See a copy of the final table with full results:
| Rank | Participant | Score | BH |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drujba, Ekaterinburg | 7.0 | 41.0 |
| 2 | Babylon City Team | 7.0 | 38.5 |
| 3 | Team Moscow | 7.0 | 36.5 |
| 4 | Metz, the Chess Team | 7.0 | 26.5 |
| 5 | Team Bucharest | 6.0 | 40.5 |
| 6 | Team St. Petersburg | 6.0 | 34.5 |
| 7 | Kuda Hitam, Malang | 6.0 | 32.0 |
| 8 | Team Toulouse Occitanie | 6.0 | 26.5 |
| 9 | Team Tirana | 5.5 | 40.0 |
| 10 | Equipe Quebec | 5.0 | 43.5 |
| 11 | Team Kyiv | 5.0 | 32.5 |
| 12 | Team Beograd | 5.0 | 28.0 |
| 13 | Bordeaux | 4.5 | 25.5 |
| 14 | Team Budapest | 4.0 | 36.0 |
| 15 | Team Zagreb | 4.0 | 35.5 |
| 16 | Yerevan | 4.0 | 34.5 |
| 17 | Sao Paulo | 4.0 | 34.5 |
| 18 | Team Burgas | 4.0 | 32.5 |
| 19 | Team Prague | 4.0 | 31.0 |
| 20 | Team Paris | 4.0 | 30.5 |
| 21 | Fenerbahce SK, Istanbul | 4.0 | 29.5 |
| 22 | Novossibirsk | 4.0 | 29.5 |
| 23 | Minsk | 3.5 | 29.5 |
| 24 | Team Rasht | 3.0 | 41.5 |
| 25 | Team Sevastopol | 3.0 | 35.5 |
| 26 | Team Sydney NSW | 3.0 | 34.5 |
| 27 | Grad Nis | 3.0 | 32.5 |
| 28 | Team Phoenix | 3.0 | 30.5 |
| 29 | Team Melbourne VIC | 3.0 | 23.0 |
| 30 | Team Toronto | 2.5 | 28.5 |
| 31 | Team Bristol | 2.5 | 26.0 |
| 32 | Team Pittsburgh | 2.5 | 24.5 |
| 33 | Team Perth WA | 2.5 | 24.0 |
| 34 | Team Berlin | 2.5 | 21.0 |
| 35 | Team Barcelona | 2.5 | 17.5 |
| 36 | Bangkok Chess Club | 2.0 | 23.5 |
| 37 | Team Queretaro | 2.0 | 23.0 |
| 38 | Team Brisbane OLD | 1.5 | 14.5 |
| 39 | Team Singapore | 1.0 | 24.5 |
| 40 | Team Banskobystricky kraj | 1.0 | 23.0 |
| 41 | Team Izmir | 1.0 | 21.0 |
Dear colleagues!
are won by Дружба
About a month ago I have published the final standings of Open Cities Swiss season 2015 and no changes of results have come since then - which means that it is high time to congratulate the winners.
Each among four leading teams won 7 matches and lost one, which only shows how tight the competition was. The first additional criterion is Buchрolz coefficient, showing which team had the strongest opponents.
The gold medals
This team is formed by teachers and students from real-life chess school active in Aramil and Oktiabrskoye, two satellites of Yekaterinburg, the center of Ural region.
goes to
The silver
Team Babylon, uniting Iraqi players, who seek the spiritual restoration of their country through its glorious footprint in human culture.
The bronze
and Metz the chess TT team, a magnificent assembly of chess devotees from this marvelous French city.
It is remarkable that Drujba abd Metz occupied two last places in the "Power" rating used to form the start list of the competition.
This shows that there are values far beyond the number and rating of players, that team integrity, solidity and the willingness to fight "all for one and one for all" are more important than recruiting most active players and other tricks.
It is inspiring that our competition, based on the principles of openness, democracy and structural horizontality, reveals true to them.
We've had 41 participating teams and almost 2000 players (yes, two thousands of unique players) in 198 scheduled matches, of which only 9 were not played - 4% of forfeits is unprecedented compared to ~50% of wasted efforts in some other city competitions.
Of course, this would not have been possible without active help of every player admin and player, which all should be proud of their efforts regardless of the place.
I thank and congratulate everyone and hope that the ongoing Season 2016 will be equally interesting.
PS: Any city team admins can freely join World Cities Tournaments group and enter their teams for new (or even current) competitions.