I'm done...

we have made it to 2,011 points for leagues and i am going to be in the legend ranking but folks i just cant express how much the system itself sucks. its literal pain and agony playing over hundreds of games each day just to maintain a edge against others. i have woken up today at around somewhere in the morning like 7 or 8 maybe 9am and havent stopped playing gaining over 200 more points which crossed me to 2000 in the neck of time. many people always considered leagues to be a bad feature on chess.com and for me well i consider it not good but its cool as it looks really nice having that trophy on my profile but its just super agonizing.

the amount of nights i haven't slept at all and just kept playing losing over 200, 300 points in my ratings for this trophy is super insane. its been a huge while since i ever was in chess.com arenas and leagues itself was rather a more interesting journey but really again its just too much. like i am done, i dont have anymore of the mental endurance to just keep on playing leagues and grinding so much to the point that my own arms are twitching and i just feel like collapsing. the most i have tooken a break was probably like under 30 minutes or an hour and then i just go back to playing, this whole week has just been league grinding and grinding which kills me

this game was the last game i played in the last minute where i thankfully crossed 2000 points and am winning the league itself by 200 more points which is insane. granted many would call me crazy for playing again for +200 more points but i wanted 2000 and i broke it regardless. i will now just rest and probably not even log on for the rest of the day as even now i am literally shaking, my hands and my whole body just feels cold and tired and i again folks i cant take it anymore as this whole league journey is just a bunch of rating loss, mental persistence and pain with even many legit players being seen as sandbaggers by the system itself as they have lost over 300 points in gaining so much league points which again is ridiculous by the site.

i am now a legend and am going to submit my application into the legends club but i wont really be playing anymore for anything involving leagues especially now cause i cant handle it much anymore. the system is crazy, its barbaric, and there is not much reward to reaching legend itself except being apart of the club and having the ranking so yeah thats it the end for me apart from just being there. i like to thank everyone and the very few who were watching me playing every hour till the very end, thank you all for this cool experience, cya later champs ggs

Lol me im still at cristal rip

I gave up in champion league. I agree, the league system sucks, it's the only chess.com thing I don't like. 

Congrats!;D

lol thats why i usually cap around 400 trophies i rarely go over 300 even

I tried to get into legend two weeks ago I was ahead a few hundred points on the last day and then when I was sleeping some dude came out of nowhere and got more than me. On the plus side though that was the week I got 1400 rapid and 1500 blitz

at least you got your goal lol

tbh you should really just wait until you see that nobody in your league is playing and then go and play. there are a lot of ppl in elite league that just chills(like me). and very often the top 3 have only like 500~800 points, which is easy to beat if you really try 

This is why I don't grind leagues, it wastes too much time, but congrats lol

yo same i once had around 200 trophies and first place. next day a guy got around 300 to 400 trophies like bruh go to sleep

Just joking. Congrats! Keep up the good work! The fun starts once you win the Legend League from what I heard. 

If leagues are taking your life, just take the option to leave them.

Your pfp reminds of me of @OmanYemen now @Kira_is_coming

congrats

honestly I don’t think the leagues system itself is bad it’s just what it motivated people to do

If your goal was to progress to the next level every week, it would be a rather annoying grind.  However, if you just played and let the progress come naturally (i.e. do not even pay attention to it), it is not that bad.  I made it to the Champions league on accident while playing more than usual on vacation.

There are several things I think they could do to improve the system, though.

An arena per month is not that much fun.

But this might be: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/sleep-75

A forum posted in the club, interesting discussions.

I gave up months ago when I came down with carpal tunnel and my rating started to dip.

I did saw this coming.

with each new experience you grow, who knows maybe this endurance will help you one day.

but we are behaving badly because playing too much lol