ICC Help: 250k

PRIZE WINNERS in the 250K Celebration:

Overall:
1. Ehsan21(GM).......$ 130
2. cheoluo(FM).......$ 90
3. MASLAKKOSTIA(IM)..$ 70
4. Volkov(GM)........$ 60
5. quangliem.........$ 50
6. maseratti.........6 months
7. Princey...........4 months
8. JonLudvig.........3 months
9. lucreciom.........3 months
10. bluebird-ace.....2 months
11. hotzenplotz......2 months
12. StarkL...........2 months
13. AlonzoMosely.....2 months
14. unkavalo.........2 months
15. WhiteMoon........1 month
16. akibael..........1 month
17. WolPol...........1 month
18. Rossinantes......1 month
19. dwg6.............1 month
20. cdw..............1 month
21. Mstitel..........1 month
22. fiume............1 month
23. trikmamak........1 month
24. Morad-Magdy......1 month
25. stef65...........1 month

U2200 Section:

1. Peter-Patzer......4 months
2. Levius............2 months
3. Caduceo...........1 month

U2000 Section:

1. maxharm...........4 months
2. Darklord..........2 months
3. Lawmaker..........1 month

U1800 Section:

1. JaiHanuman........4 months
2. volimijavas.......2 months
3. inna..............1 month

U1600 Section:

1. sjakkess..........4 months
2. Tiger17...........2 months
3. pietro............1 month

U1400 Section:

1. chessboy191.......4 months
2. Schachjunkie......2 months
3. GrandPoobah069....1 month

The final crosstable can be obtained by typing "tell tomato grid 250000", but it might be nicer to do "tell tomato mailgrid 250000" which will send it as an e-mail to you. It is quite large (375 players).

Find below the tournament description, where it is also explained how we arrive at the above prizes.

Tomato hosts 250K Celebration!

The account Tomato on ICC has been created on May 9, 1995 and since then, the tournament bots, of which Tomato was the first, brought almost a quarter million tournaments to ICC members.

To mark reaching 250,000 tourneys since its inception almost 10 years ago, Tomato will host the 250K Celebration tourney at 2pm server time (14:00 EDT) on Saturday, May 7. This is an event that comes only once a decade! We hope that it becomes the largest tournament held ever. There are no entry fees and everyone is welcome to play!

There will be CASH prizes worth 400 USD and 6 years in free months!

PRIZES: 1st: 130 USD 2nd: 90 USD 3rd: 70 USD 4th: 60 USD 5th: 50 USD 6th: 6 free months 7th: 4 free months 8th-9th: 3 free months 10th-14th: 2 free months each 15th-25th: 1 free month each

Class prizes: There will be class prizes for U2200, U2000, U1800, U1600, and U1400. Each class winner receives 4 free months, second in each class 2 free months, and third in each class 1 free month.

Free trial members may participate, but they are not eligible to win any prizes.

The tournament will be a 15 round, 3 1 swiss and will be held on the Tomato bot, channel 46. No pre-registration is required. Just be logged on while the tourney is open and type: tell Tomato join ! Latejoining is possible, but there will be 1/2 bye points just for the first six rounds missed. For general information on Tomato tourneys and how they work, please read help Tomato.

COMPUTERS: Absolutely no aid from chess-playing programs is allowed. If ICC management suspects (we do not need to prove) computer-use, you may be forfeited from the tournament, and you may lose your ICC membership.

SANDBAGGING: ICC will not tolerate intentionally losing games in order to make yourself eligible for a prize in a lower rating class. Anyone caught doing so will be immediately forfeited from the tournament and will be ineligible for any prize in the 250K Celebration.

ASSISTANCE: You may not receive assistance from other chess players during your games. You may not have someone else play on your ICC account for you.

Players who have cheated in the past may be denied entry or be ineligible for prizes.

LAG/LATESTARTING: People who lag more than 2000ms may be denied entry. The tournament manager can forfeit participants who delay the tournament due to excessive lag, latestarting games, or a combination of both. Application and interpretation of this rule is at the sole discretion of the tournament manager.

DISCONNECTIONS: Players who are missing for 5 minutes or more may be forfeited from the tournament, even if they finished the running round, if the tournament manager has reason to believe that they might not return for further rounds.

RULES FOR PRIZES: Free trials are not eligible to win any prizes. Should an exempted (GM/IM) account win free months, that prize will be given to the next best person. Prizes are non-cumulative. Should a person win two prizes, he/she will receive the higher prize only, and the other will go to the next best player.

RULES FOR CLASS PRIZES:
1) Blitz rating at the start of the tourney must be below the Class limit.
2) The player must have played at least 50 blitz games BEFORE the start of the tourney.
3) The best blitz rating of the player must not exceed 250 points higher than the Class limit. Example: To win an U1400 prize, best blitz cannot be higher than 1650. This regulation extends to any other known account the player has had on ICC in the past. There is no appeal against the decision of disqualifying a player because of the suspicion that he/she had an account with a best rating above the limit in the past.
4) A player must not have been caught dumping games at ANY time in the past, as documented in his/her customer file. There is no appeal against the decision of disqualifying a player from a Class prize because of dumping.

MISC: The ICC and Tournament Director reserve the right to refuse participation and/or prize eligibility, for any person, for any reason. The ICC reserves the right to change the format of the tournament without notice. By joining, you agree to the above rules.

Blitzin 2.31 or higher must be used in this tournament.

We hope to see you there! Have fun and good luck!! :-)