2012 U.S. Junior Closed Championship
The 2012 U.S. Junior Closed Championship was a 16-player event consisting of two eight-player round robins followed by a two-game “Championship Match” between the winners of each.
Players were ordered by rating (March USCF rating supplement) and seeded into the round robins as follows:
| ROUND ROBIN 1 | ||||
| No. | Title | Last Name | First Name | March Rating |
| 1 | IM | Holt | Conrad | 2580 |
| 2 | IM | Yang | Darwin | 2523 |
| 3 | FM | Shen | Victor | 2510 |
| 4 | FM | Getz | Alec | 2412 |
| 5 | NM | Fisher | Will | 2405 |
| 6 | FM | Xiong | Jeffrey | 2369 |
| 7 | NM | Shetty | Atulya | 2323 |
| 8 | NM | Michaelides | Matthew | 2179 |
| Average | 2412.6 | |||
| ROUND ROBIN 2 | ||||
| No. | Title | Last Name | First Name | March Rating |
| 1 | IM | Arnold | Marc | 2560 |
| 2 | IM | Naroditsky | Daniel | 2548 |
| 3 | NM | Perez | Robert | 2483 |
| 4 | FM | Rosen | Eric | 2425 |
| 5 | NM | Sturt | Raven | 2401 |
| 6 | FM | Troff | Kayden | 2392 |
| 7 | NM | Williams | Justus | 2314 |
| 8 | NM | Cao | Kevin | 2233 |
| Average | 2419.5 | |||
ITiebreaks to determine which player would advance to the Championship Match were as follows: 1. Direct Encounter, 2. Most Blacks, 3. Koya System, 4. Sonneborn-Berger, 5. Won Games
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