The Preliminary Rounds are over at the Paris Bida USBA Tour Open. Nine players from out of Houston will join seven local players in what will be an exciting 16-man single elimination final round.
The format means that in the first 8 matches half the field will be elimiated as only the winners will move on. Anything can happen and as we saw in the prelimnaries it often does.
Here are the Final standings and the order of finish for pairing in the final round. Joining the 14 players who qualfied will be Jim Shovak and Ellis Lawrence who won the lottery for the final two spots.
Seedings:
Player: Finished Record Points PtsAgainst
1) Pedro Piedrabuena 1st 6-0 150 75
2) Andres Naranjo 1st 6-0 150 81
3)Mazin Shooni 1st 6-0 150 82
4) Michael Kang 1st 5-1 147 92
5) Sonny Cho 2nd 5-1 146 102
6) Hugo Patino 2nd 5-1 142 87
7) Joel Rivera 2nd 5-1 141 106
8) Jamil Isreal 2nd 5-1 138 114
9) Cong Nguyen 3rd 5-1 140 97
10) Dung Nguyen 3rd 4-2 141 121
11) Thanh Vu 3rd 4-2 139 118
12) Kim Hoang 3rd 4-2 134 127
13) Patrick Tran 4th 3-3 126 122
14) Peter Nguyen 4th 3-3 122 121
15) Lottery: Jim Shovak 4th 2-4 127 132
16) Lottery: Ellis Lawrence 7th 1-5 92 143
1st Round: Single Elimination:
Pedro Piedrabuena vs. Ellis Lawrence
Andres Naranjo vs. Jim Shovak
Mazin Shooni vs. Peter Nguyen
Michael Kang vs. Patrick Tran
Sonny Cho vs. Kim Hoang
Hugo Patino vs. Thanh Vu
Joel Rivera vs. Dung Nguyen
Jamil Isreal vs. Cong Nguyen