The Melbourne Masters, a 9-round GM single round-robin tournament is taking place from December, in Melbourne, Australia.
The venue is non other than the historical Melbourne Chess Club, celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2016, and with the following list of participants, averaging 2443, it will be Category 8 with 6.5/9 required for a GM norm.
Participants: GM Arturs Neiksans, Latvia, 2603, IM Max Illingworth, Australia, 2499, GM Vasily Papin, Russia, 2497, IM Anton Smirnov, Australia, 2463, IM Kanan Izzat, Azerbaijan, 2456, GM Darryl Johansen, Australia, 2427, IM Bobby Cheng, Australia, 2419, IM James Morris, Australia, 2407, FM Luke Li, New Zealand, 2332 and IM Ari Dale, Australia, 2331.