The Blitz event is underway with five countries participating. Each country can field two players and while Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and Philippines are represented in both the Open (Mens) and Womens competitions, Malaysia has opted only to play in the Womens.
Each match see two arbiters who also track the moves to assist any player claims together with the DGT boards which an electronic tracking for comparison and verification.
Both competitions are played as round robins, the Open (Mens) over seven rounds and the Womens over nine rounds, with players from the same country paired in round one as can be seen in the photos below with their match arbiters hard at work.
