Fresh blood and new champions(?)
For quite a long time tournaments (both online and offline) have been dominated by the same names nearly all the time, with an occasional outsider having success. Note that this is exclusively about winning tournaments, not finishing #2, #3, which often still is a great accomplishment. No one reigns forever, the same applies to Stratego tournaments. New talents will often unfold into new champions, it just is a matter of time. When I played the oldest van Geffen junior during the 2017 Dutch championships , routine and experience was just barely enough to escape with a narrow victory, the difference being one piece (maj, min, min vs cap, min) in the end. Every game has its generations, players drop out (e.g. sports when people become too old to compete or simply drop out due to lack of enjoyment), making space for a new generation, or sometimes the new generation simply takes over, outclassing the ones that have dominated for a long period of time. With the rise of Online St...