CCC22 Bullet
CCC22 Bullet will mark the final event in the CCC22 series. Stockfish has, in familiar fashion, dominated in both the CCC22 Blitz Event and CCC22 Rapid Event. Meanwhile, the race between Torch and Leela has never been closer. Torch won the Challenger Blitz Event, while Leela won the Challenger Rapid Event, only for Torch to come back later and win a bonus 100-game head-to-head Classical Event.
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This event will feature the following matches. As the matches are played, this blog will be updated to link to the match, as well as to indicate which engines are advancing further into the tournament. All engine placements are the results of seeding from the CCC22 Rapid.
Match 1: Entry League, will feature Weiss, Smallbrain, Tucano, Stash, Winter, Wasp, Midnight, and new additions of Willow, Akimbo, and PlentyChess. The top-6 will advance, after a 720-game 8x DRR.
Match 2: Qualifier #1, will feature Equisetum, Altair, Minic, Velvet, Carp, Marvin, and the top-6 from the Entry League. The top-6 will advance after a 1056-game 8x DRR.
Match 3: Qualifier #2, will feature Stormphrax, Revenge, BlackMarlin, Uralochka, Arasan, Booot, and the top-6 from Qualifier #1. The top-6 will advance after a 1056-game 8x DRR.
Match 4: Qualifier #3, will feature Obsidian, Seer, Igel, Rofchade, Clover, Viridithas, and the top-6 from Qualifier #2. The top-6 will advance after a 1056-game 8x DRR.
Match 5: Main, will feature Stockfish, Leela, Torch, Dragon, Berserk, Caissa, Ethereal, Rubi, and the top-4 from Qualifier #3. The top-6 will advance after a 1584-game 12x DRR.
Match 6: Semifinals, will feature the top-6 from Main. The winner will be seeded into the Finals, and the 2nd and 3rd place finishes into the Challenger Match, after a 1200-game 40x DRR.
Match 7: Challenger Match, will be a direct head-to-head between the 2nd and 3rd place engines from the Semifinals. They will play a 1000-game match.
Match 8: Finals, will be a direct head-to-head between the winner of the Semifinals, and the winner of the Challenger Match. They will play a 1000-game match.
Results:
PlentyChess wins the Entry League, and will be promoted to the Qualifier #1, alongside Akimbo, Willow, Smallbrain, Tucano, and Wasp.
PlentyChess wins the Qualifier #1, and will be promoted to the Qualifier #2, alongside Velvet, Akimbo, Minic, Altair, and Equisetum.
PlentyChess wins the Qualifier #2, and will be promoted to the Qualifier #3, alongside Revenge, Velvet, Uralochka, Altair, and Stormphrax
Obsidian wins the Qualifier #3, and will be promoted to the Main Event, alongside PlentyChess, Clover, and Seer.
Stockfish wins the Main Event, and will be promoted to the Semifinals, alongside Torch, Berserk, Leela, Dragon, and Ethereal.
Stockfish wins the Semifinals, and will advance to the Finals. Torch and Berserk will compete in the Challenger Match to play Stockfish.
Torch wins the Challenger Match against Berserk, with a score of 587.0/1000.0, and will advance to the Finals against Stockfish.
Stockfish wins the Finals against Torch, with a score of 570.5/1000.0. Stockfish won the previous CCC21 Bullet Finals with a score of 581.0/1000.0.
Bonus Events:
Alt Finals, where Stockfish defeated Berserk with a score of 661.0/1000.0.
Would-Be Challenger Match, where Torch defeated Leela with a score of 568.5/1000.0.
