2025 Atomic World Championship

The seeding and the pairings are ready! You will find all the information in this post: https://lichess.org/@/HowlinD/blog/the-2025-atomic-world-championship/wDt5vbxd Here is a link to the seeding calculations: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kQa8oPUS-mI_BPqDHmxdLY35LQafVeoml43wpqGCcds/edit?usp=sharing Due to some last-minute forfeits, 82 (and not 84) participants took the challenge of joining this year’s AWC. One player joined at the last minute, and as some of you guessed, it's @vlad_00. As a result of this higher number of participants, two rounds will be played before the top 64 group stage can start. Here are the pairings of those two qualifying rounds, which start on September 3rd, and only involve the participants seeded from #57 to #82: https://challonge.com/2025awctop64qualifier The top 64 group stage will start on September 17th, once the top 64 qualifiers are completed. Here are the pairings: https://challonge.com/2025awc Matches may be scheduled and played ahead of time if the pairings are already known, so feel free to start already! I insist on the importance of scheduling matches properly. As soon as you know your next opponent, you must contact them and tell them when you are available to play, and offer 3 different match times using the UTC time format. Once a match time is agreed, indicate when on the "2025 AWC Rounds and Results" forum thread.