Hello /r/bitcoin,
as you remember from this post http://bit.ly/1SePlcS
we had 2 tournaments on Friday and Saturday. Both tournaments were finished and the results are pretty good.
Let's start with the first tournament: http://bit.ly/1LRNZrE
We had 795 sign ups and a price of 300.000 bits ( 130$~ ). The competition was astounding, we didn't expect that. A lot of title player were involved.
The winner:
Opperwezen refused his price so we added his price to the second tournament on top of the current pool.
Most of the top 100 players are well known. We only had one engine incident.
And here we go, the second tournament: http://bit.ly/1LRNZrG ( We just finished it 2 hours ago )
We had 930 sign ups and a price pool of 1.000.000 bits ( 400$ ). The competition full of known and respected people.
The winner:
- http://bit.ly/1LRNZrF
- http://bit.ly/1SePjBv
- http://bit.ly/1LRNZrH
- http://bit.ly/1SePjBw
- http://bit.ly/1LRO1zQ
- http://bit.ly/1SePlta ( Berserk price )
Here we also had one engine user, he recieved a ban immediately.
Both tournaments went better then expected. Very calm even though it was hyper bullet.
A lof ot people were concerned about the engine use, these 2 tournaments are the proof that we can handle that.
Everyone in the top 20 is well known. Even in the lower ranks almost nobody complained about engine users. The engine paranoia some people assume is a valid concern but you see the facts here.
Thibault and his team is working very closly with us to detect every suspicious behaviour within the tournaments. We follow every report as soon as we recieve them.
You guys gotta have some trust in LiChess and BitChess, we doing everything to prevent cheater and at the moment it's working great so far. I am not saying it will be always like that but before you jump on the conclusion everyone is using an engine even before the tournament starts please give us some credit and wait till it's over.
There are some nice upcoming tournaments in the next weeks / months. We keep you up2date.
Submitted March 27, 2016 at 03:33AM by BitChessCo http://bit.ly/1LRO1zR
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