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Nici wins her first “Holiday” title

Nici clinched her first ever level-2 “Holiday” title as she won Game 5 of the 2025 Holiday Masters.

She mostly had the die on her side and put in a brilliant tactical performance against her collaborating parents, Sissy and Harry, to win the tournament at a final aggregate score of 3-1-1.

Nici was the only player to save her pawns in perfect tactical order (🔴🔵|🔴🔵|🔵🔴|🔵🔴). When she saved her fourth blue pawn, she had her fourth red already 2/3 around the track and avoided opponents’ pressure as she moved into championship-point position.
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Minor change for the GP sub-season announced

The XMädn Board has announced a minor change with regard to the GP Series sub-season.

Staring with the 2025 GP Spring Series, players finishing a single GP game tied for most GPP will each score 0.5 WP instead of 1 WP.

This change has been made to make sure that each single counted triple-threat game will yield exactly 1 WP.

In previous seasons, players tied for the most GPP in a single GP game of a ranking tournament both scored 1 WP, resulting in such games yielding a total of 2 WP.

Holiday Masters to start this weekend

The XMädn Board has announced that the Holiday Masters has been rescheduled to start this coming weekend, a week earlier than originally planned.

Predating of the first “Holiday” tournament of the year was made possible when “Queen” Sissy won the Winter Masters prematurely after the minimum of two games.

In the course of this development, the World Masters has been rescheduled as well and will also start a week earlier than originally planned.

According to the Board, it is rather unlikely that the first “Major” of the season will be predated even further should the Holiday Masters end before Game 5, thus freeing another weekend.
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Sissy wins Winter Masters

Two-time “Queen” Sissy transferred her momentum from the previous season over to 2025 by winning the Winter Masters for the first time.

Sissy needed a combined 4:11 hours to win both Game 1 and 2 to add one of the two recurring tournament titles to her collection that had evaded her thus far. The other one is the Summer Championship to be held in mid-August.

In both games, the die was not friendly with Sissy in the early stages. But Sissy stayed calm and eventually turned fortunes around, even against obvious collaboration against her by Nici and Harry in Game 2.
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Season 2025 to start this weekend

XMädn is about to start into its 2025 Season with the first two games of the 2025 Winter Masters on Saturday and Monday.

“Queen” Sissy won seven of nine ranking tournaments in 2024 and is mathematically guaranteed to keep her top spot on the World Rankings throughout the Masters sub-season.

Despite the numerous trophies she has won, she has made clear that she will remain motivated to win more silverware. Also, she wishes to complete her collection of titles with the Winter Masters one of two titles missing.
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