The 2025 Oceania Zonal begins tomorrow, in Melbourne. Even with the tighter entry requirements (for home players at least), both events (Open and Women's) reached capacity entries months ago. Pleasingly the Open event has representatives from 7 of the Oceania Federations, while the Women's has 5 federations represented.
Both events will qualify 1 player to the 2025 World Cup, as well as offering the chance for players to earn direct titles (IM/WIM, FM/WFM and CM/WCM). Top seed in the Open is GM Temur Kuybokarov, and for the Women's WGM Julia Ryjanova.
The first round is at 1pm tomorrow (local time). Event details and result links can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/2025oceaniazonals/home
Note: I am Chief Arbiter for this event
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