They face many young norm seekers, including a huge number of the top masters in the USA from several age groups.  Age 11:  Sam Sevian, and Cameron Wheeler.  Age 12:  Jonathan Chiang and FM Tommy He.  13:  Luke Harmon-Velotti.  14:  Michael Brown, FM Kayden Troff, Kevin Wang, Varun Krishnan and Yusheng Xia.  15:  IM Darwin Yang, FM Yian Liou, Sean Vibbert, and the top US girl under 16, WCM Sarah Chiang.  17:  FM Gregory Young and FM Adarsh Jayakumar.  19:  FM Konstantin Kavutskiy.

 

After four rounds GMs Varuzhan Akobian and Elshan Moradiabidi share the lead with 3.5 points, with IMs Mackenzie Molner, Darwin Yang and Luca Shytaj joining six GMs at 3 points.   Kevin Wang, Kayden Troff and Sam Sevian have each upset a GM in the early rounds.  Meanwhile, California legend IM Jack Peters has turned in some crowd-pleasing games, like this draw with GM Bojkov:

 

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Randall Hough is the Chief Arbiter.

 

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