Jeff Richard (Kelowna, BC) finished 2-3 in the 32-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Richard defeated Leon Romaniuk (Seattle, WA) 8-2, then went on to lose 5-3 against Randy Ferbey (St. Johns, NL). Richard lost 8-3 to British Columbia's Ron Leech where Richard responded with a 6-4 win over Andrey Drozdov (Moscow, RUS). Richard went on to lose 6-2 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN) in their final qualifying round match.
 
. For week 5 of the event schedule, Richard did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 87th to 93rd place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 14.000 total points. Richard ranks 424th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.000 points earned so far this season.