Hivechess Tournament Season 14 Round 6: A big surprise for the quarter finals!

Dear chess fans,

in the sixth round of S14 we had a 6+1 arena tournament with 17 players again. 2 more players (emprendemesta, Hive account@johannfrare) did not register in time and weren´t counted!

In a weaker field (players like Hive account@sawko, Hive account@eniolw, Hive account@vjap55 or Hive account@samostically were missing) Hive account@maestroask (Odnoobraz_bcm) had as expected a perfect score against his opponents who had an average rating score of 1831 (so 775 rating points difference!) and could gain an easy win. Hive account@rosmarly was runner-up (I think her best result in Hivechess so far! Well done!), closely followed by Hive account@lucianosky (Pavarotty), ex aequo in points. Behind them were Hive account@fcastro177 as fourth and Hive account@emic as fivth. Congratulations!

Result table of round 6:

Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/O3il1FCT

According to the rules, after this round it is decided who will be the Top8 proceeding to the knockout stage! For this I had to substract the worst result from each player ("strike" at the right border of the table) and - big surprise - the following 8 players are the ones:

Hive account@lighteye as 7^th and Hive account@stranger27 as 8^th could last minute overtake the much more favored Hive account@sawko, thanks to the lower point reduction and due to more participations. Congratulations to both! The race for place 2 was extremly close, with Hive account@rosmarly catching up in this round due to her excellent 2^nd place, but just the slightly lower average performance prevented her from overtaking me.

Just as a reminder, those are the pairings in the upcoming quarterfinals, as described in the announcement post of S14:

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For all others, these are the standings (with the strike results added back, they will count only after round 9 again). Just as a reminder, the winner (ranked 9 in the table) will get a seat in the quarterfinals of the next season!

Season 14: 02 Dec to 27 Jan 2023 / Ranking after 6 rounds:

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
?	Hive account@maestroask	Odnoobraz_bcm	2606
?	Hive account@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	2028
?	Hive account@rosmarly	rosmarly	2048
?	Hive account@emic	emichessmaster	2161
?	Hive account@lucianosky	Pavarotty	2323
?	Hive account@fcastro177	FCastro17	2117
?	Hive account@lighteye	lighteye	1717
?	Hive account@stranger27	stranger27	1610
9(-2)	Hive account@vjap55	vjap55	2110	3	59	2109,7
10(-2)	Hive account@wildthougts	Wildthougts	2215	3	56	2131,7
11(-2)	Hive account@sawko	CM sawkito	2353	3	55	2259,3
12(+1)	Hive account@rodrook	rodrook	1471	6	50	1590,7
13(-1)	Hive account@agreste	agreste	1739	4	43	1795,8
14(+3)	Hive account@maciejficek	XM9000	1452	6	42	1559,8
15	Hive account@b0s	Da_k1ng	1581	4	41	1786
16(-2)	Hive account@eniolw	eniolw	2383	2	40	2273,5
17(+4)	Hive account@schamangerbert	HerbyW	1755	4	39	1786,3
18	Hive account@tin.aung.soe	TinAungSoe	1276	6	34	1496
19(+1)	Hive account@fiona777	fiona777	1429	6	34	1486,5
20(-4)	Hive account@kreur	Kreur	2136	2	32	2154
21(-2)	Hive account@kintokris	jonbellionfan	1913	2	30	1783
22	Hive account@sammy00	migmag	1468	4	22	1532,8
23	Hive account@samostically	ZGM_Samostically	2129	1	21	2026
24	Hive account@nikoszzz	nikoszzz	1980	2	21	1940,5
25	Hive account@iammanythings	iammanythings	2120	1	19	1983
26	Hive account@anomadsoul	anomadsoul	1471	2	18	1719
27(+1)	Hive account@vasigo	vasigo	1193	6	17	1217,3
28(+3)	Hive account@pravesh0	pravesh007	1714	2	15	1702,5
29(-1)	Hive account@sanjamkapoors	SanjamKapoors	1448	2	15	1615,5
30(+1)	Hive account@mypathtofire	mypathtofire	1251	5	12	1342,8
31(-2)	Hive account@salomijale	unknownhumnabeing	1500	2	11	1336,5

The rules you can look up in the S14 announcement post.

See you all next week for the 7^th round and simultaneously the quarterfinals!