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Bower, James
Current rating: 1434

Grand Prix Columbus 2016 (legacy) starting rating: 1465
round table opponent (rating) result Δrating
2legacy 215 Stone, Brian (1519) Lost 1-2 -171448
3legacy 515 Stein, Brian (1483) Lost 1-2 -171431
4legacy 634 Brooks, Donald (1452) Won 2-1 +181449
5legacy 435 Brown, Travis (1518) Lost 0-2 -161433
6legacy 692 Blackburn, Sammy (1461) Won 2-0 +181451
7legacy 600 Strickland, Jeremy (1493) Lost 0-2 -171434
top average opponent: 1488record: 2-4 new rating: 1434

Grand Prix Costa Rica 2016 (SOI standard) starting rating: 1504
round table opponent (rating) result Δrating
2standard 41 Davis, Shawn (1528) Won 2-0 +181522
3standard 46 Raval, Mahendra (1545) Won 2-0 +191541
4standard 8 Betesh, Ralph (2050) Lost 1-2 -101531
5standard 76 Coale, Hunter (1711) Lost 1-2 -141517
6standard 127 Herrera, Eduardo (1531) Lost 1-2 -181499
7standard 148 Cameras Lievano, Romeo Aaron (1590) Lost 1-2 -161483
8standard 166 Avalos, Michael (1531) Lost 0-2 -181465
top average opponent: 1641record: 2-5 new rating: 1465

Grand Prix Minneapolis 2016 (SOI standard) starting rating: 1528
round table opponent (rating) result Δrating
3standard 53 Hoesing, Kelly (1669) Lost 0-2 -161512
4standard 202 Hedgpeth, Justin (1501) Won 2-1 +181530
5standard 155 Woodward, Scott (1538) Lost 1-2 -181512
6standard 348 Robinson, Jed (1626) Won 2-0 +201532
7standard 254 Lehmkuhl, Mike (1646) Won 2-1 +201552
8standard 144 Musser, Dan (1885) Lost 0-2 -121540
9standard 247 Radke, Cory (1548) Won 2-1 +181558
10standard 181 Griffith, Cole (1482) Lost 0-2 -191539
11standard 173 Nadimi, Pejmon (1550) Lost 1-2 -181521
12standard 171 Buchanan, Jessica (1578) Lost 0-2 -171504
top average opponent: 1602record: 4-6 new rating: 1504

Grand Prix Detroit 2016 (modern) starting rating: 1512
round table opponent (rating) result Δrating
3modern 122 Tenjum, Andrew (1996) Lost 0-2 -101502
4modern 430 Damberg, Ben (1592) Won 2-1 +201522
5modern 415 Maurer, Jacob (1535) Won 2-1 +181540
6modern 281 Miller, Ben 3372 (1563) Lost 0-2 -181522
7modern 499 Keidan, Micah (1488) Won 2-0 +181540
8modern 124 Li, Chris (1784) Won 2-1 +221562
9modern 151 Scheibel, James (1521) Lost 1-2 -191543
10modern 335 Linne, Mason (1672) Lost 0-2 -151528
top average opponent: 1644record: 4-4 new rating: 1528

Grand Prix Indianapolis 2015 (BFZ standard) starting rating: 1518
round table opponent (rating) result Δrating
3standard 158 Conde, Facundo (1633) Lost 0-2 -151503
4standard 313 Erker, Will (1688) Lost 0-2 -151488
5standard 407 Whetstone, John Phillip (1503) Won 2-0 +181506
6standard 199 Song, Edward (1759) Won 2-0 +231529
7standard 178 Ruenger, Joshua (1587) Lost 1-2 -171512
top average opponent: 1634record: 2-3 new rating: 1512

Grand Prix Madison 2015 (BFZ limited) starting rating: 1524
round table opponent (rating) result Δrating
3sealed 245 Lyons, Greg (1555) Won 2-0 +181542
4sealed 63 Froehlich, Eric (2043) Lost 1-2 -101532
5sealed 225 Benn, Adam (1755) Lost 0-2 -141518
top average opponent: 1784record: 1-2 new rating: 1518

Grand Prix Oklahoma City 2015 (modern) starting rating: 1514
round table opponent (rating) result Δrating
3modern 1015 Long, Geoffrey (1601) Lost 0-0 -161498
4modern 288 Hoffman, Kris (1585) Won 2-1 +191517
5modern 210 Hale, Brian (1537) Won 2-1 +191536
6modern 86 Thomason, Timothy (1846) Won 2-1 +231559
7modern 78 Boyd, Denver (1582) Lost 1-2 -171542
8modern 156 Velez, Pablo (1533) Lost 0-2 -181524
top average opponent: 1614record: 3-3 new rating: 1524

Grand Prix Las Vegas 2015 (2) (MM2 limited) starting rating: 1552
round table opponent (rating) result Δrating
3sealed 43 Miller, Anthony (1345) Won 2-1 +141566
4sealed 19 Bowden, Ian (1605) Lost 1-2 -171549
5sealed 165 Hartman, Reed (1675) Lost 1-2 -161533
6sealed 161 Hoang, Adrian (1471) Lost 0-2 -191514
top average opponent: 1524record: 1-3 new rating: 1514

Grand Prix Memphis 2015 (FRF standard) starting rating: 1563
round table opponent (rating) result Δrating
3standard 190 Nguyen, Minh (1609) Won 2-1 +191582
4standard 63 Smith, Kyle 1962 (1642) Won 2-0 +191601
5standard 96 Roberson, Dustin (1443) Lost 1-2 -211580
6standard 81 Davis, Austin (1562) Won 2-0 +181598
7standard 74 Anderson, Daniel (1688) Won 2-1 +191617
8standard 44 Stovall, Hyman (1595) Won 2-1 +181635
9standard 8 Dobbin, Jack (1868) Lost 0-2 -141621
10standard 25 Echavarria, Carlos (1621) Lost 0-2 -181603
11standard 41 Medley, Jacob (1482) Won 2-1 +161619
12standard 40 Barich, Aaron (1599) Lost 0-2 -181601
13standard 41 Brummett, Chris (1745) Lost 0-2 -161585
14standard 52 Desposito, Nicolas (1574) Lost 0-2 -181567
15standard 51 Scullin, Ryan (1737) Lost 0-2 -151552
top average opponent: 1628record: 6-7 new rating: 1552

Grand Prix Omaha 2015 (modern) starting rating: 1562
round table opponent (rating) result Δrating
3modern 230 Schousboe, Jason (1851) Won 2-1 +231585
4modern 78 Petersen, Logan (1640) Won 2-1 +191604
5modern 6 Hwang, Eugene (2053) Lost 0-2 -101594
6modern 54 Anderson, Todd (1925) Lost 0-2 -131581
7modern 119 Jansen, Jon (1559) Lost 0-2 -181563
top average opponent: 1806record: 2-3 new rating: 1563

Grand Prix Denver 2015 (KTK standard) starting rating: 1581
round table opponent (rating) result Δrating
3standard 157 Malmstrom, Robert (1535) Lost 0-2 -191562
4standard 425 Daniel, David (1741) Lost 1-2 -141548
5standard 418 Gass, Jeremy (1425) Won 2-0 +151563
6standard 316 Kot, Steven (1514) Won 2-0 +181581
7standard 173 Ernenwein, David (1540) Lost 0-2 -191562
top average opponent: 1551record: 2-3 new rating: 1562

Grand Prix New Jersey 2014 (legacy) starting rating: 1558
round table opponent (rating) result Δrating
3legacy 722 Anderson, Nathan (1756) Won 2-0 +221580
4legacy 740 Grimes, Zachary (1465) Won 2-0 +161596
5legacy 570 Fenstermaker, Dean (1703) Won 2-0 +201616
6legacy 565 Parker, Cory (1563) Lost 0-2 -191597
7legacy 618 Gardner, Michael (1609) Won 2-1 +181615
8legacy 577 Cates, Weston (1534) Lost 0-2 -191596
9legacy 605 Lloyd, Alex (1804) Lost 0-2 -151581
top average opponent: 1633record: 4-3 new rating: 1581

Grand Prix Boston-Worcester 2014 (modern) starting rating: 1417
round table opponent (rating) result Δrating
3modern 865 Gade, Brandon (1550) Won 2-1 +201437
4modern 807 Tremblay, Sebastien (1739) Lost 0-2 -121425
5modern 785 Crowley, Kevin (1552) Won 2-1 +201445
6modern 838 Greene, Brian (1415) Won 2-0 +171462
7modern 729 Lloyd, Alex (1872) Won 2-1 +251487
8modern 716 Mezhoud, Hakim (1764) Won 2-0 +231510
9modern 712 Martinez, Mario E (1678) Won 2-0 +211531
10modern 29 Kazhdan, Ben (1625) Lost 1-2 -161515
11modern 52 Seelye, Lisa (1602) Won 2-0 +201535
12modern 32 Dominguez, Javier (2033) Won 2-1 +261561
13modern 16 Li, Yuanji (1834) Won 2-0 +231584
14modern 5 Kastel, Chad (1939) Lost 0-0 -121572
15modern 14 Kvartek, Chris (1815) Lost 0-2 -141558
top average opponent: 1724record: 9-4 new rating: 1558

Grand Prix Chicago 2014 (JOU standard) starting rating: 1466
round table opponent (rating) result Δrating
3standard 68 Trawczynski, Richard (1538) Lost 0-2 -161450
4standard 243 Vida, Eli (1547) Lost 1-2 -161434
5standard 361 Semeyn, Jonathan (1502) Lost 0-0 -171417
top average opponent: 1529record: 0-3 new rating: 1417

Grand Prix Minneapolis 2014 (modern) starting rating: 1449
round table opponent (rating) result Δrating
3modern 322 See, Andrew (1447) Won 2-0 +181467
4modern 320 Nakamura, Shuhei (1954) Lost 1-2 -101457
5modern 295 Moore, Charles (1517) Won 2-0 +191476
6modern 228 Nguyen, Linh (1621) Lost 0-2 -151461
7modern 248 Berg, Kevin (1538) Won 2-0 +191480
8modern 203 Blum, Tyler (1731) Lost 0-2 -141466
top average opponent: 1635record: 3-3 new rating: 1466

Grand Prix Cincinnati 2014 (BNG standard) starting rating: 1413
round table opponent (rating) result Δrating
3standard 121 Palmer, Jason (1538) Lost 1-2 -161397
4standard 327 Berry, Adam (1504) Lost 1-2 -161381
5standard 443 Hamann, Brian (1446) Won 2-1 +191400
6standard 375 Trunk, Matthew (1522) Won 2-0 +201420
7standard 206 Kauffman, Derek (1498) Won 2-0 +201440
8standard 196 Magby, Mike (1542) Won 2-0 +201460
9standard 143 Oliver, Neal (1864) Lost 0-2 -111449
top average opponent: 1559record: 4-3 new rating: 1449

Grand Prix Richmond 2014 (modern) starting rating: 1446
round table opponent (rating) result Δrating
2modern 76 Craig, Kyle (1431) Lost 0-2 -181428
3modern 395 Weisheit, Hunter (1531) Won 2-0 +201448
4modern 290 Harter, Kevin (1445) Lost 1-2 -181430
5modern 404 Woolwine, Michael (1484) Lost 0-2 -171413
top average opponent: 1473record: 1-3 new rating: 1413

Grand Prix Dallas-Fort Worth 2013 (THS standard) starting rating: 1500
round table opponent (rating) result Δrating
1standard 255 Tamblyn, Alex (1543) Lost 0-2 -171483
2standard 403 Towery, Mack (1482) Lost 1-2 -181465
3standard 422 Vojacek-Sobczak, Sage (1434) Lost 0-2 -191446
4standard 471 Hale, Nickolas (1448) Lost 0-2 -181428
5standard 451 Tanner, Daniel (1427) Won 2-0 +181446
6standard 398 Hobson, Kyle (1447) Draw 0-0 01446
top average opponent: 1463record: 1-4-1 new rating: 1446