Hivechess Tournament S20 Round 8: The usual winner but a surprise p...

Dear chess fans,

yesterday the 8^th round of S20 was played, 2/3 of the season is played out already! For the rules please refer to the announcement post. It was a 5+0 blitz arena with a record participation of 30 players of an average rating of 1739 (the second-highest this season, 10 out of 30 players had a rating of >2000)!

There was the usual gap between our IM serial winner and the runner-up, in this case Hive account@fcastro177 who had not such a good result since round 1. Just one point behind him a surprise player joined the podium - Hive account@zacherybinx (sirtetris) who was not seen on Hivechess since season 9, 3½ years ago! Welcome back! Ranks 4 and 5 went to Hive account@kintokris and Hive account@dhilan04. Apart from the top position the ranks 2 to 5 were only separated by 2 points, so again a fiercely combated round! Congrats to All!

Result table of round 8:

Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/Q0z7BGFE

Season 20: 31 Jan to 25 Apr 2025 / Ranking after 8 (of 12) rounds:

Tournament 1 (<1500)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance

1	Hive account@sammy00	migmag	BIH	1417	8	95	1464,2
2	Hive account@fiona777	fiona777	UKR	1420	7	56	1475,8
3	Hive account@rodrook	RDcast	USA	1353	8	53	1411,2
4	Hive account@darruiz	darruiz	VEN	1467	7	43	1474,8
5(+3)	Hive account@vasigo	vasigo	SRB	1291	5	16	1361
6(-1)	Hive account@uniforced	uniforced	DEU	1425	2	14	1679,5
7	Hive account@sahi1	sahi1-chess	PAK	1263	4	14	1314,7
8(-2)	Hive account@teooo	teoooForHive	LTU		1	13
9	Hive account@seki1	oghogho123		961	2	9	1476
10(-3)	Hive account@konquest	Kon_1	NZL	1066	3	8	1432,3
11	Hive account@dovycola	Dovycola		1016	3	6	1074,3
12(neu)	Hive account@yonnathang	Yonnathang	VEN	1178	1	5	1477
13(-1)	Hive account@katerinaramm	katerinaramm	GRC	880	3	4	1036
14(-1)	Hive account@techstyle	Techstyle			1	3
15(neu)	Hive account@roswelborges	Roswel		1292	1	2	1236
14(+1)	Hive account@elcholitosanto	RicardoFox	PER		1	1

Tournament 2 (1500-1899)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance

1	Hive account@lighteye	lighteye	SRB	1729	8	118	1833
2	Hive account@justfavour	justfavour	NGA	1732	8	116	1802,3
3	Hive account@giuatt07	guisep73		1684	8	104	1598
4(+1)	Hive account@justola1	just-ola	NGA	1679	8	93	1712
5(-1)	Hive account@rafaelaquino	ajedrezclub2t	VEN	1532	6	88	1502,3
6	Hive account@stranger27	stranger27	UKR	1655	7	83	1726,2
7	Hive account@masterswatch	Masterswatch	GER	1709	6	74	1696
8	Hive account@odic3o1	odic3o	VEN	1705	4	42	1652,3
9(+2)	Hive account@jay12y	Jay12y		1755	3	31	1787
10(-1)	Hive account@anomadsoul	anomadsoul			1	21
11(-1)	Hive account@olujay	Olu-jay	NGA	1487	2	21	1514,5
12(+3)	Hive account@grigorijj	grigorijjj	POL	1741	2	19	1722
13(-1)	@bOs	Da_k1ng	NGA	1606	2	17	1567
14(neu)	Hive account@johannfrare	johannfrare	VEN	1636	1	13	1570
15(-2)	Hive account@schamangerbert	HerbyW	GER		1	10
16(-2)	Hive account@yinjuolu	Yetundefemii	NGA	1879	2	9	2064

Tournament 3 (1900+)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance

1	Hive account@maestroask	Odnoobraz_bcm		2512	8	195	2298,2
2	Hive account@dhilan04	tortyllan		2073	8	167	2030,3
3	Hive account@franu	Tz995	BIH	2118	8	160	2064,8
4	Hive account@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	AUT	2073	8	155	1989,7
5(+1)	Hive account@kintokris	jonbellionfan	NGA	2227	7	150	2112,2
6(-1)	Hive account@rosmarly	rosmarly	VEN	2004	8	148	1945,8
7	Hive account@samostically	ZGM_Samostically	NGA	2115	7	120	1937
8	Hive account@fcastro177	FCastro17	VEN	2062	6	112	2005,8
9	Hive account@maverieux000	Keylix		2007	4	77	2038,3
10	Hive account@kreur	Kreur	CZE	2165	2	31	2027
11(neu)	Hive account@zacherybinx	sirtetris	USA	2045	1	28	1977
12(-1)	Hive account@mundocuriosidad	Tonystar111	VEN		2	22
13(-1)	Hive account@lucianosky	Pavarotty	NGA	2324	1	18	2061
14(-1)	Hive account@ropavejero	ropavejero	VEN		1	9