🪓 2024 Teams World 4 Player Chess Championships 🏆 ⚔️ (DISCUSSION)

Hey Everyone,

Thank you all once again for participating and watching the World 4 Player Chess Championships (W4PCC)!

Chess.com will be hosting a Modern 2v2 Teams W4PCC commencing Saturday, October 5, 2024.

Schedule of the 2024 Teams W4PCC:

October 5 00:00 UTC: 8 Teams will be selected based on objective and/or subjective criteria.

Objective (4 teams) - 2/3 * Standard Rapid Teams rating + 1/3 * Standard Blitz Self-Partnering rating, each with a correction factor of (Rating-1500) * (70-RD)/RD - players must be on both leaderboards on October 4, 2024, at 23:59 UTC. Formula: 2/3*[T + (T-1500) * (70-TRD)/TRD] + 1/3 x [S + (S-1500) * (70-SRD)/SRD] where T=4 Player Teams Rapid 2v2 and S=Self-Partnering Blitz

Alternates are chosen in order of a) players on both leaderboards b) players on the T leaderboard only c) players on the S leaderboard only d) Subjective Selection

Subjective (4 teams) - invitation from the tournament director / referees not based on objective criteria, usually invited for a specific time slot. If deemed appropriate, any or all of the 4 subjective selection slots may instead be based on objective selection.

Candidate teams from above selection categories will qualify for Round 1 and will state their preferences from any of the October 19 and 20 time slots (0:00, 12:00, 16:00, or 20:00 UTC). Only the top ranked team from the Objective selection criteria will be guaranteed their first choice. Players on the leaderboard will be chess.com messaged and expected to reply prior to October 12 00:00 UTC with their chosen partner and preferences of times they would like to compete on the weekend of October 19-20, in order. In the event that a player no-shows, withdraws, or is disqualified, a substitute player can participate in that player's place if the other member of the original team and the proposed substitute player are both present and following* the Tournament Director (TD) or referee in charge. A no-show is defined as a player not following* the TD/referee(s) within 15 minutes of the match time.

October 12-13 00:00, 12:00, 16:00, and 20:00 UTC: 8x 1.5-hour 2+10 qualifier Teams partner-only arenas followed by a single game between the top 2 teams. Top 2 teams of each arena challenge each other in a single game and the winner of that game qualifies. Games will be rated. Players that fall below 1600 Teams during the Arena can still complete the arena. Arena scoring will be 2W-1D-0L. Streak bonuses will be removed. Winners of those arenas will play the leaderboard players in Round 1 on the same day of the week and time as the arena which they qualified from (the Saturday October 12 00:00 UTC arena winner plays on Saturday October 19 00:00 UTC and so forth, their arena starting time plus seven (7) days). Winners of those arenas are not to continue playing in further qualifier arenas.

Round 1: Round 1 (Bracket of 16) is a Best-of-5 single elimination. Round 1 will be played on October 19 and 20 at 00:00, 12:00, 16:00, and 20:00 UTC depending on the choices of the players selected under Subjective and/or Objective criteria as well as what is lined up with which qualifier arena the player qualified from. Round 1 will be eight matches of one leaderboard player versus one arena winner.

Round 2: Winners (8) of Round 1 play Round 2 Best-of-5 on October 26 at their respective time slots**

Semi-Finals: Those winners (4) play against each other in Semi-Finals on the weekend of November 2-November 3** in a best-of 7 but can schedule against each other. The matches will be seeded by the following: #1 rating (2/3 higher rated T + 1/3 lower rated T) vs #4 and #2 vs #3 as of October 27, 2024, 0 UTC.

Finals: Best-of-12 (Maximum 6 games per day, additional 5-game tiebreak if necessary), November 16 and 17 (and November 23 if necessary) 18:00 UTC**.

**upon discussion, players may reschedule if determined that the match is in the best interest of the W4PCC.

For all games, pawns promote on the 11th rank to a queen, rook, bishop, or knight, and the en passant mode will be enabled.

*"following" is defined as in the same spectator/game chat as the TD/referee on duty at the 15th minute after the hour of the match time. To find the spectator/game chat that the TD (fourplayerchess) or referee is in, please click their profile in the Variants Server and then click "Observing".

Note: The TD will be ineligible to compete, but the any staff/admin/referee will be eligible. Additionally, chess.com accounts created on or after October 1, 2024, will be ineligible.

"Referee" can include but is not limited to: Variants Administrators, Staff, Assistant TD.

Sarvesh SM @Sarvesh_2111 has been named the Assistant TD for the 2024 Teams W4PCC.

Prize Money Disclaimer: From a prize fund of $1000 sponsored by chess.com, $300 shall be awarded to each of the 2024 Teams W4PCC champions, and $200 shall be awarded to each of the second-place finishers, but only upon compliance with the Competitive Events Policy https://www.chess.com/legal/events . Please understand this may take days, weeks, or a month or two to process. The tournament director may refer questions regarding prize money to staff/support. The players must agree to use the email directly linked to his/her chess.com account to find the link to the Prize Money when Awarded. Please note that the link may appear in your junk/trash/spam folder, so be sure to check those soon after you win the Championship!

Discussion feedback may be taken into consideration but is not guaranteed. Staff and Administrators will be in communication with the TD on any rulings in the current W4PCC and decisions on future W4PCCs.

Preliminaries and Finals are projected to be broadcasted on https://www.twitch.tv/fourplayerchess but potentially on https://www.twitch.tv/chess or https://www.twitch.tv/chesscomcommunity or any partnered chess.com streamers and/or 4 Player Chess expert streams. We look forward to seeing you play in the championship! Best of luck to all players trying out!

Luke Romanko
W4PCC Tournament Director

do you mind putting in spaces or horizontal bars in between sections LOL this is hard to read

Is being in the top 16 in both teams and self partner kind of the barrier then?

Can you ask chess.com to release a different website for 4 player chess

Minimum of 4 to maximum of 8 teams will qualify through the above mentioned objective criteria. 8 qualifier arenas will happen to determine the remaining 8 teams.

A reminder that our candidate selection will be taking place in less than 21 hours from now! If you're an inactive top player, get on both leaderboards now  
Update to post #1:
"Candidate teams from above selection categories will qualify for Round 1 and play in any of the October 19 and 20 time slots (0:00, 12:00, 16:00, or 20:00 UTC) on a first come first serve basis. Only the top team will be guaranteed their first choice. Players on the leaderboard will be chess.com messaged and expected to reply prior to October 12 00:00 UTC with their chosen partner and preferences of times they would like to compete on the weekend of October 19-20, in order."
has been edited to the following:
"Candidate teams from above selection categories will qualify for Round 1 and will state their preferences from any of the October 19 and 20 time slots (0:00, 12:00, 16:00, or 20:00 UTC). Only the top ranked team from the Objective selection criteria will be guaranteed their first choice. Players on the leaderboard will be chess.com messaged and expected to reply prior to October 12 00:00 UTC with their chosen partner and preferences of times they would like to compete on the weekend of October 19-20, in order."

Unofficial rankings (not official until 19h 25min from now; #21 from SP leaderboard taken into consideration given the error noted by a closed account being in the leaderboards):

buddy luke whats with the yellow colour

I mean I'd suggest light mode but that might be worse depending on your preference

lmao this light mode is so sht

If my partner is not on the top rankings list do they still get into the main with me or do we have to play qualifying

If you qualify through objective/subjective criteria, you can choose your partner. The partner need not be on the leaderboard.

bro killed dark users

congratulations to @mystery @icystun @prathu_19 @misterwish messages sent in next hour or so

my b copy and paste do be like that sometimes

Can anyone please guide e on this? How can i participate?

be on a teams rapid leaderboard, self-partner blitz or both (as a substitute if needed)...so someone from top 4 can choose you as a teammate. These 4 players are already choose i.e. it's already determined (players that are on both leaderboards on Oct 23:59 UTC) Someone might not show up on

Oct 12-13 there are 8 qualifier 2+10 standard teams arenas that last 1h 30 mins

Top 2 of each arena play 1 game in order to battle for qualification spot.

No streak bonuses in the arena. win=2pt draw=1pt loss=0pt

Arenas will be 1600+

thanks @MuppetRobin

If possible, please do share time as well for qualifier arena .....

October 12-13 00:00, 12:00, 16:00, and 20:00 UTC