Who would you give the 2025 chess ballon dor?!

Here is my opinion:
-Best U24: Javokhir Sindarov/ 2nd: Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa
-Best U24 Performance: Abhimanyu Mishra in The Grand Swiss /2nd: Javokhir Sindarov in The - world Cup
-Best Underdog Performance: Lorenzo Lodici in The World cup / 2nd: Divya Deshmukh In the women's world cup 
-Best Overall Performance: Magnus Carlsen in Gerenke/ 2nd: Anish Giri in The Grand Swiss
-Most entertaining tournament: The Grand Swiss/ 2nd: World Rapid and Blitz-

-Biggest Shock of the year:

Matthias Blübaum Making it to the candidates/ 2nd:Vincent keymer not making it to the candidates

-Women's ballon dor: Divya Deshmukh/2nd: Vaishali Rameshbabu
-Men's ballon dor: Magnus Carlesn (shocker ik) / 2nd: Javokhir Sindarov
Im curious to know what you think?

I'd say the shock of the year is the performance of IM Gautham Krishna H. He's showed some crazy performance at the World Rapid and Blitz. He beat many top GMs, and in Blitz, he's currently 9/13, tied with Magnus and Pragg!!

I really tried to NOT make magnus win every single one lol

Yea that's def a performance for the books

if chess had a ballon dor they would still find a way to give it to yamal. his pr team is too good

but ok maybe prag or keymer

LMAO. but I don't agree with the prag or keymer take. What makes you think that? It's clearly maggie

keymer became a top player out of nowhere and prag did well in the circuit

i dont think magnus played enough to win

He collected tounrments like the infinity stones wdym💀. He won norway chess, the freestyle circut the world rapid championship tons of titled tuesdays and the whole first split.

Ehhh freestyle circuit, titled Tuesday... These aren't real tournaments lol

Well, I am shocked. Carlsen didn't do anything at all in 2025, he skipped all tournaments and all he played was freestyle nonsense.

Anyone else would deserve the (non-existent) prize more. Even a random club player no one has heard about, as long as he (she) played chess regularly.

Well He preformed in every tournament he played. What more do you want? And freestyle wasn't "nonsense" In fact It had stronger players than some tournaments. Idk why you're all acting like it's a mickey mouse tournament.

Oh magipi agrees with me? I change my mind, I think Magnus deserves it

LMAO, but fr I don't see any other contenders, Nobody was nearly as dominant;

OOPs How shameless by me to forget the Louisiana state champion and his truly mesmerizing performances that gave him a deserved candidates seat. I think he deserves it

Yeah Nakas hard fought win against that 1900 is enough for him to win it

Looks like u got 2 bald men on ur back lol

frfr spending all day downvoting me cant be good for your hair growth

1 downvote = 1 hair follicle that wont grow back

I'm not sure if Lodici comes above donchenko