Hivechess Season 20 Final Results: @sammy00, @justfavour and @maestroask are the Champions

Dear chess fans,

yesterday the final round of S20 was played! It was a 6+0 arena tournament over 80 minutes with 24 players.

@maestroask won yet another time with quite a lead, followed by @kintokris and @zacherybinx. Congratulations to All!

It was once more tough pairings for me, my average opponent rating was 2019(!), hundreds of points higher than for most of the other players. This inequality even in long lasting arenas is really annoying.

Result table of round 12:

Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/24AWodtd

Season 20: 31 Jan to 25 Apr 2025 / Final Standings:

Tournament 1 (<1500)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	@sammy00	migmag	BIH	1436	12	135	1488,6
2	@rodrook	RDcast	USA	1438	12	90	1493,1
3	@fiona777	fiona777	UKR	1452	11	86	1491,6
4	@darruiz	darruiz	VEN	1467	9	54	1474,8
5	@uniforced	uniforced	DEU	1468	5	45	1631,5
6	@vasigo	vasigo	SRB	1356	9	27	1369,5
7	@sahi1	sahi1-chess	PAK	1329	6	23	1384
8(+1)	@roswelborges	Roswel		1292	2	16	1236
9(+1)	@seki1	oghogho123		961	2	9	1476
10(+1)	@konquest	Kon_1	NZL	1066	3	8	1432,3
11(+1)	@dovycola	Dovycola		1016	3	6	1074,3
12(+1)	@yonnathang	Yonnathang	VEN	1178	1	5	1477
13(+1)	@anli	andli19			1	5
14(+2)	@techstyle	Techstyle	1029		2	4	1082
15	@katerinaramm	katerinaramm	GRC	880	3	4	1036
16(+1)	@elcholitosanto	RicardoFox	PER		1	1

Tournament 2 (1500-1899)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	@justfavour	justfavour	NGA	1693	12	167	1786,6
2	@giuatt07	guisep73		1641	12	157	1589,6
3	@lighteye	lighteye	SRB	1606	12	148	1760
4(+1)	@masterswatch	Masterswatch	GER	1687	10	139	1692,6
5(-1)	@justola1	just-ola	NGA	1666	12	139	1706,9
6	@stranger27	stranger27	UKR	1600	11	124	1658,3
7	@rafaelaquino	ajedrezclub2t	VEN	1641	8	107,8	1551,4
8	@odic3o1	odic3o	VEN	1732	6	56	1680,8
9(-1)	@teooo	teoooForHive	LTU	1512	3	34	1642
10(-1)	@jay12y	Jay12y		1755	3	31	1787
11(-1)	@olujay	Olu-jay	NGA	1512	4	30	1570,7
12(-1)	@anomadsoul	anomadsoul			1	21
13(-1)	@schamangerbert	HerbyW	GER	1668	2	19	1808
14(-1)	@grigorijj	grigorijjj	POL	1741	2	19	1722
15(-1)	@bOs	Da_k1ng	NGA	1606	2	17	1567
16(-1)	@johannfrare	johannfrare	VEN	1636	2	15	1570
17(-1)	@yinjuolu	Yetundefemii	NGA	1879	2	9	2064
18(-1)	@duskobgd	duskobgd	SRB	1532?	2	9	1609

Tournament 3 (1900+)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	@maestroask	Odnoobraz_bcm		2533	12	288	2307,6
2	@franu	Tz995	BIH	2018	12	241	2071,5
3	@kintokris	jonbellionfan	NGA	2221	11	238	2125,9
4	@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	AUT	2018	12	225	2002,3
5	@rosmarly	rosmarly	VEN	1920	12	222	1895,5
6	@dhilan04	tortyllan		2090	10	205	2045,6
7	@fcastro177	FCastro17	VEN	2038	10	179	2016,6
8	@samostically	ZGM_Samostically	NGA	2159	9	136	1942,8
9	@maverieux000	Keylix		2007	5	100	2038,3
10(+1)	@zacherybinx	sirtetris	USA	2104	2	51	1960
11(-1)	@kreur	Kreur	CZE	2165	2	31	2027
12	@mundocuriosidad	Tonystar111	VEN		2	22
13	@eniolw	eniolw	VEN	2431	1	19	2075
14	@lucianosky	Pavarotty	NGA	2324	1	18	2061
15	@ropavejero	ropavejero	VEN		1	9

^{@teooo had switched from t1 to t2 due to rating}
For the rules please refer to the announcement post.

No changes anymore in the top positions. In tournament 1 only 3 players had enough rounds played to create a chance for a podium place. In tournament 2 the catching up of @masterswatch came too late and @lighteye could keep his third rank despite a bit wonky performance in his last round.

All the results of this season you can look up here (the different tiers are labelled with different colors):

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Congratulations to the new (old) champions but also to all participants for playing, engaging and upvoting!

Season stats

In season 20 in total 49 players were participating (11 players more than in S19 💪), also the average participation per round was with 24,2 players per round significantly higher than in the previous seasons. The trend goes definitely in the right direction!


The average rating of players was 1678 in this season (compared to 1632 in S19), tournament 3 was indeed much more competitive than in S19!

The number of players who participated regularly was not overwhelming this season (35% of players played only one or two rounds). Because of this and the minimum participation threshold of 6/12 rounds, only 22 players (45%) qualify for prices (last season it was at least 55%)! On the other hand, 10 players, almost twice as much as in S19 had played all 12 rounds - that´s the right spirit!

The prizepool from the post rewards and thanks to the generous gift from @yabapmatt will be 1450 Hive (last season it was 960 Hive)! As always, all prizes will be transferred in app. 10 days, after the payout of this post (and any other posts using @badge-646464 as beneficiary).

Thank you all for your participation & engagement! Without you we could not run this tournament!

There will be now a break, but watch out for some fun tournaments and the monthly chess 960 tournaments from @sammy00 - the next one is in fact today!!

What do you think about battling again in the Lichess Team Liga with our Blockchain team? 2 years ago we have already done this and I think it was a lot of fun (you can read about it here).
Scorers (and occasionally all participants) would get credited points for S21 which could make a real difference in the standings, and get paid out Hive each round (and besides it would create much less work for me as organizer😅).

Let me know in the comments if you are interested!

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