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1st European Online Shogi Blitz Championship

Posted: 24 Jul 2020 12:40
by Martin Danerud
1st European Online Shogi Blitz Championship

FESA would like to invite all European shogi players to the 1st European Online Shogi Blitz Championship played on August 9th on 81dojo.
Date: August 9th 2020, CEST 16:00 / UTC 14:00
Location: 81dojo (https://81dojo.com/)

Schedule:

Round 1: CEST 16:00
Round 2: CEST 16:30
Round 3: CEST 17:00 Round 4: CEST 17:30 Round 5: CEST 18:00
Round 6: CEST 18:30 (if more than 32 participants)
Round 7: CEST 19:00 (if more than 64 participants)

Thinking time: 5 min + 10 sec byoyomi

Format: Knockout tournament with up to 128 players, max 7 rounds knockout (the losers of the semifinals will play for place 3)
Seeding for knockout done by FESA rating (last official published FESA rating list), if a player has no FESA rating alternatively his confirmed 81dojo rating will be used

Registration: Registration has to be done by registering at the tournament system page (https://system.81dojo.com/tournaments/1330?locale=en). It is required to add additional info (real name and FESA rating) in the short message while registering or to send a separate mail with username, real name and FESA rating) to [email protected]. Registrations without the real name information will not be accepted!

Registration deadline: August 8th 2020, CEST 16:00 / UTC 14:00

Eligible: All European shogi players, max. 128 participants (decided by registration date)

Rules: If players are not available or are not starting their games latest 5 minutes after the official start time for each round, the game is forfeited.

Prizes: Winner gets the title "European Online Shogi Blitz Champion 2020" Awards for the first 3 players (prizes will be handed over at next year’s ESC/WOSC)

Special prize: Best game award (every participant can nominate one game, either one of his own or someone else’s), a committee will decide. Nominations (Kifu-Id) should be sent to after the tournament (on the same day) to [email protected].

Organizing team and arbiters: Thomas Pfaffel, Andreas Neumaier