Teams:

here are the teams participating in the 2025 US State Vote Chess League

Team	Admin in charge of communication
Colorado	@huntwabow
Hawaii	@Commando-Poppins
Kansas	@Schoenhofer
Minnesota	@MasterMatthew52
Missouri	@BlizzardLizzard
New Hampshire	@pawnjarts
Oregon	@ImperfectAge
South Carolina	@DanQuigleyUSA

Standings 1:

	Missouri	Colorado	Hawaii	Kansas	Minnesota	New Hampshire	Oregon	South Carolina	Total
Missouri	X	1							1
Colorado	0	X	1						1
Hawaii		0	X				1		1
Kansas				X					0
Minnesota					X				0
New Hampshire						X			0
Oregon			0				X		0
South Carolina								X	0

Standings 2:

	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7	Round 8	Total
Colorado	1			0					1
Hawaii	0	1							1
Missouri				1					1
Kansas									0
Minnesota									0
New Hampshire									0
Oregon		0							0
South Carolina									0

Schedule:

	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
Colorado	Hawaii	@ Kansas	Minnesota	@ Missouri	New Hampshire	@ Oregon	South Carolina
Hawaii	@ Colorado	Oregon	Kansas	@ New Hampshire	@ Minnesota	@ South Carolina	Missouri
Kansas	@ Minnesota	Colorado	@ Hawaii	Oregon	South Carolina	@ Missouri	New Hampshire
Minnesota	Kansas	@ Missouri	@ Colorado	@ South Carolina	Hawaii	@ New Hampshire	Oregon
Missouri	@ New Hampshire	Minnesota	South Carolina	Colorado	@ Oregon	Kansas	@ Hawaii
New Hampshire	Missouri	@ South Carolina	@ Oregon	Hawaii	@ Colorado	Minnesota	@ Kansas
Oregon	South Carolina	@ Hawaii	New Hampshire	@ Kansas	Missouri	Colorado	@ Minnesota
South Carolina	@ Oregon	New Hampshire	@ Missouri	Minnesota	@ Kansas	Hawaii	@ Colorado

@ means the team on the left plays as black

Round 1:

Challenging Team	Team Being Challenged	Day it Starts
Colorado	Hawaii	May 1
Minnesota	Kansas	May 1
New Hampshire	Missouri	May 1
Oregon	South Carolina	May 1

Round 2:

Challenging Team	Team Being Challenged	Day it Starts
Kansas	Colorado	June 1
Missouri	Minnesota	June 1
Hawaii	Oregon	June 1
South Carolina	New Hampshire	June 1

Round 3:

Challenging Team	Team Being Challenged	Day it Starts
Colorado	Minnesota	July 1
Hawaii	Kansas	July 1
Oregon	New Hampshire	July 1
Missouri	South Carolina	July 1

Round 4:

Challenging Team	Team Being Challenged	Day it Starts
Missouri	Colorado	Aug 1
New Hampshire	Hawaii	Aug 1
Kansas	Oregon	Aug 1
South Carolina	Minnesota	Aug 1

Round 5:

Challenging Team	Team Being Challenged	Day it Starts
Colorado	New Hampshire	Sep 1
Minnesota	Hawaii	Sep 1
Oregon	Missouri	Sep 1
Kansas	South Carolina	Sep 1

Round 6:

Challenging Team	Team Being Challenged	Day it Starts
Oregon	Colorado	Oct 1
New Hampshire	Minnesota	Oct 1
Missouri	Kansas	Oct 1
South Carolina	Hawaii	Oct 1

Round 7:

Challenging Team	Team Being Challenged	Day it Starts
Minnesota	Oregon	Nov 1
Hawaii	Missouri	Nov 1
Kansas	New Hampshire	Nov 1
Colorado	@ South Carolina	Nov 1

Rules:

Season: 2025

Format: Round-robin - 7 rounds

game time: 3 days per move

Match Settings: When setting up matches, please use the following match name: USVCL 2025 R(#): (challenging team) vs (team being challenged)

Game Type: Standard Chess

Color: Challenging team is white, team being challenged is black

Challenges: Challenges can be issued 5 days before the start time and should be issued 2 days before the start time. when the challenge is issued please report it to this Forum. The team being challenged will have 2 days after the start time to accept. If this fails to happen, I will reach out to both admins and try to get it started. No Punishments will be issued unless I fail to get a response from a club.

Prizes: you can brag about how you placed on your club homepage. - if you want me to design a trophy, reach out to me
Next year format: depends on registration before next season, will play by ear.
Tiebreakers: The first tiebreaker will be head-to-head results. The second tiebreaker will be the strength of victories. The third tie breaker will be better record as black and the final tiebreaker will be coin flip. Each tie breaker will be used to eliminate 1 team, so after tiebreaks are used to eliminate a team, they restart.
Removal of Players: admins are allowed to remove players at their own discretion

Challenge Forfeits: If a match fails to start by the start date, I, or another vote chess admin will reach out to both club admins. if an admin fails to give me a response, the match will be forfeited

Cheating: Not Tolerated! if a player on your team gets banned for Cheating, report it to here immediately so we can discuss the consequence. This will be taken Case by Case and there isn't a specific punishment for cheating. Please remember that using games database is legal, but using a chess engine is not.

Here are signs to detect if a player on your team is cheating:

- Always recommending the best move, even in complicated situations

- recommending complicated moves without explanation

- sometimes recommending overly complex good moves and other times recommending obviously bad ones

- voting for robotic moves

- voting for a move the chess engine recommend even when the team consensus is a different move

If any of these are happening, report it to me.

Timeouts: Teams should not time out. timing out on 2 separate occasions will result in a 1 year suspension from the USVCL.

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If I am missing something please put it in the comments. I will edit the rules and delete your comment to prevent confusion. Thanks

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