PogChamps 5 Chess Tournament announced ft. xQc, Tyler1, Sykkuno, more Chess.comThe fifth iteration of PogChamps is finally back after a two-year absence, and it has been announced that it will consist of a who\u2019s who of the world\u2019s top streamers and chess players duking it out for the $100,000 prize pool. The last iteration of PogChamps was just over two years ago which saw some of the streaming world\u2019s biggest names go against each other in games of chess for a $100,000 prize pool. And now, the fifth iteration\u2019s lineup has been announced. Running from July 25 to August 18, the two-week tournament will see 16 streamers go head-to-head. And for the first time, Chess.com will be partnering up with Ludwig\u2019s Mogul Moves and Offbrand to organize the event. The Pogchamps 5 competition will also feature a live, in-person final where the top two competitors will play in an over-the-board match on August 18 in Los Angeles. So here is everything you need to know about PogChamps 5. PogChamps 5 lineup Below is a complete list of the players who will be participating, and the commentary team for the event. Players CDawgVA – Daily Dose of Internet – Distortion2 – Frank-is-heres – Fuslie – Ghastly – I did a thing – Jarvis – Jinnytty – Papaplatte – QTCinderella – Squeex – Sykkuno – Tyler1 – Wirtual – xQc – Co-hosts and commentary team Ludwig – Hikaru Nakamura – Robert Hess – Daniel Naroditsky – Aman Hambleton – Alexandra Botez – Andrea Botez – Danny Rensch – Levy Rozman – Anna Rudolf – James Canty III – If there are any changes to the lineup, we will be sure to update you here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PogChamps 5 Chess Tournament announced ft. xQc, Tyler1, Sykkuno, more Chess.comThe fifth iteration of PogChamps is finally back after a two-year absence, and it has been announced that it will consist of a who\u2019s who of the world\u2019s top streamers and chess players duking it out for the $100,000 prize pool. The last iteration of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}