The 1+0 Crazyhouse World Championship is underway organised by littleplotkin! There were 67 entrants who made the registration deadline of April 13th. Three had to be excluded for having played insufficient games of crazyhouse, leaving 64 participants in a single elimination knockout. Once the field is reduced to 8, there will be a round robin Candidates phase, the top two then facing off to become the 1+0 Crazyhouse World Champion.
At the elimination stage, participants have a week to get in touch with their assigned opponents and play the best of 20 games, so the first to 10.5 wins. If the match isn't played and no contact is made by either player with the organiser littleplotkin explaining why, then it will result in a double forfeit. In case of a tie, the match continues a further couple of games and again until the tie is broken.
Scheduling and results should be posted in the Championship thread on lichess. The Candidates phase will be 30 games exactly with every game counting towards the tally of each player. Therefore, number of matches won and head-to-head only count as tiebreakers. The Final will be 100 games scheduled over three or four different dates.
There will be prizes for Candidates, Finalists and for the Champion. The exact prize structure is yet to be determined but thanks to JannLee, opperwezen and to other members of the crazyhouse community who have already stepped in to offer money towards the prize fund.
The first round has a deadline of 28th April. Participants should message their opponents as soon as possible and contact littleplotkin in case of any difficulties in scheduling. Each match of best to 20 is likely to last at most 40 minutes. Here is the full draw:
Thanks to CrazyHome, somethingpretentious and theLAZYmd for helping draw up the list of entrants and order them by average of current and peak crazyhouse rating with some nifty coding to create the seeding.
Have a great tournament!
—okei
P.S. For those looking forward to the official 3+2 Crazyhouse World Championship, this is forecast to start at the end of May.
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