Christopher Plys (St. Paul, USA) needed a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs, Plys finished 5-4 in the 0-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Plys defeated Markus Hoiberg (Oppdal, NOR) 7-4, then won 10-4 against Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Plys went on to lose 4-1 against Oskar Eriksson (Lit, SWE). Plys lost 6-4 to Xiuyue Ma (Harbin, CHN). Plys lost 9-4 to Mario Freiberger (Zug, SUI) where Plys responded with a 8-4 win over Kyle Smith (Perth, UK). Plys won 10-3 against Brendan Bottcher (Edmonton, CAN). Plys went on to lose 5-3 against Italy's Marco Pascale. Plys responded with a 7-4 win over Chang-Min Kim (Uiseong, KOR) in their final qualifying round match.
 
. For week 19 of the event schedule, Plys did not improve upon their best events, remaining at th place on the World Ranking Standings with total points. Plys ranks th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with points earned so far this season.