Agadmator Cakedefi Arena tournament is to be held in January of 2022. The tournament which was scheduled by chess YouTube celebrity Agadmator as an event to mark this year Christmas celebration had for the winner to take home 1BTC which is equivalent to $48000 thousand dollars in reward. This tournament which attracted a lot of chess players all over the world on lichess platform was surprisingly one of the biggest online event in chess history. However, unfortunately in few minutes into this highly talked-about game the lichess platform crashed due to the high volume of chess players participating in the tournament to the tune of over 19,000 players. I played in the tournament winning my first game and was expecting to play one of those big guys. The crashed brought everything to stand still. Whilr some people berated the lichess for incompetence when compared with chess.com but however the high volume of chess players as never seen before online was attributed to the failure of the server. The tournament which saw some tough players join the game for the price like Hikaru Nakamura with ID TSMFXH making his first debut on lichess was one of the top rated players who featured in the event and was leading as of the time the server crashed.
Agadmator in his last YouTube video has clarified that the game will be played in January either from where the game stopped or in order to reduce the number of participants, a given rating we will take him. Some folks are arguing against this as it will give not give some players privilege to play against the big stars but in order to avoid another crash, it is necessary that the number of participants be reduced to accommodate the server's capacity. Hopefully if the rating is called by 1800 I might still be in that tournament except it is made for a 2000 rated players and above.
This tournament will be a fun to watch and l look forward to how this match will span out. Hopefully some day, this hive chess community will be on world map with a competition that will attract chess lovers all over the world here too. Nothing is impossible. Thanks to 
