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.

2015 Player Register

(sorted by August 2015 rating)

GM Alonso Zapata — 2521
IM Daniel Gurevich — 2449
FM Kazim Gulamali — 2424
SM Deepak Aaron — 2416
NM Richard Francisco — 2391
NM Michael Corallo — 2359
IM Carlos Perdomo — 2350
NM Damir Studen — 2344
FM Xiao Cheng — 2323
NM Leo Martinez — 2266
NM Sanjay Ghatti — 2239
GM Eugene Perelshteyn — 2592
IM Steven Zierk — 2562
IM Denys Shmelov — 2444
IM Richard Wang — 2425
NM Ahmet Bolat — 2380
NM Vadim Martirosov — 2367
NM Chris Williams — 2334
NM Yi Yang — 2312
NM Ilya Krasik — 2276
NM Andrew Hoy — 2198
Joe Perl — 2097
IM Kassa Korley — 2485
IM Jonathan Schroer — 2427
SM Ilker Bozkurt — 2393
NM Chris Mabe — 2284
NM Aaron Balleisen — 2282
NM Carlito Agner — 2261
FM Robin Cunningham — 2252
NM Joshua Mu — 2252
NM Steve Wang — 2233
NM Udayan Bapat — 2214
NM Craig Jones — 2206
GM Maxim Dlugy — 2613
GM Sergey Kudrin — 2586
GM Michael Rohde — 2531
IM Danny Edelman — 2460
SM Kapil Chandran — 2420
FM Leif Pressman — 2399
FM Joshua Colas — 2350
NM Ian Harris — 2346
FM Jason Shi — 2249
NM Yoon-Young Kim — 2240
Dennis Li — 2107
GM Alex Lenderman — 2728
GM Giorgi Kacheishvili — 2672
GM Zviad Izoria — 2638
GM Irina Krush — 2551
IM Aleksandr Ostrovskiy — 2486
FM Alec Getz — 2381
NM Levy Rozman — 2378
NM Hans Niemann — 2296
NM Ben Gershenov — 2219
NM Venkat Iyer — 2186
Akira Nakada — 2035
Keith Espinosa — 1847
GM Hikaru Nakamura — 2900
GM Julio Becerra — 2616
FM Eric Rodriguez — 2386
NM Jeffrey Haskel — 2355
FM Angel Quinones — 2336
FM Alex Barnett — 2329
FM Jorge Pelaez — 2264
NM Vlad Yanovsky — 2229
NM Carlos Gason Andretta — 2207
Miguel Fonseca — 2067
John Salisbury — 1990
GM Alexander Ivanov — 2628
IM David Vigorito — 2511
IM Alexander Katz — 2464
SM Mika Brattain — 2452
FM Steven Winer — 2425
FM Charles Riordan — 2342
NM Lawyer Times — 2290
NM Carissa Yip — 2236
NM Siddharth Arun — 2228
NM Tim Sage — 2183
Nithin Kavi — 2175
GM Alex Stripunsky — 2661
GM Joel Benjamin — 2629
GM Mackenzie Molner — 2592
SM Praveen Balakrishnan — 2422
NM Dmitriy Volkov — 2382
NM Haik der Manuelian — 2244
NM Aaron Shlionsky — 2232
NM Igor Yeliseyev — 2212
NM Aaron Jacobson — 2211
NM Brandon Jacobson — 2192
Ethan Klein — 2053
GM Mark Paragua — 2638
GM Pascal Charbonneau — 2552
IM Raja Panjwani — 2454
FM Nicolas Checa — 2436
SM Qibiao Wang — 2426
NM Ikrom Ibrohimov — 2323
FM David Brodsky — 2317
NM Jonathan Subervi — 2297
FM Rico Salimbagat — 2292
FM Aravind Kumar — 2286
Joshua Bromberg — 2004
IM Tom Bartell — 2483
FM Andrei Zaremba — 2418
FM Dov Gorman — 2403
NM Peter Minear — 2353
FM Rodion Rubenchik — 2331
NM Erick Garcia — 2329
IM Richard Costigan — 2288
NM Isaac Leon — 2278
NM Angel Hernandez-Camen — 2220
NM Matthew OBrien — 2219
GM Rogelio Barcenilla — 2587
FM Joel Banawa — 2496
IM Alexey Diulger — 2421
IM Mark Ginsburg — 2404
FM Pedram Atoufi — 2368
NM Francisco Guadalupe II — 2365
FM Robby Adamson — 2360
NM Sung Ho Yim — 2251
WFM Ramya Inapuri — 2248
NM Andrew Lebovitz — 2157
Rick Sun — 2093
GM Julio Sadorra — 2635
GM Jeffery Xiong — 2616
GM Conrad Holt — 2615
IM Ruifeng Li — 2502
FM Arvind Jayaraman — 2341
NM Artur Safin — 2333
NM Chris Toolin — 2328
NM Atulya Vaidya — 2271
NM Akshay Malhotra — 2255
NM Karthik Ramachandran — 2215
NM Robert Sanchez — 2157
Jason Metpally — 2085
Kevin Liu — 2014
GM Timur Gareyev — 2656
GM Kayden Troff — 2619
IM Dionisio Aldama — 2546
GM Enrico Sevillano — 2526
FM Sonny Kamberi — 2366
FM Elliott Liu — 2329
NM Alberto Hernandez — 2321
FM Daniel Durham — 2306
NM Ron Gross — 2200
WFM Amanda Mateer — 2127
NM Eric Moskow — 2100
GM Alex Onischuk — 2742
GM Elshan Moradiabadi — 2647
IM Andrey Gorovets — 2617
GM Andrey Baryshpolets — 2608
FM Steven Breckenridge — 2414
IM Luis Torres — 2353
WIM Irina Andrenko — 2323
WGM Sabina Foisor — 2314
WGM Carla Heredia — 2227
Josh Osbourn — 2052
Richard Davisson — 1900
Seetharam Mareddy — 1879
GM Wesley So — 2847
GM Mauricio Flores — 2565
IM John Bartholomew — 2555
IM Sean Nagle — 2542
IM Andrew Tang — 2475
NM Frank Johnson — 2351
FM Kevin Wasiluk — 2317
NM Dane Mattson — 2261
NM Matt Jensen — 2199
NM Andrew Titus — 2189
Eric Bell — 2050
Saumik Narayanan — 1949
GM Anton Kovalyov — 2702
GM Andrey Stukopin — 2682
GM Holden Hernandez — 2606
IM Guillermo Vazquez — 2546
IM Max Cornejo — 2524
IM Joshua Ruiz — 2491
IM Felix Ynojosa — 2471
IM Alfonso Almeida — 2406
Jeffrey Serna — 2108
Armando Cortez — 1995
Mkhitar Hobosyan — 1930
GM Yaroslav Zherebukh — 2724
GM Cristian Chirila — 2616
IM Keaton Kiewra — 2518
SM Craig Hilby — 2421
NM Stevan Djordjevic — 2366
IM John Watson — 2340
NM Bruce Baker — 2329
FM Ali Morshedi — 2328
Alex Costello — 2137
Brandon Xia — 2029
GM Daniel Naroditsky — 2711
GM Vinay Bhat — 2570
FM Cameron Wheeler — 2425
IM David Pruess — 2416
IM John Donaldson — 2409
FM Andy Lee — 2392
FM Vignesh Panchanatham — 2386
FM James Critelli — 2376
NM Siddharth Banik — 2258
FM Rayan Taghizadeh — 2245
WFM Uyanga Byambaa — 2204
GM Giorgi Margvelashvili — 2607
IM Georgi Orlov — 2528
IM Michael Lee — 2503
FM Costin Cozianu — 2451
FM Roland Feng — 2365
FM Marcel Milat — 2357
IM Ray Kaufman — 2333
NM David Golub — 2321
NM Bryce Tiglon — 2305
FM William Schill — 2236
Anthony He — 2010
GM Illya Nyzhnyk — 2725
GM Varuzhan Akobian — 2721
GM Alejandro Ramirez — 2670
IM Priyadharshan Kannappan — 2567
IM Michael Brooks — 2436
FM Doug Eckert — 2272
NM Nick Karlow — 2251
NM Spencer Finegold — 2180
NM Nicholas Rosenthal — 2162
Shawn Swindell — 2088
Jacob Wilkins — 1909

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