0 over 2 nights. The first 3 rounds were on February 4. Unfortunately due to a computer malfunction on the intended second night, Feb 11, only the first 2 rounds managed to survive. Crosstable (for 2 rounds) is below
| 1 | Dundun_Zhang | 2.0 | +W8 | +B7 |
| 2 | Graham_Nolan | 2.0 | +B12 | +W6 |
| 3 | Cohen_Stringer | 1.5 | +W14 | =B4 |
| 4 | Moses_Kim | 1.5 | +W13 | =W3 |
| 5 | Cameron_Munroe | 1.0 | +W9 | — |
| 6 | Richard_Jackson | 1.0 | +W10 | -B2 |
| 7 | Zade_Litt | 1.0 | +B11 | -W1 |
| 8 | Samudra_Dissanayke | 1.0 | -B1 | +BYE |
| 9 | Ian_Kennedy | 1.0 | -B5 | +B13 |
| 10 | Cooper_Gaddes | 1.0 | -B6 | +W12 |
| 11 | Heagan_HenareLynch | 1.0 | -W7 | +B14 |
| 12 | Thomas_Bennett | 0.0 | -W2 | -B10 |
| 13 | Carlos_Duan | 0.0 | -B4 | -W9 |
| 14 | Naveen_Jayekrishna | 0.0 | -B3 | -W11 |
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