Cancel chesswhiz cup #4

http://chesswhiz.tv/Tournament?id=4

Tournament #4 in the chesswhiz cup series is an antichess tournament. I would urge you to cancel that until people get their act together.
The amount of cheaters in this variant and the difficulty of finding then is too high for you to give out money for a tournament winner.
Just in the past week I was matched with 3 cheaters already, and I played only 3 days of that week.
A tournament like that will bring out all these scum and they will occupy the first places causing the rest of us to lose rating and not have fun at all.

Please keep your money and cancel the tournament.

I concur!

Examples:
http://en.lichess.org/9F3yaLPSPUZF
http://en.lichess.org/KaN1wKZLp75F
http://en.lichess.org/mgX1brA2SmKV

Yeah. Especially those "force your opponent to resign on move 1 bots" are a serious problem for online chess.
They could eliminate the entire game! ;-)

yeah... u should cancel the tourney....

Thank you for your concern. The tournament will not be canceled.

A few thoughts:

First, this is not Cup 4. It is a new series, the ChessWhiz Clash. Details on the team thread: http://en.lichess.org/forum/team-chesswhiz-tv/announcing-chesswhiz-clash-with-a-new-saturday-broadcast-time

Second, we are a large group of people. No matter what is done, some people will disagree. It's a guarantee.

Third, If you don't like cheating, play in the tournament without cheating. That will decrease the ratio of cheaters, and give other players an honest opponent.

Lastly, the majority of the prizes are being given to lucky viewers and participants. We will have a first prize to give out, and it will be given carefully.

Your concerns about cheating have been noted. Please take further discussion to the main thread at http://en.lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/new-tournament-series-chesswhiz-clash.

Thank you!