Pairing of round 1, at 9:30am of 11/03/2018
| Bo. | Fed | White Player | Pts | IDW | Result | IDB | Pts | Black Player | Fed |
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| 1 | NZL | WIM Timergazi, Layla | (0) | 7 | 0 - 1 | 1 | (0) | FM Hague, Ben | NZL |
| 2 | NZL | FM Lukey, Stephen G | (0) | 2 | 1 - 0 | 8 | (0) | Speck, Stefan | GER |
| 3 | NZL | McKerras, Ross | (0) | 9 | 0 - 1 | 3 | (0) | FM Gong, Daniel Hanwen | NZL |
| 4 | NZL | CM Dordevic, Ivan | (0) | 4 | 0F-1F | 10 | (0) | Smith, Christopher | NZL |
| 5 | NZL | Sadlier, Bailey | (0) | 11 | 0 - 1 | 5 | (0) | CM James, Jack | NZL |
| 6 | NZL | Polishchuk, Kirill | (0) | 6 | 1 - 0 | 13 | (0) | WCM Qin, Nicole Shu Yu | NZL |
| 7 | NZL | Cooper, Nigel | (0) | 14 | 1 | 0 | (0) | ( bye ) | |
| 8 | NZL | MacFarlane, Magnus | (0) | 12 | 0 | 0 | (0) | ( not paired ) | |