I'm not sure what tournament it is, but the possible suggestions are >>
1. He had his account bannedÂ
2. He was found to be cheating.
3. Maybe he withdrew? Not sure if you still advance to the next round if you do.
4. He was removed from the tournament by the Tournament director.
So there I was searching through the chess.com tournament for players inbetween 1400-1600 because I am playing in them. Oddly I saw a guy (Barloke) who had 9 wins and the next highest guy (Jk7) in his bracket only had 8 wins, yet the guy with 8 got to progress on in the tournament-is there a reason for this? I just don't understand why.