Thirteen Chess960 Hivechess Tournament Results

Hello everyone.
Yesterday we finished our 13th Chess960 Hivechess Tournament. It was last round of Chess960 in 2025. There is time to think about possible continuation of Chess960 in 2026 and January. I appreciate everyone that joined the Tournaments through out the 13 rounds. Small changes were done along the way regarding time and prizes in Tournament and any additional ideas and suggestions are always welcome.
There are some additional prizes for overall number of wins in 2025.

Top 5 of the Tournament and prize winners

Winner of December edition is Hive account@maestroask (IM Odnoobraz). No loss this round and only one draw. This was his fifth win this year in Chess960 Tournament and he gets additional 10 Hive for most wins for year 2025.
Congratulations.

Runner up of this round is Hive account@stayoutoftherz (stayoutoftherz). Another good performance with only one loss. Hive account@stayoutoftherz has second most wins in Tournament with 3 Round wins. Additional 5 Hive for the second place overall. Congratulations.

Hive account@jaki01 (jaki01) was third this round. After win in November edition another good finish with third place. Congratulations.

Hive account@fcastro177 (FCastro17) was at fourth and Hive account@dhilan04 (tortyllan) even though joined late manage to grab 5th place. Congratulations.

Biggest upset reward goes to Hive account@fiona777 (fiona777)with two biggest upset - win against myself (migmag) with 200 Elo difference and wins against Hive account@inuke (inuke_2025) whose rating was not yet set at that time but Elo difference was more than 310 points. Congratulations.

Final standings of 13th Chess960 Hivechess Tournament

Tournament link
https://lichess.org/tournament/I82AmKfl

Rewards

Most wins of the year in the Chess960 Hivechess Tournament gets 10 Hive and runner up gets 5 Hive.

Since it was last round of 2025 all participant of this round will get rewards with 16th and 17th place getting 1 Hive as well. Also minimum game played for this round is one so everyone gets rewards.
Top 17 gets rewards.
Top 3 ranked players get 3 Hive each.
4th and 5th place gets get 2 Hiv each.
From 6 to 17th place gets 1 Hive each.

Top 5 players rewards:
First place 5 Hive, second place 4 Hive, third place 3 Hive, fourth place 2 Hive and fifth place 1 Hive.

1 Hive for biggest upset of the tournament.
Additional 1 Hive for all wins- at least 7 games played

Rewards for the December edition of Chess960

Winners of 13th round of Chess960 and 2025 Chess960 winners.