4 Player Chess Ultrabullet Cup Season 1 Playoffs
Thank you everyone for playing in the arena stage of the Ultrabullet Cup! Although we went through some technical difficulties with the server, all 10 arenas have now been played, and the finals are coming up in just a few hours (scroll to the very end if you want to skip all of this and see the time).
(Original Announcement Post: 4 Player Chess Ultrabullet Cup Season 1 - Chess.com)
FINAL ARENA STAGE STANDINGS (LINK)
(Note: the 0.5 bonus from Arena 3 has been omitted)
First off, let's take another look at the finalists.
@ChessMasterGS, @RapturousRhinoceros, @QuackForTheWin, @joshuapro2021
Now, of course, we can't do this without a meme first...
Anyway, I digress (and this is just the arena stage, the finals will be the real deal), let's look at the other people who didn't qualify; although if someone doesn't show up for the final, one of them could be an alternate:
Again, thanks to everyone who played 
, also, congratulations to @RapturousRhinoceros, who came in strong and won all 5 arenas that he played in!
FINALS FORMAT
Let's do a review of the format first (copied from the original announcement, linked above).
In the playoffs, the 4 players will play 20 games for each of the 3 standard setups (for a total of 60 games, aka of a best of 60 match). The setup order will be randomly chosen before the event via a fair randomizer. Players will be asked (hopefully not multiple times) to not rematch until I announce the overall playoff scores after each game.
Playoff points determine the winner of the league, and will be distributed as such:
- Undisputed 1st place in a game gets 1 point
- Tied 1st place (2 players) in a game gets 0.5 points
- In every other scenario, a player will get 0 points.
Even if a player has already clinched the victory, the match will continue until all 60 games have been finished.
- 1st Place will receive 1 month of
membership - 2nd Place will receive 1 month of membership
- 3rd Place will receive 1 month of membership
(In the case of any tie, rating will be used as the tiebreaker.)
SETUP ORDER
The setup order will be as follows:
- New (Standard) Setup
- BY Setup
- Old Setup
DATE/TIME OF FINALS
Alright, that was a lot of tedious talk...
The Final will be played on September 17, 0 UTC.
Make sure to come support your favorite player!
