Racing Kings Post - January 2025
What happened in the world of Racing Kings this month?
Tournaments
Daily Racing Kings Winners:
cicinio64
playanotherone
JAGOvanhouten_LCKB
playanotherone
HopefulRomantic
hellotravis
HopefulRomantic
HopefulRomantic
AnandDeepu
HopefulRomantic
HopefulRomantic
nataniel123
HopefulRomantic
HopefulRomantic
HopefulRomantic
TAiSThuban
playanotherone
HopefulRomantic
HopefulRomantic
playanotherone
HopefulRomantic
HopefulRomantic
HopefulRomantic
HopefulRomantic
playanotherone
HopefulRomantic
HopefulRomantic
playanotherone
Telecaster12
Telecaster12
Telecaster12
Just glancing through the daily winners, you can see one name sticks out a whole lot, (and for once it isn't playanotherone!) Some players criticized HopefulRomantic, saying "@HopefulRomantic keep farming dailies, [it's] not gonna make you [the] goat this way." Who knows though, maybe he did it to get on The Racing Kings Post? Anyways, I counted his victories so you don't have to! 16!
Weekly Racing Kings Winners:
nataniel123
neneksur
sky_water
Monthly Racing Kings Winner:
Telecaster12
Racing Kings Shield Winner:
Who could've guessed? seth_7777777 wins again! Maybe he's trying to beat r2300's shield record? Once again, seth shows a great performance of 2403 over 93 games. And as Telecaster12 correctly said, this is seth's third Shield win in a row! Congrats seth on your 6th Shield!
News
The Racing Kings Olympiad (RKO) has taken up most of the news for this month! At the time this was written, teams Dragons Rising and Royal Racers are the only two teams which are undefeated! Their members being QueenEatingDragon, SaTHsArAdIssAnaYaKEE, qpwoeirut, and TAiSThuban, Schachmatttrainer, Arjan_chess2, respectively. These two teams are currently playing each other! Watch the progress here and here!
Meanwhile, the leaderboard is finally becoming more balanced, as the top 10 are all 2300+ and top 50 2150+! Sorry, but you have to work for a top spot now! CyberShredder is still first on the leaderboard, maintaining a 2500 rating. IMakeManyMistakes has disappeared out of nowhere. Many players question where he is, and fear for his safety as he's been gone for three weeks now, and abandoned his RKO team without warning. r2300 replaced him in the RKO.
Player of the Month
This choice may surprise you, but the first Player of the Month winner of 2025 is TAiSThuban! Tais has been playing some exceptional Racing Kings lately, beating RKWC favorite QueenEatingDragon in the RKO, giving his team an early lead, and reaching the rating of 2400 with only 1000 games! He also beat GM BlunderPandaZz and seth_777! Tais shows that anything can be accomplished when you study. He may take offence, but I call this pulling an Arjan! On top of these two, Tais secured one Daily Racing Kings win.
Entertainer
Guitar09 submitted this game, so credits to him. Additionally, I AM taking submissions! Message me Entertainer submissions via DMs. Do NOT post them in the forums, because that spoils the game before it's time!
Who do you think played better?
More than Racing Kings
DISCLAIMER: This happened LAST MONTH, and I mentioned it briefly then!
Natso, a well known variants player and a member of the Lichess team, won the Atomic World Championships for 2024! Natso has contributed to both the Racing Kings community and the Atomic community alike, along with working for Lichess as a moderator. He's put in the work, and reaped the rewards! Congratulate him in the comments!
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