2024 RKWC recap

Hello everyone! Here’s a short recap of the 2024 world championship cycle. The 2024 Racing Kings WC was played between July 8 and October 6, with a total of 40 players battling it out. This is a significant decline after the incredible 55 players last year. The 2024 Final between the top seed @QueenEatingDragon and fifth seed @r2300 was played on December 15, 17:00 UTC. After playing for nearly 3 hours, @r2300 came out on top in the RKWC Final with a score of 10,5 – 9,5. Congratulations to our new world champion! All games from the final can be viewed in this study: https://lichess.org/study/wD2ArsET See the commentary by @RoyalManiac, @james126 and @seth_777 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuOIvzVcAfg The bracket of the RKWC can be found here: https://challonge.com/rkwc2024 Check out this link for the final standings according to Challonge: https://challonge.com/rkwc2024/standings The 2024 rules were posted on the RKWC website: https://sites.google.com/view/racingkingswc/2024-rkwc/2024-rules Read the announcement of the 2024 RKWC here: https://lichess.org/forum/team-racing-kings-wc/2024-rkwc-announcement--registrations The match times were announced here: https://lichess.org/forum/team-racing-kings-wc/2024-rkwc-pairings--match-time-announcements And finally, all match results are posted in this topic: https://lichess.org/forum/team-racing-kings-wc/2024-rkwc-match-results Also many thanks to everyone that helped out this edition: @seth_777 for updating the discord standings, @RoyalManiac for moderating the RKWC website and the TD's @QueenEatingDragon, @FS-Schach and @Natso.