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Losers Chess Championship 2023 Updates

Qualification criteria:
"ACWC 2022 rules - II B" and account created before September 2022.

Tournament Format:
Stage 1: Swiss tournament like ACWC 2022.
Stage 2: Top players compete in two separate groups for a round-robin tournament with the top two from each group advancing.
Stage 3: Semi-Finals, Third Place Playoff and Finals
The number of players qualifying to stage 2 is:
1-16 players: The tournament doesn't take place
17-32 players: Top 6
33-64 players: Top 8
65-128 players: Top 10
128+ players: Top 12
The two groups in stage 2 will be the [1st,4th,5th,8th,9th,11th] and [2nd,3rd,6th,7th,10th,12th].

Match format:
The scheduling rules of ACWC 2022 apply.
The time control will be 1+2. All games will be rated and will be played on liantichess.herokuapp.com.
If liantichess has some problems, the matches can be played on other platforms, but should be informed to one of the Tournament Directors.
To calculate tiebreaks better, all 10 games must be played even if a player has already reached 5.5.

Tournament Directors:
@cFlour and one more person TBD.

Registration:
Register by typing "I am in" at this forum:
lichess.org/forum/team-wwwantichessorg/losers-chess-championship-2023-registration

ACWC 2022 Rules for reference:
acwc.chessvariants.training/rules/2022

Miscellaneous:
For any queries, contact one of the TDs.

Contacting problems:
If for any reason I am not able to see your message, please tell me so on discord or in the antichess discord server: tinyurl.com/antichessdiscord
The second tournament director is @firebatprime
Please contact him ONLY if you want a solve a dispute with me.
Match pairings can be found at: challonge.com/los2023swiss
Round1:
1 firebatprime vs. Kotov_Syndrome
2 Tetiksh1Agrawal vs. Raicosta
3 Schizophrenic_Energy vs. RoyalDesperession
4 NM Deadnotforgotten vs. Douthy
5 mental_suicide vs. Sridhar75
6 cFlour vs. KenulL_76
7 George6W-obs vs. BigTuna8675309
8 Erwin-Schrodinger vs. SriMethan
BYE: AdvikK2011
Please report your results in the forum here: lichess.org/forum/team-wwwantichessorg/losers-chess-championship-2023-match-scheduling-and-results
Tiebreakers in the first stage are:
1. Points Difference
2. Median-Bucchloz System
3. Wins vs Tied Participants (Mutual Match Score)

Tiebreakers in the Second Stage are:
1. Points Scored
2. Wins vs Tied Participants
3. Placement in 1st Stage

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