There are a couple of reasons why a team in a match might have an average rating above 2400.75. They are:

1. Each team is allowed to use any rating list from September of the previous year through August of the current year. The ratings shown on this page will all be from August though - sometimes resulting in a seemingly higher rating average than would legally be allowed.

2. When a team uses a player rated above 2590, that player only counts as 2600 when determining a lineup's legality. However what is shown on this page will be the actual average which of course might be higher.

There are a couple of reasons why a team in a match might have an average rating above 2400.75. They are:

1. Each team is allowed to use any rating list from January through August of the current year. The ratings shown on this page will all be from August though - sometimes resulting in a seemingly higher rating average than would legally be allowed.

2. When a team uses a player rated above 2600, that player only counts as 2600 when determining a lineup's legality. However what is shown on this page will be the actual average which of course might be higher.

If there is a tie during the regular season as to the finishing order for playoff positioning, the following rules will be used (for instance if two teams are tied for second place with seven match points each). Tiebreak #1 is of course the first tiebreak with the lower ones being used only if all the above tiebreak procedures also result in a tie.

1. Total Team Game Points. Thus winning a match 4 - 0 will give you more tiebreak points than winning a match 3 - 1.

2. Average rating of opponents throughout the season, using the August rating list of that season.

3. Head to Head Results. If you have beaten the opposing team 1.5 - 0.5 during the regular season, you will get the higher seeding.

4. Total Match Points versus Divisional Teams. Thus if Team A went 4.0 - 2.0 in Divisional Matches while Team B went 3.5 - 2.5 then Team A would have the better tiebreaks.

5. Total Game Points versus Divisional Teams

6. Total Game Points from Board 1

7. Total Game Points from Board 2

8. Total Game Points from Board 3

9. Total number of team wins. Thus if one team has a total of twenty five points, with twenty of these points being from wins, whereas another team has a total of twenty five points with only nineteen being from wins, the team with twenty wins has the better tiebreaks.

10. An Armageddon blitz game between chosen members of the teams

If there is a tie between three teams in both match points and game points, we will use the above rules to decide the order amongst the teams. The last resort will be an online blitz game between chosen members of the teams.

If there is a tie during the regular season as to the finishing order for playoff positioning, the following rules will be used (for instance if two teams are tied for second place with seven match points each). Tiebreak #1 is of course the first tiebreak with the lower ones being used only if all the above tiebreak procedures also result in a tie.

1. Total Team Game Points. Thus winning a match 4 - 0 will give you more tiebreak points than winning a match 3 - 1.

2. Strength of Schedule; the team whose opponents have the highest combined record wins the tiebreak.

3. Average rating of opponents throughout the season, using the August rating list of that season.

4. Head to Head Results. If you have beaten the opposing team 1.5 - 0.5 during the regular season, you will get the higher seeding.

5. Total Match Points versus Divisional Teams. Thus if Team A went 5.0 - 3.0 in Divisional Matches while Team B went 4.5 - 3.5 then Team A would have the better tiebreaks.

6. Total Game Points versus Divisional Teams

7. Total Game Points from Board 1

8. Total Game Points from Board 2

9. Total Game Points from Board 3

10. Total number of team wins. Thus if one team has a total of twenty five points, with twenty of these points being from wins, whereas another team has a total of twenty five points with only nineteen being from wins, the team with twenty wins has the better tiebreaks.

11. An Armageddon blitz game between chosen members of the teams

If there is a tie between three teams in both match points and game points, we will use the above rules to decide the order amongst the teams. The last resort will be an online blitz game between chosen members of the teams.

If the regulation match is tied 2 - 2, the following tiebreak procedures will be take place after a ten minute break:

1. The fourth boards from each team will play each other. The team that won on the highest board during the original match will choose their color for the first game. If all regulation games were drawn, the lower rated team gets to choose colors for the first tiebreak game. The time control will be three minutes with a three second increment. The loser of this game will be eliminated, and the winner then faces Board Three of the opposing team.

2. This process continues with the next higher board on each team continually replacing any player of their team who gets eliminated.

3. If a game ends in a draw, both players are eliminated, except if at least one team is using its Board One in which case there is no elimination on a draw, instead colors reverse, and the game is replayed until there is a decisive result.

4. Colors will switch every game for the teams in all circumstances.

5. This process repeats itself until all four players from one team have been eliminated. Thus in order for your opponents to win the match, every one of your team members must be eliminated.

2013 Player Register

(sorted by August 2013 rating)

GM Niclas Huschenbeth — 2610
IM Tegshsuren Enkhbat — 2492
IM Levan Bregadze — 2469
GM Larry Kaufman — 2401
NM Ben Krause — 2323
NM Jared Defibaugh — 2297
NM Ian Schoch — 2294
FM Ralph Zimmer — 2244
NM Andrew Zheng — 2159
Jeffrey Chang — 2116
GM Eugene Perelshteyn — 2577
IM Marc Esserman — 2569
IM Steven Zierk — 2543
FM Samuel Sevian — 2486
SM Denys Shmelov — 2465
NM Vadim Martirosov — 2349
NM Ilya Krasik — 2286
NM Jake Miller — 2222
NM Daniil Mosiyenko — 2181
Michael Mahoney — 2040
GM Robert Hess — 2636
GM Mikheil Kekelidze — 2576
GM Michael Rohde — 2548
IM Justin Sarkar — 2512
IM Jay Bonin — 2436
SM Joshua Colas — 2405
FM Leif Pressman — 2374
NM Kapil Chandran — 2330
Jason Shi — 2173
Zachary Tanenbaum — 2143
GM Zviad Izoria — 2624
GM Robert Hungaski — 2541
IM Eli Vovsha — 2528
IM Dmitry Schneider — 2516
IM Farai Mandizha — 2453
NM Ryan Goldenberg — 2348
FM Rico Salimbagat — 2259
Tyrell Harriott — 2197
Frank Ashmun — 2105
Shaun Smith — 2061
GM Sam Shankland — 2673
GM Alexander Ivanov — 2624
IM David Vigorito — 2532
FM Steven Winer — 2409
FM Charles Riordan — 2386
NM Mika Brattain — 2364
NM Andrew Liu — 2296
NM Lawyer Times — 2261
NM Ben Goldberg — 2229
NM Carey Theil — 2183
GM Alex Stripunsky — 2651
GM Joel Benjamin — 2640
GM Alex Fishbein — 2601
GM Boris Gulko — 2591
IM Albert Kapengut — 2363
NM Alexander Katz — 2362
NM Christopher Wu — 2288
NM Praveen Balakrishnan — 2240
John Michael Burke — 2163
Haik der Manuelian — 2032
GM Tamaz Gelashvili — 2699
GM Pascal Charbonneau — 2552
IM Irina Krush — 2531
SM Matt Herman — 2424
FM Michael Bodek — 2484
FM Justus Williams — 2366
IM Akshat Chandra — 2395
NM Alex King — 2297
NM Nicolas Checa — 2267
FM Aravind Kumar — 2146
IM Yaacov Norowitz — 2594
FM Tom Bartell — 2496
NM Peter Minear — 2385
NM David Hua — 2373
FM Dov Gorman — 2362
FM Karl Dehmelt — 2260
IM Richard Costigan — 2288
NM Troy Daly — 2239
FM Michael Shahade — 2210
Kavinayan Sivakumar — 2183
IM Mackenzie Molner — 2592
IM Levon Altounian — 2513
IM Mark Ginsburg — 2400
IM Shahin Mohandesi — 2389
FM Robby Adamson — 2369
FM Pedram Atoufi — 2366
WGM Anjelina Belakovskaia — 2317
NM Bryan Hu — 2294
NM Ben Marmont — 2201
WFM Amanda Mateer — 2113
IM Jonathan Schroer — 2432
NM Kevin Mo — 2337
NM Chris Mabe — 2326
NM Joshua Mu — 2270
NM Diego Garcia — 2264
NM Craig Jones — 2251
NM Carlito Agner — 2227
FM Robin Cunningham — 2225
NM Oliver Fernando — 2201
NM Peter Giannatos — 2201
GM Conrad Holt — 2639
GM Cristian Chirila — 2600
GM Giorgi Margvelashvili — 2588
FM Jeffery Xiong — 2485
FM Alec Getz — 2433
NM Ruifeng Li — 2348
NM Sarah Chiang — 2213
NM Ryan Moon — 2182
NM Atulya Vaidya — 2208
Travis Guenther — 1963
GM Melikset Khachiyan — 2602
IM Andranik Matikozyan — 2577
IM Luke Harmon-Vellotti — 2491
IM Zhanibek Amanov — 2431
WGM Tatev Abrahamyan — 2429
IM Larry Remlinger — 2373
NM Madiyar Amerkeshev — 2328
FM Mark Duckworth — 2316
NM Craig Hilby — 2246
Nicky Korba — 2160
GM Julio Becerra — 2619
GM Renier Gonzalez — 2510
FM Marcel Martinez — 2475
FM Eric Rodriguez — 2348
FM Fabio La Rota — 2300
NM Tony Arencibia — 2219
Vlad Yanovsky — 2130
NM Carlos Gaston Andretta — 2128
Miguel Fonseca — 2105
Dennis Mederos — 2058
GM Daniel Naroditsky — 2570
GM Jesse Kraai — 2567
GM Vinay Bhat — 2555
FM Yian Liou — 2491
IM David Pruess — 2431
FM Andy Lee — 2316
FM Cameron Wheeler — 2259
NM Vignesh Panchanatham — 2238
NM Kesav Viswanadha — 2235
Siddharth Banik — 2192
GM Timur Gareyev — 2768
IM Georgi Orlov — 2533
GM Emil Anka — 2497
FM Costin Cozianu — 2478
FM Tian Sang — 2324
NM Roland Feng — 2268
FM Curt Collyer — 2266
NM Joshua Sinanan — 2246
Michael Omori — 2171
WIM Megan Lee — 2127
GM Varuzhan Akobian — 2717
GM Anatoly Bykhovsky — 2625
GM Ben Finegold — 2561
IM Priyadharshan Kannappan — 2508
IM Vitaly Neimer — 2455
FM Konstantin Kavutskiy — 2363
FM Tyler Hughes — 2319
NM Nolan Hendrickson — 2243
Zach Stuart — 2057
Jacob Wilkins — 1909

Players who have played games in 2013 and are no longer on a roster

GM Yuniesky Quesada — 2686
NM Mike Zaloznyy — 2243
FM Doug Eckert — 2234
NM Daniel Gater — 2170
Joseph Garnier — 2017
Jason Fredericks — 1963
Eddie Chang — 1824

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