Live Tournament Trophy: Yes It's Real

The talks on the live tournament trophy is finalized. Saturday's final match will decide to whose showcase the first trophy will go. This adds an extra pressure, and excitement to tomorrow's games. It can also increase the interest in the upcoming tournaments as well. 

Final match's first game will be played Saturday 29/5/10 at 8 am GMT and the second game the same day Saturday 29/5/10 at 9 pm GMT. 

You can watch the games live, and find more information about them in the tournament page after the match ( http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/1st-not-so-fast-live-tournament )

Here is a copy of the letter posted to dedicated forum thread:

Dear Friends,

We received a response about rewarding trophies for the live tournaments yesterday. In order to not confuse other people, and prevent them from randomly sending live tournament winner trophy to each other, it is decided not to add such a trophy in general trophy sections. Instead, the TD will give the winners name to the chess.com staff after the final match and the trophy will be awarded directly by the staff. 

They were very kind and supportive through the whole process, and I would like to thank Chess.com for that. 

Best Regards

Hermes