The 3rd “Cidade de Nova Petropolis” Open will take place on 22nd-24th February at the Centro de Eventos de Nova Petrópolis in Brazil.
The tournament will be validated by FIDE. It will be a 6-round Swiss Open with a time control of 90 minutes for the whole game plus an increment of 30 seconds from the first move.
The total prize fund will amount to 4.200 Brazilian Rs (approx. 2.200 USD), with 1.000 Rs reserved for the winner.
56 players have signed up to participate. IM Evandro Barbosa will be the first seed, followed by IM Roberto Molina and Serbian IM Dragan Stamenkovic.
Evandro Barbosa is the current U20 South-american champion
Participants:
| 1 | IM | Barbosa Evandro Amorim | 2422 |
| 2 | IM | Molina Roberto Junio Brito | 2414 |
| 3 | IM | Stamenkovic Dragan | 2373 |
| 4 | FM | Menna Barreto Luiz Ney | 2325 |
| 5 | Menna Barreto Felipe Kubiaki | 2285 | |
| 6 | Borges Rodrigo Da Silva | 2236 | |
| 7 | FM | Gauche Charles | 2227 |
| 8 | Cordeiro Marco Aurelio Zaror | 2215 | |
| 9 | Burgos Marcelo Alves | 2194 | |
| 10 | Silva Eduardo Munoa | 2190 | |
| 11 | FM | De Souza Haro Paulo Cezar | 2155 |
| 12 | Chemin Justo Reinaldo | 2149 | |
| 13 | Iurk Jonel Nazareno | 2086 | |
| 14 | Lazzarotto Marcio | 2062 | |
| 15 | Pertuzatti Daniel | 2014 | |
| 16 | Pasini Iuri Alan | 1994 | |
| 17 | Zimmermann Kleber Renato P. | 1981 | |
| 18 | Martins Anderson Donay | 1927 | |
| 19 | Waltercler Hille | 1923 | |
| 20 | Silva Jurandir Chuchene | 1895 | |
| 21 | Boabaid Jorge Alberto Duardes | 1880 | |
| 22 | Amaral Rogerio Einloft Do | 1876 | |
| 23 | Borges Leonardo Fernando | 1826 | |
| 24 | Togni Everton Batista | 1815 | |
| 25 | Pimenta Elisandro Da Silva | 1780 | |
| 26 | Hille Willian Henrique | 1775 | |
| 27 | Silva Airton Dias Da | 1742 | |
| 28 | Fontella Amanda Karsburg | 1729 | |
| 29 | Bidigaray Marcio | 1679 | |
| 30 | Waltercler Hille Junior | 1677 | |
| 31 | Boeira Dimitri Ariel Pires | 1630 | |
| 32 | Klein Gilberto Antonio | 0 | |
| 33 | Backes Jorge Henrique | 0 | |
| 34 | Boff Andre Ricardo | 0 | |
| 35 | Juliano Joao Carlos Mazzini | 0 | |
| 36 | Senger Marcelo | 0 | |
| 37 | Teixeira Guilherme Vargas | 0 | |
| 38 | Brandt Ladir Albano Becker | 0 | |
| 39 | Cordeiro Yan Henrique | 0 | |
| 40 | Jeismann Leonardo Birk | 0 | |
| 41 | Dorli Ramsés Rosa | 0 | |
| 42 | Morais Bruno Rodrigues De | 0 | |
| 43 | Ramos Wilian Soares | 0 | |
| 44 | Benevenga Antonio | 0 | |
| 45 | Schilling Ian Fischer | 0 | |
| 46 | Ossi Antonio Afonso De Freita | 0 | |
| 47 | Bellé Diogo Leonardo | 0 | |
| 48 | Moreira Marcos Paulo | 0 | |
| 49 | Jeismann Carlos Jose Quaresma | 0 | |
| 50 | Mentges Antonio Esidio | 0 | |
| 51 | Abrahao Kalil | 0 | |
| 52 | Dillenburg Alberto Francisco | 0 | |
| 53 | Henz Nicole Regina | 0 | |
| 54 | Neumann José Verner | 0 | |
| 55 | Vestena Luiza Panisson | 0 | |
| 56 | Vitor Volker Gans | 0 |
