Repository
https://github.com/ornicar/lila
Components
Lichess is an online chess playing server with lots of online tournament to play every hour and there are the Shield tournaments organized every month for each time formats I.e there is the BULLET Shield tournament, BLITZ Shield tournament, HYPERBULLET Shield tournament, ... etc. The Winners of this Shield tournaments have a shield icon attached to their profile till someone else wins the next edition.
Proposal Description
All Lichess Shield tournaments are global. I suggest that there are continental and national shield tournament. For example, there is a Nigerian Lichess Shield tournament open only to Nigerian Lichess user, Same as other countries and there is an African Lichess Shield tournament open to all African Lichess user. The tournaments can be created manually but only the PO can add the shield to the winner's profile. Organizing this tournaments is not difficult, just use the same format of organizing the main shield tournaments but this time it is open only to specific users.
Mockups / Examples
This is how the Shield carrier's profile looks
For the continental shield tournament winner, the shield should look like this.
This is an example of the African Shield
An example of the national shield, This is with the Nigerian flag.
Benefits
Check here for the Tournament shield winners and you will notice that there are some names repeating on the list which is discouraging for lower rated players, and it dampen one's motive to play in the shield tournament. If this idea is implemented, the winners of the national shield tournament will have an incentive to participate in the continental shield tournament, and the winners of the continental Shield will have the same incentive to participate in the Global shield tournament, introducing more competition. And this will help players always improve their play. There will be new names on the list and the server will be one that helps chess player improve their play.