Hivechess Season 18 Final Results: @ram9612, @masterswatch, @stayoutoftherz and @lucianosky are the Champions

Dear chess fans,

yesterday the final round 10 of S18 was played. Only 17 players had participated in a 4+2 "marathon" (90 min.). Maybe I should have postponed it, as at the same time there was the soccer match Netherlands vs. France! Welcome to Hivechess, @spartano!

This time finally @eniolw bagged his first win this season with a perfect win rate of 100% (lacking any opponent of his level). Runner-up was @masterswatch who played surprisingly strong despite going full berserk and despite streaming the event (check it out here)! In a relatively close fight he could succeed against @rosmarly who ended up as third.
Congratulations to All!

Result table of round 10:

Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/lLBXJuWj

Season 18: 19 Apr to 21 Jun 2024 / Final Rankings:

Tournament 1 (0-1449)

Tournament 2 (1450-1749)

Tournament 3 (1750-2099)

Tournament 4 (>2099)

^{@odic3o1 was moved from tournament 3 to tournament 2 based on his average rating}

In tournament 1 @ram9612 - thanks to a strong performance in the last 2 rounds - overtook @vasigo and grabbed the top position. No changes in the podium places of the other tournaments. In no. 4 @eniolw with his win could come very close to @lucianosky, but at the end just 3 points were missing.

For the rules please refer to the announcement post.

All the results of this season are listed here (the different tiers are labelled with different colors):

Congratulations to the new champions and all participants!

Special price

The price of 5 Hive for the highest average performance in relation to the own rating goes to: @lighteye , with a differences of 183,1 rating points, ahead of @darruiz! Congratulations!

In addition, the 500 LEO sponsored by @leofinance will be again distributed to the most active players, as on Inleo engagement counts!

Season stats

In season 18 in total 42 players were participating (2 players less than in S17). The average participation was with 19,5 players per round similar than in the previous 2 seasons (19,7 and 19,5), but far lower than e.g. in S15 (27,2). So it seems that the concept of breaking it down to several tournaments of different skill levels did NOT increase the engagement.

The number of players who participated regularly was disappointingly low (e.g. 45,2% of players played only one or two rounds, that was even more than in last season (43,2%)). Since the minimum participation threshold was this season 6 rounds instead of 5, only 17 players (=40%) qualify for prices!

The prizepool from the post rewards will be about 600 Hive (last season it was 616 Hive)! Since Hive is so undervalued currently, I decided to use the opportunity and sell some HBD saved in the @chesspricepool account and add 150 Hive from there to beef it up! Details will be shared when the new season will be announced.

As always, all prizes will be transferred in app. one week, after the payout of this post (and any other posts using @badge-646464 as beneficiary). This time it will be directly staked to your accounts (selling Hive at these levels makes anyway no sense).

Thank you all for your participation & engagement (and the upvotes)!

There will be now a break during the summer, so no promises when S19 will start, most likely in Sept.

In between we will have as usual some Hivechess fun tournaments, so stay tuned and keep practicing!

Let me know in the comments, if you would like to go back to a single tournament in the next season or rather keep the different rating groups (but probably with less groups)!