4th Balkan Clubs Blitz Team Battle Arena

General Terms

Our Club Volos Chess Academy is organizing the 3rd Balkan Clubs Blitz Team Battle Arena on our favorite server lichess.org. Here are the details:

1. Date and Time: Sunday 17/05 – 8.30pm Athens Time
2. Thinking Time and Duration:  3′ + 2″ , the Tournament will hold for 120 minutes
3. Number of Leaders: The number is defined to 8 but if a lot of players will join it may be increased to 10
4. Arena rules: If you are new on lichess Arena format you can read the rules here
5. Participation: In order to participate your club needs to have a team on lichess.org and your members should be part of it. Then, contact voloschessacademy via lichess and text us your team’s name and it’s link.
6. All the winners will be announced here and on our facebook page
7. The League is held on 2 divisions due to maximum bound of 10 Teams per Tournament

1st Division Teams

The Link of the Tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/COOXFXWS

Teams participating till now:

1. Volos Chess Academy (Greece)

2. Šahovski savez grada Kragujevca (Serbia)

3. Banovci Dunav (Serbia)

4. Chess Club SRIMIUM Sremska Mitrovica (Serbia)

5. Juzna Pruga (Serbia)

6. 5Bucks (Turkey)

7. Southroad (Serbia)

8. Chess Club Novi Zagreb (Croatia)

9. Apayding Chess Club

10. Dečiji šahovski klub “OSNOVAC”, Niš (Serbia)

2nd Division Participants

From the 3rd Edition we introduce the 2nd division of our League giving the chance in even more teams to participate. Every week, the top 2 teams of 2nd Division will be promoted to the 1st Div, replacing the 2 least teams of 1st Div.

Date and Time: Sunday 8pm Athens Time

Teams of 2nd Div (Group B):

1. Balkan Team
2. Struga Chess Team (North Macedonia)
3. Podunovac Belegis (Serbia)
4. Larissa Chess Club (Greece)
5. ШШК-ЧЕЛНЫ (Russia)
6. Ivan Dobrev (Bulgaria)
7. Balkan-United (Croatia)

 Link of the Tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/6QkihAVC