Atomic960-Tournament Main Event

The final list (calculated with current rating+highest rating/2). There are 26 ppl playing, so first the players need to be down to 16. That means the 20 lowest seeded players will play the first round. After that the remaining 16 players will play the next round. You can find the first matches here: challonge.com/de/Atomic960

Please send me your name (and the link to your profile) on chessvariants.training the next days. Also if you played your matches send me a message with the result (and the first game played). Please start arranging your matches for the first round. If there are any questions write them here. Also you can post your matchtimes and results here. The first round should be played until Monday 8. June.

Good Luck and have fun to all!

1. @GrandLapin 2684
2. @onubense 2673
3. @tipau 2477 (since tipaus main account hasn't got an active rating i did calculate the rating with an Alt)
4. @vlad_00 2444
5. @Wolfram_EP 2395
6. @highestcliff 2371
7. @JakeStateFarm 2338
8. @lecw 2308
9. @Iubar 2282
10. @Opabinia 2258
11. @lesha2002 2247
12. @explosions 2246
13. @Chijss 2238
14. @Hysterix 2236
15. @catask 2234
16. @Crepuscular 2231
17. @DanDan2016 2225
18. @havfanridindis 2208
19. @tomi999 2174
20. @BetelgeuseSupernova 2158
21. @Kristal 2128
22. @mathwhiz16 2052
23. @TJMorley 2018
24. @F0rr357 1964
25. @fft1 1768
26. @variantbunny 1753

Looks good to me! I was curious, what did y'all finally decide on as the match format as far as who starts as white?

There will be only 8 games with the starting player for a position changing after the 4th. So you will play: White Black White Black Black White Black White (or the other way), so nobody got any advantage from being the second player and knowing the position already. The time control is 3+2.

What are the tie-break rules though?

First match:

onubense - catask will be played 4/06 at 21 UTC

@lecw vs @fft1 will be played today at 21:30 Europe time (in ten minutes about)

@vlad_00 - @Chijss Thursday 18 UTC

With all the games of round 1 completed (results you can find here challonge.com/de/Atomic960 ) in round 2 there are following matches (please complete them until next Monday) Feel free to post your match times here, so people can watch your games. Also I will create a study containing all games of round 1 as soon as possible!
@grandlapin - @dandan2016
@lecw - @Iubar
@vlad_00 - @Chijss
@Wolfram_EP - @explosions
onubense - catask (already played)
@JakeStateFarm - @Opabinia
@tipau - @Hysterix
@highestcliff - @lesha2002

Good Luck to all!

my match against Dan will probably take place this Saturday at 2pm est