1 Description

1.1. The Phoenix Chess League Super Bingo (PCL-SB) is a perpetual competition between chess teams of Chess.com. The games is inspired by traditional games such as the bingo (or loto, lotto, quine, rifle, etc.). Participating teams play matches against each other to try to fill a bingo card assigned to them when they register. Points are scored by winning matches, and bonus points are given for filling the bingo card.

2 Bingo cards

2.1. Bingo cards given to each team are a 5 by 5 grid with one joker square and 24 challenge squares.

2.2. Winning a match corresponding to a specific challenge clears the square with that challenge's code.

2.3. Bonus points are earned by clearing full rows, columns and diagonals.

2.4. The joker square counts as an already cleared square.

2.5. A team can ask for a new bingo card once per quarter.

Example of an empty bingo card

Example bingo card with one row and one column cleared

Example of a full bingo card

Challenge codes:

Challenge type	Players	Rating	Time control	Setup
A1	3-10	Open	3 days	Classic
A2	10+	Open	3 days	Classic
A3	3-10	U1400	3 days	Classic
A4	10+	U1400	3 days	Classic
B1	3-10	Open	1 day	Classic
B2	10+	Open	1 day	Classic
B3	3-10	U1400	1 day	Classic
B4	10+	U1400	1 day	Classic
C1	3-10	Open	3 days	Book opening
C2	10+	Open	3 days	Book opening
C3	3-10	U1400	3 days	Book opening
C4	10+	U1400	3 days	Book opening
D1	3-10	Open	1 day	Book opening
D2	10+	Open	1 day	Book opening
D3	3-10	U1400	1 day	Book opening
D4	10+	U1400	1 day	Book opening
E1	3-10	Open	3 days	Chess960
E2	10+	Open	3 days	Chess960
E3	3-10	U1400	3 days	Chess960
E4	10+	U1400	3 days	Chess960
F1	3-10	Open	1 day	Chess960
F2	10+	Open	1 day	Chess960
F3	3-10	U1400	1 day	Chess960
F4	10+	U1400	1 day	Chess960

3 Scoring points

3.1. Winning a match: 5 points & validate the associated challenge on the team's bingo card.
3.2. Draw: 2 points.
3.3. Successful registration but opponent couldn't start the match; match canceled by opponent: 1 point.
3.4. Clearing a line, a row or a diagonal from the bingo card: 10 points.
3.5. Clearing the full card: 30 points (in addition to the points due for line/column/row completion, therefore a card is worth 150 points in total: 5 rows, 5 columns, 2 diagonal and the full card itself).

Note that a validated challenge can't be removed from a card, if a match with the same challenge is lost it will not remove a previously validated square.

4 Awards

4.1. Each team filling a full bingo card will get an award from the Phoenix Chess League.

4.2. Awards will begin being distributed once at least one of the playing team reaches 50 points..

4.3. Then, three times a year (April 1st, July 1st and October 1st), a quarterly award will be given to the team on top of the leaderboard.

4.4. On January 1st, an award will be given to the top three teams of the leaderboard.

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