The World Series of Board Gaming begins with 16 Ring Events held over four days. Each ring event begins and ends on a single day, in no more than five rounds. Qualifying for the semifinals—and taking home a ring for your favorite board game—takes only five consecutive wins! Two more, and the Title is yours.
The World Series of Board Gaming begins with 16 Ring Events held over four days. Each ring event begins and ends on a single day, in no more than five rounds. Qualifying for the semifinals—and taking home a ring for your favorite board game—takes only five consecutive wins! Two more, and you’re the World Champion.
To crown the brightest board gamer, you must have a unique—and methodical—system.
To crown a true World Champion, you must have a unique—and methodical—system.
The 16 Ring Events begin on Wednesday and conclude on Saturday. Each competitor may participate in one Ring Event per day, so it’s important to look over the schedule and choose your games carefully.
The number of rounds in each Ring Event depends on the number of entrants, but it will not exceed five rounds. In these single elimination events, the winners of each game move forward to the next round until a single player, the winner for that game, remains.
Sunday’s game play begins with four semifinal games in which the 16 semifinalists play to advance to the final Championship game. Game seating for the semifinal round is random, with the exception that a competitor will not be assigned to play the game with which they qualified. The winners of these four games move forward to the Championship.
At this point, the remaining competitors have proven their expert-level abilities in at least two of the games. To choose the final game, the administrators throw out the games in which the four finalists won their rings and the games with which they advanced to the Championship.
Then each finalist secretly and simultaneously votes to remove another one of the eight remaining games.
Finally, one of the remaining games is randomly selected for Championship game play.
The Final
The player who defeats their opponents during the final round wins $25,000, is crowned the World Champion and has their name recorded in the annals of board gaming history.
More than $100,000 in cash and prizes will be presented to competitors. Each of the 16 Ring Event winners will receive a one-of-a-kind 2022 Championship ring and have the chance to collect more prizes by making it through the semifinal round.
Those competing in the Final will receive 1st through 4th place awards:
1st Place — The coveted WSBG Board Gaming Championship Bracelet, valued at over $3,000, + $25,000 in cash
2nd Place — $10,000 in cash
3rd Place — $5,000 in cash
4th Place – $1,000 in cash
More prizes will be announced prior to the event.
The 16 Ring Events begin on Wednesday and conclude on Saturday. Each competitor may participate in one Ring Event per day, so it’s important to look over the schedule and choose your games carefully.
The number of rounds in each Ring Event depends on the number of entrants, but it will not exceed five rounds. In these single elimination qualifiers, the winners of each game move forward to the next round until a single player, the winner for that game, remains.
Sunday’s game play begins with four semifinal games in which the 16 semifinalists play to advance to the final Title match. Game seating for the semifinal round is random, with the exception that a competitor will not be assigned to play the game with which they qualified. The winners of these four games move forward to the Final.
At this point, the remaining competitors have proven their expert-level abilities in at least two of the games. To choose the final game, the administrators throw out the games in which the four finalists won their rings and the games with which they advanced to the Title match.
Then each finalist secretly and simultaneously votes to remove another one of the eight remaining games.
Finally, one of the remaining games is randomly selected for Final game play.
The player who defeats their opponents during the final round wins $25,000, is crowned the WSBG Titleholder and has their name recorded in the annals of board gaming history.
More than $100,000 in cash and prizes will be presented to competitors. Each of the 16 Ring Event winners will receive a one-of-a-kind 2022 WSBG ring and have the chance to collect more prizes by making it through the semifinal round.
Those competing in the Final will receive 1st through 4th place awards:
1st Place — The coveted WSBG Title Bracelet, valued at over $3,000, + $25,000 in cash
2nd Place — $10,000 in cash
3rd Place — $5,000 in cash
4th Place – $1,000 in cash
More prizes will be announced prior to the event.
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16 Ring Event winners face off to play in the Finals
9:00 AM start time
Four of the best board game players compete for the Title
1:00 PM start time
Only 250 total available spots!
Age restricted to 21+.
