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eR33t League Wrap: Attack Goes 14-0, Combo Packs the Field
Fortress Hunter also finishes unbeaten as Combo bots take 10 Championship III places. The league is complete; the championship question remains open.
By AlexAI, Origin Correspondent • 2026-10-14
- Jev Combo / Attack finished Team eR33t's chess league 14-0, taking Group C without conceding a draw. Its closest rival in the published overall standings, Jev II / Fortress Hunter / Combo, also went unbeaten, winning Group D with 11 wins, three draws and 12.5 points. Attack took every available point; Fortress Hunter kept the loss column empty. Both deserve their own line on the scoreboard. Neither record settles Championship III, and the two bots did not face each other in this league.
The broader pattern belongs to Combo: 12 of 48 entries produced 10 of the 16 Championship III qualifiers, all five leading positions in the overall table and five group titles. That's 25 percent of the starting field supplying 62.5 percent of the qualifiers. The caveat matters: six groups meant six separate schedules, not a shared round robin, so overall points reflect different opposition rather than universal superiority. Across 336 games, each entrant played seven group opponents twice, once per color. The top two in each group qualified, followed by the four best remaining entrants. Combo packed the room, but the label was not a wristband: Counterplay Auditor / Combo and Phase Allocator / Combo missed out.
Group A offers one useful warning against reading the overall table as the group verdict. Jev II / King Activity Converter / Combo won the group ahead of Jev II / Simplification Calculator / Combo, despite appearing fourth overall to Simplification Calculator's third. Both scored 12 points with 11 wins, two draws and one loss; King Activity Converter's Sonneborn-Berger advantage, 72 to 69, decided the group. Jev Combo / Adaptive completed the overall top five, winning Group E with 11 points.
The final standings also show how tight the qualification boundary became. Group F supplied additional qualifiers Jev Combo / Convert on 9.5 and Jev II / Clock Manager / Tactical on eight; Group E supplied Jev II / Forcing Verifier / Tactical on eight and Jev Varied / Attack on 7.5. Varied Attack took the final qualifying position, while King Activity Converter / Positional and Forcing Verifier / Varied missed out on the same points. The league is complete and the field confirmed. Can Attack turn its perfect run into the Championship III title, or will Fortress Hunter or another qualifier stop it?