Hivechess Season 17 Final Results: @eniolw, @dhilan04, @agreste and @sammy00 are the Champions

Dear chess fans,

yesterday the 10^th and final round of S17 "x4" was played as a 5+1 arena tournament, with only 18 players participating. Welcome back, Hive account@iamchessguy to Hivechess!

Not entirely surprisingly, Hive account@eniolw could win the tournament effortlessly (with not much competition) with a huge lead to runner-up Hive account@iamchessguy and Hive account@dhilan04 who was third. Congrats to All!

Result table of round 10:

Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/cgWhsxMW

Season 17: 15 Dec to 23 Feb 2024 / Final Ranking:

Tournament 1 (0-1499)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@sammy00	migmag	1470	10	97	1535,8
2	Hive account@rodrook	RDcast	1490	10	82	1510,4
3(+1)	Hive account@fiona777	fiona777	1416	5	41	1539
4(-1)	Hive account@darruiz	darruiz	1371	7	39	1537,4
5	Hive account@grafo07	Grafo_07	1142	7	35	1323,7
6	Hive account@ram9612	romeo9612	1354	5	34	1543,5
7	Hive account@vasigo	vasigo	1042	8	21	1182,5
8(+2)	Hive account@brijwhiz	brijwhiz	1314	5	17	1288,5
9(-1)	Hive account@maciejficek	XM9000	1401	2	13	1668
10(-1)	Hive account@omonomo	omonomo	894	2	12	1218,5
11	Hive account@ctrpch	ctrpch	923	5	12	1126,8
12	Hive account@mypathtofire	mypathtofire	1258	4	11	1237,3
13	Hive account@yonnathang	Yonnathang	1068	1	7
14	Hive account@anomadsoul	anomadsoul	1493	1	3	1521
15	Hive account@og-gamershub	bossgaius	1011	1	1	1241
16	Hive account@purapapita	purapapita	816	1	1	1096

Tournament 2 (1500-1799)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@agreste	agreste	1836	10	118	1803,6
2	Hive account@giuatt07	guisep73	1649	10	95	1651,5
3	Hive account@lighteye	lighteye	1697	10	93	1724,6
4	Hive account@stranger27	stranger27	1724	6	54	1664,5
5	Hive account@b0s	Da_k1ng	1606	5	31	1527,3
6	Hive account@schamangerbert	HerbyW	1687	2	25	1653
7	Hive account@odic3o1	odic3o	1778	1	13	1967
8	Hive account@justfavour	justfavour	1670	1	7	1406
9	Hive account@olujay	Olu-jay	1573	1	6	1343

Tournament 3 (1800-2099)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@dhilan04	tortyllan	2036	9	173	2051,1
2	Hive account@rosmarly	rosmarly	2001	10	153	1929,8
3	Hive account@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	1953	10	144	1908,3
4	Hive account@onthewayout	onthewayout	1847	5	61	1764
5	Hive account@kintokris	jonbellionfan	2067	3	51	1931,3
6	Hive account@amirl	amirl-from-hive	1970	2	38
7	Hive account@yf95	yf95	2093	3	27	1989,5
8	Hive account@mundocuriosidad	Tonystar111	2068	2	24	1957,5
9	Hive account@yazp	zulukill	1946	1	19	2074
10(new)	Hive account@iamchessguy	iamchessguy01	1940	1	17	2172
11(-1)	Hive account@fcastro177	FCastro17	2093	1	17	2009
12(-1)	Hive account@petreius	petreius	1940	1	14

Tournament 4 (>2099)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@eniolw	eniolw	2383	7	143	2326,6
2	Hive account@samostically	ZGM_Samostically	2079	8	116	1960,3
3	Hive account@lucianosky	Pavarotty	2319	6	107	2104,5
4	Hive account@vjap55	vjap55	2129	4	67	2172,8
5	Hive account@pamboy27	pamboy27	2153	2	27	1994
6	Hive account@franu	Tz995	2193	1	16	2169
7	Hive account@jaki01	jaki01	2358	1	12	2127

For the detailed rules please refer to the announcement post.

All the results of this season are listed here (the different tiers are labelled with different colors):

Congratulations to the new champions and all participants!

Special price

The price of 5 Hive for the highest average performance in relation to the own rating goes to: Hive account@grafo07, with a differences of 257,2 rating points, ahead of Hive account@ram9612 (206,5)! Congratulations!

In addition, Hive account@anomadsoul will distribute again 500 LEO among the players (details to follow).

Season stats

In season 17 in total 44 players were participating (one player more than in S16). The average participation was with 19,7 players per round slightly better than in S16 (19,5), but significantly lower than in S15 (27,2).

No players had to change the tournament categories, but in one case it was very close! Hive account@sammy00 (migmag) had an average rating of 1499,5 and thus by a thread could keep tier 1!

The number of players who participated regularly was disappointingly low (e.g. 43,2% of players played only one or two rounds, even more than last season (39,5%)). Consequently, only 21 players (=47,7%) qualify for prices (minimum was 5 participations)! The prizepool will be about 620 Hive (last season it was 667 Hive)! Not bad given that we over the whole season haven´t gotten a single upvote by a whale. A part of the prizepool will be transferred to HBD savings, to create an additional passive income stream for future prizes! Details will be shared when the new season will be announced.

As always, all prices will be transferred in app. one week, after the payout of this post (and any other posts using Hive account@chesspricepool as beneficiary).

Thank you all for your participation & engagement (and the upvotes)!

There will be now a break, so no promises when S18 will start.

In between we will have as usual some Hivechess fun tournaments, so stay tuned and keep practicing!

And, by the way, please answer the questions, that I have asked in the previous post! They help me to figure out the plan for the next season! Many thanks to those who have already added their opinion!