Hivechess Tournament Season 22 Round 1: @sammy00 and @maestroask were the winners!

Dear chess fans,

yesterday the first round of S22 was played, for the first time as two separate tournaments (you can check out the rules in the announcement post).
In total 19 players were joining, not too bad overall (last season it was 18 in round 1) but only 7 were in the Masters which is a lttle on the low end.

In the Masters which had an average rating of 2149, more than every second game was berserked (5min seems a too long time for many😄). Hive account@maestroask - not unexpectedly - won with hardly any real competition, as many strong players like Hive account@jaki01 or Hive account@eniolw were missing (I hope they can join in future rounds). The result looks closer than it was - our IM had joined only half-way through the tournament and still was able to catch the top spot. I was the runner-up, ahead of Hive account@tangibleay and Hive account@samostically (who suffered from connection problems).

In the Challengers there were 12 players with an average rating of 1567. The berserk rate was "only" 37%, largely driven by winner Hive account@sammy00 who - after 2 initial losses - berserked his way to the top! He won with 5 points lead ahead of Hive account@justola1, Hive account@odic3o1 and Hive account@rafaelaquino. Congratulations to All!

Standings after round 1:

Masters tournament (=>1800)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points
1	Hive account@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	AUT	2110	1	9
2	Hive account@maestroask	IM Odnoobraz	RUS	2519	1	7
3	Hive account@samostically	ZGM_Samostically	NGA	2197	1	7
4	Hive account@tangibleay	Tangible_ay	NGA	2116	1	5
5	Hive account@southgamer	SouthGamer		1997	1	4
6	Hive account@fcastro177	FCastro17	VEN	2059	1	3
7	Hive account@rosmarly	rosmarly	VEN	2050	1	1

Challengers tournament (<1800)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points
1	Hive account@sammy00	migmag	BIH	1601	1	14
2	Hive account@justola1	just_ola	NGA	1746	1	12
3	Hive account@odic3o1	odic3o	ECU	1758	1	11
4	Hive account@rafaelaquino	ajedrezclub2t	VEN	1652	1	9
5	Hive account@ezemhugo	MixzyRagnal	NGA	1709	1	9
6	Hive account@lighteye	lighteye	SRB	1640	1	8
7	Hive account@rodrook	RDcast	USA	1430	1	7
8	Hive account@salomijale	summisineon1	IND	1483	1	6
9	Hive account@lailawrites	Ohieku	NGA	1605	1	6
10	Hive account@fiona777	fiona777	UKR	1409	1	5
11	Hive account@stranger27	stranger27	UKR	1665	1	4
12	Hive account@vasigo	vasigo	SRB	1107	1	1

^{Of note, some players had been given up to 3 bonus points for participating in the fun tournaments (first, second) and the Hivepredict bet on the Candidates tournament!}

See you all next week - and keep practicing!

A quick reminder, that Hive account@sammy00 has posted some Hivechess Trivia questions for you. Still 30 Hive up for grabs! Some of the questions are not too hard to answer!
@sammy00/hivechess-trivia-30-hives-in