Lichess Liga Team Battle: A day to forget - Next round this Thursday!

Dear chessfans!

Last Sunday our blockchain chess team fought in liga 4 of the "Lichess Liga Team Battle reloaded" and I thought we could go for the top 3 spots. However, it started already bad and got worse throughout the tournament. We ended with the last place and were thus - deservedly - relegated to liga 5! Who would have expected this 2 weeks ago?

148 players from 10 teams, of an average rating of 2058 had participated. Topscorer from our team was @jaki01, for the second time. Congratulations!
Many thanks also to @tangibleay, @dalods, @madchess64, @samostically, @mendelito (TheMadman4rmDaSouth), @southgamer, @rodrook, @justfavour and @dadapizza (knighthammer7) for fighting for our team! 11 players is also a record low this season.

Here are the final standings:

Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/NiCpJDhE

7 scorers earned one Hive that was sent to their wallets on Sunday (not 8 as one had not participated 5 games, instead the 8^th Hive went to @southgamer)! In total 150 Hive were paid out so far! And all who have none yet will be given bonus points for S21 (if played at least 5 games, the complete rules you can see here)!

All our results so far:

The next, 18^th event start on Thursday, 31^th July, at 18h GMT in liga 5C.

Mode: 5+0 (5 minutes per game, 0 sec. increment per move), 100 min. arena

Tournament Link: https://lichess.org/tournament/cPMzRS4D

! [Mention List]
Potentially of interest to:
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(just let me know if you don´t want to get the mentions)

The rules:

• Everybody in our Lichess team can join using the link to the tournament (pick the blockchain chess team if asked 😃, in case you are part of multiple teams) and if you are not in our team yet, you can join anytime!
• Every Thursday and Sunday are tournaments that last 1h40min (but you don´t need to stay for the full time)
• The results of the 8 best contributors of each team (i.e. the "scorers") are counted in this liga
• Bonus: Every participant in the Team Liga (min. 5 games played) will get a one-time bonus of 3 points in the upcoming Hivechess season 21, all scorers 5 and topscorers will get even 10 points!
• Payout: Each week all scorers will get 1 or 2 Hive (depending if scored once or twice that week) sent to their wallet!
  
  
  The more join the better. Can we regain at least liga 4 this Thu.?

15% of the rewards of this post go the prizepool of S21!

I have decided that after 20 rounds we will do a summer break, but regular S21 will start around September!
Unless things turn around significantly...

And not forget: Today starts the main event of Esports World Cup 2025, with chess being part of it for the first time!

https://www.chess.com/events/2025-esports-world-cup-lcq-playoffs