Hivechess Tournament Season 3 end results: The winner is @jaki01

Dear Chessfriends,

yesterday the last 2 rounds of the Hivechess Tournament season 3 were played, first a 3+0 round, followed by a blitz Swiss Tournament.

In the 3+0 arena round we were 10 players (Hive account@pereu4ivatel (drakOnb) seemed to have connection problems and couldn´t play a game). Hive account@sawko (sawkito) was unstoppable and won with a incredible gap of 26 points to the second, myself. He won all his games except just once I could draw against him (due to a fatal premove😁). Third was Hive account@yazp (zulukill) and behind him Hive account@maciejficek (XM9000) as 4^th and, very close, Hive account@schamangerbert (HerbyW) with a 5^th place and his best result in this season. The remaining tournament points went to Hive account@vjap55, Hive account@zacherybinx (sirtetris) and Hive account@rodrook.

The games of this round can be found here, in case you want to replay some of them.

Directly afterwards the final round was played as a 5+0 Swiss tournament with 7 rounds. We were 9 players (10, but this time Hive account@franciscomarval (lestatblack) didn´t make a move). It was the round with the highest average rating of this season, 1877! Again noboby could challange Hive account@sawko (sawkito) who won undefeated. Only the second, Hive account@zacherybinx (sirtetris) could achieve a draw against him. Third was again Hive account@yazp (zulukill) and I got the 4^th rank, followed by Hive account@vjap55. Sixth was Hive account@alberto0607 with his best result so far! Hive account@rodrook could get 2 points and the 8^th rank went to Hive account@pereu4ivatel (drakOnb) who only could play two games. The problem with Swiss tournaments in small groups is that - since a rematching of the same opponents is forbidden - weaker players have to play against all the top players. A pity that not more players have attended.

The games of this round can be found here.

Congratulations to the double winner Hive account@sawko (sawkito). He could repeat what Hive account@jaki01 could accomplish in the first season. By the way, Hive account@jaki01 was missing today and had previously - as a sad surprise for all of us - announced to do a break from Hive. I hope he will participate nevertheless in future Hivechess tournaments.

Season 3 "Autumn": 11 Sep to 13 Nov 2020 / Final Standing:

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Rating	Rounds played	Points
First	Hive account@jaki01	jaki01	2311	9	67
Second	Hive account@yazp	zulukill	1980	11	62
Third	Hive account@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	1991	11	54
4	Hive account@zacherybinx	sirtetris	1999	8	33
5	Hive account@pereu4ivatel	drakOnb	1838	10	25
6 (+5)	Hive account@sawko	sawkito	2388	3	24
7 (-1)	Hive account@eniolw	eniolw	2250	4	18
8 (-1)	Hive account@rafaelaquino	ajedrezclub2t	1712	8	16
9	Hive account@rodrook	rodrook	1440	11	16
10 (-2)	Hive account@franciscomarval	lestatblack	1841	5	14
11 (+4)	Hive account@vjap55	vjap55	2027	3	12
12 (+1)	Hive account@maciejficek	XM9000	1521	8	12
13 (-3)	Hive account@evgsk	evgchess	1606	5	11
14 (-2)	Hive account@kreur	Kreur	2037	3	7
15 (+3)	Hive account@schamangerbert	HerbyW	1669	7	7
16 (+1)	Hive account@alberto0607	alberto_0607	1587	7	7
17 (-3)	Hive account@iobates	iobates	2027	1	6
18 (-2)	Hive account@uliseshb	UlisesHB	1896	1	4
19	Hive account@sammy00	migmag	1406	4	1
20	Hive account@ambarvegas	Milagritsos	1709	1	0
21	Hive account@foxconnmars	Foxconn_Mars	1989	1	0
22	Hive account@heimindanger	skzap	2176	1	0
23	Hive account@darruiz	darruiz	1203	2	0

^{From m8loss, and jonbellionfan I don´t have a Hive name and thus they were not counted, Hive account@parung76 and Hive account@catto000 were also taken out, as they didn´t play a single game}

Hive account@jaki01 is again the expected winner of this season with 67 points! Congratulations! Hive account@yazp (zulukill) who played very strong as well, took the deserved second rank and I got this time the third rank only. Some strong players like Hive account@sawko, Hive account@eniolw and Hive account@zacherybinx were ranked lower due to having played much less rounds, so in future it could look very different if they would play more often.
Due to the double win today, Hive account@sawko jumped to the 6^th rank, also his brother, Hive account@vjap55 could gain some places. Otherwise no surprises and big changes in the ranks. Funnily, this time it was very close between the 15^th and the 16^th, Hive account@schamangerbert and Hive account@alberto0607. Both are same in points and participations, so the average tournament performance had to decide: 1643,0 for Hive account@schamangarbert and 1642,86 for Hive account@alberto0607! Can it get any closer?

Some season stats:
The average tournament rating of season 3 was 1821, considerably higher than in the previous seasons (1791, 1760). On average we had this time 11,3 players participating per round, slightly lower than the 11,6 from last time. Not sure what to do to attract more players. Suggestions are welcome.
This time 23 players played at least one game (one more than last time) who on average participated in 5,4 rounds and gained on average 2,9 points. Top scorer per round was Hive account@sawko with 8 points(!), followed by Hive account@jaki01 with 7,4 and Hive account@yazp (zulukill) with 5,6.

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

Here are all results of the 11 rounds of season 2:

Regarding the price payouts, I will do the exact calculation after the payout of this post, but so far it looks as if the total price pool is around 600 Hive!

Next week will be a small break and in 2 weeks, on the 27^th Nov., a kind of Christmas season will start. Block already your calendars to not miss it!

See you soon in season 4, stay safe and as always: keep practicing!