2021 chess.com Bughouse World Championship
Registration is now open for the 2021 chess.com Bughouse World Championships!
Timeline
- October 8: Start of registrations
- November 5: End of registrations
- November 8: Group stage starts
- January 3: Single elimination ladder starts
Sections
- Open
- u2000
Prize pool
$5,000 guaranteed prize fund provided by chess.com. The payout structure is still being finalized, but it will be very similar to the below (money is per team, not per person).
section prizes
open
- 1: $1,500
- 2: $1,000
- 3: $500
- 4: $250
- 5-8: $50
u2000
- 1: $500
- 2: $300
- 3: $150
- 4: $100
- 5-8: $50
class prizes
- u2400: $50
- u2200: $50
- u1800: $50
- u1600: $50
special prizes
- best woman/woman team: $50
- best u18 years old team: $50
Details
Group stage round robin. Top two teams from each group progress to a single elimination ladder. One match played per week per team. Matches are best of 16 at a 2-minute time control for the open section and best of 14 at a 3-minute time control for the u2000 section.
Broadcasting
Many of the top-8 single elimination ladder matches will be streamed from the chesscomevents Twitch channel. The finals in both sections will probably be streamed on the chess Twitch channel. Other bughouse Twitch streamers including chuckmoulton will try to stream as many matches as possible from the group stage and the single elimination ladder stage. The more notice given to scheduled matches, the more likely they will be covered.
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