200K

***** 200k *****

To mark reaching 200,000 tourneys on chessclub.com since its inception,
Tomato will host the 200K Celebration at 2pm server time (14:00 New
York time) on Saturday, October 4. Tomato Celebration tournaments are
usually the largest chess tournaments you can play on the Internet.

New record for free ICC subscription prizes: 7 years in total!

The tournament is organized as follows:

Starting on 2 pm, there will be five simultaneous qualifying tourneys,
each with a time control 3 0, 9 rounds, Swiss pairings. Following
those qualifiers, there will be an A-final, a B-final, and a C-Final.
The time control of those finals will be 4 2, and they will be double
elimination, that means everyone who loses two games will be out.
(Note that draw counts as loss for White, unless Whites rating is
at least 200 points lower).

The top 12 finishers from each qualifier will make it to the A-Final,
giving a total of 60 finalists. 13th-24th from each qualifier will be
in the B-Final, 25th-36th in the C-Final. There will be no alternate
replacing. The usual Tomato tiebreaks will be used to determine
finalists.

How to take part:

There is no need to preregister! Simply show up before 2pm on October 4,
and type one of the following commands:

tell Tomato join
tell Cooly join
tell Littleper join
tell Ketchup join
tell Olive join

It does not matter which qualifier you join, but it is probably a good
idea to join the one with fewest players. There is a very limited
possibility to latejoin within the first two rounds. Replace 'join' by
'latejoin' then. If it does not work for one bot, chose another.

When your qualifier is over, and you qualified for one of the finals
(do 'tell  grid' to find out), please just wait. Do not log off.
You will be joined into your final. The finals will start soon after
the last qualifier ends (probably 10-15 minutes). Tomato will be used
for the A-Final, Cooly for the B-Final and Littleper will host the
C-Final. Finalists who are not present for the first round of their
Final, will forfeit their game in round 1.

Prizes (ICC subscriptions):

A-Final:
Winner: 1 year
Second: 6 months
Third: 3 months
4th-10th: 2 months
11th-20th: 1 month

B-Final:
Winner: 6 months
Second: 3 months
Third: 2 months
4th-10th: 1 month

C-Final:
Winner: 3 months
Second: 2 months
3rd-7th: 1 month

Extra prizes:
3 months to the lowest rated A-finalist
2 months to the lowest rated B-finalist
1 month to the lowest rated C-finalist
(To be eligible for these extra prizes, one must have completed
at least 50 Blitz games on ICC).

Five free subscriptions of 1 month each will be raffled between
the participants of each qualifier, who play their qualifier until
the end.

Only one prize per member. We reserve the right to deny prizes and
give it to the next eligible person if we suspect a violation of our
rules (see below). Free trials can take part but cannot win prizes.
Exempt accounts (GM, IM, WGM, WIM) can donate their prizes to other
ICC members. On tie, prizes are shared.

Rules:

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.
Blitzin 2.31 or higher is required to take part in the tourney.

ICC will not tolerate intentionally losing games before or during
the tournament. Anyone caught doing so will be immediately forfeited
from the tournament and will be ineligible for any prize in this
or future prize events.

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.

People who lag considerably may be denied entry in the interest of all
players. 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.

The ICC and Tournament Director reserve the right to refuse
participation and/or prize eligibility, for any