Daniel Alex Kim (Almaty, KAZ) finished 0-9 in the 10-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Kim lost 7-1 to Aaron Squires (Kitchener-Waterloo, CAN), droppimg another game, 8-1 to Gustav Eskilsson (Skelleftea, SWE). Kim lost 10-2 to Lukas Klima (Prague, CZE). Kim lost 7-3 to Kohsuke Hirata (Kitami, JPN). Kim lost 10-1 to Bruce Mouat (Stirling, UK). Kim lost 13-2 to Se Hyeon Seong (Uiseong, KOR). Kim lost 8-0 to Steffen Walstad (Oslo, NOR). Kim lost 8-1 to Alexey Timofeev (Moscow, RUS). Kim lost 10-4 to Alex Leichter (Boston, USA) in their final qualifying round match.
 
. For week 25 of the event schedule, Kim did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 624th to 634th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 0.169 total points. Kim ranks 739th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 0.000 points earned so far this season.