I honestly do not see the point of leagues. Can anyone explain to me if there's anything there apart from trying to make people play as much as possible?
I think chess.com could have spent the money they spent developing leagues on something way more useful (like... I don't know... investing in their infrastructure or quality of their software, so that I do not have to see that goat chess player sweeping pieces off the board all the time. I am sick and tired of that guy).
12 hour days and if you come 11th you get 200 dollars damnn.
I honestly do not see the point of leagues. Can anyone explain to me if there's anything there apart from trying to make people play as much as possible?
I think chess.com could have spent the money they spent developing leagues on something way more useful (like... I don't know... investing in their infrastructure or quality of their software, so that I do not have to see that goat chess player sweeping pieces off the board all the time. I am sick and tired of that guy).
I originally thought that the point was to encourage people to switch to the Play server.
top in my league has something like 500-600 points
I guess my division is just lazy then
I think the overall standings don't matter that much. All you have to do is to advance from your division to the next one. I could be wrong. This is how I understand it though
I actually think Leagues is a brilliant concept.
Leagues gives players an alternative for measuring success, rather than just relying on Elo.
Also, I believe having Leagues of 50 players will result in more eyes looking at the playing behavior of all the participants, and, in some cases, will result in more reporting of suspicious playing activity. Having players looking over other players in Leagues should result in more accounts being reported with the net effect more cheaters getting caught.
I cancelled premium due to this unwanted nonsense in the app. Enough is enough. All to appease the advertising $ with more clicks. Why not ask if I want to join such a league instead of forcing it down our throats for CC ‘s benefits- certainly not mine.
Sure, alternative success. To bad it came with fomo, daily grind with minmaxing and gamification of a game. People who benefit from it, beside this website, are the ones who can play 12 - 18 hours a day. Everybody else will just get to build the habit of daily grinding for those sweet sweet points.
You need to be a premium member. Then you bully tons of low rated players (from your POV).
Or you are Mr. Terryble with a 3000 bullet rating and a lot of time. Then you don't need such tricks to get on the leaderboard.
https://support.chess.com/article/1313-how-do-i-host-a-simul-and-play-multiple-games-at-once
I cancelled premium due to this unwanted nonsense in the app. Enough is enough. All to appease the advertising $ with more clicks. Why not ask if I want to join such a league instead of forcing it down our throats for CC ‘s benefits- certainly not mine.
You don't see the benefits to Leagues?
My Elo is ~ 1100. It will be some time in the future before I play a game against a Elo 1700 player that may be a cheater / or playing in an unsportsman like manner.
However, because of Leagues, I don't have to actually play a suspected cheater in order to report them for cheating. Leagues allows me to report a suspected player regardless of our differences in our Elo ratings / regardless if we have actually played a game.
I actually hope in the future I only get to play against players that participate in Leagues, I believe they have nothing to hide.
You believe incorrectly sir …. almost laughable the thoughts on who you think might be a cheater or not. There is much to learn- only experience can provide true insights.
Tournaments are a hornets nest. In fact a breeding ground. Highly doubtful the Cheat Detection Team will be anymore vigilant because of any Leagues.
chess.com is just testing their new method to catch cheaters
the hunters are lurking and are gonna ambush the preys when they've come out lol
Their tie thing is a bit messed up, but let's ignore that for some quick math. Let's say there are 1,000,000 players to start with.
40% will move up the first week to Stone - 400,000
30% of those will move up the second week to Bronze - 120,000
Then 20% of those move to Silver - 24,000
10% of those will move to Crystal - 2,400
6% then move to Elite - 144
6% of those then move to Champion and get prizes - 9.
The second week will fill out the rest of Champions prizes as there will be a small lagging surge. But basically, yeah, to win you just need to be in the top 0.0009% ! Easy!
Their tie thing is a bit messed up, but let's ignore that for some quick math. Let's say there are 1,000,000 players to start with.
40% will move up the first week to Stone - 400,000
30% of those will move up the second week to Bronze - 120,000
Then 20% of those move to Silver - 24,000
10% of those will move to Crystal - 2,400
6% then move to Elite - 144
6% of those then move to Champion and get prizes - 9.
The second week will fill out the rest of Champions prizes as there will be a small lagging surge. But basically, yeah, to win you just need to be in the top 0.0009% ! Easy!
My initial guess was around 30 would make it to Champion in the first possible week.
So the leagues were finally released 3 days ago.
After a few days, I am pleased to see I am near the top of my Wood league with a respectable 225 points.
However, when I look at the leaderboard, I find that I am already 7,000 points behind the leaders.
The leader has played 331 bullet and nearly 300 blitz games since Thursday. He has won more that 600 games in that period.
I conclude that some people play all day every day.
/ I know that the points don't carry over from week to week but let's face facts-- the ability to put up 7200 points is going to pay off. And that unless someone is willing to play 12+ hours per day, they have little or no chance to get into the top leagues.