2nd North American Master's Tournament 1996

Title Match

	1	2	3	T
Jiang Zhujiu	0	1	1	2
Rui Naiwei	1	0	0	1

League

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	T
1. James Kerwin, 1 dan	X	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2. Janice Kim, 1 dan	0	X	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3. He Xiaoren, 5 dan	1	1	X	0	1	0	0	0	3
4. Yang Yilun, 7 dan	1	1	1	X	1	0	0	0	4
5. Huang Liping, 5 dan	1	1	0	0	X	0	0	0	2
6. Jimmy Cha, 4 dan	1	1	1	1	1	X	0	0	5
7. Michael Redmond, 8 dan	1	1	1	1	1	1	X	0	6
8. Rui Naiwei, 9 dan	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	X	7

The participation list:


 T. Zhujiu Jiang    (9 dan, China) San Francisco, CA (current title holder)
 1. Naiwei Rui      (9 dan, China) San Francisco, CA
 2. Michael Redmond (7 dan, Japan) Japan
 3. Yilun Yang      (7 dan, China) Los Angeles, CA
 4. Xiaoren He      (5 dan, China) Montreal, Canada
 5. Wang, Liping    (5 dan, China) Chicago, IL
 6. James Cha       (4 dan, Korea) Los Angeles, CA
 7. James Kerwin    (1 dan, Japan) Minneapolis, MN
 8. Janice Kim      (1 dan, Korea) New York City, NY

The 1996 North American Masters Tournament seeds are arranged based on last year's tournament results. When the result is the same, professional dan rank is used to determine the order. All new participants to the Tournament are added at the end of the list according to their respective professional dan rank, then alphabetically. The seed listing is as follows:


1. James Cha, 4 dan
2. Yilun Yang, 7 dan
3. Xiaoren He, 5 dan
4. James Kerwin, 1 dan
5. Janice Kim, 1 dan
6. Naiwei Rui, 9 dan
7. Michael Redmond, 7 dan
8. Liping Huang, 5 dan

You also might want to check the organisers' tournament coverage.

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