2025 Chess.com Crazyhouse Championship: Official Discussion Thread

The 2025 Crazyhouse Championship is the next Chess.com Community Championship, taking place November 6-7, featuring a $2,500 prize fund, and beautifully crazy attacks.

Crazyhouse is one of the oldest variants on Chess.com. It is similar to Bughouse but for single players. When a player captures a piece, that piece is added to the player's "bank" and can be used later as part of the player's own army. This dynamic allows for beautiful sacrifices since taking the initiative can be decisive. 

The event is open for all members and kicks off November 6, with all eight qualifiers happening throughout the day. These are 75-minute arenas with a 3+0 time control. Each arena winner advances to the double-elimination knockout Final on November 7 with live broadcast.

As usual, we may require participants to join a video call for fair play checks. Players who join the fair play call must set up two cameras from different angles in the room. Non-compliance will result in a player's removal from the event.

Watch the live Final broadcast on our ChessTV, Twitch and YouTube channels.
Find all relevant info on our Events Page. Below a quick summary.

• Variant - Crazyhouse
• Prize Fund - $2,500
• Qualifiers Format - 75 min arenas, 3+0 blitz, rated. Winner advances to Knockout Final
• Qualifiers Date - November 6, eight total arenas. Full Schedule
• Final Format - 8 Players double-elimination knockout, 3+0 blitz, rated
  Matches are Best of 4, if tied players contest 1+0 games until there's a winner
• Final Date & Time - November 7 at 1 p.m. ET / 19:00 CEST / 10:30 p.m. IST with live broadcast
• Location - Online

Nice! I will check it out.

I participated in the “Join Us in Goa – Chance to Win an All-Expenses Paid Trip to Goa for the FIDE World Cup 2025” tournament in the 800–1399 rating section. I played 11 games and won 8, but in two of my games, there was a serious time issue — my clock started at only about 50 seconds, while my opponent had 3 minutes. I lost both of those games because of this, which feels very unfair in such an important event . I kindly request that you review these games and check for a technical or server error. This issue really affected my final standing, and I’m quite upset because I played very well. Thank you for your time and for organizing such a wonderful tournament.

How to join

Qualifier links will be available soon on https://go.chess.com/forums_2025cz_qualifiers 
Should be updated nearing the event.

how do we enter this championships

Following this and suprised that nobody commented anything about 6-7 so far.

I think that's because they don't have the attention span of reading this past one sentence.

Hyy

what if you dont have cameras

yeah

Nice, I'll check it later

I cant join

When is the qualifiers round starting ,like at what time in NOV 6

Guys how do you join the championship?

how do i join?

Ok

But how to join?

I don't know how to join the championships

Just join the qualifers.

Hey, Wind I won't be able to play during this time only maybe around the last four, but if another tournament pops up can you make the dates maybe on the weekends? (I will be in school most of the time during the Crazyhouse tournament)