SuperPogChamps 2025 is a chess tournament from December 2 to December 5 hosted by Chess.com. It is the first SuperPogChamps and, as per chess.com, includes the strongest PogChamps players. It is a 12 player rapid chess tournament which includes round robins (all play all) and knockouts (one wins and eliminates others).
Players Source:
In the first stage of SuperPogChamps 2025, players are divided into two groups. Below is the list of players in their respective groups.
Group A
Andrea Botez Linda Diaz Masi Oka SonicFox VoyBoy Sparg0
Group B
Samay Raina Daryl Morey Will Benson Tyler1 Wirtual Sardoche
Format The game is played in two stages, group stage and knockout stage.
Group stage Group stage will be played as double round robin (all play all twice). A player of each group will play two games against all other players of his/her group twice (once with white pieces, once with black) in rapid format. Each player will get 10 minutes + 5 seconds of increment each move. A person will score 3 points for a winning a match, 2 points for winning a tie-breaker, 1 point for losing a tie-breaker and no points for a loss (here, both the games played by one player against the other are considered a single match). If a player scores 1-1 with any other player (i.e. both win one and lose one game or both draw both games) then tiebreakers in blitz format will be played until a person wins a gme and breaks the tie. In such a tie-breaker, each person will get 5 minutes + 3 seconds of increment each move.
Top 3 players of group stage of each group will go into the Championship Bracket of Knockout Stage and other 3 will go into the COnsolation bracket of it.
Knockout Stage The most scoring player of each group or each bracket will receive a bye to the semifinals (i.e. he won't play the quarter finals and directly advance into the semifinals). Each player will have to eliminate his/her opponent in each bracket and advance to the semifinals, and in the same way, advance to the finals and win.in his/her bracket. Winner of the Championship bracket will be declared the winner.
Prize fund Source:
Prize fund is awarded for scoring rank in Knockout Stage. The performance in Group stage or being in a group won't directly affect your rank in knockout stage +RankPrize money in respective brackets (in USD)ChampionshipConsolation110,0005,00027,0003,5003 & 4 (tied)4,0003,0005 & 6 (tied)3,0002,250
Results
Group Stage
Group A +PlayersMasi OkaAndrea BotezLinda DiazVoyBoySonicFoxSparg0Final Points (after Match Counts)Masi Oka1.5-0.51.5-0.52-02-02-015Andrea Botez0.5-1.52-12-02-12-010Linda Diaz0.5-1.51-21.5-0.52-02-010VoyBoy0-20-20.5-1.52-01-24SonicFox0-21-20-20-22-04Sparg00-20-20-22-10-22
Group B +PlayersSamay RainaSardocheWirtualWill BensonTyler1Daryl MoreyFinal Points (after Match Counts)Samay Raina2-02-02-02-02-015Sardoche0-22-12-02-02-011Wirtual0-21-21-22-02-08Will Benson0-20-22-11-22-06Tyler10-20-20-22-11-23Daryl Morey0-20-20-20-22-12
Knockout Stage
Championship Bracket Source:
Consolation Bracket Source:
Final Rankings +Championship BracketRankCountryPlayerPrize Money Won (USD)1Samay Raina10,0002Sardoche7,0003 & 4 (tied)Andrea Botez4,000Masi Oka4,0005 & 6 (tied)Linda Diaz3,000Wirtual3,000 +Consolation BracketRankCountryPlayerPrize Money Won (USD)1VoyBoy5,0002SonicFox3,5003 & 4 (tied)Will Benson3,000Sparg03,0005 & 6 (tied)Tyler12,250Daryl Morey2,250
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