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2022 RK Olympiad match times & results

The competition has ended!

The semifinals offered an interesting rematch and a huge upset victory. Colonized Connoisseurs came into the semifinals as the top team and were undefeated. They also had the only undefeated board 2! An unexpected upset occurred with Laptopless Racers defeating the Colonized Connoisseurs based on the Board 1 tiebreak. RK Lovers and RK Guys rematched to have an end result of 2 - 1 in RK Lovers favor. RK Lovers would enter the finals without losing a series in the knockout stage while Laptopless Racers came off of an excellent upset victory.

In the finals, RK Lovers dominated Laptopless Racers in score. With @IMakeManyMistakes beating @RoyalManiac 4.5 - 0.5 on Board 1, @huangyudong beating @Natso 4.5 - 3.5 on board 2, and @TheUsualDumbKid and @Babosos drawing 4 - 4 on Board 3, RK Lovers win the first Racing Kings Olympiad with a score of 2.5 - 0.5 in the final.

It was a great competition with a great ending. Within the next few days, I will be posting a study with the finals games as well as some statistics about players of the tournament.
Here is the study with the final match's games: lichess.org/study/nn3c1dCW

The board 1 and 2 matches are annotated already and board 3 match will also be shortly.

Now for some stats and info:

- Best Board 1: @IMakeManyMistakes with only 1 loss and no draws the entire tournament. He beat @RoyalManiac in the finals to be the only board 1 in the tournament to have only lost 1 match.

- Best Board 2: @BlunderPandaZz with no losses and 2 draws the entire tournament. He was the only undefeated player in the tournament, all boards considered.

- Best Board 3: @Peanutbutter12345 with only 1 loss and no draws the entire tournament.

- @Imakemanymistakes , @RoyalManiac, and @CyberShredder (the 3 players to attain the World Champion title) all had beaten and loss to one another 4-0 in the Swiss stage (Roy beating Mistakes 4-0, Cyber beating Roy 4-0, and Mistakes beating Cyber 4-0)

- The longest game in any match of the tournament was 58 moves between @Natso and @huangyudong ending in a draw

Thanks to everyone that participated, followed, or organized! Hope to see you all in the next competition!

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