Elite Crazyhouse Arena

If you missed last weekend's arena, don't worry! JannLee streamed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNa0ifJK9X8

70th edition starts in 45 hours. Link to the tournament: lichess.org/tournament/j9nJ7IXd

Hungry hungry hippobullet is the word of the weekend. 73rd edition starts in 15 minutes: lichess.org/tournament/9chu4aRt

Rewatch the tournament from JannLee's perspective: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O3j5GdvQPk

Updated table of glory:

Unfortunately, Lichess has decided to stop scheduling Elite Crazyhouse Arenas due to their relative inactivity. The last 10 tournaments have had 26 participants on average, although not all of them might have played a single game necessarily.

Github: github.com/ornicar/lila/commit/d38e831bf9f5376d400d254f21939444021a55df

However, it’s not the end of the Elite arenas. The manual scheduling will continue in form of user created tournaments. You’ll be able to find them as grey tournaments at lichess.org/tournament.

While it is a drawback, there is something positive in this: we’ll be able to change the tournament settings as we wish. Time control, time & date, rating limits are all changeable. Things, I’m considering in order to make Elite Arenas more popular, are:
▪ tightening time control rotation (e.g. dropping 3+2)
▪ trying another date & time (e.g. Friday or Sunday at another time)
▪ lowering the rating floor to 2000.

All feedback is welcome.

For the time being, the tournaments will take place at the standard time, 19:00 UTC on Saturday evenings. The next two tournaments:

Saturday, January 4, Saturday, 19:00 UTC, 3+0 time control: lichess.org/tournament/ei72fm8Z
Saturday, January 11, Saturday, 19:00 UTC, 1+1 time control: lichess.org/tournament/RyggG35v

Regards,
MMichael

Actually, all what is needed it's JL :) as a regular spectator i can say the next thing: always when he is playing there are lots of players.

That's true! Does anyone volunteer to babysit Spencer on Saturdays? :P

Damn...this is sad. Maybe we can raise a prize fund for it to increase activity? I would be willing to pledge some money to kick it off if that is feasible.