Anichess Season 9 Launches Daily Tournament Circuit
Anichess Season 9 Launches Daily Tournament Circuit
♟️ Daily tournaments, zero grind
Anichess Season 9: The Circuit is now live, introducing a new daily tournament format designed to reduce grind.
Key Changes:
- Two daily tournaments at 21:00 and 09:00 HKT to accommodate global time zones
- Only your best result per day counts toward rewards and playoff qualification
- Two-hour tournament windows where players compete for leaderboard positions
- Top 5 finishers split prize pools (35% / 25% / 18% / 12% / 10%)
Weekly Schedule:
- Free days (Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun): 300 $CHECK pools, no entry fee
- Gambit days (Tue, Thu, Sat): 50-100 $CHECK per match, winner takes pot
- Tuesday/Thursday feature largest pools at 4,000 $CHECK per event
- Sunday runs Spell Sanctum (one spell per player, doesn't count toward playoff)
Format:
- Wins score 3 points, draws 1 point, losses 0
- Play unlimited matches within the two-hour window
- Results undergo fair-play review before weekly distribution
- All qualifying events lead to end-of-season playoff
Early Access: Ran July 9-12 with practice events outside playoff qualification.
Standard rating milestones continue paying $CHECK alongside the new Circuit format.
You told us it felt like a grind. Season 9 is daily tournaments you're allowed to skip. The season opens for real today, and from now every result counts toward the playoff. → Win one event and your week is made, miss a night and another opens tomorrow → Free events Monday,
Early access runs through Sunday, and tonight is the big one: 100 $CHECK per match, 4,000 per event. Saturday drops the buy-in to 50 with a 2,000 pool, and Sunday closes the weekend free, 300 pool. Monday the season proper opens, and from there every result counts.
Pre-Season 9: The Circuit opens tonight, and the first event is free to enter. A tournament every day. Two time slots around the clock, so one side of the planet is always awake for it. → Early access runs tonight through Sunday: free events Thursday and Sunday (300 $CHECK
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