The match consists of 14 games, and a score of 7½ wins the world championship. If the score is equal after 14 games, tie-break games with faster time controls will be played: 4 rapid games with 25 minutes each + 10 seconds increment starting from move 1. If a player scores 2½ points or more, he wins the championship.

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If anyone was interested, the 2021 Chess Championship match has started today and will possibly go until 11/14/21.

Magnus Carlsen vs Ian Nepomniachtchi

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Should be a great matchup of different styles and will probably be more entertaining than the last one in 2018.
I have to predict for Magnus to win again. I still don't think the rest of the field has caught up to him yet and he hasn't lost anything in his play. Nepo is amazing no doubt and could find success doing things outside of standard preparation.

i have to agree with this 100%. No reason not to have the playoffs with the top 8.

Yes the div finishes with only 13 active teams but the top 8 teams all have positive records and like bear said, there is plenty of time to play all the matches for 8 teams. IMO, seems like a poor decision for 4 teams of players to not got a shot at playoffs and paid the money to compete.

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Played with creamy a little less than half the season. Good attitude and has shown solid skills on demoman.

Can easily be high main for next season and will improve quickly, Don't sleep on this pickup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laNRPAjKQsM

what a series of moves. Connor McDavid is so fucking good

https://youtu.be/A3EnR92D9qw?t=134

Travis Konecny awesome skill goal. You know its good shit when even a Penguins broadcaster is like "Yeah, that was kinda sick"

Breaking the goals record is within reach for sure but doesn't matter from the perspective of him being the greatest goal scorer of all time. Just considering how much harder is is to score in this generation compare to Gretzky's is more than enough comparison to easily make his claim.

huge heart laying it on the line to block shots. Come playoff time, this shit wins cups. Unless you have played hockey a lot you can't understand. As a goalie, I gave those guys the most appreciation ever.

That said, get off the fucking ice if you are hurt. After the first blocked shot, the dude is obviously not even skating. His bench is not far away and the play moved to the boards. I guarantee his bench/coaches were yelling at him to get off the ice.

Same goes for broken sticks mid-play. Once the puck is along the boards go to your bench for a stick! Its crazy how many players just don't do this if your bench is on the same side as your defensive zone.

Didn't matter, they still won the shootout and got the 2 points.

What did matter was the Flyers scored 2 goals to tie the game in under 2 mins so we got a point when it looked like we were dead in the water.

https://youtu.be/2QxRUeNE_EM?t=398

Blank pass from boards, crazy angle for shot.
best goal of the year so far?

LETS GO FLYERS!!!

I've been waiting a long time! I don't want to die before seeing the cup raised by the orange and black.
45 years is enough!

I enjoy these hypothetical's and agree with this statement more than any other so far. 4 invite players can do it and I don't think it would be difficult at all. However, once you go down to 3 players, the difficulty goes way up IMO.

I don't think 3 players can consistently defend and attack at the same time on different points. The only thing the newcomers would need to do is space out and not take large 6v3 fights. If they simply focused on capping points instead of team fights, it would be too much for 1 player to deal with to stop back caps. (for the most part)

Compare this to using 4 players, the invite guys can easily have 2 players cap a forward point and 2 players defend a back-cap. Rinse and repeat, easy win.
Only 1 player defending a backcap, even against inferior players, can be quite difficult. It's very possible to do but I don't think they succeed every single time.

The biggest problem for the newcomers would probably be capping last. Invite player superior DM, experience & positioning would be too much to overcome. I can't see any scenario where the new guys can consistently outfight and cap last against the top players to win. Maybe get a round or 2 but not win overall.

As far as class composition, the invite team would need mobility more than anything else. It has to be 2 scouts and a medic or 1 soldier, 1 scout & medic. Switching up to demoman in defensive situations would be most effective but anything involving pushing and defending at the same time would need speed above all else.

Yes of course they are different. I know next to nothing about cheating or the things used to find them. That's why I was just asking about how cheaters are detected and if the same methods couldn't be used on the STV as compared to the actual demo.