Bankless Forest Chess Arena - Saturday 27th April

[img]https://imgur.com/ssQXOA4.png[/img]

[u][b]General[/b][/u]

The Region That Has No Big Banks and Forest is excited to present our first  inter-regional blitz chess competition, seeking to bring together chess players across NationStates to participate!

[u][b]Who can participate?[/b][/u]

The event is open to all member regions participating, and open to all NS chess players (with the exception of any problematic members regions/nations, at the discretion of the organisers)

We currently have 13 regions participating and counting! Contact [nation]New United Common-lands[/nation] if you are interested to join!

[Spoiler=Regions Participating]Co-hosts: 
[region]The Region That Has No Big Banks[/region]
[region]Forest[/region]

Member regions participating:
[region]The Union of Democratic States[/region]
[region]Democratic Socialist Assembly[/region]
[region]Wintercrest[/region]
[region]Sol Aeternalis[/region]
[region]Colonia Apollonis[/region]
[region]Aurora[/region]
[region]RGBN[/region]
[region]Alcris[/region]
[region]Declansburg[/region]
[region]Canada[/region]
[region]the West Pacific[/region]
[/spoiler]

[b][u]Arena Link[/u][/b]

Arena link - [url=https://lichess.org/tournament/Al7mV4et]https://lichess.org/tournament/Al7mV4et[/url]
Password - nobanks (lowercase)

Feel free to join in our Voice Chat and Text chat on TRTHNBB Discord whilst the event is ongoing! [url=https://discord.gg/gDJadzaHZQ]https://discord.gg/gDJadzaHZQ[/url]

[b][u]Date and time[/u][/b]

The Arena will take place on Saturday 27th April starting at 9pm British Summer Time or 4pm Eastern Daylight Time, lasting 3 hours. Check [url=https://discord.gg/gDJadzaHZQ]TRTHNBB discord[/url] for the time conversion!

Feel free to drop in for parts of the event you do not need to be avaliable the whole 3 hours

[u][b]Format[/b][/u]

The format for the Arena is 5 mins + 0s increment (5+0) and hosted via lichess.

[u][b]Contact[/b][/u]

If you have any questions or would like your region to participate, please contact [nation]New United Common-lands[/nation]

[u][b]Trophies avaliable[/b][/u]
1. Best Scoring Individual Nation - [i]The nation who wins the Lichess competition[/i]
2. Best Scoring Member Region - [i]Determined by combining the scores of nations within each member region, to see the overall winner[/i]
3. Best Average Scoring Member Region - [i]Determined by the total region scores divided by number of nations from that respective member region participating[/i] ([i]To help ensure fair opportunity for smaller regions[/i])

[b]Medals Avaliable![/b] [i](Special thanks to [nation]Velichye[/nation] for the great artwork!)[/i]

[table][tr][td][size=150]Position[/size][/td][td][size=150]Best Scoring Individual Nation[/size][/td][td][size=150]Best Scoring Member Region[/size][/td][td][size=150]Best Average Scoring Member Region[/size][/td][/tr]
[tr][td][size=140]1st Place[/size][/td][td][IMG]https://imgur.com/C3ubI4K.png[/IMG][/td][td][IMG]https://imgur.com/XWrOaZc.png[/IMG][/td][td][IMG]https://imgur.com/5SpCyNy.png[/IMG][/td][/tr]
[tr][td][size=140]2nd Place[/size][/td][td][IMG]https://imgur.com/Pfs302P.png[/IMG][/td][td][IMG]https://imgur.com/qHkgLoE.png[/IMG][/td][td][IMG]https://imgur.com/Aaz8ggf.png[/IMG][/td][/tr]
[tr][td][size=140]3rd Place[/size][/td][td][IMG]https://imgur.com/9zLnbop.png[/IMG][/td][td][IMG]https://imgur.com/B4aG8nz.png[/IMG][/td][td][IMG]https://imgur.com/lah9Mat.png[/IMG][/td][/tr]

[/table]