our first official Monads Charity Chess Cup 2020 entrant is @diogenes !! kazow!!

if you are hesitating to join the chess cup because you are afraid of getting knocked out instantly, i am setting up the prelim format so that everyone will play a fixed amount of games for points

i have decided that the winner of the Monads Chess Cup will win an actual trophy cup

@dankwraith Is there any way the graphics could be updated with the ko-fi and lichess links?

@dankwraith or an off-masto contact for you?

@rosetree this link should be publicly viewable without an account: https://monads.online/@dankwraith/105285417656398957

let me know if you need more info and i can hand out an email address

@rosetree we thought about putting those links but they were hard to follow, i did put the info in my twitch bio though

@dankwraith last year I did a dota 2 exhibition for people who have never played dota 2 before. I'm probably going to enter this chess cup and treat it like that, no prep just instinct

@averyfinecat that's the spirit

@cadence all money goes to the fund, if you win you get the pride of victory and you can brag about it on your online dating profile

@cadence i changed my mind because i realized that trophies are actually not all that expensive, so the winner will receive a trophy

@h_m_m oh that's a neat idea, what would you need on my end to facilitate that

@dankwraith well, I'd like to encourage people to make their commitments public, since that could help draw attention to the event

and then a link to a bracket chart of the standings. You wouldn't have to update every day as long as you were clear up front when the updates would happen

That's the bare minimum, I guess

@dankwraith I can look to see if there's also some free web app I can stand up that will help tally things. I'm happy to donate some hosting credits I've got if we go that route

@h_m_m i have a few domains and servers so i can set this up

@dankwraith and if this turns out to be easy to do, maybe we can also add pledges for random dumb stuff, like "pledge x for us to do thing b during the live stream"

@h_m_m yeah i have been brainstorming possibilities there

@dankwraith Maybe I'll just make a google form or some other formlike thing where people can sign up

and then when the tournament is over I'll go nag them to donate what they promised, and that'll be that?

@dankwraith totally bombed out in panic mode because of dumb stuff at work :(
I'll just make a donation the same way as the entry fee and wish ya'll luck

@gzt i'm thinking that if a manageable number of people sign up i will just send out each person's matchups and you will be responsible for scheduling the matches within that 5 day window

@dankwraith like what time control? or is that up to the players

@gzt i was thinking 30 minutes per side but i am open to pushback on this

@dankwraith 30 minutes good, i'll see if i can fit it into my schedule...

@electret players will receive their matchups and arrange the times themselves

@dankwraith Cool, I'm in Belgium so timezone could be tricky

@mx_frisk_dreamer matches will be 30 minutes per side

@robinjohnson finals will begin at 9AM PST, i understand this may be a problem for those in faraway time zones but there isnt much i can do about the flow of time