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2025 SCC Falling Leaves Swiss

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42 players participated in this 7-round tournament, held from 30 Oct 2025 to 11 Dec 2025 in Scarborough, Canada. 4 federations represented. Top 10 Elo average was 1824, and top seed was Julian Pan (🇨🇦 CAN, 1876).

Merlin Nazareno (🇨🇦 CAN, 1850) won with 5.5/7, ahead of Julian Pan (5.5) and Ray Chen (5.0). Nazareno won on tie-break after catching the field in the final round.

The biggest upset came in round 5: Brady Chen (1532) beat David Lawless (1860), a +328-point gap.

Location
🇨🇦Scarborough, Canada
Dates
30 Oct 2025 → 11 Dec 2025
Time control
Standard: 60 minutes with 30 seconds increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 7 rounds
Top seed
🇨🇦Julian Pan1876
Avg top 10
1,824
Participants
42
Federations · 4 represented
🇨🇦Canada×38
🇵🇭Philippines×2
🇮🇳India×1
🇱🇧Lebanon×1
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 7 rounds

Tight race until R7; 2 players tied at 5.5/7, decided on Buchholz.

Co-leaders
13
3
1
1
1
1
2
23.55.57R1R2R3R4R5R6R7
R7 · TIEBREAK CLUSTER

2 players finish on 5.5/7. Nazareno takes the title on Buchholz Cut1 (23.0).

WIN STREAKS · 2 top finishers

Merlin Nazareno 4 wins (R4–R7)Julian Pan 3 wins (R1–R3)

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1Merlin Nazareno*
1
2Julian Pan*
3Ray Chen
0
*
4Stephanie Xiao*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5R6R7PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Nazareno, Merlin1850CAN+13B9N=8B+4B+16N+3N+5B5.523.025.520.251925+12.6
2Pan, Julian1876CAN+16N+7B+4N=20B+17N+15BF5.517.517.516.252132+79.2
3Chen, Ray1724CAN+8N=17B+24N=21B+19N1B+15N5.019.021.013.001858+43.6
4Katz, Lyam1720CAN+25B+5N2B1N+28B+6NF4.023.023.012.001797+7.2
5Mendoza, Armand Jess1800CAN+37N4B17N+38B+23N+7B1N4.018.519.07.001732-9.8
6Xiao, Stephanie1548CAN12B+23N=39B+13N=7N4B+26N4.018.018.59.001693+48.8
7Dwivedi Umang1710IND+31B2N+25B=11N=6B5N=14B3.522.023.58.751671-5.0
8El Habboub, Hicham1546LBN3B+35B=1N+27N11B+16BF3.519.519.58.251752+55.2
9Lawless, David1860CAN+14N+1B15N=30B24N+10BF3.518.518.513.001740-25.4
10Jeyakumar, Yathushan1610CAN11B=31N+29B+39N=33B9N=32B3.513.514.04.751716+20.8
11Vinuya, Ruth Joy1787PHI+10NFF=7B+8N+24BF3.512.512.510.751928+11.6
12Balakrishnan, Shankar1607CAN+6N=15B22N24B+42NF+36B3.512.012.06.251663+38.0
13Ma, Quentin1591CAN1N=14B+18N6B+25N=26B28B3.019.021.07.001629-1.6
14Wang, Alan1547CAN9B=13N23BF+31N+35B=7N3.014.514.55.751691+38.8
15Southam, David1817CANF=12N+9B+32NF2N3B2.519.019.06.751729-13.0
16Cheung, Phoenix1630CAN2B=38N+42B+40N1B8N18N2.518.018.00.751519-44.4
17Jai Hanuj Vetrivel1634CAN+35N=3N+5BF2B33NF2.517.017.07.501766+15.2
18Le, Duc Khai1517CANF21N13B=29N+38B27N+16B2.512.512.54.001470-16.4
19Vo, Timothy1693CAN=34B+42N20B+31N3BFF2.510.510.52.251669+8.0
20Laughlin, Braden1857CANF+26B+19N=2NFFF2.510.010.07.251951+7.4
21Blair, Michael1792CANF+18B+27N=3NFFF2.59.59.57.001939+10.6
22Sekaran, Adithya1754CAN+23B=30N+12BFFFF2.57.57.56.501885+19.2
23Gowrishankar, Nilaanujan1651CAN22N6B+14N+36B5B28N37B2.016.517.54.001437-42.8
24Chen, Brady1532CANFF3B+12N+9B11NF2.015.515.57.001742+36.8
25Issani, Nameer Noor1645CAN4N+37B7NF13B+31BF2.013.013.02.501606-11.2
26Ugodnikov, Arkadiy1643CANF20NF=35B+27B=13N6B2.012.512.54.001614-2.6
27Zhao, Shannon1666CAN+38NF21B8B26N+18BF2.011.011.03.001512-55.6
28Williams-Ikhenoba, Jesukhogie0CANFF32BF4N+23B+13N2.010.510.55.0016680.0
29Armstrong, Robert J1499CAN30BF10N=18B=41NF+42N2.08.58.51.501568+7.6
30Satish Alwar, Dharsan1694CAN+29N=22BF=9NFFF2.08.08.05.001856+22.0
31Moran-Venegas, Mario1567CAN7N=10B+36N19B14B25NF1.515.515.52.751261-35.6
32Gummadi, Bhargav Ram1672CANFF+28N15BFF=10N1.58.08.03.751523-16.4
33Vinuya, Reign Joshua1826PHIFFFF=10N+17BF1.56.06.04.2518460.0
34Zhang, Zhibo1556CAN=19N+36BFFFFF1.53.53.52.251638+5.2
35Chamberland, Luc1696CAN17B8NF=26N=40B14NF1.011.511.51.251368-38.4
36Hassibullan, Mahboob Oby0CANF34N31B23NF+42B12N1.08.58.50.0013370.0
37Kola, Venkata Saket Reddy1612CAN5B25NFFFF+23N1.08.08.02.001559-25.2
38Balaji, Abhinav malolan1509CAN27B=16BF5N18NFF0.511.011.01.25882-26.4
39Anish, Diganth1743CANFF=6N10BFFF0.57.57.52.001388-30.0
40Lim, Carl0CANFFF16B=35NFF0.53.53.50.501669+3.2
41Varakunan, Cadiron1777CANFFFF=29BFF0.52.02.01.001504-12.0
42Gimenez Dixon, Javier1622CANF19B16NF12B36N29B0.011.511.50.00750-71.6

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets