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Region: Canada
Reminder: the Chess Arena is happening on Saturday: 9pm BST.
General
The Region That Has No Big Banks and Forest is excited to present our first inter-regional blitz chess competition, seeking to bring together chess players across NationStates to participate!
Who can participate?
The event is open to all member regions participating, and open to all NS chess players (with the exception of any problematic members regions/nations, at the discretion of the organisers)
We currently have 13 regions participating and counting! Contact New United Common-lands if you are interested to join!
Arena Link
Arena link - https://lichess.org/tournament/Al7mV4et
Password - nobanks (lowercase)
Feel free to join in our Voice Chat and Text chat on TRTHNBB Discord whilst the event is ongoing! https://discord.gg/gDJadzaHZQ
Date and time
The Arena will take place on Saturday 27th April starting at 9pm British Summer Time or 4pm Eastern Daylight Time, lasting 3 hours. Check TRTHNBB discord for the time conversion!
Feel free to drop in for parts of the event you do not need to be avaliable the whole 3 hours
Format
The format for the Arena is 5 mins + 0s increment (5+0) and hosted via lichess.
Contact
If you have any questions or would like your region to participate, please contact New United Common-lands
Trophies avaliable
1. Best Scoring Individual Nation - The nation who wins the Lichess competition
2. Best Scoring Member Region - Determined by combining the scores of nations within each member region, to see the overall winner
3. Best Average Scoring Member Region - Determined by the total region scores divided by number of nations from that respective member region participating (To help ensure fair opportunity for smaller regions)
Medals Avaliable! (Special thanks to Velichye for the great artwork!)
Position | Best Scoring Individual Nation | Best Scoring Member Region | Best Average Scoring Member Region |
1st Place | |||
2nd Place | |||
3rd Place |