Hello everyone, as it has already been discussed that Ding has been struggling a lot financially He was living on the streets of madrid for the first half of the candidates because he couldn't afford a hotel room . That's why he didn't perform well and that hurt his chances of winning the candidates . After earning some money from the first half he was finally able to get a hotel room. After that he started performing well and we all saw how dangerous he was . Poor guy couldn't even afford a bigger chair but still managed to win 4 games and ended up 2nd only behind nepo . We can all agree that we want to see ding performing at his best in the next candidates , so to make that happen we should raise some money for poor ding so next time he can afford a decent place to live.