Dear chessfans!
last Sunday our Blockchain chess team fought its 5th battle of the "Lichess Team Liga" (more about this event here) and again we could advance to the next level!
We played in liga 8B, with 86 players from 10 teams! There were overall less strong players compared to last time (however still a GM and a FM), but the field was competitive enough so that we could get only the third rank, at least with a comfortable gap to the 4th team - enough to promote to liga 7 (the top 3 promote)!
The final standings:
https://lichess.org/tournament/RbcQOUrx
Thanks a lot to ALL participants: 
The next event starts tomorrow Thursday, 1st June, 18h GMT.
We will be in liga 7A (ranked up from last time). As always, the more from our team participate, the higher our chances will be to get a good result and improve in the rankings!
How far can we get?
Mode: 5+0 (5 minutes per game, no increment per move), 100 min. rated arena, win streaks & berserk allowed
Tournament Link: https://lichess.org/tournament/3Rn8Ko15
The rules:
- Everybody in our Lichess team can join using the link to the tournament (pick our team if asked 😃, in case you are part of multiple teams)
- A win collects 2 points for our team, a draw 1
- Only the results of the 7 best contributors of each team are counted in this liga (but all skill levels are important, because each win means potentially less points for the other teams!)
- Every Thursday and Sunday are tournaments
- The links to the upcoming tournaments are - dependent on our result - already provided in the description of the tournament itself and also on our team page.
! [Mention List]
Potentially of interest to:
@aakrist
@abimbola753
@acidtiger
@aiuna
@alucian
@artsbreezy01
@ajumaa
@alberto0607
@alexmag1988
@almightymelon
@alpha
@ambarvegas
@anadello
@andzhi
@anli
@anomadsoul
@apy
@arsenal49
@artistparthoroy
@astrolabio
@awesomeintrigue
@b0s
@behiver
@beyondhorizonmm
@bitsignal
@burnoutawesome
@camiloferrua
@cerati
@chessbrotherspro
@chesthetica
@clixmoney
@cryptogee
@cryptoniusraptor
@cryptoph0823
@cryptopi314
@darruiz
@diegofitness92
@ebingo
@eliaschess333
@elprofe62
@emeka4
@eniolw
@eenriquerivas
@engilhramn
@evgsk
@fcastro177
@fiona777
@flaws
@foxconnmars
@franciscomarval
@franu
@gabotask
@giacomone
@gingerbyna
@hannes-stoffel
@heimindanger
@herz-ass
@hierro21
@hirohurl
@hivetrader
@iamchessguy
@iammanythings1
@ibizaki
@iceblue
@iobates
@ironshield
@jesusmgl1995
@jesustiano
@jkms
@johannfrare
@josesmoke
@juanmi96
@justfavour
@kaungsett8388
@kintokris
@kreur
@levitant
@lofone
@lucianosky
@maciejficek
@maestroask
@marcusantoniu26
@mario89
@masterswatch
@maverieux000
@meedo
@memess
@mrsarri
@mstafford
@mypathtofire
@nftland1989
@nikoszzz
@oadissin
@officialrosh1
@olujay
@omonomo
@orlanzavala
@oshiokhenhoya
@pamboy27
@parung76
@perpz
@petreius
@philipp87
@pokerarema
@pokermaria
@pravesh0
@primersion
@ptmaker
@rafaelaquino
@rafzat
@razzor
@renerondon
@rexplanet
@rheda
@ropavejero
@salomijale
@samostically
@sanjamkapoors
@sawko
@schamangerbert
@schnitte
@soluce07
@solymi
@spacetoon
@steamloled
@steemychicken1
@stranger27
@syndmitrij
@the01crow
@thedoc07
@therealflaws
@timix648
@timofey
@tin.aung.soe
@tony1294
@tungphong
@uliseshb
@vaipraonde
@vasigo
@victorbch2
@vjap55
@volkiceper
@walner
@wegflexor
@xoflox
@yazp
@zacherybinx
@ziabutt3836
(just let me know if you don´t want to get the mentions)
As a small incentive, to every player who will be contributing points to the end result (i.e. the top 7 of our team) I will send 1 Hive and 2 Hive to the top ranked player! - if we promote to liga 6!
Also, 20% of the rewards of this post go the prizepool of S16!
In the meantime Norway Chess 2023 started - a super strong 10 player classical OTB round robin tournament featuring Magnus Carlsen, Alireza Firouzja, Fabiano Caruano, Anish Giri, Hikaru Nakamura and others!
In the first round surprisingly both top seeded Magnus and Alireza lost!