It's confirmed that Firouzja finishes 3rd, so while all 3 get $50,000, it's Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave who will play a tiebreak for the gold medal!

Carlsen on losing his #1 spot on the blitz ranking

🏆 Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave will play the playoffs for the first place. Alireza Firouzja wins the bronze medal.

Who will you be rooting for in the playoff?
anonymous poll

Jan-Krzysztof Duda – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 56%

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave – 4
👍👍👍👍👍👍 44%

👥 9 people voted so far.

Live: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DH0uabAi1J4

Some days you just don't have it. I was nowhere close to the level I needed to be today. Good outcome for the public though, pretty sure no chess fan wanted to see Alireza in the playoffs anyway. Good luck to Duda and MVL!

🔗 Magnus Carlsen (@MagnusCarlsen)

The first game is a draw, and now the players keep playing game after game until someone finally wins! (because we had to have only a 2-player tiebreak to ensure everything was over fast and to a fixed schedule😀)

The first tiebreak game ends in a draw!

The second game has begun!

Maxime is pressing with the black pieces!

Second tiebreak is also a draw and we will now go into the third tiebreak.

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/world-blitz-championship-2021/23/1/1

The second game is also drawn, so now the players continue playing sudden-death games — but normal blitz games, not Armageddon

Another draw, so we get more chess!

Congratulations to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave on winning the 2021 World Blitz Championship after defeating Jan-Krzysztof Duda in the playoff!

Congratulations to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave for winning the 2021 World Blitz Championship!
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the third game of the play-off, after the first two ended in a draw. 👏👏

📷: Michal Walusza

Amazing tournament❗️

🥇Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is the world champion in blitz chess 🥈 Jan-Krzysztof Duda is the second and 🥉Alireza Firouzja with the bronze medal