The Hivechess Tournament is back - Start of Season 14 this Friday!

Dear chess fans!

The (record-breaking) prices from Season 13 were in the meantime sent to to all eligible players.
In total (rounded up) 973 Hive (currently app. 358$) plus 533 LEO have accumulated in the @chesspricepool account and were distributed among the 34 qualified participants.

Thanks a lot to all the Upvoters and Supporters!

Here is the snapshot of the final pricepool.

🏆 Payout table of Season 13 🏆

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Price (Hive)	Price (LEO)
Winner	@maestroask	Odnoobraz_bcm	2642	10	315	92,3	11.4
2nd	@sawko	CM sawkito	2409	10	301	65.8	11.4
3rd	@samostically	ZGM_Samostically	2142	10	276	48.3	11.4
4	@lucianosky	Pavarotty	2402	9	264	37,1	11,4
5	@wildthougts	Wildthougts	2258	9	246	35,2	11,4
6	@pamboy27	pamboy27	2130	10	232	33,8	11,4
7	@kintokris	jonbellionfan	1961	10	230	33,6	11,4
8	@rosmarly	rosmarly	2065	10	226	33,2	11,4
9	@eniolw	eniolw	2393	8	225	33,1	11,4
10	@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	2087	10	216	32,2	11,4
11	@tony1294	tony1294	2294	7	194	29,9	11,4
12	@iammanythings	iammanythings	2096	9	192	29,7	11,4
13	@emic	emichessmaster	2124	8	171	28,6	16,4
14	@fcastro177	FCastro17	2116	7	159	26,3	11,4
15	@vjap55	vjap55	2077	8	157	26,1	11,4
16	@stranger27	stranger27	1671	10	146	26	16,4
17	@lighteye	lighteye	1688	10	136	25	16,4
18	@b0s	Da_k1ng	1603	10	133	23,7	11,4
19	@agreste	agreste	1672	10	128	23,2	11,4
20	@petreius	petreius	1872	7	125	22,9	11,4
21	@beyondhorizonmm	beyondhorizonmm	1604	7	115	21,9	11,4
22	@rodrook	rodrook	1490	9	110	21,3	11,4
23(+2)	@schamangerbert	HerbyW	1681	7	90	19,3	11,4
24(-1)	@andzhi	andzh1	1947	4	86	19,9	16,4
25(+2)	@sammy00	migmag	1450	9	84	20,7	21,4
26(+4)	@pokerarema	ragnarokgame	1489	9	78	28,1	61,4
27(-1)	@fiona777	fiona777	1475	10	78	19,1	16,4
28(-4)	@kreur	Kreur	2086	4	75	17,8	11,4
29	@salomijale	unknownhumnabeing	1484	6	74	17,7	11,4
30(+1)	@maciejficek	XM9000	1432	8	64	16,6	11,4
35(+3)	@tin.aung.soe	TinAungSoe	1149	6	42	14,4	11,4
37(+4)	@vasigo	vasigo	1274	10	40	16,2	21,4
57(-2)	@grafo07	Grafo_07	1014	5	21	22,3	61,4
62(+6)	@mypathtofire	mypathtofire	1271	7	16	11,7	11,4
						973	533

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The Hivechess Hall of Fame

is now located here as a post collection (and includes ALL chess tournaments on Hive):
https://peakd.com/ccc/badge-646464/the-hivechess-hall-of-fame
Select "View as post" in order to see it in a better way!

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After the break Season 14 will start this Friday 2^nd Dec., 20h GMT (at the usual time)! It will go over 9 rounds and will be conducted in the classical way, well at least until round 6 😁. So read on carefully regarding the changes of the rules!

by sending 1 Hive (or HBD) to @badge-646464! Without registration, you can play but your result won´t be counted! Upfront means, if you send the fee only after the first round is played, the result of the first round still will not be counted.

The percentage of post rewards feeding the price pool stays at 70% and the @badge-646464 account will be used to accrue the rewards, so you can anytime check the size of the pricepool for yourself here. All what is there, goes straight to the S14 prices (HBD will be converted to Hive). It has already about 51 Hive (mostly from the crazy fun tournament 2 weeks ago)! Again I encourage any tournament or streaming report to set @badge-646464 as 5 or 10% beneficiary, because it is the tournament who made the report possible in first place, right? As always, any curation rewards of @badge-646464 will of course also go to the price pool!
The points for each round are distributed via the "Lighteye system", explained here!
And like in S13, the worst result in terms of tournament points from each player will NOT be counted. So if a player participates 9 times, the best 8 results will be counted, and if he is 4 times present, only the 3 best results will be counted, and players with less than 4 participations anyway are´t eligible for prices. But deleted results will still be valid for the overall performance and special price calculations.

Thanks to @leofinance and @anomadsoul, again there will be 500 LEO paid out to the participants! Really awesome!

What´s new?

The 1 Hive registration fee I had mentioned already. Unless you have sent it, your result won´t be counted in the season ranking, so don´t forget it! This is the ultimate test, if people are willing to read!

But the biggest change is that for the first time we will have a group phase and playoffs for the title. In the last seasons it was too obvious who would be the winner, wasn´t it. Therefore, after 6 rounds (and deleting the worst result), ONLY THE TOP 8 RANKED PLAYERS will enter the knockout stage and fight against each other in quarterfinals, then semifinals, and finally in the match for the champion title, while the rest of the players continues to play the remaining 3 rounds. The winner of the remaining tournament (i.e. the 9^th ranked in total) has a seat in the next season´s playoff! So it is still worthwhile to continue playing! From S15 onwards only the best 7 make it into the playoffs while the 8^th one comes from the previous season´s winner of the general field (only if he won´t be able to participate, the 8^th ranked will be the replacement).

The exact details of the playoffs will be announced later, just to give you an idea it will more or less look like this, with e.g. having the best of 5 blitz games to decide the winner of each match ( I am open to suggestions of how the matches should look like):

There will be also a new special price of 5 Hive plus 50 LEO for the best tournament report, replacing 2 of the previous special prices. If you see an awesome tournament report, give it a shoutout, tagging me, so that I won´t overlook. The report with the most positive comments gets the price. If not decisive, I will decide by myself.

Round 1

Time Mode: 4+1 (4 minutes per game, 1 sec. increment), 70 min.arena

Tournament Link: https://lichess.org/tournament/FnvvkzHR

Rules

• Players of all skill levels are welcome, from newbies to experts, you just need a free Lichess-account and join our team in Lichess here!
• Every Friday is one round.
• Registration fee is 1 Hive (or HBD), to be sent to @badge-646464
• Time mode is varying (5+0, 3+2, 2+1,...).
• The winner of each round gets the number of points equaling the number of players in that round, the second ranked one point less and so forth until the one on the bottom of the table who gets one point. In order to be counted, at least 3 games must have been played.
• In case two players have the same number of points, the one who played less rounds is first. If that is equal too, then the average tournament performance decides.
• After 6 rounds, the top 8 ranked players will enter a knockout stage to fight for the champion title, all others continue to play in 3 remaining rounds. The worst result in terms of points among the 6 (top 8) or 9 (rest) rounds will be deleted. The winner of the general section (= 9^th ranked) qualifies for the playoff of the next season!
• PAYOUT: The tournament points of the 6/9 rounds are summed up. 70% of all Hivechess-related post rewards go to the price pool (PP). The tournament winner will get 50 Hive as bonus, the prices for the other players who have entered the knockout stage will be calculated at the end of the season. The rest of the PP is divided among all players equally (40%) and according to the number of tournament points achieved (60%). Participation in 4 rounds is required in order to qualify for the prices.
• There will be a special price of 5 Hive plus 50 LEO for the highest performance in relation to the own rating (counted by averaging the rating after the first and the last round).
• There will be a special price of 5 Hive plus 50 LEO for the best tournament report of the season (can be a post, streaming of a round, podcast, whatever)!
• If I don´t know your Hive username, you won´t be considered for prices, so please let me know your Hive name in the comments! Group or badge accounts can participate but are not qualified for prices! Only individuals can get prices.

Please share this announcement among your (chess) friends and colleagues!
The more participate, the more fun! And maybe some are even interested to join Hive and it´s Chess Community?

See you all on Friday, don´t forget to register and good luck!

Potentially of interest to:
@aakrist @abimbola753 @agreste @ajumaa @alberto0607 @alexmag1988 @almightymelon @alpha @ambarvegas @anadello @andzhi @anli @anomadsoul @apy @arsenal49 @artistparthoroy @astrolabio @b0s @bechibenner @behiver @beyondhorizonmm @bitsignal @burnoutawesome @camiloferrua @cerati @chessbrotherspro @chesthetica @clixmoney @cryptogee @cryptoniusraptor @cryptoph0823 @darruiz @diegofitness92 @digitalis @ebingo @eliaschess333 @elprofe62 @emeka4 @eniolw @eenriquerivas @evgsk @fairy-of-comfort @fcastro177 @fiona777 @flaws @foxconnmars @franciscomarval @franu @gabotask @giacomone @gingerbyna @grafo07 @heimindanger @herz-ass @hierro21 @hirohurl @hivetrader @iamchessguy @iammanythings1 @ibizaki @iceblue @iobates @ironshield @jaki01 @jesusmgl1995 @jkms @johannfrare @josesmoke @juanmi96 @justfavour @kaungsett8388 @kintokris @kreur @levitant @lighteye @lofone @lucianosky @maciejficek @maestroask @marcusantoniu26 @mario89 @masterswatch @maverieux000 @meedo @mrsarri @mstafford @mypathtofire @nftland1989 @orlanzavala @oshiokhenhoya @pamboy27 @parung76 @perpz @petreius @philipp87 @pokerarema @pravesh0 @primersion @ptmaker @rafaelaquino @renerondon @rexplanet @rheda @rodrook @ropavejero @rosmarly @salomijale @samostically @sanjamkapoors @sawko @schamangerbert @schnitte @soluce07 @solymi @spacetoon @steamloled @stranger27 @syndmitrij @the01crow @thedoc07 @therealflaws @timofey @tin.aung.soe @tony1294 @tungphong @uliseshb @vaipraonde @vasigo @victorbch2 @volkiceper @vjap55 @volkiceper @walner @wegflexor @xoflox @yazp @zacherybinx
(just let me know if you don´t want to get the mentions)