The Lichess Liga Team Battle is back - Start is this Sunday!

Dear chessfans!

The prizes from Season 20 were in the meantime sent to the players. In total the record-sum of 1450 (rounded up by me) Hive have accumulated in the @badge-646464 account and were distributed among the 22 qualified participants.

Thanks a lot to all the upvoters and supporters (and of course @yabapmatt)!

Here is the snapshot of the final prizepool of S20:

🏆 Payout table of Season 20 🏆

Tournament 1 (<1500)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Prize

Winner	@sammy00	migmag	BIH	1436	12	135	100
2^nd	@rodrook	RDcast	USA	1438	12	90	80
3^rd	@fiona777	fiona777	UKR	1452	11	86	60
4	@darruiz	darruiz	VEN	1467	9	54	32,4
5	@vasigo	vasigo	SRB	1356	9	27	27,2
6	@sahi1	sahi1-chess	PAK	1329	6	23	19

Tournament 2 (1500-1899)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance

Winner	@justfavour	justfavour	NGA	1693	12	167	120
2^nd	@giuatt07	guisep73		1641	12	157	100
3^rd	@lighteye	lighteye	SRB	1606	12	148	80
4	@masterswatch	Masterswatch	GER	1687	10	139	50,5
5	@justola1	just-ola	NGA	1666	12	139	55,4
6	@stranger27	stranger27	UKR	1600	11	124	50,2
7	@rafaelaquino	ajedrezclub2t	VEN	1641	8	107,8	39,6
8	@odic3o1	odic3o	VEN	1732	6	56	25,2

Tournament 3 (1900+)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Price

Winner	@maestroask	Odnoobraz_bcm		2533	12	288	120
2^nd	@franu	Tz995	BIH	2018	12	241	100
3^rd	@kintokris	jonbellionfan	NGA	2221	11	238	80
4	@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	AUT	2018	12	225	71,4
5	@rosmarly	rosmarly	VEN	1920	12	222	70,9
6	@dhilan04	tortyllan		2090	10	205	62,8
7	@fcastro177	FCastro17	VEN	2038	10	179	57,9
8	@samostically	ZGM_Samostically	NGA	2159	9	136	47,5

The Hivechess Hall of Fame

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While we have a break from the classical Friday´s Hivechess seasons (we had 20 of them so far - what a number!), there is nothing which could stop us from playing chess on Hive!

The Lichess Liga Team Battle is back! We had it already in 2023, here you can read more about it.

Just as a quick reminder, in this tournament format it is not about playing against each other (in fact we Hivians won´t be even paired against each other!). In the Lichess Liga Team Battle it is all about our Blockchain chess team against other teams! It starts this Sunday 1^st June, 18h GMT, so one hour earlier than usually.

Can we as a global chess team - built mostly by a common interest in Hive - compete against other teams who mostly come from traditional chess clubs?

Those tournemants are organized by Lichess moderator FM jeffforever and are conducted 2 times per week (every Thursday and Sunday), with varying time formats. It is ongoing since 2020(!), with app. 500 teams and >4000 players participating each time and dozens of leages in parallel! The highest possible liga is the "Lichess Bundesliga". There are often IMs and FMs as team leaders, so expect some strong opponents. But don´t be afraid, on the higher board numbers there are less experienced players, so in fact the teams are often as heterogeneous as our is.

There is no registration for you needed. We start this Sunday in liga 5A - which is huge. Last time we had started in liga 12 and fought our way up until liga 6. This time there was a free slot in liga 5, so it will be a tough start for us. I urge some strong players to join, if possible! But not only the strong ones! The more from our team participate, the higher our chances will be to get a good result and improve in the rankings. E.g. if we end up in the top 3, we will be in liga 4 next time! If we make it to rank 8 only, we will be downgraded to liga 6, as can be seen on the left side of the tournament page:

https://lichess.org/tournament/28NJ6YmQ

The rules:

Everybody in our Lichess team can join using the link to the tournament (pick the blockchain chess team if asked 😃, in case you are part of multiple teams) and if you are not in our team yet, you can join anytime!

Every Thursday and Sunday are tournaments that last 1h40min

The results of the 8 best contributors of each team (i.e. the "scorers") are counted in this liga (but all skill levels are important, because each win means potentially less points for the other teams!)

Bonus: Every participant in the Team Liga (min. 5 games played) will get a one-time bonus of 3 points in the upcoming Hivechess season 21, all scorers 5 and topscorers will get even 10 points!

Payout: Each week all scorers will get 1 or 2 Hive (depending if you played once or twice that week) directly sent in their wallet!

Mode: 3+0 (3 minutes per game, no increment), 140 min. rated arena, win streaks & berserk allowed

Tournament Link: https://lichess.org/tournament/28NJ6YmQ

So please give it a try and lets show the Lichessers around the globe that there is an awesome team dedicated to blockchain and Hive! How far can we get?

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