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Sundays With Unity
December 13th, 2020
🏆Team Tournament🏆
🔵14:00 GMT🔵



💎2nd Unity Chess International Team Championship

💵 $1,500+ guaranteed prizes for more than 200 players

🎥 All players need to do Live Stream, enter to the Zoom or do Self Video Recording.
🔴Video camera needs to cover the full view of the screen and player body. 

🔹All players are required to join the Unity Team, which has been formed on Lichess for this tournament.

🔹All players must take part in the tournament with their official Lichess ID otherwise won’t be able to win the prizes.

🔷Regulations:

1️⃣ Each team will have a captain who is responsible for the team. The captain will register the team and will be paid the prize, any claim can only be made by the captain of the team.

2️⃣ Each team has 5 players

3️⃣ Entry fee:
Africa, Asia, Latin America: $10 per team.
The rest: $20 per team.

4️⃣ Type: Arena; 3+0

5️⃣ Berserk allowed

6️⃣The average rating of top 3 players in each team will be the rating for that team and shows the category for the prizes. For example if the average rating of top 3 players is 1950, that means that team has a chance to win the prizes for 1600-1999 category.

7️⃣ For individual ratings, the maximum current FIDE rating of all three formats will pick.

8️⃣ All players in each team need to be from the same country or same Fide flag.

9️⃣ Unrated players will use their peak Lichess blitz rating minus 100.

🔟 Players compete individually, but at the end the sum of top 3 players of each team who got the most points will consider for the total points of that team.

🛑No more registration will get accepted one hour prior to the tournament!

⛔️One player cheated, the whole team going out from the winners list.

🔷Individual Prizes:

Open:
1️⃣$100
2️⃣$60
3️⃣$40

Women:
1️⃣$50
2️⃣$30
3️⃣$20


🔷Team Prizes:

🔰2000+🔰

1️⃣$100
2️⃣$60
3️⃣$40
4️⃣$30
5️⃣$20

🔰1600-1999🔰

1️⃣$100
2️⃣$60
3️⃣$40
4️⃣$30
5️⃣$20

🔰U1600🔰

1️⃣$100
2️⃣$60
3️⃣$40
4️⃣$30
5️⃣$20

Top 3 African team, Asian team, Latin American in each team sections:

1️⃣$25
2️⃣$15
3️⃣$10

🎁 A country with the most team participants will receive an additional $75 ($25 for each section). The team that didn’t win the prize will be eligible to receive that special prize.

💎The goal of this tournament is to provide a safe environment where chess players can compete and enjoy the games. Wish everyone good luck!


🔷Team: https://lichess.org/team/unity-team-championship-december-13

🔷Tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/0p6cXTy0
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