places with 6.5/13 ultimately ending up in 33rd place and the former ending up in a tie for 54th – 57th places with 5/13 (finished 55th place). Mascariñas played at the 2000 Vũng Tàu Zone 3.2 tournament held from May 21–29, 2000 at Vũng Tàu, Vietnam that offered two FIDE World Championship slots. The tournament was a 9-round Swiss System event with 32 players. Mascariñas finished in a tie for 3rd-8th places where he eventually finished in 3rd place and a bronze medal with a score of 6.0/9.0 just behind joint first placers GM Đào Thiên Hải of Vietnam and GM Buenaventura Villamayor of the Philippines who won gold and silver, respectively. They were the qualifiers from this zonal event. Chess Olympiad He played in eight Chess Olympiads (1976, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1992) garnering a total score of 46.5 points/82 games on the strength of 26 wins, 41 draws and 15 losses. He played Board 2 for Team Philippines from 1980–1984 and 1988 and Board 3 in 1978 and 1990 and Board 4 in 1976 as an untitled player. In the 1992 Chess Olympiad played at Manila, Philippines, he spearheaded Team Philippines "B" which tied for 38th – 44th places. His greatest moment in the history of the Chess Olympiad came at the 1982 Lucerne Olympiad where he bagged the gold medal in Board 2 going undefeated in 9 games, winning 6 and drawing 3 for a total of 7.5 points. He had a performance rating of 2615 in this Olympiad as compared to his 2410 ELO Rating at that time. In 1988 at the 28th Chess Olympiad held at Thessaloniki, Greece, he was part of Team Philippines that recorded a best-ever 7th-place finish manning Board 2. He scored 7.5 points in 13 games on the strength of 4 wins, 7 draws and 2 losses with a performance rating of 2531, way above his ELO rating then of 2455. Asian Chess Championships He also participated in eight Asian Chess Championship (1974, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1991, 1993) manning Board 2 in 1977, 1979, 1983 & 1991, Board 3 in 1981 & 1986, Board 4 in 1993 and 1st Reserve Board in 1974. In his debut in the 1974 edition held at Penang, Malaysia, he scored 3.5/4 to bag the gold medal in the 1st Reserve Board with a high performance rating of 2536. In that edition,