After two days of eliminations on Friday and Saturday, eight players successfully advanced to the quarter finals on Sunday 21 July 2024 in the ongoing PCAP Champions Tour at Greenhills Malls in San Juan City, Philippines.
Qualified are IM Daniel Quizon (total of 9 match points, FM Ellan Asuela (8.5 match points), FM Austin Jacob Literatus (7.5 match points), IM Kim Steven Yap (7.0 match points), GM Rogelio “Joey” Antonio Jr. (6.0 match points), IM Joel Banawa (5.5 match points), Kevin Arquero (5.5 match points), and IM Chito Garma(4.0 match points).
Garma makes it to the Final eight after Antonio defeated Mark Kevin Labog on Sunday. Garma and Labog finished identical 4.0 match points, but Garma took the last spot with a better direct encounter tie break. Earlier, GAB chairman Atty. Francisco Rivera, PCAP chairman Michael Angelo Ong Chua, PCAP founder and commissioner Atty. Paul Elauria led the opening rites on Friday. -Marlon Bernardino-